Projects

Recent Projects

Sentence Intonation in African Tone Languages: A Dynamical Gestural Approach

Sentence Intonation Project

(1) Tonal dynamics of interrogatives
(2) Respiratory dynamics of sentence intonation
(3) Articulatory organization of sentence intonation: Setswana penultimate and final lengthening

Facilitatory and Inhibitory Phonological Neighborhood Effects in Phonetic Categorization

Lexical Neighborhood Project

Rhyme neighbors inhibit target word lexical facilitation in phonetic categorization (Zhang, 2024).

Supraglottal Articulation of Stop Voicing/Devoicing

Stop Voicing Project

Linguistic stop voicing/devoicing tasks as synergy of laryngeal/supraglottal articulators (Zhang & Goldstein, 2023).

Past Projects

Alphabetic Literacy and Phonological Processing

Jyutping Project

Enhanced phoneme-level processing/awareness for Cantonese speakers with higher proficiency of alphabetic skills (Jyutping)—More negative ERP waves in auditory P1-N1-P2 time windows (Zhang et al., 2021).