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<CENTER><H1>Jiahong Yuan</H1></CENTER>
<CENTER><H3>Associate Director, Speech Research</H3></CENTER>
<CENTER><H3><A HREF="http://www.ldc.upenn.edu">Linguistic Data Consortium</A>, University of Pennsylvania</H3></CENTER>
<CENTER>E-mail: <A HREF="mailto: jdang@jaist.ac.jp ">jiahong@sas.upenn.edu</A></CENTER> 

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<H3>RESEARCH AREAS</H3>
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  <LI>Speech Prosody
  <LI>Corpus Phonetics
  <LI>Integration of Speech Technology in Phonetics Research
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<H3>GRANTS</H3>
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  <LI>PI, RI: Medium: New tools and methods for very-large-scale phonetics research, sponsor: NSF, July 2010 – June 2013, with Susan Davidson (co-PI), Mark Liberman (co-PI), Andreas Stolcke (co-PI), and Wen Wang (co-PI).
  <LI>Co-PI, Word-joins in real life speech: A large corpus-based study, sponsor: ESRC, Oct 2010 – Sep 2013, with John Coleman (PI), Greg Kochanski (co-PI), and Ros Temple (co-PI).
  <LI>Co-PI, EAGER: Mining a year of speech, sponsor: NSF, Aug 2010 – July 2012, with Mark Liberman (PI) and Chris Cieri (co-PI).
  <LI>Co-PI, Automatic alignment and analysis of linguistic change, sponsor: NSF, Sep 2009 – Mar 2012, with William Labov (PI).
  <LI>Speaker identification consultant, The OYEZ Project at Chicago-Kent (<A HREF="http://www.oyez.org">http://www.oyez.org</A>), PI: Jerry Goldman IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law.
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<H3>PUBLICATIONS</H3>
<B><I>Peer-reviewed Conference Papers:</B></I><BR>
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  <LI>(2012) Yuan, J., “The effects of speaking rate and intonation on the duration of tones in Mandarin Chinese,” Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2012.
  <LI>(2011) Yuan, J., Liberman, M., “Automatic detection of ‘g-dropping’ in American English using forced alignment,” Proceedings of 2011 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop, pp. 490-493. [<A HREF="http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~jiahong/publications/cn1.pdf">pdf</A>]
  <LI>(2011) Yuan, J., “Modeling spectral dynamics for classification of vowels in Mandarin Chinese,” Proceedings of Oriental COCOSDA 2011.
  <LI>(2011) Yuan, J., Liberman, M., “Automatic measurement and comparison and vowel nasalization across languages,” Proceedings of ICPhS XVII, pp. 2244-2247. [<A HREF="http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~jiahong/publications/cn3.pdf">pdf</A>]
  <LI>(2011) Coleman, J., Liberman, M., Kochanski, G., Burnard, L., Yuan, J., “Mining a year of speech,” Proceedings of New Tools and Methods for Very-Large-Scale Phonetics Research, pp. 16-19.
  <LI>(2010) Yuan, J., “Linguistic rhythm in foreign accent,” Proceedings of Interspeech 2010, pp. 1848-1849.
  <LI>(2010) Yuan, J., Liberman, M., “F0 declination in English and Mandarin broadcast news speech,” Proceedings of Interspeech 2010, pp. 134-137. (Interspeech 2010 best paper award) [<A HREF="http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~jiahong/publications/c02.pdf">pdf</A>]
  <LI>(2010) Yuan, J., Jiang, Y., Song, Z., “Perception of foreign accent in spontaneous L2 English speech,” Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2010, pp. 100884:1-4. [<A HREF="http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~jiahong/publications/c03.pdf">pdf</A>]
  <LI>(2010) Lai, C., Sui, Y., Yuan, J., “A corpus study of the prosody of polysyllabic words in Mandarin Chinese,” Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2010, pp.100457:1-4. [<A HREF="http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~jiahong/publications/c04.pdf">pdf</A>]
  <LI>(2010) Yuan, J., Liberman, M., “Robust speaking rate estimation using broad phonetic class recognition,” Proceedings of ICASSP 2010, pp. 4222-4225. [<A HREF="http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~jiahong/publications/c05.pdf">pdf</A>]
  <LI>(2009) Yuan, J, Liberman, M., “Investigating /l/ variation in English through forced alignment,” Proceedings of Interspeech 2009, pp. 2215-2218. [<A HREF="http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~jiahong/publications/c06.pdf">pdf</A>]
  <LI>(2009) Dang J., Tiede, M., Yuan, J., “Comparison of vowel structures of Japanese and English in articulatory and auditory spaces,” Proceedings of Interspeech 2009, pp. 2815-2818. [<A HREF="http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~jiahong/publications/c07.pdf">pdf</A>]
  <LI>(2008) Yuan, J., Liberman, M., “Vowel acoustic space in continuous speech: An example of using audio books for research,” CatCod 2008.
  <LI>(2008) Yuan, J., Liberman, M., “Speaker identification on the SCOTUS corpus,” Proceedings of Acoustics 2008, pp. 5687-5690. [<A HREF="http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~jiahong/publications/c09.pdf">pdf</A>]
  <LI>(2008) Yuan, J., Isard, S., Liberman, M., “Different roles of pitch and duration in distinguishing word stress in English,” Proceedings of Interspeech 2008, p. 885. [<A HREF="http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~jiahong/publications/c10.pdf">pdf</A>]
  <LI>(2008) Yuan, J., “Covariations of English segmental durations across speakers,” Proceedings of Interspeech 2008, p. 1963.
  <LI>(2008) Quam, C., Yuan, J., Swingley, D., “Relating intonational pragmatics to the pitch realizations of highly frequent words in English speech to infants,” Proceedings of CogSci 2008, pp. 217-222.
  <LI>(2007) Yuan, J., Liberman, M., Cieri, C., “Towards an integrated understanding of speech overlaps in conversation,” Proceedings of ICPhS XVI, pp. 1337-1340. [<A HREF="http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~jiahong/publications/c13.pdf">pdf</A>]
  <LI>(2007) Chen, Y., Yuan, J., “A corpus study of the 3rd tone sandhi in Standard Chinese,” Proceedings of Interspeech 2007, pp. 2749-2752. [<A HREF="http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~jiahong/publications/c14.pdf">pdf</A>]
  <LI>(2007) Lai, C., Gorman, K., Yuan, J., Liberman, M., “Perception of disfluency: Language differences and listener bias,” Proceedings of Interspeech 2007, pp. 2345-2348. [<A HREF="http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~jiahong/publications/c15.pdf">pdf</A>]
  <LI>(2006) Yuan, J., Liberman, M., Cieri, C., “Towards an integrated understanding of speaking rate in conversation,” Proceedings of Interspeech 2006, pp. 541-544. [<A HREF="http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~jiahong/publications/c16.pdf">pdf</A>]
  <LI>(2005) Yuan, J., Jurafsky., D., “Detection of questions in Chinese conversational speech,” Proceedings of ASRU 2005, pp. 47-52. [<A HREF="http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~jiahong/publications/c17.pdf">pdf</A>]
  <LI>(2005) Yuan, J., Brenier, J., Jurafsky, D., “Pitch accent prediction: Effects of genre and speaker,” Proceedings of Interspeech 2005, pp. 1409-1412. [<A HREF="http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~jiahong/publications/c18.pdf">pdf</A>]
  <LI>(2004) Yuan, J., “Perception of Mandarin intonation,” Proceedings of ISCSLP 2004, pp. 45-48.
  <LI>(2004) Yuan., J., Shih, C., “Confusability of Chinese intonation,” Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2004, pp. 131-134.
  <LI>(2003) Yuan, J., “Selective adaptation tests on Mandarin Tone2 and Tone3,” Proceedings of ICPhS 2003, pp. 1719-1722.
  <LI>(2002) Yuan, J., Shen, L., Chen, F., “The acoustic realization of anger, fear, joy and sadness in Chinese,” Proceedings of ICSLP 2002, pp. 2025-2028.
  <LI>(2002) Yuan, J., Shih, C., Kochanski, G. P., “Comparison of declarative and interrogative intonation in Chinese,” Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2002, pp. 711-714. [<A HREF="http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~jiahong/publications/c23.pdf">pdf</A>]
  <LI>(2001) Shih, C., Kochanski, G. P, Fosler-Lussier, E., Chan, M., Yuan, J., “Implications of prosody modeling for prosody recognition,” Proceedings of the ISCA Workshop on Prosody in Speech Recognition and Understanding, pp. 133-138.
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<B><I>Peer-reviewed Journal Articles and Book Chapters:</I></B><BR>
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  <LI>Yuan, J., “Mechanisms of question intonation in Mandarin,” In Q. Huo, B. Ma, E-S. Chng and H. Li (Eds.), Chinese Spoken Language Processing, Springer, pp. 19-30, 2006.
  <LI>Yuan, J., “Perception of intonation in Mandarin Chinese,” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 130(6), pp. 4063-4069, 2011.
  <LI>Yuan, J., Liberman, M., “/l/ variation in American English: A corpus approach,” Journal of Speech Sciences, 1(2), pp. 35-46, 2011.
  <LI>Yuan, J., Chen, Y., “Third tone sandhi in Standard Chinese: A corpus approach,” Accepted, to appear in Journal of Chinese Linguistics.
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<B><I>Computer Software:</I></B><BR>
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  <LI>Penn Phonetics Lab Forced Aligner: <A HREF="http://www.ling.upenn.edu/phonetics/p2fa/">http://www.ling.upenn.edu/phonetics/p2fa/</A>.
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