Baichen Du 杜柏辰
About
I am an incoming PhD student at UCLA Linguistics, specializing in Psycholinguistics, Phonetics, and Phonology. My research focuses on how the structure and fine details of language are perceived, produced, acquired, transmitted, and changed. I employ experimentation, formal analysis, and computational methods to investigate the questions. I worked on a number of projects on these topics with Keith Johnson, Alexandra Pfiffner, Jonathan Havenhill, and Yao Yao .
Current Projects
• Discourse coherence and null pronouns in the processing of Mandarin subjects
• Perceptual ambiguity due to paralinguistic gesture's interaction with articulation
• Contact induced variation in production and perception: Stops contrasts and Tonogenesis in Korean
• Perceptual ambiguity due to paralinguistic gesture's interaction with articulation
• Contact induced variation in production and perception: Stops contrasts and Tonogenesis in Korean
Publications & Presentations
Papers and Manuscripts
• Du, B., Pfiffner, A. (Submitted). Cross-modality cue integration and weighting: Lip rounding and acoustic cues in the Mandarin sibilant merger.
• Du, B., Pfiffner, A., Johnson, K. (2024). Visible articulatory variation as a cue to sound change: Lip rounding and lip protrusion variability in the Mandarin sibilant merger. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, 30.2 (Selected Papers from NWAV 51).
• Yu, X., Van Hoey, T., Tan, F., Du, B. & Do, Y. (2024). Tracking phonological regularities: exploring the influence of learning mode and regularity locus in adult phonological learning. Linguistics Vanguard. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2023-0050
• Du, B. (2023). An audio-visual account for synchronic sound changes towards sibilants merger in Taiwan Mandarin. In Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Berkeley Undergraduate Linguistics Symposium 2023, University of California, Berkeley, CA.
• Du, B. (2023). The backfire effect in the perception and judgement of congruent and incongruent interpretation of political propaganda. Unpublished undergraduate thesis of political psychology. University of Hong Kong.
• Du, B., Pfiffner, A., Johnson, K. (2024). Visible articulatory variation as a cue to sound change: Lip rounding and lip protrusion variability in the Mandarin sibilant merger. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, 30.2 (Selected Papers from NWAV 51).
• Yu, X., Van Hoey, T., Tan, F., Du, B. & Do, Y. (2024). Tracking phonological regularities: exploring the influence of learning mode and regularity locus in adult phonological learning. Linguistics Vanguard. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2023-0050
• Du, B. (2023). An audio-visual account for synchronic sound changes towards sibilants merger in Taiwan Mandarin. In Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Berkeley Undergraduate Linguistics Symposium 2023, University of California, Berkeley, CA.
• Du, B. (2023). The backfire effect in the perception and judgement of congruent and incongruent interpretation of political propaganda. Unpublished undergraduate thesis of political psychology. University of Hong Kong.
Workshops
• Du, B. (2023, Sep). Introduction to Advanced R Programming with RMarkdown. The Sociolinguistics Lab, University of California, Berkeley.
Conference Presentations
• Du, B., Pfiffner, A., Johnson, K. (2024, Jan). The role of visible articulatory variation in Mandarin sibilant contrast and merger. Talk given at 2024 LSA Annual Meeting (LSA2024), New York City, NY.
• Du, B., Pfiffner, A., Johnson, K. (2023, Dec). Consonant and vowel rounding: same acoustics, different visuals. Poster presented at ASA 185th Meeting (ASA185) Sydney, Australia.
• Havenhill, J., Du, B. (2023, Dec). Visual cues in sound change: A cross-modal perceptual account for the typological rarity of labial palatalization. Poster presented at ASA 185th Meeting (ASA185) Sydney, Australia.
• Du, B., Pfiffner, A., Johnson, K. (2023, Oct). Visible articulatory variation as a cue to sound change: Lip rounding and lip protrusion variability in the Mandarin sibilant merger. Talk given at New Ways of Analyzing Variation 51 (NWAV51), Queens College, New York City, NY.
• Du, B. (2023). Acoustic distance effect on the perception of sibilants mergers between retroflexes and alveolars in Taiwan Mandarin. Poster presented at ASA 184th Meeting (ASA184), Chicago, IL.
• Du, B. (2023). An audio-visual account for synchronic sound changes towards sibilants merger in Taiwan Mandarin. Talk given at Seventh Annual Berkeley Undergraduate Linguistics Symposium 2023, University of California, Berkeley, CA.
• Du, B. (2023). The backfire effect in the perception and judgement of congruent and incongruent interpretation of political propaganda: A pre-analysis plan. Poster presentation at Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program Poster Session: Student Research Posters, University of Hong Kong, HK.
• Du, B., Pfiffner, A., Johnson, K. (2023, Dec). Consonant and vowel rounding: same acoustics, different visuals. Poster presented at ASA 185th Meeting (ASA185) Sydney, Australia.
• Havenhill, J., Du, B. (2023, Dec). Visual cues in sound change: A cross-modal perceptual account for the typological rarity of labial palatalization. Poster presented at ASA 185th Meeting (ASA185) Sydney, Australia.
• Du, B., Pfiffner, A., Johnson, K. (2023, Oct). Visible articulatory variation as a cue to sound change: Lip rounding and lip protrusion variability in the Mandarin sibilant merger. Talk given at New Ways of Analyzing Variation 51 (NWAV51), Queens College, New York City, NY.
• Du, B. (2023). Acoustic distance effect on the perception of sibilants mergers between retroflexes and alveolars in Taiwan Mandarin. Poster presented at ASA 184th Meeting (ASA184), Chicago, IL.
• Du, B. (2023). An audio-visual account for synchronic sound changes towards sibilants merger in Taiwan Mandarin. Talk given at Seventh Annual Berkeley Undergraduate Linguistics Symposium 2023, University of California, Berkeley, CA.
• Du, B. (2023). The backfire effect in the perception and judgement of congruent and incongruent interpretation of political propaganda: A pre-analysis plan. Poster presentation at Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program Poster Session: Student Research Posters, University of Hong Kong, HK.
Teaching
As Teaching Assistant
• POLI3148: Data Science in Politics and Public Administration (2024 Fall, Instructor: Haohan Chen)
Data Science in Political Science with Python: Python Basics, data wrangling with Pandas, visulization with Seaborn, geospatial analysis with Geopandas, text analysis with SpaCy, regression and machine learning with scikit-learn, and advnaced topics in TM and ML with transformers.
Data Science in Political Science with Python: Python Basics, data wrangling with Pandas, visulization with Seaborn, geospatial analysis with Geopandas, text analysis with SpaCy, regression and machine learning with scikit-learn, and advnaced topics in TM and ML with transformers.
Cats
My fiancée and I raise Gelato, a 1y/o Napolean, and Toffee, a 3mo British Longhair, back home in HK.