Tel.: (215) 746-3136; E-mail: jiahong@ling.upenn.edu
RESEARCH AREAS
Speech Prosody
Corpus Phonetics
Integration of Speech Technology in Phonetics Research
COURSES
Phonetics
I: Introduction to Phonetics
Phonetics
II: Corpus Phonetics
Introduction
to Speech Analysis
Introduction to Linguistics (with David Embick)
Topics in Prosody and Speech Synthesis
GRANTS
1. 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).
2. 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).
3. Co-PI, EAGER: Mining a
year of speech, sponsor: NSF, Aug 2010 – July 2012, with Mark Liberman (PI)
and Chris Cieri (co-PI).
4. Co-PI, Automatic alignment
and analysis of linguistic change, sponsor: NSF, Sep 2009 – Mar
2012, with William Labov (PI).
5. Speaker identification consultant, The OYEZ
Project at Chicago-Kent (http://www.oyez.org),
PI: Jerry Goldman IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law.
6. Penn CEAS Faculty
Research Travel
Grant, Summer 2010.
7. Surveying
naturally-occurring speech in the British National Corpus, subcontract from University
of Oxford, Aug 2008.
PUBLICATIONS
Peer-reviewed Conference
Papers:
1. (2011) Yuan, J., Liberman, M., “Automatic detection of ‘g-dropping’ in American English using forced alignment,” Accepted, 2011 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop, Dec 11-15, 2011, Hawaii.
2. (2011) Yuan, J., “Modeling spectral dynamics for classification of vowels in Mandarin Chinese,” Accepted, Oriental COCOSDA 2011, Oct 26-28, 2011, Taiwan.
3. (2011) Yuan, J., Liberman, M., “Automatic measurement and comparison and vowel nasalization across languages,” Proceedings of ICPhS XVII, pp. 2244-2247. [pdf]
4. (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. [pdf]
5. (2010) Yuan,
J., “Linguistic rhythm in
foreign accent,” Proceedings of Interspeech 2010, pp. 1848-1849. [pdf]
6. (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) [pdf]
7. (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. [pdf]
8. (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. [pdf]
9. (2010) Yuan, J., Liberman, M., “Robust speaking rate estimation using broad phonetic class recognition,” Proceedings of ICASSP 2010, pp. 4222-4225. [pdf]
10. (2009) Yuan, J, Liberman, M., “Investigating /l/ variation in English through forced alignment,” Proceedings of Interspeech 2009, pp. 2215-2218. [pdf]
11. (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. [pdf]
12. (2008) Yuan, J., Liberman, M., “Vowel acoustic space in
continuous speech: An example of using audio books for research,” CatCod 2008.
[pdf]
13. (2008) Yuan, J., Liberman, M., “Speaker identification on the SCOTUS corpus,” Proceedings of Acoustics 2008, pp. 5687-5690. [pdf]
14. (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. [pdf]
15. (2008) Yuan, J., “Covariations of English segmental
durations across speakers,” Proceedings of Interspeech 2008, p. 1963. [pdf]
16. (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. [pdf]
17. (2007) Yuan, J., Liberman, M., Cieri, C., “Towards an integrated understanding of speech overlaps in conversation,” Proceedings of ICPhS XVI, pp. 1337-1340. [pdf]
18. (2007) Chen, Y., Yuan, J., “A corpus study of the 3rd tone sandhi in Standard Chinese,” Proceedings of Interspeech 2007, pp. 2749-2752. [pdf]
19. (2007) Lai, C., Gorman, K., Yuan, J., Liberman, M., “Perception of disfluency: Language differences and listener bias,” Proceedings of Interspeech 2007, pp. 2345-2348. [pdf]
20. (2006) Yuan, J., Liberman, M., Cieri, C., “Towards an integrated understanding of speaking rate in conversation,” Proceedings of Interspeech 2006, pp. 541-544. [pdf]
21. (2005) Yuan, J., Jurafsky., D., “Detection of questions in Chinese conversational speech,” Proceedings of ASRU 2005, pp. 47-52. [pdf]
22. (2005) Yuan, J., Brenier, J., Jurafsky, D., “Pitch accent prediction: Effects of genre and speaker,” Proceedings of Interspeech 2005, pp. 1409-1412. [pdf]
23. (2004) Yuan, J., “Perception of Mandarin intonation,” Proceedings of ISCSLP 2004, pp. 45-48. [pdf]
24. (2004) Yuan., J., Shih, C., “Confusability of Chinese
intonation,” Proceedings
of Speech Prosody 2004, pp. 131-134. [pdf]
25. (2003) Yuan, J., “Selective adaptation tests on Mandarin Tone2 and
Tone3,” Proceedings of
ICPhS 2003, pp. 1719-1722. [pdf]
26. (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. [pdf]
27. (2002) Yuan, J., Shih, C., Kochanski, G. P., “Comparison of
declarative and interrogative intonation in Chinese,” Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2002, pp. 711-714. [pdf]
28. (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. [pdf]
Peer-reviewed Journal
Articles and Book Chapters:
1. (2006) 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. [pdf]
2.
(Accepted) Yuan, J., “Perception of intonation in Mandarin Chinese,” to appear
in Journal of
the Acoustical Society of America. [pdf]
3.
(Accepted) Yuan, J., Chen, Y., “Third tone sandhi in Standard Chinese: A corpus
approach,” to appear in Journal of Chinese Linguistics. [pdf]
Published Abstracts:
1. (2011)
Yuan, J., “The duration aspect of tones,” Berkeley Tone Workshop, Feb 18-20, 2011,
Berkeley, CA. [pdf]
2. (2011) Yuan, J., Libeman, M., “Automatic detection of ‘g-dropping’ in American English using forced alignment,” Speech Production Workshop, May 5-6, 2011, Urbana, IL. [pdf]
3. (2011) Zhang, Y., Yuan, J., “A cross‐linguistic study of intonation: English learners’ production of Mandarin intonation,” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 129, p. 2681. [pdf]
4. (2010) Yuan,
J., Seidl, A, Cristia, A., “Automatic detection and comparison of vowel
nasalization in American English,” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America,
128, p. 2291. [pdf[
5. (2008) Narayan, C., Yuan, J., “Acoustic correlates of speaker discrimination in English,” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 124, p. 2457. [pdf]
6. (2006) Yuan,
J., Liberman, M., Cieri, C., “Language and gender differences in speech
overlaps in conversation,” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 120, p. 3295. [pdf]
7. (2006) Liberman, M., Yuan, J., “Frequency and amplitude derivatives as syllable-level F0 features,” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 120, p. 3090. [pdf]
Computer Software:
Penn Phonetics Lab Forced Aligner: http://www.ling.upenn.edu/phonetics/p2fa/.
(Last modified: Oct 14, 2011)