I am a linguist specializing in phonetics and phonology. My research explores the intricacies of speech, from the influence of prosody on speech production to the study of tone systems and cross-linguistic phonetic patterns. Most of my work centered around two topics: the phonetics-phonology and phonetics-prosody interface. I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Zürich, working on using multilingual phonetic corpus to probe into phonetic universals and variation in speech production.
I hold a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University at Buffalo, SUNY and an M.A. in Japanese Language Education (日本語教育) from the University of Tsukuba. My expertise extends to computational linguistics, with skills in R, Python, and Praat scripting. I am dedicated to advancing our understanding of the complexities of human speech.
2023-, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Computational Linguistics, University of Zurich
Education
2022, Ph.D. in Linguistics, State University of New York at Buffalo
2015, M.A in Japanese Language Education, University of Tsukuba
2011, B.A in Japanese Language and Culture, Renmin University of China
News
Apr 2026
Invited talk
Presented 'Tone sandhi in Changsha Xiang: A possible tone-stress interaction?' at the Phonetics Lab of Lancaster University, UK.
Mar 2026
New position
Starting a new position as an Assistant Professor in the University College International at the Macau University of Science and Technology in Fall, 2026.
Feb 2026
abstract accepted
"A crosslinguistic analysis of vowel inventory size influence on vowel dispersion" (oral) and "A corpus study of consonant intrinsic effects in true voicing languages" (poster) were accepted for LabPhon 20 in Montreal, Canada.
Jan 2026
Paper accepted
"Tone sandhi and Tonal Coarticulation in Disyllabic Sequences in Changsha Xiang" has been accepted for publication at the Journal of Phonetics.
May. 2025
abstract accepted
"A Crosslinguistic Analysis of Vowel Intrinsic F0" has been accepted for an oral presentation at PaPE 2025.
April 2025
abstract accepted
"Quantifying and Reducing Speaker Heterogeneity within the Common Voice Corpus for Phonetic Analysis" accepted at Interspeech 2025 as a poster.
Jun 2023
New position
Starting a new position as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Zurich in November 2023.
Dec 2022
Invited talk
Presented 'Effect of consonants on onset F0: Evidence from Kansai Japanese' at UTokyo Linguistics Colloquium.
