publications

Journal Articles

2025

  1. JPhon
    The perception of accented English by Mandarin learners of English: Revisiting the interlanguage speech intelligibility benefit (available online)
    Xizi Deng, and H. Henny Yeung
    Journal of Phonetics, 2025
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2024

  1. PLOS One
    Visual scanning patterns of a talking face when evaluating phonetic information in a native and non-native language
    Xizi Deng, Elise McClay, Erin Jastrzebski, and 2 more authors
    PLOS One, 2024
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2023

  1. JEP
    Contextual effects on spoken word processing: An eye-tracking study of the time course of tone and vowel activation in Mandarin
    Xizi Deng, Ashley Farris-Trimble, and H.Henny Yeung
    Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2023
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Conference Proceedings

2023

  1. ICPhS
    The perception of visual phonetic information: Eye-tracking while searching for segmental versus prosodic cues
    Xizi Deng, Erin Jastrzebski, Elise McClay, and 2 more authors
    In: Radek Skarnitzl & Jan Volín (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 2023
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Conference Abstracts

2025

  1. New Sounds 2025
    Acoustic and sentential cues on English learners’ adaptation to non-native English accents: Using artificially generated voices to test accent adaptation
    Xizi Deng, and H.Henny Yeung
    The 11th International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech (New Sounds 2025), 2025
  2. New Sounds 2025
    Native-nonnative speech adaptations in conversation: Effects of L1 background
    Han Zhang, Xizi Deng, Paul Tupperb, and 4 more authors
    The 11th International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech (New Sounds 2025), 2025

2024

  1. LanPhon 19
    The perception of accented English by English learners: Revisiting the interlanguage speech intelligibility benefit
    Xizi Deng, and H. Henny Yeung
    LabPhon19 (The Association for Laboratory Phonology Conference), 2024
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  2. ASA
    Speech adaptation in conversation: Effects of segment cue-weighting strategy for non-native speakers
    Han Zhang, Morgan Glover, Fenqi Wang, and 5 more authors
    The 186th Meeting of Acoustical Society of America (ASA), 2024
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2020

  1. ASA
    Visual scanning of a talking face when evaluating segmental and prosodic information
    Xizi Deng, H.Henny Yeung, and Yue Wang
    The 179th Meeting of Acoustical Society of America (ASA), 2020
  2. LabPhon 17
    Processing tone and vowel information in Mandarin: An eye-tracking study of contextual effects on speech processing
    Xizi Deng, and H.Henny Yeung
    LabPhon17 (The Association for Laboratory Phonology Conference), 2020
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2019

  1. PSLLT
    Associations between L2 speech and music perception in Mandarin Learners of English
    Xizi Deng, H.Henny Yeung, and  Cathy Lin
    Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching (PSLLT), 2019
  2. UBC
    Associations between Second-Language Learning and Music Perception in Mandarin Speakers
    Xizi Deng, Cathy Lin, and H.Henny Yeung
    Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Fellow Research Day, University of British Columbia, 2019