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May 1, 2025 We are hosting a satelite workshop Prosody in Languages of the Middle East at PaPE 2025. We will also have a special issue for this workshop soon. Stay tuned!
Mar 27, 2025 Invited talk at HKPU: Tonal Tug-of-War: The Interplay of Lexical and Sentence Prosody. Recording available here.
Nov 10, 2024 Our Festival of Social Science event was reported by BBC, Mirror, and Chronicle! Glad to see many people loving our event too! Check out our project website here.
Oct 2, 2024 📑 New paper: Xu, C. & Zhang, C. (2024) “A cross-linguistic review of citation tone production studies: Methodology and recommendations”. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 1 October 2024; 156 (4): 2538–2565. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0032356
Oct 1, 2024 📑 New paper: Zhang, C., Jepson, K. & Chuang, Y., (2024) “Investigating differences in lab-quality and remote recording methods with dynamic acoustic measures”, Laboratory Phonology 15(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/labphon.10492
Aug 10, 2024 🏆 Our knowledge exchange event Wey aye, man - Think you know a North-East accent when you hear one? has been funded by ESRC to take part in Festival of Social Sciences on 2nd November at Farrell Centre!
Jun 19, 2024 🏆 I have just won the Second Prize of Newcastle University’s Open Research Awards!
Mar 27, 2024 📑 New paper: Zhang, C., Jepson, K., & Chuang, Y. (in press). Investigating differences in lab-quality and remote recording methods with dynamic acoustic measures. Laboratory Phonology. Preprint: (Link)
Aug 30, 2023 📑 New paper: Zeng, B., Williams, E. M., Owen, C., Zhang, C., Davies, S. K., Evans, K., & Preudhomme, S. R. (2023). Exploring the acoustic and prosodic features of a lung-function-sensitive repeated-word speech articulation test. Frontiers in Psychology, 14. (Open-access link)
Jul 21, 2023 📑 New paper: Kim, Y., Kogan, V. V., & Zhang, C. (2023). Collecting Big Data Through Citizen Science: Gamification and Game-based Approaches to Data Collection in Applied Linguistics. Applied Linguistics, amad039. (Free-access link)
Mar 21, 2023 🏆 I was awarded a Pioneer Award by the Institute of Social Sciences, Newcastle University.
Oct 3, 2022 💼 Started my job at Language and Speech Sciences, Newcastle University as a Lecturer (tenured Assistant Professor equivalence) in Phonetics and Phonology.