Tel.: (215) 746-3136; E-mail: jiahong@ling.upenn.edu
RESEARCH AREAS:
Speech Prosody
Corpus Phonetics
Integration of Speech Technology in Phonetics Research
COURSES
Introduction to Speech Analysis, Fall 07
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/courses/ling120/
Phonetics I: Introduction to Phonetics, Fall 05, Fall 06, Fall 07
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/courses/ling520/
Phonetics II: Corpus Phonetics, Spring 06, Spring 07, Spring 08
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/courses/ling521/
Topics in Prosody, Spring 06, Spring 07
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/courses/ling620/
PUBLICATIONS
2008
Yuan, J.; Liberman, M., “Vowel acoustic space in continuous speech: An example of using audio books for research,” CatCod 2008. (pdf)
Yuan, J.; Liberman, M., “Speaker
identification on the SCOTUS corpus,” Proceedings of Acoustics ’08. (pdf)
Yuan, J.; Isard, S.; Liberman, M., “Different Roles of Pitch and Duration in Distinguishing Word Stress in English”, Proceedings of Interspeech ’08. (pdf)
Yuan, J., “Covariations of English segmental durations across speakers,” Proceedings of Interspeech ’08. (pdf)
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 ’08. (pdf)
Narayan, C.; Yuan, J., “Acoustic
correlates of speaker discrimination in English,” (abstract), Journal of
Acoustical Society of America, 124, pp.
2457.
2007
Yuan, J.; Liberman, M.; Cieri, C., “Towards an Integrated Understanding of Speech Overlaps in Conversation,” ICPhS XVI, 1337-1340, Saarbrücken, Germany. (pdf)
Chen, Y.; Yuan, J., “A Corpus Study of the 3rd Tone Sandhi in Standard Chinese,” Interspeech 2007, 2749-2752, Antwerp, Belgium. (pdf)
Lai, C.; Gorman, K.; Yuan, J.; Liberman, M., “Perception of Disfluency: Language Differences and Listener Bias,” Interspeech 2007, 2345-2348, Antwerp, Belgium. (pdf)
2006
Yuan, J., “Mechanisms of Question Intonation in Mandarin,” In Chinese Spoken Language Processing, Huo., Q., et al. (Eds.), Springer, pp. 19-30. (pdf)
Yuan, J.; Liberman, M.; Cieri, C., “Towards an Integrated Understanding of Speaking Rate in Conversation,” Interspeech 2006, 541-544, Pittsburgh, PA. (pdf)
Yuan, J.; Liberman, M.; Cieri, C., “Language and Gender Differences in Speech Overlaps in Conversation,” (abstract), Journal of Acoustical Society of America, 120, pp. 3295.
Liberman, M.; Yuan; J.; Cieri, C., “Frequency and Amplitude Derivatives as Syllable-level F0 Features,” (abstract), Journal of Acoustical Society of America, 120, pp. 3090.
2005 and before:
Yuan, J.; Jurafsky., D., “Detection of Questions in Chinese Conversational Speech,” ASRU 2005, San Juan, Puerto Rico, pp. 47-52. (pdf)
Yuan, J.; Brenier, J.; Jurafsky, D., “Pitch Accent Prediction: Effects of Genre and Speaker,” Interspeech 2005, Lisbon, Portugal, pp. 1409-1412. (pdf)
Yuan, J., “Perception of Mandarin Intonation,” ISCSLP 2004, Hong Kong, pp. 45-48. (pdf)
Yuan, J.; Shih, C., “Confusability of
Chinese Intonation,” Speech Prosody 2004,
Nara, Japan, pp. 131-134. (pdf)
Yuan, J., “Selective Adaptation Tests on Mandarin Tone2 and Tone3,”
ICPhS 2003, Barcelona, Spain, pp. 1719-1722. (pdf)
Yuan, J.; Shen, L.; Chen, F., “The Acoustic Realization of Anger, Fear,
Joy and Sadness in Chinese,” ICSLP
2002, Denver, Colorado, pp.
2025-2028. (pdf)
Yuan, J.; Shih, C; Kochanski, G. P., “Comparison of Declarative and
Interrogative Intonation in Chinese,”
Speech Prosody 2002, Aix-en-Provence, France, pp. 711-714. (pdf)
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, 2001, pp. 133-138. (pdf)