I am a PhD candidate in Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania. Prior coming to Penn, I received my bachelor's degree in Information Management and Information System from Peking University. I am affiliated with Penn Phonetics Laboratory. My advisor is Jianjing Kuang.

I work on phonetics and laboratory phonology. The central focus of my research is the speakers' knowledge of phonological contrasts in their native languages. I integrate fieldwork, experimental psycholinguistic methods, corpus study, and computational modeling to investigate how native speakers represent, produce and perceive phonological contrasts.

Email: jiatian@sas.upenn.edu             CV

Journal articles

2019. Jianjing Kuang, Jia Tian, and Bing'er Jiang. The effect of vocal effort on contrastive voice quality in Shaoxing Wu. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 146(3): EL272-EL278.

2019. Jia Tian, and Jianjing Kuang. The phonetic properties of the non-modal phonation in Shanghainese. The Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 1-27.

Conference proceedings

2019. Jia Tian, Yipei Zhou, and Jianjing Kuang. Cross-linguistic Variation in the Phonetic Realization of Breathier Voice. Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Melbourne, Australia.

2019. Jianjing Kuang, and Jia Tian. Tone Representation and Tone Processing in Shanghainese. Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Melbourne, Australia.

2018. Jianjing Kuang, Jia Tian, and Yipei Zhou. The common word prosody in Northern Wu. Proc. TAL2018, Sixth International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages, 7-11.

2016. Jia Tian, and Jianjing Kuang. Revisiting the Register Contrast in Shanghai Chinese. Proc. Tonal Aspects of Languages 2016, 147-151.

Posters

2017. Phonetic properties of the non-modal phonation in Shanghainese register contrast. Acoustical Society of America (ASA) 173rd Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 25-29 June 2017. (with Jianjing Kuang)

2016. Revisting the register contrast in Shanghai Chinese. The Fifth International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (TAL 2016), 24-27 May 2016, Buffalo, New York. (with Jianjing Kuang)