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Baichen Du

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PhD @UCLA Linguistics
baichendu (at) ucla dot edu

Publications & Presentations

Journal Articles

Du, B., Pfiffner, A. (In press). The co-variance of acoustic cues and lip gestures in the production of the Mandarin sibilant contrast. Laborotary Phonology. doi.org/10.16995/labphon.20289

Du, B., Pfiffner, A. (In Prep). Differential rounding gestures result in similar acoustic consequences: Evidence from Mandarin sibilants and high front vowels.

Du, B., Yao, Y., Ju, T. (In Prep). Motor equvilance: Speech planning costs and articulatory compensation under sustained lip retraction.

• 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. doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2023-0050

Selected 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.

• 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.

Workshops

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

Proceedings & Other Manuscripts

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).

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 Unpublished undergraduate thesis in political psychology.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