Jianjing Kuang

About

Jianjing Kuang is an Associate Professor of Linguistics in the Linguistics Department at the University of Pennsylvania. She specializes in Phonetics and directs the Penn Phonetics Laboratory. In addition to her primary appointment, she is a faculty member of both MindCORE, the Mind Center for Outreach, Research, and Education, and The Center for East Asian Studies. Her work focuses on the scientific study of speech sounds, contributing to the understanding of phonetic phenomena through research and laboratory work. She is based at 3401-C Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, with her office located in Room 318-C on the third floor.

Research topics

• Artificial Intelligence
• Computer Science
• Mathematics
• Acoustics
• Pure mathematics
• Linguistics
• Physics
• Speech recognition

Selected publications

• The effect of tone language background on cue integration in pitch perception

  The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2023-08-01 · 4 citations

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  This study explores the effect of native language and musicality on voice quality cue integration in pitch perception. Previous work by Cui and Kang [(2019). J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 146(6), 4086-4096] found no differences in pitch perception strategies between English and Mandarin speakers. The present study asks whether Cantonese listeners may perform differently, as Cantonese consists of multiple level tones. Participants completed two experiments: (i) a forced choice pitch classification experime…

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• Creaky voice identification in Mandarin: The effects of prosodic position, tone, pitch range and creak locality

  The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2023-07-01 · 4 citations

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  Creaky voice, a non-modal aperiodic phonation that is often associated with low pitch targets, has been found to not only correlate linguistically with prosodic boundary, tonal categories, and pitch range, but also socially with age, gender, and social status. However, it is still not clear whether co-varying factors such as prosodic boundary, pitch range, and tone could, in turn, affect listeners' identification of creak. To fill this gap, this current study examines how creaky voice is identif…

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• Exploring the accuracy of prosodic encodings in state-of-the-art text-to-speech models

  2024-06-30 · 3 citations

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• The mapping between syntactic and prosodic phrasing in English and Mandarin

  Interspeech 2022 · 2022-09-16 · 2 citations

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• Information-theoretic hypothesis generation of relative cue weighting for the voicing contrast

  2024-09-01 · 1 citations

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Frequent coauthors

• Patricia Keating

  University of Strathclyde

  58 shared

• Marc Garellek

  University of California, San Diego

  54 shared

• Christina M. Esposito

  Reed College

  53 shared

• Sameer ud Dowla Khan

  University of California, Berkeley

  53 shared

• May Pik Yu Chan

  University of Pennsylvania

  10 shared

• Mark Liberman

  9 shared

• Nari Rhee

  University of California, Berkeley

  8 shared

• Jia Tian

  6 shared

Labs

• Department of Linguistics, University of PennsylvaniaPI

Education

• Ph.D., Phonetics, Laboratory phonology, Speech production and perception

  UCLA

  2013

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