Journal articles

Year Publication
(Accepted) Zhang, M., Gong, S-X. and Guo, C-Y. (2025). Tone sandhi and tonal coarticulation in disyllabic sequences in Changsha Xiang. Journal of Phonetics.
(Rev. under review) Zhang, M. and Fujinaga-Gordon, K. (2025). An illustration of IPA: Ikema, Journal of International Phonetic Association.
(Under revision) Chodroff, E. and Zhang, M. (2025). A crosslinguistic corpus phonetic analysis of intrinsic vowel duration. Journal of Phonetics.
(Under review) Zhang, M. and Chodroff E. (2025). The universality of vowel intrinsic F0: A corpus study of cross-linguistic and inter-speaker variability in 75 languages. PNAS.
In Prep Han, J-Y., Zhang, M., Wang, T., and Xu, Y. (2025), L3 acquisition of Mandarin Chinese stop consonants by learners with L1 Spanish/Thai and L2 English.
In Prep Zhang, M. Preboundary lengthening of monophthongs and diphthongs in Chinese, English and Japanese.

Conference Proceedings

Year Publication
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: 10.21437/Interspeech.2025-2027

Conferences

Year Publication
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 (LabPhon19), 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

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