Tone and Intonation

ManyTones: Perception of F0 Perturbation across Many Languages

A cross-linguistic speech-perception project investigating how listeners of many languages perceive F0 perturbation. The study probes how subtle pitch cues are perceived across typologically diverse tone and non-tone languages.

Shinytone: A Citation Tone Research Hub

An interactive Shiny app and R package that integrates the full citation-tone analysis workflow into one place: pitch extraction, inspection, correction, normalisation, visualisation, modelling, and Chao's tone numeral summarisation. Built for phoneticians, typologists, fieldworkers, and students working on lexical tone production across tone languages.

Tone Development and Change

Invited talk at the HKU Linguistics Seminar, the University of Hong Kong.

Tone Patterns in Binumarien Noun Stems (Kainantu, Trans-New Guinea)

Poster Presentation at Phonetics and Phonology in Europe 2025, Palma, Spain.

Cross-dialectal perspectives on Mandarin neutral tone

Invited talk at Phonetics & Phonology Seminar, University of Cambridge

Identity in prosody: An introduction to Plastic Mandarin

Invited talk at Languages of China Workshop, All Souls College, University of Oxford

Trisyllabic Phrase Intonation in Plastic Mandarin Using Polynomial Modelling

Presentation at the ICPHS 2019