Xinyu Zhang

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Bio

I am Xinyu Zhang*, linguist in training. I currently work as a PhD candidate at CLS Radboud and International Max Planck Research School for language sciences.

My research interest is primarily in phonetics. For my PhD project, I study the relationship between speech production and speech perception, by looking at both typical and clinical populations.

Previously I studied at ACLC of University of Amsterdam, under the supervision of Dr. Rob van Son and Dr. Paul Boersma. My main areas of interest are phonetics and phonology, acoustic and articulatory phonetics, and production-perception interaction.

My previous research projects include a study on the cross-generation auditory dispersion of the Dutch sibilants /s/ and /ɕ/, and a study of the psychoacoustics of perceived voice qualities after the treatment of laryngeal carcinoma.

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* Prescribed pronunciation: [ɕin˥˥ɥy˨˩˦ ʈ͡ʂɑŋ˥˥], but I welcome and am interested in all phonological adaptations.

News

  • 🔉 Three of my blog posts are now out on Max Planck Institute's TalkLing TalkLing :) Go have a look if you are interested in some ELI5 about the role of somatosensory feedback on speech perception, a.k.a. Listening with your mouth full , the role of auditory feedback on speech production, in other words "Are you even listening to yourself?", and/or how somatosensory information improves speech intelligibility, or to put it another way Talk a while in their tongues

  • I will be presenting my production experiment at the Dag van de Fonetiek on 31 Oct.

  • I will be presenting at Max Planck Institute's Bite-Sized Insights on 7 Oct. Come see me during your lunch break :)

  • I was at ISSP in Autrans, France, and had a blast!

    • Me telling Motoki about my three way interaction.

    It finally stopped raining on the last day, and we had the poster session outside!

  • I will be presenting at ICPhS in Prague! Dream conference since many ICPhSes ago <3

Education

Radboud University /

IMPRS Graduate School Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics | Nijmegen, The Netherlands

PhD in Linguistics | September 2021 - now

University of Amsterdam - ACLC | Amsterdam, The Netherlands

rMA in Linguistics | September 2019 - 2021

University of Amsterdam | Amsterdam, The Netherlands

MA in General Linguisitics | September 2018 - August 2020

Party Tricks

Praat sings Happy Birthday | Praat Script | © Xinyu Zhang, 2019

Let R automate participant notification email for ya | R script + Rmd|© Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel, 2015; modified by Xinyu Zhang, 2021

Things you didn’t need to know:

If you want to get to know me a tiny bit better, here are my cardinal vowels plotted.

(I mean, what better way to get to know someone, right?)

Also, I play the sacriligious otamatonea>