Faculty

Principal Investigators:

• Mark Liberman

  Mark Liberman's recent research areas include the phonology and phonetics of lexical tone, and its relationship to intonation; gestural, prosodic, morphological and syntactic ways of marking focus, and their use in discourse; formal models for linguistic annotation; information retrieval and information extraction from text.

• Jianjing Kuang

  Jianjing Kuang's recent research areas include the multidimensionality of tonal contrasts, phonation (production, perception and phonological representation), laryngeal articulations across languages, experimental fieldwork (Tibeto-Burman, Mayan, Hmong-Mien languages), computational modeling (mapping between production and perception), and prosody (intonation patterns and prosody in sentence processing).

Students

• Yong-cheol Lee <soongdora@gmail.com>

  Yong-cheol's recent research consists of 1) prosodic focus within and across languages, 2) cross-linguistic vocal expressions of emotion, and 3) Seoul Korean's tonogenetic sound change.

• Sunghye Cho <csunghye@sas.upenn.edu>

  Sunghye is working on phonetics and phonology. Her research area includes prosody (intonational patterns and their phonological interpretation), sound change and variation, and L2 acquisition.

• Mao-Hsu Chen <chenmao@sas.upenn.edu>

  Mao-Hsu Chen is interested in the phonology and phonetics of tones and intonation, sound change in general, and the interface between syntax and phonology. Current work focuses on the tone sandhi in Southern Min languages, especially the variety spoken in Taiwan.

• Jingjing Tan <jingtan@sas.upenn.edu>

• Yixuan Guo <gyix@sas.upenn.edu>

  Yixuan is interested in voice quality research, and is working as a research assistant for the phonetics lab.

• Aletheia Cui <acui@sas.upenn.edu>

• Taylor Jones <tayjones@sas.upenn.edu>

  Taylor Jones' research interests include lenition and reduction processes in casual speech, coarticulation and speakers' awareness of non-phonemic processes, computational modeling of language change, and and information extraction from text.

• Jia Tian <jiatian@sas.upenn.edu>

• Wei Lai <weilai@sas.upenn.edu>

• Hong Zhang <zhangho@sas.upenn.edu>