Research
PhD dissertation
Zhao, Liang. (2023). Production and perception of lexical tone variation in Mandarin dialects. PhD thesis, University of York. [WREO: 34805]
Presentations
2023 Conditions on Adaptation to an Unfamiliar Lexical Tone System: The Role of Quantity and Quality of Exposure [poster]
- Liang Zhao, Shayne Sloggett and Eleanor Chodroff
- ICPhS 2023, the International Congress of Phonetic Science
- 7-11/August/2023, Prague, Czech Republic
2023 Intermingling Tone Systems: The Relationship of Nanning Mandarin to Nanning Cantonese and Standard Mandarin
- Xinzi Hou, Liang Zhao and Eleanor Chodroff
- ICPhS 2023, the International Congress of Phonetic Science
- 7-11/August/2023, Prague, Czech Republic
2023 Rapid adaptation to unfamiliar lexical tone systems: the effects of dialect and explicit exposure [slides]
- Liang Zhao and Eleanor Chodroff
- PaPE 2023, Phonetics and Phonology in Europe
- 2-4/June/2023, Nijmegen, Netherlands
2022 The ManDi Corpus: A Spoken Corpus of Mandarin Regional Dialects [poster]
- Liang Zhao and Eleanor Chodroff
- LREC 2022, Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
- 20-25/June/2022, Marseille, France
2022 Top-down and bottom-up processing of familiar and unfamiliar Mandarin dialect tone systems [poster]
- Liang Zhao, Shayne Sloggett and Eleanor Chodroff
- Speech Prosody 2022, SProSIG of International Speech Communication Association
- 23-26/May/2022, Lisbon, Portugal
2022 Rapid adaptation to unfamiliar Mandarin dialect tone systems: evidence from bottom-up tone processing [slides]
- Liang Zhao & Eleanor Chodroff
- BAAP 2022, Colloquium of the British Association of Academic Phoneticians
- 04-08/April/2022, York, UK
2021 Integrated top-down and bottom-up processing in perception of non-native tone systems [slides]
- Liang Zhao and Eleanor Chodroff
- PARLAY Conference
- 29/September/2021, University of York (virtual)
2020 One million km2: Broad coverage of Mandarin Chinese dialects using smartphone technology [slides]
- Liang Zhao, Philip Harrison, Paul Foulkes, and Eleanor Chodroff
- Australian Linguistic Society (ASL) workshop presentation
- 14-15/December/2020 (virtual)
Lab presentations 2022 Zhao, L. Processing reaction time data from Gorilla in R
- PhD Stats Group meeting at LLS, University of York, 27/January/2022
2021 Hybrid processing of unfamialr tone systems
- Experimental Lab meeting, 15/November/2021, Department of Language and Linguistic Science, University of York
2020 Remote speech date collection using smartphone recording applications
- Experimental Lab meeting, 28/November/2020, Department of Language and Linguistic Science, University of York
Peer-reviewed publications
Zhao, L., Sloggett, S. & Chodroff, E. (2023). Conditions on Adaptation to an Unfamiliar Lexical Tone System: The Role of Quantity and Quality of Exposure. Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Science (ICPhS 2023). [PDF]
Hou, X.Z., Zhao, L. & Chodroff, E. (2023). Intermingling Tone Systems: The Relationship of Nanning Mandarin to Nanning Cantonese and Standard Mandarin. Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Science (ICPhS 2023). [PDF]
Zhao, L. and Chodroff, E. (2022). The ManDi Corpus: A Spoken Corpus of Mandarin Regional Dialects. Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2022), 1985–1990. [PDF]
Zhao, L., Sloggett, S., Chodroff, E. (2022). Top-Down and Bottom-up Processing of Familiar and Unfamiliar Mandarin Dialect Tone Systems. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2022, 842-846, doi: 10.21437/SpeechProsody. 2022-171. [PDF]