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.
CV
104602.pdf
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
- Individual differences in speech perception
- Sound change
- Consonant-tone interactions in general
- 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)
Research activities
- Individual differences in cue integration in coarticulation, and how they may impact sound change
- VOT-F0 coarticulation in Japanese: production-biased or misparsing? Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS)
- F0 perturbation in a "pitch-accent" language. Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages.
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Korean laryngeal contrast revisited: An electroglottographic study on denasalized and oral stops
(29 pages)
In:
Laboratory Phonology, vol. 12
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/labphon.277
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Elicitation context does not drive F0 lowering following voiced stops: Evidence from French and Italian
In:
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 148, pp. EL147-EL152
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0001698
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
VOT-F0 coarticulation in Japanese: Production-biased or misparsing?
(5 pages)
Research output: Contribution to Conference › Conference contribution (Published) -
Breathy voice and low-register: A case of trading relation in Shanghai Chinese tone perception?
In:
Language and Speech, pp. 1-26
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0023830919873080
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Plosive (de-)voicing and f0 perturbations in Tokyo Japanese: Positional variation, cue enhancement, and contrast recovery
In:
Journal of Phonetics, vol. 77, pp. 1-33
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2019.100932
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)