Chuyu Huang
Associate Professor
Department of Comparative and Contrastive Linguistics
Graduate School of Humanities, The University of Osaka
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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.
What I Do
My research explores how abstract linguistic structures are implemented, perceived, and processed in speech. I am especially interested in:
phonetics and phonology
prosody and intonation
speech production and speech perception
morphological structure and phonetic realization
Japanese dialects and under-documented varieties
Tone sandhi and tonal violation perception
online speech experiments and experimental methodology
Current Projects
Prosody, morphology, and phonetic detail
I investigate how linguistic structures such as compounds, word boundaries, and morphological complexity may affect acoustic realization in English. 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.
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.
For Prospective Graduate Students
If you are interested in pursuing graduate study in phonetics, phonology, prosody, speech production, speech perception, or experimental approaches to language, please refer to the website of the Department of Comparative and Contrastive Linguistics, The University of Osaka, to which I belong.
Graduate students in our department participate in regular meetings, where they present their research and receive feedback from faculty members and fellow students. I work together with my colleagues to support students’ research development through both individual advising and this broader research environment.
If you are applying from overseas, please check the Admissions Assistance Desk (AAD) of UOsaka before contacting me individually. Prospective students should be able to conduct graduate-level study primarily in English or Japanese.
Links
Researchmap: https://researchmap.jp/chuyu_huang
Department of Comparative and Contrastive Linguistics, UOsaka
Email: huangcy.ut [at] gmail.com
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