Yi Xu's Publications


(Publications in chronological order)

(Google Scholar)


Prosody: Tone & Intonation

    — Tone —

  1. Meng, H., Chen, C.-t., Chen, Y., Liu, Z. and Xu, Y. (2023). Mandarin tone production can be learned under perceptual guidance — A machine learning simulation. In Proceedings of The 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Prague, Czech. pp. 2324-2328. pdf

  2. Chen, Y., Gao, Y. and Xu, Y. (2022). Computational modelling of tone perception based on direct processing of f0 contours. Brain Sciences 12(3), 337. doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12030337

  3. Chen, Y. and Xu, Y. (2021). Parallel Recognition of Mandarin Tones and Focus from continuous F0. 1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI). Sonderborg, Denmark. pdf

  4. Lee, A., Prom-on, S. and Xu, Y. (2021). Pre-low raising in Cantonese and Thai: Effects of speech rate and vowel quantity. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 149:179-190. pdf

  5. Khan, A. Q., Xu, Y. and Sohail, A. (2020). Multidimensionality of tone in Pahari. Lingua 245: 102923. Accepted version

  6. Chen, Y. and Xu, Y. (2020). Intermediate features are not useful for tone perception. In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2020, Tokyo, Japan. pp. 513-517. pdf

  7. Yang, C. and Xu, Y. (2019). Cross-linguistic trends in tone change: A review of tone change studies in East and Southeast Asia. Diachronica 36:417-459. Accepted version

  8. Chaiyo, K., Xu, Y., & Prom-on, S. (2019). Time delays in tone production: A computational study of Thai tones. Paper presented at the The 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia. pdf

  9. Xu, Y. (2019). Prosody, tone and intonation. In The Routledge Handbook of Phonetics. W. F. Katz and P. F. Assmann: Routledge. pp. 314-356. pre-print copy

  10. Cheng, C., Xu, Y. and Gubian, M. (2010). Exploring the Mechanism of Tonal Contraction in Taiwan Mandarin. Interspeech 2010, Makuhari, Japan. PDF

  11. Kuo, Y. C., Xu, Y. and Yip,M. (2007). The phonetics and phonology of apparent cases of iterative tonal change in Standard Chinese. in Gussenhoven,C., Riad, T. (ed.) Tones and Tunes Vol 2: Experimental Studies in Word and Sentence Prosody. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. pp. 211-237. Author version

  12. Liu, F. and Xu, Y. (2007). The neutral tone in question intonation in Mandarin. Interspeech 2007, Antwerp. August, 2007. pp. 630-633. PDF

  13. Chen, Y. and Xu, Y. (2006). Production of weak elements in speech -- Evidence from f0 patterns of neutral tone in standard Chinese. Phonetica 63: 47-75. PDF

  14. Sun, X. and Xu, Y. (2002). Perceived pitch of synthesized voice with alternate cycles. Journal of Voice 16: 443-459. PDF

  15. Xu, Y. (2001). Fundamental frequency peak delay in Mandarin. Phonetica 58: 26-52. PDF

  16. Xu, Y. (1999). F0 peak delay: When, where and why it occurs. The 14th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, San Francisco. pp. 1881-1884. PDF

  17. Xu, Y. (1998). Consistency of tone-syllable alignment across different syllable structures and speaking rates. Phonetica 55: 179-203. PDF

  18. Xu, Y. (1997). Contextual tonal variations in Mandarin. Journal of Phonetics 25: 61-83. PDF

  19. Xu, Y. (1995). The effect of emphatic accent on contextual tonal variation. The XIII International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. pp. 668-671. PDF

  20. Xu, Y. (1994). Production and perception of coarticulated tones. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 95: 2240-2253. PDF

  21. Xu, Y. (1994). Asymmetry in contextual tonal variation in Mandarin. In H.-W. Chang, J.- T. Huang, C.-W. Hue, & O.J.L. Tzeng (Eds.), Advances in the study of Chinese language processing, Volume 1.(pp. 383-396). Taipei:Department of Psychology, National Taiwan University. PDF

  22. Xu, Y. (1993). Contextual tonal variation in Mandarin Chinese. Ph.D. dissertation. The University of Connecticut. PDF

    — Intonation —

  1. Alzaidi, M., Xu, Y., Xu, A. & Szreder, M. (2023). Analysis and computational modeling of Emirati Arabic intonation - A preliminary study. Journal of Phonetics 98: 101236. Free download until May 17, 2023

  2. Lee, A., Chiu, F. and Xu, Y. (2022). Focus perception in Japanese: Effects of lexical accent and focus location. PLoS ONE 17(9): e0274176. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0274176

  3. Syed, N. A., Waheed Shaha, A, Xu, A. and Xu, Y. (2022). Post-focus compression in Brahvi and Balochi. Phonetica 79(2): 189-218. doi.org/10.1515/phon-2022-2020. Also see: accepted version

  4. Chen, Y. and Xu, Y. (2021). Parallel Recognition of Mandarin Tones and Focus from continuous F0. 1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI). Sonderborg, Denmark. pdf

  5. Xu, Y. (2022). The PENTA model: Concepts, use and implications. In Prosodic Theory and Practice. S. Shattuck-Hufnagel and J. Barnes (eds.). Cambridge: The MIT Press. pp. 377-407. pdf MIT Press Direct; 中文翻译(上)

  6. Xu, Y. (2022). Author response to the commentary: Multiple layers of meanings can be linked to surface prosody without direct mapping. In Prosodic Theory and Practice. S. Shattuck-Hufnagel and J. Barnes (eds.). Cambridge: The MIT Press. pp. 425-434. pdf MIT Press Direct

  7. Azid, M. S. and Xu, Y. (2020). Prosodic Focus in Malay without Post-focus Compression. Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities 28:91-108. pdf

  8. Lee, A. and Xu, Y. (2020). Focus prosody in Japanese-English early bilinguals: A pilot study. In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2020, Tokyo, Japan. pp. 843-847. pdf

  9. Qin, Z. and Xu, Y. (2020). Lack of prosodic focus in Chongqing dialect and possible historical sources. In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2020, Tokyo, Japan. pp. 630-634. pdf

  10. Xu, Y. (2019). Prosody, tone and intonation. In The Routledge Handbook of Phonetics. W. F. Katz and P. F. Assmann: Routledge. pp. 314-356. pre-print copy

  11. Alzaidi, M., Xu, Y. and Xu, A. (2019). Prosodic Encoding of Focus in Hijazi Arabic. Speech Communication 106:127-149. Accepted version

  12. Lau, E., & Xu, Y. (2019). Toward predictive modelling for AM theory of intonation Paper presented at the The 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia. pdf

  13. Liu, J., Xu, Y. and Lee, Y.-c. (2019). Post-focus compression is not automatically transferred from Korean to L2 English. Phonetics and Speech Sciences 11:15-21. pdf

  14. Birkholz, P., Schmaser, P. and Xu, Y. (2018). Estimation of Pitch Targets from Speech Signals by Joint Regularized Optimization. In Proceedings of 2018 26th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO). IEEE: 2075-2079. pdf

  15. Wang, B., Xu, Y. and Ding, Q. (2018). Interactive prosodic marking of focus, boundary and newness in Mandarin. Phonetica 75: 24-56. Accepted version

  16. Lee, A. and Xu, Y. (2018). Conditional realisation of post-focus compression in Japanese. In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2018, Poznań, Poland. pdf

  17. Syed, N. A., Shah, A. W. and Xu, Y. (2018). Focus prosody in Brahvi and Balochi. In Proceedings of TAL 2018, Berlin, Germany. pdf

  18. Lee, A., Prom-on, S. and Xu, Y. (2017). Pre-low raising in Japanese pitch accent. Phonetica 74: 231-246. Accepted version

  19. Wang, B., Zhang, Y., Xu, Y. and Ding, H. (2017). Prosodic focus in three northern Wu dialects: Wuxi, Suzhou and Ningbo. In Proceedings of ExLing 2017, Heraklion, Greece: 117-120. PDF

  20. Shen, C., & Xu, Y. (2016). Prosodic Focus with Post-focus Compression in Lan-Yin Mandarin. Speech Prosody 2016, Boston, USA, pp. 340-344. PDF

  21. Lee, A. and Xu, Y. (2016). Effect of speech rate on pre-low raising in Cantonese. Tonal Aspects of Languages, Buffalo, NY: 75-79. PDF

  22. Xu, Y. (2015). Speech Prosody — Theories, models and analysis. In Courses on Speech Prosody. A. R. Meireles (ed.): Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Pp. 146-177. Author version

  23. Chen, Y., Xu, Y. and Guion-Anderson, S. (2014). Prosodic realization of focus in bilingual production of Southern Min and Mandarin. Phonetica 71, 249-270. Accepted version

  24. Taheri-Ardali, M., Rahmani, H. and Xu, Y. (2014). The Perception of Prosodic Focus in Persian. Speech Prosody 2014, Dublin: 515-519. PDF

  25. Liu, F., Xu, Y., Prom-on, S. and Yu, A. C. L. (2013). Morpheme-like prosodic functions: Evidence from acoustic analysis and computational modeling. Journal of Speech Sciences 3: 85-140. PDF

  26. Wang, B., Qadir, T. and Xu, Y. (2013). 维吾尔语焦点的韵律实现及感知 [Prosodic encoding and perception of focus in Uygur]. Acta Acoutica Sinica 38: 92-98. Author copy

  27. Lee, A., Xu, Y. and Prom-on, S. (2013). Mora-based pre-low raising in Japanese pitch accent. Interspeech 2013, Lyon, France. 3532-3536. PDF

  28. Prom-on, S., Liu, F. & Xu (2012). Post-low bouncing in Mandarin Chinese: Acoustic analysis and computational modeling. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 132: 421-432. Author copy

  29. Chen, Y., Guion-Anderson, S. and Xu, Y. (2012). Post-Focus Compression in Second Language Mandarin. Speech Prosody 2012, Shanghai. 410-413. PDF

  30. Taheri Ardali, M. and Xu, Y. (2012). Phonetic Realization of Prosodic Focus in Persian. Speech Prosody 2012, Shanghai. 326-329. PDF

  31. Lee, A. and Xu, Y. (2012). Revisiting focus prosody in Japanese. Speech Prosody 2012, Shanghai. 274-277. PDF

  32. Wang, L., Wang, B. and Xu, Y. (2012). Prosodic encoding and perception of focus in Tibetan (Anduo Dialect). Speech Prosody 2012, Shanghai. 286-289. PDF

  33. Wang, B., Li, C., Wu, Q., Zhang, X., Wang, B. and Xu, Y. (2012). Production and perception of focus in PFC and non-PFC languages: Comparing Beijing Mandarin and Hainan Tsat. Interspeech 2012: 663-666. PDF

  34. Xu, Y., Chen, S.-w., Wang, B. (2012). Prosodic focus with and without post-focus compression (PFC): A typological divide within the same language family? The Linguistic Review 29: 131-147. Author copy

  35. Wang, B. and Xu, Y. (2011). Differential prosodicencoding of topic and focus in sentence-initial position in Mandarin Chinese. Journal of Phonetics 37: 502-520. PDF

  36. Xu, Y. (2011). Post-focus compression: Cross-linguistic distribution and historical origin. The 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Hong Kong: 152-155. PDF

  37. Wang, B., Xu, Y. and Xu, J. (2011). Prosodic realization of discourse topic in Mandarin Chinese: Comparing professional with non-professional speakers. The 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Hong Kong: 2086-2089. PDF

  38. Lee, Y.-c. and Xu, Y. (2010). Phonetic Realization of Contrastive Focus in Korean. Speech Prosody 2010, Chicago. PDF

  39. Wu, W. L. and Xu, Y. (2010). Prosodic Focus in Hong Kong Cantonese without Post-focus Compression. Speech Prosody 2010, Chicago. PDF

  40. Xu, Y., Chen, S.-w. and Wang, B. (2010). Prosodic focus with post-focus compression: Single or Multiple Origin? In Proceedings of The 2nd Symposium on Evolutionary Linguistics. Tianjin, China. PDF

  41. Chen, S.-w., Wang, B. and Xu, Y. (2009). Closely related languages, different ways of realizing focus. Interspeech 2009, Brighton, UK: 1007-1010. PDF

  42. Liu, F. and Xu, Y. (2007). Question intonation as affected by word stress and focus in English. The 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Saarbrucken. August, 2007. pp. 1189-1192. PDF

  43. Liu, F. and Xu, Y. (2007). The neutral tone in question intonation in Mandarin. Interspeech 2007, Antwerp. August, 2007. pp. 630-633. PDF

  44. Chen, Y. and Xu, Y. (2006). Production of weak elements in speech -- Evidence from f0 patterns of neutral tone in standard Chinese. Phonetica 63: 47-75. PDF

  45. Wang, B. and Xu, Y. (2006). Prosodic encoding of topic and focus in Mandarin. Speech Prosody 2006, Dresden, Germany. PS3-12_0172.PDF

  46. Liu, F. and Xu, Y. (2005). Parallel Encoding of Focus and Interrogative Meaning in Mandarin Intonation. Phonetica 62: 70-87. PDF

  47. Xu, Y. and Xu, C. X. (2005). Phonetic realization of focus in English declarative intonation. Journal of Phonetics 33: 159-197. PDF

  48. Xu, Y., Xu, C. X. and Sun, X. (2004). On the Temporal Domain of Focus. International Conference on Speech Prosody 2004, Nara, Japan: 81-84. PDF

  49. Xu, Y. (1999). Effects of tone and focus on the formation and alignment of F0 contours. Journal of Phonetics 27: 55-105. PDF

Prosody: Tempo, duration and rhythm

  1. Wang, C., Xu, Y., and Zhang, J. (2023). Functional timing or rhythmical timing, or both? — A corpus study of English and Mandarin duration. Frontiers in Psychology 13: 869049. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.869049

  2. Xu, Y. and Prom-on, S. (2019). Economy of effort or maximum rate of information? Exploring basic principles of articulatory dynamics. Frontiers in Psychology 10: 2469. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02469

  3. Chaiyo, K., Xu, Y., & Prom-on, S. (2019). Time delays in tone production: A computational study of Thai tones. Paper presented at the The 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia. pdf

  4. Wang, C., Xu, Y., & Zhang, J. (2019). Mandarin and English use different temporal means to mark major prosodic boundaries. Paper presented at the The 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia. pdf

  5. Xu, Y. (2019). Prosody, tone and intonation. In The Routledge Handbook of Phonetics. W. F. Katz and P. F. Assmann: Routledge. pp. 314-356. pre-print copy

  6. Wang, C., Zhang, J. and Xu, Y. (2018). Compressibility of segment duration in English and Chinese. In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2018, Poznań, Poland. pdf

  7. Wang, C. and Xu, Y. (2017). Effects of part of speech: Primitive or derived from word frequency? In Proceedings of ExLing 2017, Heraklion, Greece: 113-116. PDF

  8. Cheng, C. and Xu, Y. (2015). Mechanism of disyllabic tonal reduction in Taiwan Mandarin. Language and speech 58 (3), 281-314. Author version

  9. Cheng, C. and Xu, Y. (2013). Articulatory limit and extreme segmental reduction in Taiwan Mandarin. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 134, 4481-4495. Author version

  10. Xu, Y. and Wang, M. (2009). Organizing syllables into groups -- Evidence from F0 and duration patterns in Mandarin. Journal of Phonetics 37: 502-520. ScienceDirect; Author version

  11. Xu, Y. (2009). Timing and coordination in tone and intonation -- An articulatory-functional perspective. Lingua 119: 906-927. ScienceDirect; Author version

  12. Cheng, C. and Xu, Y. (2009). Extreme reductions: Contraction of disyllables into monosyllables in Taiwan Mandarin. Interspeech 2009, Brighton, UK: 456-459.PDF

  13. Xu, Y. and Sun X. (2002). Maximum speed of pitch change and how it may relate to speech. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 111: 1399-1413. PDF

  14. Xu, Y. and Sun, X. (2000). How fast can we really change pitch? Maximum speed of pitch change revisited. The 6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Beijing. III-666-669. PDF

  15. Xu, Y. (1986). 普通话音联的声学语音学特性 [Acoustic-phonetic characteristics of juncture in Mandarin Chinese]. 《中国语文》[Zhongguo Yuwen: Journal of Chinese Linguistics] No. 4: 353- 360 (Beijing, China). PDF

Prosody: Emotion and social attributes

    — Emotion —

  1. Xu, Y. (2023) Phonetics of Emotion. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics, Oxford University Press. pdf

  2. Cai, Z. and Xu, Y. (2023). An acoustic analysis of Berlin database of emotional speech based on bio-informational dimensions. In Proceedings of The 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Prague, Czech. pp. 4092-4096. pdf

  3. Liu, X., Xu, Y., Zhang, W. and Tian, X. (2021). Multiple prosodic meanings are conveyed through separate pitch ranges: Evidence from perception of focus and surprise in Mandarin Chinese. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience. pdf

  4. Xu, Y. (2019). Prosody, tone and intonation. In The Routledge Handbook of Phonetics. W. F. Katz and P. F. Assmann: Routledge. pp. 314-356. pre-print copy

  5. Liu, X, Xu, Y., Alter, K. and Tuomainen, J. (2018) Emotional connotations of musical instrument timbre in comparison with emotional speech prosody: Evidence from acoustics and event-related potentials. Frontiers in Psychology. 9 (737) doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00737

  6. Liu, X. and Xu, Y. (2016). Pitch perception of focus and surprise in Mandarin Chinese: Evidence for parallel encoding via additive division of pitch range. Tonal Aspects of Languages, Buffalo, NY: 129-132. PDF

  7. Mitchell, R. L. C. and Xu, Y. (2015). What is the value of embedding artificial emotional prosody in human computer interactions? Implications for theory and design in psychological science. Frontiers in Psychology 6:1750. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01750.

  8. Liu, X. and Xu, Y. (2015). Relations between affective music and speech: Evidence from dynamics of affective piano performance and speech production. Frontiers in Psychology 6:886. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00886.

  9. Hsu, C. and Xu, Y. (2014). Can adolescents with autism perceive emotional prosody? Interspeech 2014, Singapore. PDF

  10. Liu, X. and Xu, Y. (2014). Body size projection and its relation to emotional speech—Evidence from Mandarin Chinese. Speech Prosody 2014, Dublin: 974-977. PDF

  11. Xu, Y., Kelly, A. and Smillie, C. (2013). Emotional expressions as communicative signals. In S. Hancil and D. Hirst (eds.) Prosody and Iconicity, John Benjamins Publishing Co, pp. 33-60. Author version

  12. Noble, L. and Xu, Y. (2011). Friendly Speech and Happy Speech – Are they the same? The 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Hong Kong: 1502-1505. PDF

  13. Xu, Y. and Kelly, A. (2010). Perception of anger and happiness from resynthesized speech with size-related manipulations. Speech Prosody 2010, Chicago. PDF

  14. Chuenwattanapranithi, S., Xu, Y., Thipakorn, B. and Maneewongvatana, S. (2008). Encoding emotions in speech with the size code -- A perceptual investigation. Phonetica 65: 210-230. Author version

  15. Chuenwattanapranithi, S., Xu, Y., Thipakorn, B. and Maneewongvatana, S. (2007). The Roles of Pitch Contours in Differentiating Anger and Joy in Speech. International journal of signal processing 3: 129-134. PDF

  16. Xu, Y. and Chuenwattanapranithi, S. (2007). Perceiving anger and joy in speech through the size code. The 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Saarbrucken. August, 2007. pp. 2105-2108. PDF

  17. Chuenwattanapranithi, S., Xu, Y., Thipakorn, B. and Maneewongvatana, S. (2006). Expressing anger and joy with the size code. Speech Prosody 2006, Dresden, Germany. OS4-1_0090. PDF

    — Social attributes —

  1. Jiao, L., Wang, C., Hsu, C., Birkholz, P. and Xu, Y. (2017). Does posh English sound attractive? In Proceedings of Interspeech 2017, Stockholm, Sweden: 2257-2261. PDF

  2. Jiao, L., Wang, C., Hsu, C., Birkholz, P. and Xu, Y. (2017). Posh accent and vocal attractiveness in British English. In Proceedings of ExLing 2017, Heraklion, Crete, Greece: 45-48. PDF

  3. Xu, Y., Lee, A., Wu, W.-L., Liu, X. and Birkholz, P. (2013). Human vocal attractiveness as signaled by body size projection PLoS ONE 8(4): e62397. Online access with audio samples

  4. Liu, X. and Xu, Y. (2011). What makes a female voice attractive. The 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Hong Kong: 1274-1277. PDF

    — Consonantal perturbation of F0 —

  1. Krug, P. K., Gerazov, B., Van Niekerk, D. R. v., Xu, A., Xu, Y. and Birkholz, P. (2021). Modelling microprosodic effects can lead to an audible improvement in articulatory synthesis. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 150: 1209–1217. pdf
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  2. Xu, Y. and Xu, A. (2021). Consonantal F0 perturbation in American English involves multiple mechanisms. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 149(4): 2877-2895. pdf

  3. Wong, Y. W. and Xu, Y. (2007). Consonantal perturbation of f0 contours of Cantonese tones. The 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Saarbrucken. August, 2007. pp. 1293-1296. PDF

  4. Xu, C. X. and Xu, Y. (2003). Effects of Consonant Aspiration on Mandarin Tones. Journal of the International Phonetic Association 33: 165-181. PDF

    — Whispered tone and intonation —

  1. Jiao, L. and Xu, Y. (2019). Whispered Mandarin has no production-enhanced cues for tone and intonation. Lingua 218:24-37. Accepted version

  2. Jiao, L., & Xu, Y. (2016). Interactions of Tone and Intonation in Whispered Mandarin. Speech Prosody 2016, Boston, USA, pp. 94-98. PDF

  3. Jiao, L., Ma, Q., Wang, T. and Xu, Y. (2015). Perceptual cues of whispered tones: Are they really special? Interspeech 2015, Dresden, Germany: 2361-2365. PDF

    — Disorders and L2 teaching —

  1. Liu, F., C. Jiang, B. Wang, Y. Xu, & A. D. Patel (2015). A music perception disorder (congenital amusia) influences speech comprehension. Neuropsychologia 66, 111-118. ScienceDirect

  2. Gao, W., Xu, Y. & Mu, F. (2015). 中国英语学习者韵律焦点教学的实验研究 [An experimental study of teaching prosodic focus to Chinese learners of English]. 外语教学与研究 [Foreign Language Teaching and Research], (6) 861-873.
  3. Liu, F., Jiang, C., Pfordresher, P. Q., Mantell, J. T., Xu, Y., Yang, Y. and Stewart, L. (2013). Individuals with congenital amusia imitate pitches more accurately in singing than in speaking: Implications for music and language processing. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics 75(8): 1783-1798, DOI:10.3758/s13414-013-0506-1. Online access

  4. Liu, F., Xu, Y., Patel, A. D., Francart, T. and Jiang, C. (2012). Differential recognition of pitch patterns in discrete and gliding stimuli in congenital amusia: Evidence from Mandarin speakers. Brain and Cognition 79: 209-215. Author copy

  5. Liu, F., Jiang, C., Thompson, W. F., Xu, Y., Yang, Y., & Stewart, L. (2012). The mechanism of speech processing in congenital amusia: Evidence from Mandarin speakers. PLoS ONE, 7(2): e30374. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0030374. Free online access

  6. Sheng, L., McGregor, K. K. and Xu, Y. (2003). Prosodic and lexical-syntactic aspects of the therapeutic register. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics 17: 355-363. PDF

Segment, Syllable and Coarticulation

  1. Liu, Z. and Xu, Y. (2023). Deep learning assessment of syllable affiliation of intervocalic consonants. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 153(2): 848-866. pdf
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  2. Van Niekerk, D. R., Xu, A., Gerazov, B., Krug, P. K., Birkholz, P., Halliday, L., Prom-on, S. and Xu, Y. (2023). Simulating vocal learning of spoken language: Beyond imitation. Speech Communication 147: 51-62. Open access

  3. Lapthawan, T., Prom-on, S., Birkholz, P. and Xu, Y. (2022). Estimating underlying articulatory targets of Thai vowels by using deep learning based on generating synthetic samples from a 3D vocal tract model and data augmentation. IEEE Access. Accepted

  4. Liu, Z., Xu, Y. and Hsieh, F.-f. (2022). Coarticulation as synchronised CV co-onset – Parallel evidence from articulation and acoustics. Journal of Phonetics 90: 101116. accepted version

  5. Xu, A., Van Niekerk, D. v., Gerazov, B., Krug, P. K., Prom-on, S., Birkholz, P. and Xu, Y. (2021). Model-based exploration of linking between vowel articulatory space and acoustic space. In Proceedings of Interspeech 2021. pdf

  6. Liu, Z. and Xu, Y. (2021). Segmental alignment of English syllables with singleton and cluster onsets. In Proceedings of Interspeech 2021: . pdf

  7. Van Niekerk, D. R., Xu, A., Gerazov, B., Krug, P. K., Birkholz, P. and Xu, Y. (2020). Finding intelligible consonant-vowel sounds using high-quality articulatory synthesis. In Proceedings of Interspeech 2020: 4457-4461. pdf

  8. Liu, Z., Xu, Y. and Hsieh, F.-f. (2020). Coarticulation as synchronised sequential target approximation: An EMA study. In Proceedings of Interspeech 2020: 1381-1385. pdf

  9. Xu, Y. (2020). Syllable is a synchronization mechanism that makes human speech possible. PsyArXiv. doi:10.31234/osf.io/9v4hr.

  10. Liu, Z., Xu, Y. and Hsieh, F.-f. (2020). Coarticulation as synchronised sequential target approximation: An EMA study. In Proceedings of Interspeech 2020: 1381-1385. pdf

  11. Xu, Y. and Prom-on, S. (2019). Economy of effort or maximum rate of information? Exploring basic principles of articulatory dynamics. Frontiers in Psychology. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02469

  12. Xu, A., Birkholz, P., & Xu, Y. (2019). Coarticulation as synchronized dimension-specific sequential target approximation: An articulatory synthesis simulation. Paper presented at the The 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia. pdf

  13. Xu, Y. and Gao, H. (2018). FormantPro as a tool for speech analysis and segmentation. Revista de Estudos da Linguagem 26(4): 1435-1454. PDF

  14. Xu, Y. (2017). Syllable as a synchronization mechanism. In Proceedings of ExLing 2017, Heraklion, Greece: 9-12. PDF

  15. Chiu, F., Fromont, L., Lee, A. and Xu, Y. (2015). Long-distance anticipatory vowel-to-vowel assimilatory effects in French and Japanese. The 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Glasgow, UK. PDF

  16. Xu, Y. and Liu, F. (2012). Intrinsic coherence of prosodic and segmental aspects of speech. In O. Niebuhr (ed.) Understanding Prosody – The Role of Context, Function, and Communication. Walter de Gruyter, pp. 1-26. Author version

  17. Gao, H. and Xu, Y. (2010). Ambisyllabicity in English: How real is it? In Proceedings of The 9th Phonetics Conference of China (PCC2010), Tianjin, China. PDF

  18. Xu, Y. and Liu, F. (2007). Determining the temporal interval of segments with the help of F0 contours. Journal of Phonetics 35: 398-420. PDF

  19. Xu, Y. and Liu, F. (2006). Tonal alignment, syllable structure and coarticulation: Toward an integrated model. Italian Journal of Linguistics 18: 125-159. PDF; Author version with better figures

  20. Liu, F. and Xu, Y. (2003). Underlying targets of initial glides -- Evidence from focus-related F0 alignments in English. The 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Barcelona. August, 2003. pp. 1887-1890. PDF

  21. Xu, Y. and Liu, F. (2002). Segmentation of glides with tonal alignment as reference. The 7th Internatonal Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Denver, Colorado. September, 2002. pp. 1093-1096. PDF

  22. Xu, Y. (1989). Syllables and junctures (in Chinese). Chapter 8 in Wu, Z., and Lin, M., (eds.), A Course in Experimental Phonetics. Beijing, China: Higher Education Press. pp. 193- 220. PDF

Theory and Methodology

    — Theories —

  1. Xu, Y. (2022). The PENTA model: Concepts, use and implications. In Prosodic Theory and Practice. S. Shattuck-Hufnagel and J. Barnes (eds.). Cambridge: The MIT Press. pp. 377-407. pdf MIT Press Direct; 中文翻译(上)

  2. Xu, Y. (2022). Response to commentary by Pierrehumbert. In Prosodic Theory and Practice. S. Shattuck-Hufnagel and J. Barnes (eds.). Cambridge: The MIT Press. pre-print copy

  3. Chen, Y., Gao, Y. and Xu, Y. (2022). Computational modelling of tone perception based on direct processing of f0 contours. Brain Sciences 12(3), 337. doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12030337

  4. Xu, Y. (2020). Syllable is a synchronization mechanism that makes human speech possible. PsyArXiv. doi:10.31234/osf.io/9v4hr.

  5. Xu, Y. and Prom-on, S. (2019). Economy of effort or maximum rate of information? Exploring basic principles of articulatory dynamics. Frontiers in Psychology. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02469

  6. Xu, Y. (2017) Intonation. In W. Behr, g. G. Yue, ZevHandel, C.-T. J. Huang, & j. Myers, editors (eds.) Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics. Boston: Brill. pp. 458-466. Author version

  7. Xu, Y., Lee, A., Prom-on, S. & Liu, F. (2015). Explaining the PENTA model: A reply to Arvaniti and Ladd. Phonology 32: 505-535. Accepted version; DOI

  8. Xu, Y. (2015). Speech Prosody — Theories, models and analysis. In Courses on Speech Prosody. A. R. Meireles (ed.): Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Pp. 146-177. Author version

  9. Xu, Y. and Prom-on, S. (2015). Degrees of freedom in prosody modeling. In Speech Prosody in Speech Synthesis — Modeling, Realizing, Converting Prosody for High Quality and Flexible speech Synthesis. K. Hirose and J. Tao (eds.): Springer pp. 19-34. Author version

  10. Xu, Y. (2015). Intonation in Chinese. In Sun, C., Wang, W. S.-.Y. (eds.). Oxford Handbook of Chinese Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 490-502. Author version

  11. Xu, Y. and Liu, F. (2013). 韵律研究的最新发展以及与其他领域的关系 [Advances in prosody research and how they are related to other areas]. In 王. J. Wang and 陈. D. Chen (eds.) 《语言学》[Linguistics], Beijing: Chinese People's University Press. Author version

  12. Xu, Y. (2012). Function vs. form in speech prosody — Lessons from experimental research and potential implications for teaching. In J. Romero-Trillo (ed.) Pragmatics, Prosody and English Language Teaching, Springer, New York, pp. 61-76. Author version

  13. Xu, Y. (2011). Functions and mechanisms in linguistic research -- Lessons from speech prosody. Workshop on Experimental Linguistics 2011, Paris: pp. 1-10. PDF

  14. Xu, Y. (2009). Timing and coordination in tone and intonation -- An articulatory-functional perspective. Lingua 119: 906-927. ScienceDirect; Author version

  15. Xu, Y. (2007). Speech as articulatory encoding of communicative functions. The 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Saarbrucken. August, 2007. pp. 25-30. PDF

  16. Xu, Y. (2006). Tone in connected discourse. In K. Brown (ed.), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd Ed. Oxford: Elsevier. 12: 742-750. Author version

  17. Xu, Y. (2005). Speech melody as articulatorily implemented communicative functions. Speech Communication 46: 220-251. PDF

  18. Xu, Y. (2004). Separation of functional components of tone and intonation from observed F0 patterns. In G. Fant, H. Fujisaki, J. Cao and Y. Xu (eds.), From Traditional Phonology to Modern Speech Processing: Festschrift for Professor Wu Zongji's 95th Birthday. Beijing, Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press. pp. 483-505. PDF

  19. Xu, Y. (2004). Understanding tone from the perspective of production and perception. Language and Linguistics 5: 757-797. Author version

  20. Xu, Y. (2001). Sources of tonal variations in connected speech. Journal of Chinese Linguistics, monograph series #17. 1-31. PDF

  21. Xu, Y. and Wang, Q. E. (2001). Pitch targets and their realization: Evidence from Mandarin Chinese. Speech Communication 33: 319-337. PDF

  22. Xu, Y. (2008). Multi-dimensional information coding in speech, Speech Prosody 2008, Campinas, Brazil, pp. 17-26. PDF

  23. Xu, Y. (2006). Speech prosody as articulated communicative functions. Speech Prosody 2006, Dresden, Germany. SPS5-4-218. PDF

  24. Xu, Y. (2004). The PENTA model of speech melody: Transmitting multiple communicative functions in parallel. From Sound to Sense: 50+ years of discoverries in speech communication, Cambridge, MA, C-91-96. PDF

  25. Xu, Y. (2004). Transmitting Tone and Intonation Simultaneously -- The Parallel Encoding and Target Approximation (PENTA) Model. International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages: With Emphasis on Tone Languages, Beijing: 215-220. PDF

  26. Xu, Y. (2003). Three levels of tune-text relations. The 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Barcelona. August, 2003. pp. 257-260. PDF

  27. Xu, Y. (2002). Articulatory constraints and tonal alignment. The 1st International Conference on Speech Prosody, Aix-en-Provence, France. pp. 91-100. PDF

  28. Xu, Y. (1999). 从简单的音高目标到复杂的基频曲线 [From simple pitch targets to complex f0 contours]. The 4th National Conference on Modern Phonetics, Beijing. pp. 92-97. PDF

  29. Xu, Y. (1981). On the differences between American and British pronunciations. In A Collection of Prize Winning Papers at Shandong University. Jinan, China: Shandong University Press.

  30. Xu, Y. and Wang, Q. E. (1997). What can tone studies tell us about intonation? In A. Botinis et al. (Eds.), Intonation: Theory, Models and Applications, an ESCA Workshop. European Speech Communication Association, Athens, Greece, pp. 337-340. PDF

  31. Xu, Y. (1996). Factors affecting the surface tonal contours of Mandarin [in Chinese]. The 3rd National Conference on Phonetics, Beijing, pp. 35-36. PDF

    — Methodology —

  1. Xu, Y. (2011). Speech prosody: A methodological review. Journal of Speech Sciences 1: 85-115. Direct access; PDF

  2. Xu, Y. (2010). In defense of lab speech. Journal of Phonetics 38: 329-336. ScienceDirect; Author version

  3. Xu, Y. (2009). In defense of lab speech in prosody research. In Frontiers in Phonetics and Speech Science — Festtschrift for Professor Wu Zongji's 100th birthday. G. Fant, H. Fujisaki and J. Shen. Beijing: The Commercial Press pp. 381-390.

  4. Xu, Y. (2008). In defense of lab speech in prosody research. The 8th Phonetics Conference of China and The International Symposium on Phonetics Frontiers, Beijing. PDF

  5. Xu, Y. (2006). Principles of tone research. International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages, La Rochelle, France. pp. 3-13. PDF

Modeling and Synthesis

    — Intonation modeling —

  1. Meng, H., Chen, C.-t., Chen, Y., Liu, Z. and Xu, Y. (2023). Mandarin tone production can be learned under perceptual guidance — A machine learning simulation. In Proceedings of The 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Prague, Czech. pdf

  2. Alzaidi, M., Xu, Y., Xu, A. & Szreder, M. (2023). Analysis and computational modeling of Emirati Arabic intonation - A preliminary study. Journal of Phonetics 98: 101236. accepted version

  3. Xu, Y., Xu, A., van Niekerk, D. R., Gerazov, B., Birkholz, P., Krug, P. K., Prom-on, S. and Halliday, L. F. (2022). Evoc-Learn — High quality simulation of early vocal learning. In Proceedings of Interspeech 2022. pdf

  4. Gao, Y., Zhang, X., Xu, Y., Zhang, J. and Birkholz, P. (2020). An Investigation of the Target Approximation Model for Tone Modeling and Recognition in Continuous Mandarin Speech. In Proceedings of Interspeech 2020: 1913-1917. pdf

  5. Prom-on, S. and Xu, Y. (in press). Discovering underlying tonal representations by computational modeling: a case study of Thai. Journal of Chinese Linguistics. Author version

  6. Gerazov, B., Bailly, G. and Xu, Y. (2018). The significance of scope in modelling tones in Chinese. In Proceedings of TAL 2018, Berlin, Germany.

  7. Liu, H., Lu, H., Shao, X. and Xu, Y. (2016). Model-based Parametric Prosody Synthesis with Deep Neural Network. Interspeech 2016: 2313-2317. PDF

  8. Prom-on, S., Xu, Y., Gu, W., Arvaniti, A., Nam, H., & Whalen, D. H. (2016). The Common Prosody Platform (CPP) — where Theories of Prosody can be Directly Compared. Speech Prosody 2016, Boston, USA, pp. 1-5. PDF

  9. Liu, F., Prom-on, S., Xu, Y. and Whalen, D. H. (2015). Computational modelling of double focus in American English. The 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Glasgow, UK. PDF

  10. Lee, A. and Xu, Y. (2015). Modelling Japanese intonation using pentatrainer2. The 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Glasgow, UK. PDF

  11. Taheri-Ardali, M. and Xu, Y. (2015). An articulatory-functional approach to modeling Persian focus prosody. The 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Glasgow, UK. PDF

  12. Xu, Y. and Prom-on, S. (2014). Toward invariant functional representations of variable surface fundamental frequency contours: Synthesizing speech melody via model-based stochastic learning. Speech Communication 57, 181-208. On-line access; Author version.

  13. Lee, A., Xu, Y. and Prom-on, S. (2014). Modeling Japanese F0 contours using the PENTAtrainers and AMtrainer. The 4th International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (TAL 2014). Nijmegen. PDF

  14. Liu, H. and Xu, Y. (2014). A Simplified Method of Learning Underlying Articulatory Pitch Target. Speech Prosody 2014, Dublin: 1017-1021. PDF

  15. Prom-on, Santitham and Xu, Y. (2013). Modeling speech melody as communicative functions with PENTAtrainer2, Tools and Resources for the Analysis of Speech Prosody (TRASP 2013), Aix-en-Provence, France, 2013. 82-85. PDF

  16. Prom-on, S. and Xu, Y. (2012). Pitch Target Representation of Thai Tones. TAL 2012, Nanjing, China. PDF

  17. Prom-on, S., Liu, F. and Xu, Y. (2011). Functional modeling of tone, focus and sentence type in mandarin Chinese. The 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Hong Kong: 1638-1641. PDF

  18. Xu, Y. and Prom-on, S. (2010). Articulatory-Functional Modeling of Speech Prosody: A Review. Interspeech 2010, Makuhari, Japan. PDF

  19. Cheng, C., Prom-on, S. and Xu, Y. (2011). Modelling extreme tonal reduction in Taiwan Mandarin based on target approximation. The 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Hong Kong: 468-471. PDF

  20. Prom-on, S., Xu, Y. and Thipakorn, B. (2009). Modeling tone and intonation in Mandarin and English as a process of target approximation. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 125: 405-424. PDF

  21. Gauthier, B., Shi, R., & Xu, Y. (2009). Learning Prosodic Focus from Continuous Speech Input: A Neural Network Exploration. Language Learning and Development 5: 94-114. PDF

  22. Gauthier, B., Shi, R. and Xu, Y. (2007). Learning phonetic categories by tracking movements. Cognition 103: 80-106. PDF

  23. Gauthier, B., Shi, R. and Xu, Y. (2007). Simulating the acquisition of lexical tones from continuous dynamic input. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Express Letters 121: EL190-195. PDF

  24. Prom-on, S., Xu, Y. and Thipakorn, B. (2006). Functional-oriented articulatory modeling of tones and intonations. Speech Prosody 2006, Dresden, Germany. PS2-14_0089. PDF

  25. Prom-on, S., Xu, Y. and Thipakorn, B. (2006). Quantitative Target Approximation model: Simulating underlying mechanisms of tones and intonations. The 31st International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Toulouse, France. pp. I-749-752. PDF

  26. Liu, F., Surendran, D. and Xu, Y. (2006). Classification of statement and question intonations in Mandarin. Speech Prosody 2006, Dresden, Germany. PS5-25_0232. PDF

  27. Gauthier, B., Shi, R. and Xu, Y. (2005). Variable input and the discovery of lexical tones in infants: A connectionist approach. Proceedings of BUCLD 30: The 30th annual Boston University conference on language development, Boston, MA. Cascadilla Press: 202-212. PDF

  28. Gauthier, B., Shi, R. and Xu, Y. (2005). Recognising tones by tracking movements Ð How infants may develop tonal categories from adult speech input. ISCA Workshop on Plasticity in Speech PerceptionPDF

  29. Surendran, D., Levow, G.-A. and Xu, Y. (2005). Tone Recognition in Mandarin using Focus. Interspeech 2005, Lisbon, Portugal: 3301-3304. PDF

  30. Xu, C. X., Xu, Y. and Luo, L-S. (1999). A pitch target approximation model for F0 contours in Mandarin. The 14th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, San Francisco. pp. 2359-2362. PDF

  31. Yang, S.-A. and Xu, Y. (1988). An acoustic-phonetic oriented system for synthesizing Chinese. Speech Communication 7: 317-325. PDF

  32. Yang, S. -A. and Xu, Y. (1987). A software system for synthesizing Chinese. In 1987 International Conference on Chinese Information Processing. Vol.2, pp. 405-414, Beijing, China.

  33. Xu, Y. (1986). The effect of frame size on the quality of synthesized speech [in Chinese]. The 2nd Conference on Information Processing. Nanjing, China.

    — Articulatory synthesis —

  1. Xu, A., Gerazov, B., Niekerk, D. v., Krug, P. K., Prom-on, S., Birkholz, P. and Xu, Y. (2023). Computational models for articulatory learning of English diphthongs: One dynamic target vs. two static targets. In Proceedings of The 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Prague, Czech. pp. 4141-4145. pdf

  2. Krug, P. K., Birkholz, P., Gerazov, B., Niekerk, D. R. v., Xu, A. and Xu, Y. (2023). Artificial Vocal Learning guided by Phoneme Recognition and Visual Information. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing: 1-10. accepted version

  3. Van Niekerk, D. R., Xu, A., Gerazov, B., Krug, P. K., Birkholz, P., Halliday, L., Prom-on, S. and Xu, Y. (2023). Simulating vocal learning of spoken language: Beyond imitation. Speech Communication 147: 51-62. Open access

  4. Xu, Y., Xu, A., Niekerk, D. R. v., Gerazov, B., Birkholz, P., Krug, P. K., Prom-on, S. and Halliday, L. F. (2022). Evoc-Learn — High quality simulation of early vocal learning. In Proceedings of Interspeech 2022. pdf

  5. Lapthawan, T., Prom-on, S., Birkholz, P. and Xu, Y. (2022). Estimating underlying articulatory targets of Thai vowels by using deep learning based on generating synthetic samples from a 3D vocal tract model and data augmentation. IEEE Access 10: 41489-41502. doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3166922

  6. Xu, A., Van Niekerk, D. v., Gerazov, B., Krug, P. K., Prom-on, S., Birkholz, P. and Xu, Y. (2021). Model-based exploration of linking between vowel articulatory space and acoustic space. In Proceedings of Interspeech 2021. pdf

  7. Krug, P. K., Gerazov, B., Van Niekerk, D. R. v., Xu, A., Xu, Y. and Birkholz, P. (2021). Modelling microprosodic effects can lead to an audible improvement in articulatory synthesis. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 150: 1209–1217. pdf
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  8. Van Niekerk, D. R., Xu, A., Gerazov, B., Krug, P. K., Birkholz, P. and Xu, Y. (2020). Finding intelligible consonant-vowel sounds using high-quality articulatory synthesis. In Proceedings of Interspeech 2020: 4457-4461. pdf

  9. Xu, A., Birkholz, P., & Xu, Y. (2019). Coarticulation as synchronized dimension-specific sequential target approximation: An articulatory synthesis simulation. Paper presented at the The 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia. pdf

  10. Birkholz, P., Martin, L., Xu, Y., Scherbaum, S. and Neuschaefer-Rube, C. (2017). Manipulation of the prosodic features of vocal tract length, nasality and articulatory precision using articulatory synthesis. Computer Speech & Language 41:116-127. Accepted version

  11. Prom-on, S., Birkholz, P. and Xu, Y. (2014). Identifying underlying articulatory targets of Thai vowels from acoustic data based on an analysis-by-synthesis approach, EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing 23. pdf.

  12. Prom-on, S., Birkholz, P. and Xu, Y. (2014). Estimating vocal tract shapes of Thai vowels from contextual vowel variation. Co-ordination and Standardization of Speech Databases and Assessment Techniques (COCOSDA), 2014 17th Oriental Chapter of the International Committee for the. IEEE: 1-6.PDF

  13. Prom-on, S., Birkholz, P. and Xu, Y. (2013). Training an articulatory synthesizer with continuous acoustic data. Interspeech 2013, Lyon, France. 349-353. PDF

Research Tools

  1. Xu, Y. and Gao, H. (2018). FormantPro as a tool for speech analysis and segmentation. Revista de Estudos da Linguagem 26(4): 1435-1454. PDF

  2. Xu, Y. (2013). ProsodyPro — A Tool for Large-scale Systematic Prosody Analysis. Tools and Resources for the Analysis of Speech Prosody (TRASP 2013), Aix-en-Provence, France. 7-10. PDF

  3. Prom-on, S. and Xu, Y. (2012). PENTATrainer2: A hypothesis-driven prosody modeling tool. The Fifth ISEL Conference on Experimental Linguistics (ExLing 2012), Athens, Greece. Pp. 93-100.PDF

  4. Prom-on, S. and Xu, Y. (2010). The qTA Toolkit for Prosody: Learning Underlying Parameters of Communicative Functions through Modeling. Speech Prosody 2010, Chicago. PDF

Speech Perception

  1. Krishnan, A., Gandour, J. T., Xu, Y. and Suresh, C. H. (2017). Language-dependent changes in pitch-relevant neural activity in the auditory cortex reflect differential weighting of temporal attributes of pitch contours. Journal of Neurolinguistics 41: 38-49. ScienceDirect, 2016

  2. Lin, C. Y., Wang, M., Idsardi, W. J. and Xu, Y. (2014). Stress Processing in Mandarin and Korean Second Language Learners of English. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 17 (02), 316-346. DOI:10.1017/S1366728913000333.

  3. Patel, A. D., Xu, Y. and Wang, B. (2010). The role of F0 variation in the intelligibility of Mandarin sentences. Speech Prosody 2010, Chicago. PDF

  4. Tokuma, S. and Xu, Y. (2009). The effect of F0 peak-delay on the L1 / L2 perception of English lexical stress. Interspeech 2009, Brighton, UK: 1687-1690. PDF

  5. Olsberg, M., Xu, Y., and Green, G. (2007). Dependence of tone perception on syllable perception. Interspeech 2007, Antwerp. August, 2007. pp. 2649-2652. PDF

  6. Wang, E., R. K. Peach, Xu, Y., Schneck, M., & Manry, C. II (2000). Perception of dynamic acoustic patterns by an individual with unilateral verbal auditory agnosia. Brain and Language 73: 442-455. PDF

  7. Xu, Y., Liberman, A.M., and Whalen, D.H. (1997). On the immediacy of phonetic perception. Psychological Science 8: 358-362. PDF

  8. Whalen, D. H. and Xu, Y. (1992). Information for Mandarin tones in the amplitude contour and in brief segments. Phonetica 49: 25-47. PDF

Auditory Feedback

  1. Liu, H. and Xu, Y. (2015). Simulating online compensation for pitch-shifted auditory feedback with the target approximation model. The 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Glasgow, UK. PDF

  2. Liu, H., Xu, Y. and Larson, C. (2009). Attenuation of Vocal Responses to Pitch Perturbations During Mandarin Speech. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 125: 2299-2306. PDF

  3. Liu, H., Zhang, Q., Xu, Y. and Larson, C. (2007). Compensatory responses to loudness-shifted voice feedback during production of Mandarin speech. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 122: 2405-2412. PDF

  4. Chen, S. H., Liu, H., Xu, Y. and Larson, C. R. (2007). Voice F0 Responses to Pitch-Shifted Voice Feedback During English Speech. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 121: 1157-1163. PDF

  5. Xu, Y., Larson, C. R., Bauer, J. J. and Hain, T. C. (2004). Compensation for pitch-shifted auditory feedback during the production of Mandarin tone sequences. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 116: 1168-1178. PDF

Reading and Writing

  1. Cheng, C., Chen, J.-Y. and Xu, Y. (2014). An acoustic analysis of Mandarin Tone 3 sandhi elicited from an implicit priming experiment. The 4th International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (TAL 2014). Nijmegen. PDF

  2. Xu, Y. (1991). Depth of phonological recoding in short-term memory. Memory & Cognition 19: 263-273. PDF

  3. Mattingly, I. G. and Xu, Y. (1994). Word superiority in Chinese. In H.-W. Chang, J.- T. Huang, C.-W. Hue, & O.J.L. Tzeng (Eds.), Advances in the study of Chinese language processing, Volume 1.(pp. 101-111). Taipei: Department of Psychology, National Taiwan University. PDF

  4. Xu, Y. (1992). Review of Psycholinguistic Implications for Linguistic Relativity: A Case Study of Chinese, by Rumjahn Hoosain. Language and Speech. 35: 325-340. PDF

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