| Feb 4, 2026 | ๐ New paper: Jones, S., Kim, Y. & Zhang, C. (2026) โPerceiving and modelling the scope of question focus in Koreanโ. Language and Speech. https://doi.org/10.1177/00238309261419799 |
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| Feb 4, 2026 | ๐ New paper accepted! Li, Y., Hoogland, D., Duncan, D. & Zhang, C. (2026) โGamification in Phonetic Perception Data Collection: Accent Identification in North East Englandโ. To appear in Linguistics Vanguard. This is the pilot project for the event reported by BBC! Check out the project page for the new and nicer looking game! |
| 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 doesnโt 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 ๐ญ๐ซ๐๐ข๐ง๐๐ซ in ๐๐ซ๐๐ซ๐๐ ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ซ๐๐ ๐๐๐ฉ๐จ๐ซ๐ญ๐ฌ! Happy to give workshops if anyone needs one for your team/department! |
| Oct 23, 2025 | ๐ 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 | ๐ New paper: Xu, C. & Zhang, C. (2024) โA cross-linguistic review of citation tone production studies: Methodology and recommendationsโ. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 1 October 2024; 156 (4): 2538โ2565. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0032356 |
| Oct 1, 2024 | ๐ New paper: Zhang, C., Jepson, K. & Chuang, Y., (2024) โInvestigating differences in lab-quality and remote recording methods with dynamic acoustic measuresโ, Laboratory Phonology 15(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/labphon.10492 |
| Aug 10, 2024 | ๐ 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 | ๐ I have just won the Second Prize of Newcastle Universityโs Open Research Awards! |
| Mar 27, 2024 | ๐ 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 | ๐ 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 | ๐ 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 | ๐ I was awarded a Pioneer Award by the Institute of Social Sciences, Newcastle University. |
| Oct 3, 2022 | ๐ผ Started my job at Language and Speech Sciences, Newcastle University as a Lecturer (tenured Assistant Professor equivalence) in Phonetics and Phonology. |