Recent Projects

● Sentence Intonation in African Tonal Languages: A Dynamical Gestural Approach

(1) A dynamical account of tonal organization in Yoruba and Tswana intonation.
(2) Respiratory dynamics of Yoruba, Embosi and Tswana intonation (Zhang et al., 2024).
(3) Supraglottal articulation of Tswana penultimate/final lengthening and its role in sentence intonation contrast.

● Facilitatory and Inhibitory Phonological Neighborhood Effects in Phonetic Categorization

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

● Supraglottal Articulation of Stop Voicing/Devoicing

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

Past Projects

● Alphabetic Literacy and Phonological Processing

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).