| Aug 5, 2026 | New preprints! π Zhang, C. & Chen, Y. (2026) βThe interface of intonation and lexical tone: Boundary phenomena in Mandarin varieties β. Forthcoming in Shaping Phonological and Morphological Representations: Diachrony, Acquisition, and Processing (Oxford University Press). π Zhang, C., Li, T., Dede, G. & Salis, C. (2026) βProsody and Voice Quality in the Connected Speech of Individuals with Latent Aphasia*β. |
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| Aug 3, 2026 | π New paper accepted: Zhang, C., Zeng, H., Liu, H. & Zheng, J. (2026) βIntegrating Human Linguistic Insights into AI: Theory-Driven Representation for Multilingual Text-to-Speechβ. To appear in Phonetica. [Preprint] |
| Jul 15, 2026 | π Very proud that my Masterβs student Lucy Smith won the Best Dissertation Award for her dissertation βMaking Speech Technology More Inclusive: Understanding User Needs Across Different Populationsβ! The project started from a research idea I proposed, and Iβm now leading its next stage as we develop the work into a journal article. |
| Jun 23, 2026 | πNew paper: Li, Y., Hoogland, D., Duncan, D. & Zhang, C. (2026) βGamification in Phonetic Perception Data Collection: Accent Identification in North East Englandβ, Linguistics Vanguard. This is the pilot project for the event reported by BBC/Mirror/Chronicle! Check out the project page for the new and nicer looking game! |
| Apr 9, 2026 | π New paper: Jones, S., Kim, Y. & Zhang, C. (2026) βPerceiving and modelling the scope of question focus in Koreanβ. Language and Speech. https://doi.org/10.1177/00238309261419799 |
| Feb 4, 2026 | I made an IPA keyboard which does not show the three-term labels or arrange the symbols according to the IPA chart. This is mainly for digital phonetics exams or studying for exams. For anyone who has a phonetics exam on computer and needs a keyboard that doesnβt reveal all the answers:IPA Keyboard. |
| Dec 16, 2025 | I have been invited to give a talk at Tianjin University. The topic is Speech prosody in linguistic analysis and clinical contexts. |
| Nov 4, 2025 | Officially recognised as a ππ«ππ’π§ππ« in ππ«ππ«ππ π’π¬ππ«πππ’π¨π§ ππ§π πππ π’π¬πππ«ππ πππ©π¨π«ππ¬! Happy to give workshops if anyone needs one for your team/department! |
| Oct 23, 2025 | π We have been awarded a Research Assistant Grant for our Project Persian Utterance Final Intonation (PUFIN) by British Institute of Persian Studies (together with Niamh Kelly and Vahid Sadeghi)! |
| 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 | π New paper: Xu, C. & Zhang, C. (2024) βA cross-linguistic review of citation tone production studies: Methodology and recommendationsβ. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 1 October 2024; 156 (4): 2538β2565. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0032356 |
| Oct 1, 2024 | π New paper: Zhang, C., Jepson, K. & Chuang, Y., (2024) βInvestigating differences in lab-quality and remote recording methods with dynamic acoustic measuresβ, Laboratory Phonology 15(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/labphon.10492 |
| Aug 10, 2024 | π 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 | π I have just won the Second Prize of Newcastle Universityβs Open Research Awards! |
| Mar 27, 2024 | π 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 | π 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 | π 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 | π I was awarded a Pioneer Award by the Institute of Social Sciences, Newcastle University. |
| Oct 3, 2022 | πΌ Started my job at Language and Speech Sciences, Newcastle University as a Lecturer (tenured Assistant Professor equivalence) in Phonetics and Phonology. |