Miscellaneous

I assisted in the following projects with varying duties:

PI: Prof. Yu-Chen Chan

Sex differences in humor styles and coping humor
- collected behavioral, fMRI, and EEG data
- general laboratory management
- mentored undergraduate students

PI: Prof. Jo-Fu Lotus Lin

Pre-attentive processing of tone sandhi in Mandarin Chinese
- analyzed EEG data (preprocessing and statistical tests)
- collected and arranged EEG data according to the BIDS format
- wrote Praat scripts to edit a batch of auditory stimuli
- created E-prime programs for controlling experiments

PIs: Prof. Yueh-chin Chang & Prof. Feng-fan Hsieh

Gemination in prosodically weak elements in Taiwanese Southern Min and Hakka
- recorded, transcribed, and analyzed acoustic data
A phonetic and phonological study of Penang Hokkien
- arranged and analyzed acoustic data
- recruited and mentored a team of 4 members
Coarticulatory patterns of nasal rimes in Taiwanese Mandarin and Southern Min
- ran electromagnetic articulography experiments
- ordered and managed laboratory supplies
- wrote customized R and MATLAB scripts

PI: Prof. Fan-Pei Gloria Yang

Different cognitive mechanisms underlying Chinese and Chinese Sign Language
(Co-PI: Prof. Minghu Jiang from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China)
- assisted in experimental design and writing the grant proposal
- applied for the approval of the research ethics committee
Investigation of enhanced cognitive networks with task-activated fMRI and DTI
- scheduled and guided the cognitive training sessions
- developed the training materials in Mandarin Chinese

Selected coursework projects

I have written term papers based on these projects. If you are interested in these works, the manuscripts and slides are available upon request.

The effect of perceptual similarity on second language learners’ processing of Taiwanese tone sandhi
L2 Phonological Acquisition: Theory, Methods, and Pedagogy
Instructor: Prof. Tsung-Ying Chen
The exception of NC̥ effect in Standard Malay
(with Phaik Gek Lim)
Phonology (II)
Instructor: Prof. Feng-fan Hsieh
An acoustic and electroglottographic study on contextual variations of Korean stop contrast
(with Phaik Gek Lim and Dabin Eun)
Articulatory Phonetics
Instructor: Prof. Yueh-chin Chang