Research

Papers

To appear. UR underlearning of Mandarin tone 3 sandhi words. Proceedings of CLS 58: The 58th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society. [pdf]

2023. The segment status of the Mandarin glide: A language game experiment. Proceedings of the 2022 Annual Meeting on Phonology. [pdf]

2022. Contrast preservation in Mandarin r-suffixation: a comparative study of Beijing and Liaoning. Glossa. [pdf]

2021. Negative yes/no questions in Mandarin: evidence for VERUM. Generals paper, MIT. [pdf]

2017. Welsh vowel mutation: a new optimality theoretic analysis. ms., MIT. [pdf]

2016. Khalkha Mongolian vowel harmony: an optimality theoretic analysis. Honors thesis, UCLA. [pdf]

Presentations

2024. Tone-Tune Alignment in Mandarin Pop Music. Poster presentation at Expression, Language, and Music (ELM) 2. Storrs, CT. [pdf]

2023. Variation in Mandarin prenuclear glide segmentation? TEAL 13. Taipei, Taiwan. [pdf] 

2023. Variation in Mandarin prenuclear glide segmentation. CLS 59. Chicago, IL. [pdf] 

2022. The segment status of the Mandarin glide: A language game experiment. Poster presentation at AMP 2022. Los Angeles, CA. [pdf]

2022. The size of morphemes in Mandarin: Perspectives from tonal UR learning. WCCFL 40. Stanford, CA (virtual). [pdf]

2022. UR underlearning of Mandarin tone 3 sandhi words. CLS 58. Chicago, IL. [pdf]

2022. With Danfeng Wu. Prosodic evidence for syntax in biased questions in Mandarin. Poster presentation at LSA 2022. Washington D.C.. [pdf]

2022. With Danfeng Wu. Numeral allomorphy of 'one' and 'two' in Mandarin Chinese.  Poster presentation at LSA 2022. Washington D.C..[pdf]

2022. Prenuclear glide in Mandarin Chinese: Is it a segment? Poster presentation at LSA 2022. Washington D.C.. [pdf]

2021. Negation scoping and focus in Mandarin biased questions:  a VERUM account. DGfS 2021. Freiburg, Germany (virtual). [pdf]

2019. Contrast preservation in Mandarin r-suffixation. Poster presentation at MFM 27. Manchester, United Kingdom. [pdf]