Baichen Du

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Hi! My name is Baichen Du 杜柏辰 [tʷuː4 pai3 ʈʂʰən2] in Mandarin, or [tou2 pak3 sɐn21] in Cantonese. I am a visiting undergraduate student at UC Berkeley, also a final (fifth) year undergraduate student at the University of Hong Kong, majoring in Linguistics and Political Science. I am interested in experimental phonology and phonetics broadly, and speech perception/production, cues weighting and integration, sound change and variation in specific.

During my undergraduate study, I worked on a number of projects with Prof. Keith Johnson and Dr. Alexandra Pfiffner at UC Berkeley Linguistics, and Prof. Youngah Do and Dr. Jonathan Havenhill at the Language Development Lab of HKU Linguistics, as well as Prof. Yao Yao at HKPolyU Chinese and Bilingual Studies. For my political science major, Dr. Haohan Chen supervised me on my thesis.

• Du, Baichen, Pfiffner, Alexandra, Johnson, Keith. (2024, Jan). The role of visible articulatory variation in Mandarin sibilant contrast and merger. Talk at be given at the 98th Annual Meeting of Linguistic Society of America (LSA2024), New York City, NY.

• Du, Baichen, Pfiffner, Alexandra, Johnson, Keith. (2023, Dec). Consonant and vowel rounding: same acoustics, different visuals. Poster to be presented at the 185th Meeting of Acoustical Society of America & 2023 Meeting of the Australian Acoustical Society (ASA185), Sydney, Australia.

• Havenhill, Jonathan.^*, Du, Baichen. (2023, Dec). Visual cues in sound change: A cross-modal perceptual account for the typological rarity of labial palatalization. Poster to be presented at the 185th Meeting of Acoustical Society of America & 2023 Meeting of the Australian Acoustical Society (ASA185), Sydney, Australia.

• Du, Baichen, Pfiffner, Alexandra, Johnson, Keith. (2023, Oct). Visible articulatory variation as a cue to sound change: Lip rounding and lip protrusion variability in the Mandarin sibilant merger. Talk to be given at New Ways of Analyzing Variation 51: Variation in the World’s Languages (NWAV51), Queens College CUNY, New York City, NY.

• Du, Baichen. (2023). Acoustic distance effect on the perception of sibilants mergers between retroflexes and alveolars in Taiwan Mandarin. Poster presented at the 184th Meeting of Acoustical Society of America 2023 (ASA184), Chicago, IL. Poster

• Du, Baichen. (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. Slides

• Du, Baichen. (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, Baichen. (In Prep). Acoustic distance effect on the perception of sibilants mergers between retroflexes and alveolars in Taiwan Mandarin. In Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics ASA2023. Acoustical Society of America.

• Du, Baichen. (To appear). 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.

• Do, Youngah^*, Van Hoey, Thomas, Yu, Xiaoyu, Du, Baichen, Tan, Lihui. (In review). Implicit and explicit learning of vowel harmony patterns in phonotactics and alternations.

• Du, Baichen. (2023). The backfire effect in the perception and judgement of congruent and incongruent interpretation of political propaganda. Undergraduate thesis of political psychology. University of Hong Kong.

• Du, Baichen. (2023, Sep). Introduction to Advanced R Programming with RMarkdown. The Sociolinguistics Lab, University of California, Berkeley. Slides