Invited Talks

Wang, Tianxiao, Xinyu Liao & Yunbo Mei. (2025). Perceiving feminine accent: gendered style and sexuality in social perception of alveolo-palatal fricative /ɕ/-fronting in Mandarin. Oral presentation at 2025 Young Scholars’ Symposium on Sociophonetics [2025社会语音学青年论坛], November 21-23, 2025, University of Macau, Macau, China.[Slides here]

Liao, Xinyu. (2024). Areal diffusion and the evolution of Tsat: a mixed language in Hainan, China. Oral presentation at Workshop of Languages in China, All Souls College, University of Oxford, UK.

Conference and Workshop Presentations

Liao, Xinyu & Yoonjung Kang. (Forthcoming). Directional bias, lexical competition, and item frequency effects in sound change: experimental evidence from perceptual learning. Oral presentation at 100th Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting 2026, January 8-11, 2026. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

Liao, Xinyu & Yoonjung Kang. (2025). Word frequency and biases in phonetic recalibration. Poster presentation at ABSPEK: Abstract and Item-Specific Knowledge Across Domains and Frameworks, July 26-27, 2025. University of Oregon, Eugene, USA. [Poster here]

Liao, Xinyu. (2025). Tone-to-stress adaptation of Mandarin loanwords in English. Oral presentation at Montreal-Ottawa-Toronto-Hamilton (MOTh) Phonology/Phonetics Workshop 2025, April 4-5, 2025. University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. [Slides here]

Liao, Xinyu. (2024). Asymmetries in the learnability of new dialect features across the lifespan. Oral presentation at New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 52, November 7-9, 2024. Miami, Florida, USA. [Slides here]

Liao, Xinyu. (2022). Co-constructing ‘husband and wife’ relationships among Chinese gay couples in vlogs: feminine accent and variations of alveolo-palatal initials in Mandarin Chinese. Oral presentation at New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 50, October 13-15, 2022. Stanford University, USA. [Slides here]

Liao, Xinyu. (2022). Reappropriating heteronormative practices among Chinese gay couples in social media: variations and indexicality of pitch and sibilant fricatives. Oral presentation at 46th Annual Penn Linguistics Conference (PLC 46), March 18-20, 2022. University of Pennsylvania, USA.