About me

I’m a first-year PhD student in Linguistics at the University of Toronto. I’m interested in studying variation, learning bias, and item specificity/frequency underlying phonetics-phonology and morphology in human language faculty and mental lexicon.

Here is a list of the topics that I’m currently working on:

1. Perceptual Adaptation and Sound Change: supervised by Dr.Yoonjung Kang, I’m exploring the phonetic recaliberation/adaptation in speech perception with implications for usage-based models of phonology and mechanisms of diachronic sound change
2. Loanword Phonology: I’m interested in the adaptation of non-native sound structures in native (morpho)phonology by using dictionary data and on-line adaptation experiments
3. Sociophonetic Cognition: Drs. Derek Dennis, Jessamyn Schertz and I are currently working on social perception of prosodic variation in multicultural Toronto English
4. Language Variation and Documentation: My MPhil thesis focused on documenting ongoing sound changes in Tsat, an endangered Austronesian language in Hainan, China.
5. Bilingualism & Language/Dialect Contact: bilingual and bi-dialectal speaker’s speech production & perception, second dialect morphology and phonology

I’ve graduated with an MPhil (Distinction) in Linguistics, Philology & Phonetics at the University of Oxford, where I worked with Drs. Miriam Meyerhoff, Jose Elias-Ulloa, and Matt Hunt Gardner.

I’ll keep updating my research outputs here. Feel free to reach out :)