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MIT Linguistics @ ASA meeting

The 6th joint meeting between the Acoustic Society of America and the Acoustic Society of Japan took place at Honolulu from 1-5 December, 2025. Several students and alums presented their work:

  • Amy Li (2nd year): A phonetic correlate of velar palatalization: Shorter front cavity
  • Na-Young Ryu and Suyeon Yun (PhD 2016) [Chungnam National Univ.]: Perceptual comparison of emotional Korean speech: Human versus AI-generated voices
  • Feng-fan Hsieh (PhD 2007)[National Tsing Hua Univ.]: Spatiotemporal modeling of tongue kinematics using ultrasound tongue imaging: A case study of apical vowels in Mandarin Chinese
  • Feng-fan Hsieh (PhD 2007)[National Tsing Hua Univ.], Kye Shibata, and Yueh-chin Chang: Visualizing parasagittal articulation: An electromagnetic articulography analysis of lateralization in East Asian languages
  • Yueh-chin Chang, Jing Huang, and Feng-fan Hsieh (PhD 2007)[National Tsing Hua Univ.]: Acoustic evidence for asymmetric /l/–/n/ merger in Southwestern Mandarin