Publications

Journal Articles

2026
Zhang, M., Gong, S-X. and Guo, C-Y. Tone sandhi and tonal coarticulation in disyllabic sequences in Changsha Xiang. Journal of Phonetics, 114, 101472. doi
Rev. under review
Zhang, M. and Fujinaga-Gordon, K. An illustration of IPA: Ikema. Journal of International Phonetic Association.
Under revision
Chodroff, E. and Zhang, M. A crosslinguistic corpus phonetic analysis of intrinsic vowel duration. Journal of Phonetics. preprint
In prep.
Zhang, M. and Chodroff, E. The universality of vowel intrinsic F0: A corpus study of cross-linguistic and inter-speaker variability in 75 languages. preprint
Under review
Han, J-Y., Wang, T., and Zhang, M. L3 acquisition of Mandarin Chinese stop consonants by learners with L1 Spanish/Thai and L2 English. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. preprint

Conference Proceedings

2025
Zhang, M., Farhadipour, A., Baker, A., Ma, J., Pricop, B., Chodroff, E. Quantifying and Reducing Speaker Heterogeneity within the Common Voice Corpus for Phonetic Analysis. Proc. Interspeech 2025, 3933–3937. doi

Conferences

2026
with Chodroff, E. A crosslinguistic analysis of vowel inventory size influence on vowel dispersion. (Oral, peer-reviewed) Laboratory Phonology 20, June 26–28, Montreal, Canada.
2026
with Pricop, B. and Chodroff, E. A corpus study of consonant intrinsic effects in true voicing languages. (Poster, peer-reviewed) Laboratory Phonology 20, June 26–28, Montreal, Canada.
2025
with Chodroff, E. A Crosslinguistic Analysis of Vowel Intrinsic F0. (Oral, peer-reviewed) Phonetics and Phonology in Europe 6, June 25–27, Palma, Spain.
2024
with Chodroff, E. A Crosslinguistic Analysis of Intrinsic Vowel Duration. (Poster, peer-reviewed) The 19th Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon 19), June 27–29, Seoul, South Korea.
2023
A Cross-linguistic Study on Pre-boundary Vowel Lengthening (PBVL): Comparing monophthongs and diphthongs in Chinese, English, and Japanese. (Oral) The 15th Phonetic Conference of China (PCC2023), July 7–10, Shenzhen, Guangdong.
2022
Prosodic modulations on the formant excursions of diphthongs. (Poster) The 183rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA183), Dec 5–9, Nashville, TN.
2021
Positional tone sandhi in Changsha Xiang: A production study. (Poster, peer-reviewed) The 1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI2021), Dec 6–9, Sonderborg, Denmark and online.
2020
Effect of consonants on onset F0: Evidence from Kansai Japanese. (Poster) Acoustics Virtually Everywhere (The 179th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America), online.
2019
The role of information structure and foot structure on the kinematics of unstressed syllables. (Oral, peer-reviewed) Hanyang International Symposium on Phonetics and Cognitive Sciences of Language (HISPhonCog) 2019, May 24–25, Seoul, South Korea.
2015
Japanese Lexical V-V Compounds Revisited. (Poster) The Symposium of Challenging Japanese Language Teaching: Introducing the Efforts of University of Tsukuba, March, Tsukuba, Japan.
2013
On the Collocation of the Adverb ‘Zenzen’: An Investigation via Tsukuba Web Corpus. (Poster) The Annual Meeting of Association of Japanese Language and Japanese Language Pedagogy 2013, Tokyo, Japan.

Dissertation

2022
Prosodic Influences on the Acoustics of Vowel Sequences, Department of Linguistics, State University of New York at Buffalo. Advisor: Christian DiCanio. pdf