Jiayin Gao
Research Assistant
- Linguistics and English Language
- School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
Contact details
- Tel: +44 (0)131 650 3597
- Email: jiayin.gao@ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
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Room 2.15, Dugald Stewart Building
- City
- 3 Charles Street, Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9AD
Background
Jiayin Gao is a postdoctoral RA working on the project EVOTONE (The emergence and evolution of linguistic tones), led by Dr. James Kirby.
She received her PhD at Université Paris 3 - Sorbonne Nouvelle.
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Areas of interest for supervision
I can be involved in the supervision of a project within my immediate research interest/expertise. However, my current position does not allow me to be a lead supervisor.
Current PhD students supervised
Involved in supervising William Peralta (lead: James Kirby).
Research summary
- Consonant-tone interactions in general
- Link between production and perception
- Tone, voicing, and phonation types
- Shanghai Chinese (PhD research with Prof. Pierre Hallé)
- Tamang (collaboration with Prof. Martine Mazaudon)
- Interaction between VOT and pitch
- Tokyo Japanese, Seoul Korean (collaboration with Arai Lab, Sophia University)
- More crosslinguistic comparisons (current work on EVOTONE, led by Dr. James Kirby)