245: 102923. Accepted version
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Gauthier, B., Shi, R. and Xu, Y. (2007). Learning phonetic categories by tracking movements. Cognition 103: 80-106. PDF
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
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
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
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
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
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
Liu, F. and Xu, Y. (2005). Parallel Encoding of Focus and Interrogative Meaning in Mandarin Intonation. Phonetica 62: 70-87. PDF
Xu, Y. (2005). Speech melody as articulatorily implemented communicative functions. Speech Communication 46: 220-251. PDF
Xu, Y. and Xu, C. X. (2005). Phonetic realization of focus in English declarative intonation. Journal of Phonetics 33: 159-197. PDF
Xu, Y. (2004). Understanding tone from the perspective of production and perception. Language and Linguistics 5: 757-797. Author version
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
Xu, C. X. and Xu, Y. (2003). Effects of Consonant Aspiration on Mandarin Tones. Journal of the International Phonetic Association 33: 165-181. PDF
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
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
Sun, X. and Xu, Y. (2002). Perceived pitch of synthesized voice with alternate cycles. Journal of Voice 16: 443-459. PDF
Xu, Y. (2001). Sources of tonal variations in connected speech. Journal of Chinese Linguistics, monograph series #17. 1-31. PDF
Xu, Y. and Wang, Q. E. (2001). Pitch targets and their realization: Evidence from Mandarin Chinese. Speech Communication 33: 319-337. PDF
Xu, Y. (2001). Fundamental frequency peak delay in Mandarin. Phonetica 58: 26-52. PDF
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
Xu, Y. (1999). Effects of tone and focus on the formation and alignment of F0 contours. Journal of Phonetics 27: 55-105. PDF
Xu, Y. (1998). Consistency of tone-syllable alignment across different syllable structures and speaking rates. Phonetica 55: 179-203. PDF
Xu, Y., Liberman, A.M., and Whalen, D.H. (1997). On the immediacy of phonetic perception. Psychological Science 8: 358-362. PDF
Xu, Y. (1997). Contextual tonal variations in Mandarin. Journal of Phonetics 25: 61-83. PDF
Xu, Y. (1994). Production and perception of coarticulated tones. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 95: 2240-2253. PDF
Whalen, D. H. and Xu, Y. (1992). Information for Mandarin tones in the amplitude contour and in brief segments. Phonetica 49: 25-47. PDF
Xu, Y. (1991). Depth of phonological recoding in short-term memory. Memory & Cognition 19: 263-273. PDF
Yang, S.-A. and Xu, Y. (1988). An acoustic-phonetic oriented system for synthesizing Chinese. Speech Communication 7: 317-325. PDF
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
Xu, Y. (2023) Phonetics of Emotion. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics, Oxford University Press. pdf
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)
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
Yang, C., Chu, J., Chen, S. and Xu, Y. (2021). Effects of segments, intonation and rhythm on the perception of L2 accentedness and comprehensibility. In C. Yang (ed.) The Acquisition of Chinese as a Second Language Pronunciation, Prosody, Phonology and Phonetics. pp. 233-255.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Xu, Y. (2010). 从交际功能和编码机制的角度理解语言 [Understanding speech from the perspective of communicative functions and coding mechanisms]. In 《研究之乐》[Joy of Research II -- A Festschrift in Honor of Professor William S-Y Wang on his Seventy-fifth Birthday]. W. Pan and Z. Shen. Shanghai: Shanghai Education Press pp. 365-375. PDF
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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.
Gerazov, B., Bailly, G. and Xu, Y. (2018). The significance of scope in modelling tones in Chinese. In Proceedings of TAL 2018, Berlin, Germany. pdf
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
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
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
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
Xu, Y. (2017). Syllable as a synchronization mechanism. In Proceedings of ExLing 2017, Heraklion, Greece: 9-12. PDF
Liu, H., Lu, H., Shao, X. and Xu, Y. (2016). Model-based Parametric Prosody Synthesis with Deep Neural Network. Interspeech 2016: 2313-2317. PDF
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
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
Jiao, L., & Xu, Y. (2016). Interactions of Tone and Intonation in Whispered Mandarin. Speech Prosody 2016, Boston, USA, pp. 94-98. PDF
Shen, C., & Xu, Y. (2016). Prosodic Focus with Post-focus Compression in Lan-Yin Mandarin. Speech Prosody 2016, Boston, USA, pp. 340-344. PDF
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
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
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
Lee, A. and Xu, Y. (2015). Modelling Japanese intonation using pentatrainer2. The 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Glasgow, UK. PDF
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
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
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
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
Hsu, C. and Xu, Y. (2014). Can adolescents with autism perceive emotional prosody? Interspeech 2014, Singapore. PDF
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
Liu, H. and Xu, Y. (2014). A Simplified Method of Learning Underlying Articulatory Pitch Target. Speech Prosody 2014, Dublin: 1017-1021. PDF
Taheri-Ardali, M., Rahmani, H. and Xu, Y. (2014). The Perception of Prosodic Focus in Persian. Speech Prosody 2014, Dublin: 515-519. PDF
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
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
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
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
Prom-on, S., Birkholz, P. and Xu, Y. (2013). Training an articulatory synthesizer with continuous acoustic data. Interspeech 2013, Lyon, France. 349-353. PDF
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
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
Prom-on, S. and Xu, Y. (2012). Pitch Target Representation of Thai Tones. TAL 2012, Nanjing, China. PDF
Taheri Ardali, M. and Xu, Y. (2012). Phonetic Realization of Prosodic Focus in Persian. Speech Prosody 2012, Shanghai. 326-329. PDF
Chen, Y., Guion-Anderson, S. and Xu, Y. (2012). Post-Focus Compression in Second Language Mandarin. Speech Prosody 2012, Shanghai. 410-413. PDF
Lee, A. and Xu, Y. (2012). Revisiting focus prosody in Japanese. Speech Prosody 2012, Shanghai. 274-277. PDF
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
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
Xu, Y. (2011). Functions and mechanisms in linguistic research -- Lessons from speech prosody. Workshop on Experimental Linguistics 2011, Paris: pp. 1-10. PDF
Xu, Y. (2011). Post-focus compression: Cross-linguistic distribution and historical origin. The 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Hong Kong: 152-155. PDF
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
Liu, X. and Xu, Y. (2011). What makes a female voice attractive. The 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Hong Kong: 1274-1277. PDF
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
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
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
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
Xu, Y. and Prom-on, S. (2010). Articulatory-Functional Modeling of Speech Prosody: A Review. Interspeech 2010, Makuhari, Japan. PDF
Cheng, C., Xu, Y. and Gubian, M. (2010). Exploring the Mechanism of Tonal Contraction in Taiwan Mandarin. Interspeech 2010, Makuhari, Japan. PDF
Lee, Y.-c. and Xu, Y. (2010). Phonetic Realization of Contrastive Focus in Korean. Speech Prosody 2010, Chicago. PDF
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
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
Wu, W. L. and Xu, Y. (2010). Prosodic Focus in Hong Kong Cantonese without Post-focus Compression. Speech Prosody 2010, Chicago. PDF
Xu, Y. and Kelly, A. (2010). Perception of anger and happiness from resynthesized speech with size-related manipulations. Speech Prosody 2010, Chicago. PDF
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
Chen, S.-w., Wang, B. and Xu, Y. (2009). Closely related languages, different ways of realizing focus. Interspeech 2009, Brighton, UK: 1007-1010. PDF
Cheng, C. and Xu, Y. (2009). Extreme reductions: Contraction of disyllables into monosyllables in Taiwan Mandarin. Interspeech 2009, Brighton, UK: 456-459. PDF
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
Xu, Y. (2008). Multi-dimensional information coding in speech, Speech Prosody 2008, Campinas, Brazil, pp. 17-26. PDF
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
Xu, Y. (2007). Speech as articulatory encoding of communicative functions. The 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Saarbrucken. August, 2007. pp. 25-30 PDF
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
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
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
Olsberg, M., Xu, Y., and Green, G. (2007). Dependence of tone perception on syllable perception. Interspeech 2007, Antwerp. August, 2007. pp. 2649-2652. PDF
Liu, F. and Xu, Y. (2007). The neutral tone in question intonation in Mandarin. Interspeech 2007, Antwerp. August, 2007. pp. 630-633. PDF
Xu, Y. (2006). Principles of tone research. International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages, La Rochelle, France. pp. 3-13. PDF
Xu, Y. (2006). Speech prosody as articulated communicative functions. Speech Prosody 2006, Dresden, Germany. SPS5-4-218. PDF
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
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
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
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
Wang, B. and Xu, Y. (2006). Prosodic encoding of topic and focus in Mandarin. Speech Prosody 2006, Dresden, Germany. PS3-12_0172. PDF
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
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 Perception PDF
Surendran, D., Levow, G.-A. and Xu, Y. (2005). Tone Recognition in Mandarin using Focus. Interspeech 2005, Lisbon, Portugal: 3301-3304. PDF
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
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
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
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
Xu, Y. (2003). Three levels of tune-text relations. The 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Barcelona. August, 2003. pp. 257-260. PDF
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
Xu, Y. (2002). Articulatory constraints and tonal alignment. The 1st International Conference on Speech Prosody, Aix-en-Provence, France. pp. 91-100. PDF
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
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
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
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
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
Xu, Y. (1996). Factors affecting the surface tonal contours of Mandarin [in Chinese]. The 3rd National Conference on Phonetics, Beijing, pp. 35-36. PDF
Xu, Y. (1995). The effect of emphatic accent on contextual tonal variation. The XIII International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. pp. 668-671. PDF
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.
Xu, Y. (1986). The effect of frame size on the quality of synthesized speech [in Chinese]. The 2nd Conference on Information Processing. Nanjing, China.
Lee, A., Chiu, F. and Xu, Y. (2016). Focus perception in Japanese: Effects of focus location and accent condition. In Proceedings of Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics 172ASA. Acoustical Society of America: 060007. POMA copy
Gao, H. and Xu, Y. (2013). Coarticulation as an epiphenomenon of syllable-synchronized target approximation—Evidence from fundamental frequency aligned formant trajectories in Mandarin. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 134(5): 4167-4167. Abstract
Xu, Y. (2008). Segmental variability related to speech prosody‐An articulatory‐functional perspective. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 123(5): 3423-3423. Abstract
Xu, Y. (2008). Articulatory-functional view of speech and experimental linguistics. Presented at International symposium on broadening the perspective of linguistic research, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China. Abstract
Liu, F. and Xu, Y. (2007). Interaction of word stress, focus, and sentence type in English. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 121, Pt. 2, 3199.
Xu, Y. (2007). How often is maximum speed of articulation approached in speech? Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 121, Pt. 2, 3199-3140.
Liu, F. and Xu, Y. (2006). Realizing question intonation in Mandarin with Neutral tone. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 119: 3304. Abstract
Xu, Y. (2006). Possible mechanisms of enhancement and multiplicity of cues. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 119: 3270. Abstract
Liu, H., Zhang, Q., Larson, C. R. and Xu, Y. (2006). Sensitivity of Mandarin speech to loudness-shifted voice feedback perturbation. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 119: 3305. Abstract
Gauthier, B., Shi, R. and Xu, Y. (2006). Learning to categorize lexical tone in sentences with variable narrow focus: A neural network approach. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 119: 3420. Abstract
Xu, Y. and Wang, M. (2005). Tonal and duratonal variations as phonetic coding for syllable grouping. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 117, Pt. 2, 2573. Abstract; Poster
Bruno Gauthier, Rushen Shi, Yi Xu and Robert Proulx
Xu, Y. and Wallace, A. (2004). Multiple effects of consonant manner of articulation and intonation type on F0 in English. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 115, Pt. 2, 2397. Abstract
Liu, F. and Xu, Y. (2004). Asking questions with focus. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 115, Pt. 2, 2397. Abstract
Liu, Fang and Xu, Yi (2004). Interaction of focus and interrogative meanings in Mandarin, From Sound to Sense: 50+ years of discoverries in speech communication, Cambridge, MA, C-290. Abstract (pdf)
Ching X. Xu. and Xu, Yi (2003). Recognizing focus in noise filled sentences, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 113, No. 4, Pt. 2, p. 2327. Abstract; Poster
Xu, Y. (2002). Understanding tone from the perspective of production and perception. Presented at The 8th Internatonal Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics, Taipei, Taiwan. November, 2002. PDF
Xu, Y., Larson, C. R. and Bauer, J. J. (2002). On-line processing of voice pitch feedback during production of Mandarin tones. International Conference on Voice Physiology and Biomechanics. Abstract
Xu, Y. and Xu, C. X. (2001). Exploring underlying pitch targets in English statements. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 110, Pt. 2, pp. 2736-2737. Abstract
Xu, C. X. and Xu, Y. (2001). Effects of consonant aspiration on Mandarin tones. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 110, Pt. 2, p. 2655. Abstract
Xu, C. X. and Xu, Y. (2001). Effects of syllable position on F0 and duration in Mandarin disyllabic words. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 109, Pt. 2, p. 2414. PDF
Sun, X., Xu, C. X. and Xu, Y. (2001). Experiment on pitch target approximation model for generating Mandarin F0 contour. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 109, Pt. 2, p. 2414. PDF
Xu, Y., and Wang, E. (2000). Phonetic targets as the link between speech production and speech perception. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 108, Pt. 2, pp. 2531-2532. Abstract; PDF
Wang, Q. E. and Xu, Y. (2000). Observing the link between speech production and speech perception from disordered speech, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 108, Pt. 2, p. 2508. PDF
Wang, Q. E., Y. Xu, et al. (2000). Effects of central dopaminergic stimulation by apomorphine on producing sentence focus in speech production in Parkinson's disease -- A preliminary report. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 2905 Vol. 107, Pt. 2, p. 2905. PDF
Xu, Y. (1999). Sources of tonal variation in Mandarin. Presented at International Workshop on Tone, Stress and Rhythm in Spoken Chinese, May 6-9, 1999, Prague. Synopsis
Xu, Y. and Wang, Q. E. (1997). Components of intonation: what are linguistic, what are mechanical/physiological? Presented at International Conference on Voice Physiology and Biomechanics, May 29 - June 1, 1997, Evanston Illinois. Abstract
Xu, Y. (1997). Rethinking the basics of declination. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 102, Pt. 2, p. 3203. Abstract; PDF
Xu, Y. & Kim, J. (1996). Downstep, regressive upstep, H-raising, or what? -- Sorting out the phonetic mechanisms of a set of "phonological" phenomena. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 100, Pt. 2, p. 2824. Abstract
Xu, Y. (1995). Time-variation in Mandarin voiceless sibilants spectra. 129th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 97, Pt. 2, p. 3418. Abstract
Xu, Y. & Wilde, L. (1994). Combining time-averaging and ensemble-averaging in analyzing voiceless fricatives in Mandarin. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 96, Pt 2, p.3230. Abstract
Xu, Y. (1991). Perception of coarticulated tones. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. Pt 2, 90: p. 2362. Abstract
Xu, Y. and Whalen, D. H. (1990). Information for Mandarin tones in the amplitude contour and in brief segments. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. Suppl. 1, 87: S1.