Recent Projects

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

(1) Global pitch dynamics of interrogatives
(2) Dynamical respiratory units in sentence intonation (3) Supraglottal articulatory organization of sentence intonation: Setswana penultimate and final lengthening

● 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).