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Alan Yu - Professor, Linguistics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
While substantial individual variation exists in speech perception, the neural origins of this variability remain unclear. This project examines whether individual differences in subcortical speech encoding—measured via frequency-following responses (FFR)—predict behavioral perceptual patterns. By linking brainstem-level neural representations to perceptual outcomes, this work illuminates how early...
Social SciencesAlan Yu - Professor, Linguistics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
This project documents the phonetics and phonology of Washo, a critically endangered Native American language of California and Nevada. Drawing on two decades of audio recordings with native speakers, the project will produce the first comprehensive phonetic description of Washo, including detailed acoustic analysis of its consonant and vowel systems...
Social SciencesAlan Yu - Professor, Linguistics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
This project aims to investigate ongoing language variation and change in Hong Kong (HK) Cantonese at a large scale using a mobile app developed on Gorilla, an online experimentation platform, for crowdsourcing speech data and survey responses...
Social SciencesAlan Yu - Professor, Linguistics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Challenges using language in social contexts, such as conversational interactions, impacts autistic individuals across the spectrum and throughout the lifespan. Efforts to understand the causes of these challenges have primarily focused on speakers of English, leaving unanswered critical questions about how social language use might be impacted differently for autistic...
Social Sciences