Chuyu Huang

I am a phonetician and phonologist working on the interface between phonological structure, phonetic realization, and speech processing. My research examines how linguistic structures are reflected in phonetic detail, with a particular focus on prosody, morphology, speech production, and speech perception.

I work mainly on Japanese, English, and Taiwanese Southern Min, using acoustic analysis, production experiments, perception experiments, and web-based experiments.

Current Research Themes

• Prosody, morphology, and phonetic detail

I investigate how linguistic structures such as compounds, word boundaries, and morphological complexity affect acoustic realization in Eng. This work focuses on whether abstract structures can be reflected in measurable phonetic cues such as duration, F0, and intensity.

• Japanese dialect phonetics

I study regional variation in Japanese speech, with attention to voicing, pitch, and prosodic structure. I am also interested in how web-based experiments can be used to collect reliable acoustic data from speakers of under-documented dialects.

• Taiwanese Southern Min tone sandhi

I examine how tone sandhi and prosodic patterns in Taiwanese Southern Min are produced and processed. This work contributes to broader questions about the relationship between phonological computation, lexical representation, and speech processing.

• Experimental and online methods

I develop and use experimental methods for phonetics, phonology, and psycholinguistics, including jsPsych-based online experiments, acoustic annotation, forced alignment, and statistical modeling.