WeiZHANG-mg.github.io
Wei Zhang (张微)
Hi!
I am a PhD candidate at the Linguistics Department of McGill University, affiliated with the Centre for Brain, Language, and Music. I work with Meghan Clayards, Morgan Sonderegger, and Michael Wagner. I’m interested in the link between speech perception and production, and speech prosody. My research approach includes behavioral experiments, corpus study, and computational modeling.
Contact
email: wei.zhang16@mail.mcgill.ca
Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Wei-Zhang-328
Research
Publications
Journal Articles
Zhang, W., Clayards, M. & Torreira, F. (2023), Phonological mediation effects in imitation of the Mandarin flat-falling tonal continua. Journal of Phonetics, 101. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2023.101277
Zhang, W. & Clayards, M. (2023), Contribution of acoustic cues to prominence ratings for four Mandarin vowels. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.
Steffman, J. & Zhang, W. (co-first author) (2023), Vowel perception under prominence: examining the roles of F0, duration and distributional information. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 154, 2594–2608. http://doi.org/10.1121/10.0021300
Zhang, W., & Gu, W. (2023). F0 range instead of F0 slope is the primary cue for the falling tone of Mandarin. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 153(6), 3439. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0019712
Zhang, W., Xie, Y., Lin, B., Wang, L., & Zhang, J. (2022). Estimation of the underlying F0 range of a speaker from the spectral features of a brief speech input. Applied Sciences, 12(13), Article 13. https://doi.org/10.3390/app12136494
Lin, J., Gao, Y., Zhang, W., Wei, L., Xie, Y., & Zhang, J. (2020). Improving pronunciation erroneous tendency detection with multi-model soft targets. Journal of Signal Processing Systems, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11265-019-01485-2
Peng, W., Fu, K., Zhang, W., L., Xie, Y., & Zhang, J. (2020). A study on the robustness of pitch-range estimation from brief speech segments. International Journal of Asian Language Processing, 30(01), Article 2050003. https://doi.org/10.1142/S2717554520500034
Zhang, W., Clayards, M. & Wagner, M., The interaction of focus and phrasing in Mandarin and in English. (In revision)
Conference Proceedings (selected)
Zhang, W. & Lu, Y (2023). The role of duration in the perception of checked versus unchecked tones in Taiwanese Southern Min. Proc. 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), Prague, Czech, pp. 226-230.
Steffman, J & Zhang, W., (2023). Vowel perception under prominence: Dual roles for F0 and duration. Proc. 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), Prague, Czech, pp. 62-66.
Zhang, W., Clayards, M. & Torreira, F. (2022). Cue primacy effects in Mandarin tone imitation. Proc. LabPhon18.
Zhang, W., Clayards, M., & Zhang, J. (2021). Effects of Mandarin tones on acoustic cue weighting patterns for prominence. 12th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP), Hong Kong. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCSLP49672.2021.9362105
Zhang, W., Clayards, M., & Wagner, M. (2021). The interaction between focus and phrasing in Mandarin high-flat and falling tones. Proc. 1st Tone and Intonation (TAI), Sønderborg, Denmark.
Zhang, W., Xie, Y., & Zhang, J. (2020). Physiological pitch range estimation from a brief speech input: A study on a bilingual parallel speech corpus. Proc. 10th International Conference on Speech Prosody, Tokyo, Japan, pp. 960-964. https://doi.org/10.21437/SpeechProsody.2020-196
Zhang, W., Xie, Y., & Zhang, J. (2018). A Preliminary Study on Quantitative Calculation of Prosodic Strength in Mandarin Speech. Proc. 11th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP), Taipei, pp. 439–443. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCSLP.2018.8706596
Zhang, W., Zhang, Q., Xie, Y., & Zhang, J. (2018). LSTM-Based Pitch Range Estimation from Spectral Information of Brief Speech Input. Proc. 11th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP), Taipei, pp. 349–353. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCSLP.2018.8706608
Hao, L., Zhang, W., Xie, Y., & Zhang, J. (2018). A Preliminary Study on Tonal Coarticulation in Continuous Speech. Proc. INTERSPEECH 2018, Hyderabad, India, pp. 3017-3021. https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2018-1849
Hao, L., Zhang, W., Xie, Y., & Zhang, J. (2017). Reanalyze Fundamental Frequency Peak Delay in Mandarin. Proc. INTERSPEECH 2017, Stockholm, Sweden, pp. 3186-3190. https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2017-1235
Lin, J., Xie, Y., Zhang, W., & Zhang, J. (2016). Automatic Mandarin prosody boundary detecting based on tone nucleus features and DNN model. Proc 10th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP), Tianjin, China. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCSLP.2016.7918485