Publications & Presentations
Articles
• Du, B., Pfiffner, A. (In Prep). Differential rounding gestures converge acoustically: 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.
• Du, B., Pfiffner, A. (2026). The co-variance of acoustic cues and lip gestures in the production of the Mandarin sibilant contrast. Laborotary Phonology 17(1), pp. 1-40. doi.org/10.16995/labphon.20289
• 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). repository.upenn.edu/handle/20.500.14332/60623
• 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
• Du, B., Yao, Y., Ju, T. (In Prep). Motor equvilance: Speech planning costs and articulatory compensation under sustained lip retraction.
• Du, B., Pfiffner, A. (2026). The co-variance of acoustic cues and lip gestures in the production of the Mandarin sibilant contrast. Laborotary Phonology 17(1), pp. 1-40. doi.org/10.16995/labphon.20289
• 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). repository.upenn.edu/handle/20.500.14332/60623
• 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 Papers (as presenter)
• 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.
• 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.
Non-refereed Presentations
• Du, B. (2023, Sep). Introduction to Advanced R Programming with RMarkdown. The Sociolinguistics Lab, University of California, Berkeley.
• Du, B. (2026, Apr). Speech planning window as the domain of phonological processes: Variation in external Sandhi. Phonology Seminar, UCLA.
• Du, B. (2026, Feb). Articulatory compensation under competing demands: Speech perturbation as a baseline for resource-based planning hypothesis. The Speech and Language Science Lab, The Polytechnic University of Hong Kong.
• Du, B. (2026, Apr). Speech planning window as the domain of phonological processes: Variation in external Sandhi. Phonology Seminar, UCLA.
• Du, B. (2026, Feb). Articulatory compensation under competing demands: Speech perturbation as a baseline for resource-based planning hypothesis. The Speech and Language Science Lab, The Polytechnic University of Hong Kong.
Other Manuscripts
• Du, B. (2025). The Referential Structure Hypthesis in Mandarin Chinese: Discourse coherence and anaphoric choices in pronoun resolution. Master of Arts Thesis in Psycholinguistics, University of Hong Kong.
• Du, B. (2023). The backfire effect in the perception and judgement of congruent and incongruent interpretation of political propaganda. Undergraduate thesis in Political Science, University of Hong Kong.
• Du, B. (2023). The backfire effect in the perception and judgement of congruent and incongruent interpretation of political propaganda. Undergraduate thesis in Political Science, University of Hong Kong.