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Univ.-Prof. @Heinrich-Heine-University, Courtesy Asst. Prof. @Univ. Florida.
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Featured Research Projects
Reanimating African American Histories of the Gulf South
Reanimating African American Histories of the Gulf South
SELMA – Smart Electropalatography for Linguistic and Medical Applications
SELMA – Smart Electropalatography for Linguistic and Medical Applications
Research: Parkinson's Disease
Paper: Quantifying Lenition as a Diagnostic Marker for Parkinson’s Disease and Atypical Parkinsonism -- Wayland et al. (2024)
Paper: Quantifying Lenition as a Diagnostic Marker for Parkinson’s Disease and Atypical Parkinsonism -- Wayland et al. (2024)
Paper: Neural network-based measure of consonant lenition in Parkinson's Disease. Wayland et al (2023)
Paper: Neural network-based measure of consonant lenition in Parkinson's Disease. Wayland et al (2023)
Featured research: Phonetics
Paper: How does a credible voice sound? -- Steffens, Blättermann, Sattler and Tang (2025)
Paper: How does a credible voice sound? -- Steffens, Blättermann, Sattler and Tang (2025)
Credibility is a crucial social factor that influences people's perception and decision-making. This study explores the acoustic attributes that define credible
Paper: Intoxication and pitch control in tonal and non-tonal language speakers -- Tang et al. (2022)
Paper: Intoxication and pitch control in tonal and non-tonal language speakers -- Tang et al. (2022)
Alcohol intoxication is known to affect pitch variability in non-tonal languages. In this study, intoxication's effects on pitch were examined in tonal and non-
Paper: From sonority hierarchy to posterior probability as a measure of lenition: The case of Spanish stops -- Tang et al. (2023)
Paper: From sonority hierarchy to posterior probability as a measure of lenition: The case of Spanish stops -- Tang et al. (2023)
A deep learning Phonet model was evaluated as a method to measure lenition. Unlike quantitative acoustic methods, recurrent networks were trained to recognize t
Paper: Prosody leaks into the memories of words -- Tang & Shaw (2021)
Paper: Prosody leaks into the memories of words -- Tang & Shaw (2021)
Featured research: Phonology
Paper: A unified model of lenition as modulation reduction: gauging consonant strength in Ibibio -- Harris, Urua & Tang (Phonology, 2024)
Paper: A unified model of lenition as modulation reduction: gauging consonant strength in Ibibio -- Harris, Urua & Tang (Phonology, 2024)
Paper: Identity Avoidance in Turkish Partial Reduplication: Feature Specificity and Locality -- Tang & Akkuş (2023)
Paper: Identity Avoidance in Turkish Partial Reduplication: Feature Specificity and Locality -- Tang & Akkuş (2023)
Paper: Modelling L1 and the artificial language during artificial language learning -- Tang & Baer-Henney (2023)
Paper: Modelling L1 and the artificial language during artificial language learning -- Tang & Baer-Henney (2023)
Featured research: Comp. Ling.
Paper: Frequency matters: Modeling irregular morphological patterns in Spanish with Transformers -- Kakolu Ramarao, Tang, and Baer-Henney
Paper: Frequency matters: Modeling irregular morphological patterns in Spanish with Transformers -- Kakolu Ramarao, Tang, and Baer-Henney
Paper: Analysis of LLM as a grammatical feature tagger for {A}frican {A}merican {E}nglish -- Porwal, Rozet, Gowda, Houck, Tang and Moeller (2025)
Paper: Analysis of LLM as a grammatical feature tagger for {A}frican {A}merican {E}nglish -- Porwal, Rozet, Gowda, Houck, Tang and Moeller (2025)
Paper: Linear Discriminative Learning: a competitive non-neural baseline for morphological inflection -- Jeong, Schmitz, Kakolu Ramaro, Stein and Tang (2023)
Paper: Linear Discriminative Learning: a competitive non-neural baseline for morphological inflection -- Jeong, Schmitz, Kakolu Ramaro, Stein and Tang (2023)
Paper: Comparison of performance of automatic recognizers for stutters in speech trained with event or interval markers -- Barrett, Tang and Howell (2024)
Paper: Comparison of performance of automatic recognizers for stutters in speech trained with event or interval markers -- Barrett, Tang and Howell (2024)
Automatic recognition of stutters (ARS) and their type from audio recordings should improve objective analysis of such speech and promote use of assistive te...
Paper: Understanding Racial Disparities in Automatic Speech Recognition: the case of habitual “be” -- Martin & Tang (2020)
Paper: Understanding Racial Disparities in Automatic Speech Recognition: the case of habitual “be” -- Martin & Tang (2020)
Interdisciplinary research
Paper: From English to “Englishes”: A Process Perspective on Enhancing the Linguistic Responsiveness of Culturally Tailored Cancer Prevention Interventions
Paper: From English to “Englishes”: A Process Perspective on Enhancing the Linguistic Responsiveness of Culturally Tailored Cancer Prevention Interventions
Paper: Compiling a corpus of African American Language from oral histories
Paper: Compiling a corpus of African American Language from oral histories
Paper: Identification of fluency and word-finding difficulty in samples of children with diverse language backgrounds -- Howell et al. (2017)
Paper: Identification of fluency and word-finding difficulty in samples of children with diverse language backgrounds -- Howell et al. (2017)
Background Stuttering and word-finding difficulty (WFD) are two types of communication difficulty that occur frequently in children who learn English as an additional language (EAL), as well as thos...
Paper: DCDC2 READ1 regulatory element: how temporal processing differences may shape language -- Tang et al. (2020)
Paper: DCDC2 READ1 regulatory element: how temporal processing differences may shape language -- Tang et al. (2020)
Report: Unsettled Topics Concerning Human and Autonomous Vehicle Interaction -- Razdan ... & Tang (2020)
Report: Unsettled Topics Concerning Human and Autonomous Vehicle Interaction -- Razdan ... & Tang (2020)
Featured Education Project
E-learning course: "Interactive web-based review units for phonetics and phonology"
E-learning course: "Interactive web-based review units for phonetics and phonology"
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