Jiahong Yuan

Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics
University of Pennsylvania

   Address:

      Department of Linguistics
      619 Williams Hall
      University of Pennsylvania, PA 19104-6305
      USA

   Office:

      609 Williams Hall

   Phone number:

      (215) 746-3136

   E-mail address:

      jiahong at ling dot upenn dot edu

[curriculum vitae] [dissertation]

Research Interests:

• Phonetics, speech prosody, speech perception
• Computational modeling
• Speech synthesis and recognition

Courses:

   Fall 05:
     Phonetics I (co-teaching with Mark Liberman)
   Spring 06:
     Phonetics II (co-teaching with Mark Liberman)
     Topics in Prosody

Publications:

   Yuan, J.; Jurafsky D., Detection of Questions in Chinese Conversational Speech
   To appear, Proceedings of ASRU 2005, Cancun, Mexico.

   Yuan, J.; Brenier, J.; Jurafsky, D., Pitch Accent Prediction: Effects of Genre and Speaker
   Proceedings of Interspeech 2005, Losbon, Portugal.

   Yuan, J., "Perception of Mandarin Intonation,"
   Proceedings of ISCSLP 2004, Hong Kong.

   Yuan, J.; Shih, C., Confusability of Chinese Intonation
   Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2004, Nara, Japan, pp. 131-134.

   Yuan, J., Selective Adaptation Tests on Mandarin Tone2 and Tone3
   Proceedings of ICPhS 2003, Barcelona, Spain, pp. 1719-1722.

   Yuan, J.; Shen, L.; Chen, F., The Acoustic Realization of Anger, Fear, Joy and Sadness in Chinese
   Proceedings of ICSLP 2002, Denver, Colorado, pp. 2025-2028.

   Yuan, J.; Shih, C; Kochanski, G. P., Comparison of Declarative and Interrogative Intonation in Chinese
   Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2002, Aix-en-Provence, France, pp. 711-714.

   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, Red Bank, NJ, pp. 133-138.