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Kevin TangPhD (UCL)

MEng (Cantab)MA (Cantab) MA (UCL)

CMALT

Academic employment

August 2019 ndash University of Florida Gainesville FL USADepartment of LinguisticsAssistant Professor in Computational Language Science (Tenure-track)1

2017-July 2019 Zhejiang University Hangzhou ChinaDepartment of Linguistics and Translation School of International StudiesAssistant Professor in Linguistics (Tenure-track)2

2015-2017 Yale University New Haven CT USAPostdoctoral Associate in LinguisticsSupervisor Ryan Bennett

Education2011ndash2015 University College London London United Kingdom

PhD in Linguistics October 2015Thesis Naturalistic Speech MisperceptionAdvisors Andrew Nevins (Primary) amp Stuart Rosen (Secondary)Viva Committee John Harris (Internal) amp Bert Vaux (External)

2010ndash2011 University College London London United Kingdom

MA in Linguistics November 2011Dissertation Phonetic trends in slips of the earSupervisor Andrew NevinsClass Distinction (Dissertation and all modules)

2009ndash2010 University of Cambridge (Churchill College) Cambridge United Kingdom

MEng in Engineering June 2010Advisors Dong Fang Liang amp Rebecca ZeckoskiClass Honours Pass (Dissertation Merit Modules Honours Pass)

2006ndash2009 University of Cambridge (Churchill College) Cambridge United Kingdom

BA in Engineering June 2010Class 2i

1The University of Floridarsquos Faculty 500 initiative httpsfaculty500hrufledu2Zhejiang Universityrsquos Hundred Talents Program httpswwwzjueducnenglish20087listhtm

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PublicationsProductsPatentscopyrights

Patent Pending Kevin Tang Yong Kyu Yoon Ratree Wayland Lori J Altmann SaeyeongJeon amp Sunghyun Hwang 2020 Smart pseudo-palate for linguistic andbiomedical applications University of Florida Patent Pending

Journal articles (published or accepted)

2020 Peter Howell Li Ying Chua Kaho Yoshikawa Hannah Hau Shuen TangTaniya Welmillage John Harris amp Kevin Tang 2020 Does working-memorytraining given to reception-class children improve the speech of children at riskof fluency difficulty Frontiers in Psychology 11 3182 httpdxdoiorg103389fpsyg2020568867[pdf httpstinyurlcomy42puhy9] [bib] [SSCI] [Corresponding author] [Stu-dent Authors LYC KY HT and TW](Part of the Fluency In School Team project wwwfistprojectorg)

2020 Kevin Tang Mellissa M C DeMille Jan C Frijters amp Jeffrey R Gruen2020 DCDC2 READ1 regulatory element how temporal processing differ-ences may shape language Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sci-ences 287(1928) 20192712 httpdxdoiorg101098rspb20192712[pdf httpstinyurlcomy5mfxgr3] [SCI Expanded] [First author]

2018 Kevin Tang amp Ryan Bennett 2018 Contextual predictability influ-ences word and morpheme duration in a morphologically complex language(Kaqchikel Mayan) The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 144(2)997ndash1017 httpdxdoiorg10112115046095[pdf httpsgoogl68PaKp] [bib] [SCI SCI Expanded] [First and corre-sponding author]

2018 Ryan Bennett Kevin Tang amp Juan Ajsivinac Sian 2018 Statistical andacoustic effects on the perception of stop consonants in Kaqchikel (Mayan)Laboratory Phonology Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology9(1) 9 httpdxdoiorg105334labphon100[pdf httpsgoogl8h3RCj] [bib] [SSCI AampHCI] [Corresponding author]

2018 Mellissa M C DeMille Kevin Tang Chintan M Mehta ChristopherGeissler Jeffrey G Malins Natalie R Powers Beatrice M Bowen Andrew KAdams Dongnhu T Truong Jan C Frijters amp Jeffrey R Gruen 2018 World-wide distribution of the DCDC2 READ1 regulatory element and its relation-ship with phoneme variation across languages Proceedings of the NationalAcademy of Sciences httpdxdoiorg101073pnas1710472115httpwwwpnasorgcontentearly201804101710472115[pdf httpsgooglRCVdZL] [bib] [SCI] [Second author]

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2017 Peter Howell Kevin Tang Outi Tuomainen Sin Kan Chan Kirsten BeltranAvin Mirawdeli amp John Harris 2017 Identification of fluency and word-finding difficulty in samples of children with diverse language backgroundsInternational Journal of Language amp Communication Disorders 52(5) 595ndash611 httpdxdoiorg1011111460-698412305[pdf httpsgooglPdMGSF] [bib] [SSCI SCI Expanded] [Second author](Part of the Fluency In School Team project wwwfistprojectorg)

2015 Andrew Nevins Cilene Rodrigues amp Kevin Tang 2015 The rise and fall ofthe L-shaped morphome diachronic and experimental studies Probus In-ternational Journal of Latin and Romance Linguistics 27(1) 101ndash155 httpdxdoiorg101515probus-2015-0002[pdf httpsgoogle5JYZe] [bib] [SSCI AampHCI] [Equal contribution author-ship]

Proceeding articles (published or accepted)

2020 Joshua L Martin amp Kevin Tang 2020 Understanding Racial Disparities inAutomatic Speech Recognition The Case of Habitual ldquoberdquo In Proc inter-speech 2020 626ndash630 httpdxdoiorg1021437Interspeech2020-2893 httpdxdoiorg1021437Interspeech2020-2893 [StudentAuthor JM] [pdf] [bib]

2020 Ayushi Pandey Pamir Gogoi amp Kevin Tang Accepted Understandingforced alignment errors in Hindi-English code-mixed speech ndash a feature analy-sis Proceedings of First Workshop on Speech Technologies for Code-switchingin Multilingual Communities 2020 [Student Authors AP and PG] [pdf]

2019 Kevin Tang amp Ryan Bennett 2019 Unite and conquer bootstrapping forcedalignment tools for closely-related minority languages (Mayan) In Sasha Cal-houn Paola Escudero Marija Tabain amp Paul Warren (eds) Proceedings of the19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences Melbourne Australia 20191719ndash1723 Canberra Australia Australasian Speech Science and TechnologyAssociation Inc httpsasstaorgproceedingsICPhS2019papersICPhS_1768pdf [First author] [pdf] [bib]

2017 Peter Howell Kaho Yoshikawa Kevin Tang John Harris amp Clarissa Sorger2017 Intervention for word-finding difficulty for children starting school whohave diverse language backgrounds In Robert Eklund amp Ralph Rose (ed)Proceedings of Disfluencies in Spontaneous Speech 8th workshop vol 58 33ndash36 Stockholm Sweden KTH Royal Institute of Technology TMH-QPSR[pdf httpsgooglXR8HbA] [bib]

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2014 Kevin Tang amp Andrew Nevins 2014 Measuring segmental and lexical trendsin a corpus of naturalistic speech In Hsin-Lun Huang Ethan Poole amp AmandaRysling (eds) Proceedings of the 43rd meeting of the North East LinguisticSociety vol 2 153ndash166 GLSA (Graduate Linguistics Student Association)[pdf httpsgoogl9Kaov5] [bib]

Working papers

2013 Kevin Tang amp Andrew Nevins 2013 Quantifying the diachronic productiv-ity of irregular verbal patterns in Romance UCL Working Papers in Linguis-tics 25 289ndash308[pdf httpsgooglAM3bVh] [bib]

2012 Kevin Tang 2012 A 61 million word corpus of Brazilian Portuguese filmsubtitles as a resource for linguistic research UCL Working Papers in Lin-guistics 24 208ndash214[pdf httpsgooglfJkVkR] [bib]

Articles (Submitted or In revision)

Revised andResubmitted

Kevin Tang amp Jason A Shaw Revised and Resubmited Prosody leaks intothe memories of words Cognition Preprint httpsarxivorgabs200514716 [SSCI] [First author]

Revised andResubmitted

Kevin Tang amp Dinah Baer-Henney Revised and Resubmitted Disentanglingeffects of L1 and the artificial language during artificial language learningCognition Preprint httpsdxdoiorg1031234osfiodf8ru [SSCI][First author]

In revision Ryan Bennett Kevin Tang amp Juan Ajsivinac Sian In revision Laryngeal co-occurrence restrictions as constraints on sub-segmental articulatory structureNatural Language amp Linguistic Theory [SSCI AampHCI]

In revision John Harris Eno-Abasi Urua amp Kevin Tang Submitted A unified modelof lenition as modulation reduction gauging consonant strength in IbibioPhonology [SSCI AampHCI] [Corresponding author]

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Conference presentation (Submitted)

Abstractaccepted

Kevin Tang amp Dinah Baer-Henney Under review The necessity of modellinglexical effects during artificial language learning paradigm Workshop at 54thAnnual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 2021) AthensGreece

Manuscripts in preparation

In prep Kevin Tang amp Jason A Shaw In preparation Homophones are not homo-phonic in Mandarin Chinese

In prep Kevin Tang amp Faruk Akkus In prep OCP effects in Turkish partial redu-plication locality and feature specificity [Poster]

Abstractsubmitted

Kevin Tang Justin R Mason amp Rahul Razdan In prep The Language ofDriving how will pedestrians communicate with automated vehicles Fron-tiers in Artificial Intelligence ndash Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on LanguageArchitecture

Manuscriptavailable

Kevin Tang amp Andrew Nevins In prep Prior expectations constrainconversational mondegreen and experimental misperception [First author](Manuscript available upon request)

Manuscriptavailable

John Harris Nicholas Neasom amp Kevin Tang In prep Phonotactics with[awt] rules the learnability of a simple unnatural pattern in English

PhD Thesis

2015 Kevin Tang 2015 Naturalistic speech misperception University CollegeLondon dissertation [pdf httpsgooglnWYk1B] [bib]This thesis yielded a new corpus containing asymp 5000 instances of naturallyoccurring misperception of conversational English Please see the SEAR (Slipsof the EAR) Project for more details wwwsearprojectorg

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Grants and awardsWhile at University of Florida (Faculty)

2020ndash2023 Research Grant $750000 National Science Foundation (AwardID 2037266) ldquoSmart Electropalatography for Linguistic and MedicalApplications (SELMA)rdquo Co-PI with Yong-Kyu Yoon (Engineering) RatreeWayland (Linguistics) and Lori J Altmann (Speech Language and HearingSciences) [Further info]

2020ndash2021 Research Grant $49004 University of Florida Clinical and TranslationalScience Institute ldquoA sociolinguistic-enabled web application to precisionhealth intervention for African Americansrdquo Co-PI with Janice Krieger (Com-munication Sciences and Medicine) [Further info]

2020ndash2021 Research Grant $18875 University of Florida Informatics Institute ldquoTheemergence of COVID-19 team science tracking topics networks and expertisein global COVID-19 researchrdquo Co-PI with Raffaele Vacca (Network Sciences)[Further info]

While at Zhejiang University (Faculty)

2018 Research Grant 90000 RMB ($12738) The Fundamental Research Fundsfor the Central Universities The Institute of Social Sciences China ldquoInterdis-ciplinary study of multilingualism in the Middle Ages and the RenaissancerdquoCo-applicant with Hao Tian Hu Feng Guo Dong and Lu Yun

While at Yale (Post-doc)

2017ndash2019 Research Grant $14500 Salomon Award ldquoMulti-purpose corpora for mod-ern Mayan languagesrdquo Co-applicant with Prof Scott AnderBois (Brown)Prof Ryan Bennett (Yale) and Prof Robert Henderson (Arizona)

2016 Research Grant pound1200 International Association for Forensic Phonetics andAcoustics (IAFPA) ldquoThe Phonetics of Trademark Lawrdquo Co-applicant withSilvia Dahmen (University of Cologne) and Lawrence Solan (Brooklyn LawSchool)

While at University College London (Graduate)

2013 European Science Foundation Short Visit Grant received by NetWordS - 09-RNP-089 The European Network on Word Structure Openlexicons projectat the Center for Reading Research Department of Experimental PsychologyGhent University Belgium

2013 The Big Data Hackathon - April - Data Science London Second Prize for theData Visualization Challenge (in 24 hours) develop a data visualization basedon data provided by Peerindex (with Joaquin Atria Mauricio Figueroa amp TimSchoof) [See the final product ldquoTwittrendsrdquo httpsgooglo243ZI]

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2011 Arts and Humanities Research Council MPhilPhD StudentshipMPhilPhD in Linguistics at University College London

While at University of Cambridge (Undergraduate)

2009 The Institution of Engineering and Technology The IET Innovation AwardFinalist Gap year project Automatic Testing of Novel High Resolution X-rayOptics Using Matlab

2009 Cambridge University Language Centre Bursaries for Science and MedicalStudents for Language Courses Abroad Summer Intensive Course for ModernGreek at University of Cyprus

2006 The Year In Industry Contribution to Business Award Finalist Gap yearproject

2005 The Institution of Engineering and Technology The IET Fuse ScholarshipUniversity

Outreach

Invited talks

2020 Kevin Tang November 2020(a) Science without borders where linguis-tics meets human health research Annual Research Forum MulticulturalAssociation of Pre-Health Student (MAPS) University of Florida USAhttpswwwmapsufcom

2020 Kevin Tang November 2020(b) The importance of One Health on linguis-tics One Health Week 2020 One Health Center of Excellence University ofFlorida USA httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=lW-AFDYAGUI

Research reported in the media

2020 How Genetics Guide the Evolution of Language 2020 News College ofLiberal Arts and Sciences University of Florida httpsnewsclasufleduhow-genetics-guide-the-evolution-of-language

2018 Nikhil Sonnad 2018 Can genes change the way languages evolve Quartzhttps qz com 1264305 can - genes - change - the - way - languages -evolve

Newspaper articles

2015 MC Carmo amp Kevin Tang 2015 Alternacircncia lsquoauternacircnciarsquo ou lsquoarternacircn-ciarsquo variaccedilatildeo dos sons da fala Diaacuterio da Regiatildeo 28 Feburary 2015 4Cndash4C[Article httpsgooglQT6WKQ]

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PresentationsPeer-reviewed talks

[2021] Kevin Tang Kaixuan Gong Jingyi Yang Sixian Du amp Yanduo Chen 2021Modeling the acceptability of Mandarin pseudowords with big data ndash the caseof gradient phonotactics The 18th Old World Conference in Phonology IbizaSpain [Student Authors KG JY SD and YC]

[2021] Calvin Yang amp Kevin Tang 2021 A richer model is not always more accu-rate evaluating phonotactic knowledge with 8400 nonwords The 18th OldWorld Conference in Phonology Ibiza Spain [Student Author CY]

2020 Dinah Baer-Henney amp Kevin Tang September 2020 Disentangling L1and L2 effects from learning bias in artificial language learning Talk at 16thPhonetik und Phonologie Tagung Trier Germany

2019 Kevin Tang amp Jason Shaw October 2019 Sentence prosody leaks into thelexicon evidence from Mandarin Chinese 5th Annual Florida Psycholinguis-tics Meeting University of Miami USA

2019 Kevin Tang amp Ryan Bennett August 2019 Unite and conquer bootstrap-ping forced alignment tools for closely-related minority languages (Mayan)International Congress of Phonetic Sciences 2019 Melbourne Australia

2019 Kevin Tang amp Dinah Baer-Henney May 2019 Disentangling L1 and L2effects in artificial language learning 27th Manchester Phonology MeetingUniversity of Manchester UK

2018 Kevin Tang November 2018 How genes shape phonology evidence fromworldwide distribution of the DCDC2 READ1 regulatory element and its re-lationship with phoneme variation across languages The 8th InternationalConference on Formal Linguistics China

2018 John Harris Kevin Tang amp Nicholas Neasom September 2018 Do phonol-ogists know too much A regular simple unnatural pattern in English 14thPhonetik und Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum University of ViennaGermany

2018 Kevin Tang amp Faruk Akkus January 2018 OCP Effects in Turkish PartialReduplication Locality and Feature Specificity The 15th Old World Confer-ence in Phonology London United Kingdom

2017 Ryan Bennett Kevin Tang amp Juan Ajsivinac Sian October 2017 Laryn-geal co-occurrence restrictions in Kaqchikel reflect articulatory timing EighthConference on Indigenous Languages of Latin America University of TexasUSA

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2017 Ryan Bennett amp Kevin Tang May 2017 Laryngeal co-occurrence restric-tions reflect sub-segmental articulatory structure 25th Manchester PhonologyMeeting University of Manchester UK

2017 Ryan Bennett amp Kevin Tang January 2017 Acoustic and lexical effectson speech perception in Kaqchikel (Mayan) The 91st Annual meeting of theLinguistic Society of America Austin TX USA [Handout]

2016 Ryan Bennett amp Kevin Tang November 2016 Perceptual similarity in thestop consonants of Kaqchikel Form and Analysis in Mayan Linguistics IVUniversidad de Oriente Valladolid Yucataacuten Meacutexico

2016 Ryan Bennett amp Kevin Tang October 2016 Against phonetic realism asthe source of root co-occurrence restrictions Annual Meeting on PhonologyUniversity of Southern California Los Angeles USA [Handout]

2016 Ryan Bennett amp Kevin Tang July 2016 Modeling phonetic and phono-logical variation with lsquosmallrsquo data evidence from Kaqchikel Mayan The 15thConference on Laboratory Phonology Cornell University USA

2016 John Harris Nicholas Neasom amp Kevin Tang May 2016(a) Phonotacticswith [awt] rules the learnability of a simple unnatural pattern in English24th Manchester Phonology Meeting University of Manchester UK [Handout]

2016 Ryan Bennett amp Kevin Tang May 2016 Modeling the production andperception of Kaqchikel Mayan with lsquosmallrsquo data 24th Manchester PhonologyMeeting University of Manchester UK

2014 Kevin Tang amp John Harris September 2014 A functional load account ofgeminate contrastiveness a meta-study Annual Meeting of the LinguisticsAssociation of Great Britain University of Oxford UK

2014 Kevin Tang May 2014 Using subtitle corpora to model aspects of spokenlanguage Corpus Linguistics in the South 7 Spoken Language UniversityCollege London UK

2014 Kevin Tang amp Yan Lou January 2014 Mandarin Chinese speech percep-tion in noise phonological implications The 11th Old World Conference inPhonology Amsterdam-Leiden The Netherlands

2013 Kevin Tang Sam Green amp Stefanie Anyadi November 2013 When in-terdisciplinarity assists peer-learning PeerWise at UCL Higher EducationAcademy (HEA) STEM Interdisciplinary show case BBC Broadcast CentreLondon UK [Slides]

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2017 Ryan Bennett amp Kevin Tang May 2017 Laryngeal co-occurrence restric-tions reflect sub-segmental articulatory structure 25th Manchester PhonologyMeeting University of Manchester UK

2017 Ryan Bennett amp Kevin Tang January 2017 Acoustic and lexical effectson speech perception in Kaqchikel (Mayan) The 91st Annual meeting of theLinguistic Society of America Austin TX USA [Handout]

2016 Ryan Bennett amp Kevin Tang November 2016 Perceptual similarity in thestop consonants of Kaqchikel Form and Analysis in Mayan Linguistics IVUniversidad de Oriente Valladolid Yucataacuten Meacutexico

2016 Ryan Bennett amp Kevin Tang October 2016 Against phonetic realism asthe source of root co-occurrence restrictions Annual Meeting on PhonologyUniversity of Southern California Los Angeles USA [Handout]

2016 Ryan Bennett amp Kevin Tang July 2016 Modeling phonetic and phono-logical variation with lsquosmallrsquo data evidence from Kaqchikel Mayan The 15thConference on Laboratory Phonology Cornell University USA

2016 John Harris Nicholas Neasom amp Kevin Tang May 2016(a) Phonotacticswith [awt] rules the learnability of a simple unnatural pattern in English24th Manchester Phonology Meeting University of Manchester UK [Handout]

2016 Ryan Bennett amp Kevin Tang May 2016 Modeling the production andperception of Kaqchikel Mayan with lsquosmallrsquo data 24th Manchester PhonologyMeeting University of Manchester UK

2014 Kevin Tang amp John Harris September 2014 A functional load account ofgeminate contrastiveness a meta-study Annual Meeting of the LinguisticsAssociation of Great Britain University of Oxford UK

2014 Kevin Tang May 2014 Using subtitle corpora to model aspects of spokenlanguage Corpus Linguistics in the South 7 Spoken Language UniversityCollege London UK

2014 Kevin Tang amp Yan Lou January 2014 Mandarin Chinese speech percep-tion in noise phonological implications The 11th Old World Conference inPhonology Amsterdam-Leiden The Netherlands

2013 Kevin Tang Sam Green amp Stefanie Anyadi November 2013 When in-terdisciplinarity assists peer-learning PeerWise at UCL Higher EducationAcademy (HEA) STEM Interdisciplinary show case BBC Broadcast CentreLondon UK [Slides]

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2013 Kevin Tang Andrew Nevins amp Michael Becker January 2013(a) Prosodydrives alternations evidence from a 61 million word corpus of Brazilian Por-tuguese The 10th Old World Conference in Phonology Istanbul Turkey

2012 Kevin Tang amp Andrew Nevins October 2012 Naturalistic speech misper-ception - a computational corpus-based study The 43rd Annual Meeting ofthe North East Linguistic Society Computational Linguistics Workshop NewYork City NY The City University of New York USA

2012 Kevin Tang amp Andrew Nevins May 2012 Learning from mistakes com-putational modelling of slips of the ear 20th Manchester Phonology MeetingUniversity of Manchester UK

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Peer-reviewed posters

[2021] Kevin Tang amp Jason A Shaw Accepted Non-homophonic homophones inMandarin Chinese evidence for phonetic detail in the lexicon 95th AnnualMeeting of Linguistic Society of America 2021 San Francisco USA

[2021] Alejandro Lopez Hae Won Kim Monae McKinney amp Kevin Tang Ac-cepted Reducing racial bias in word embeddings with counterfactual dataaugmentation 95th Annual Meeting of Linguistic Society of America 2021San Francisco USA [Student Authors AL HWK and MM]

[2021] Fenqi Wang Kevin Tang amp Jun Lyu Accepted The effect of pitch accenton the perception of English lexical stress by native and non-native listeners95th Annual Meeting of Linguistic Society of America 2021 San FranciscoUSA [Student Authors FW and JL]

2020 Kevin Tang amp Jason Shaw 2020 Prosody or information rate informativ-ity effects on pitch intensity and duration in Mandarin Chinese words The17th Conference on Laboratory Phonology University of British Columbia andSimon Fraser University

[2020] Bronwen Evans Hope Stevens amp Kevin Tang (Postponed due to COVID-19) The centre cannot holdrdquo phonetic variation and change in a rural eastmidlands community British Association of Academic Phoneticians (BAAP)2020 University of York UK

2020 John Harris Nicholas Neasom amp Kevin Tang Feburary 2020 Regular doesnot guarantee categorical aw+coronal in English BLS Workshop Phono-logical representations at the crossroad between gradience and categoricityUC Berkeley USA

2019 Kevin Tang amp Jason Shaw May 2018 Sentence prosody leaks into thelexicon evidence from Mandarin Chinese 7th Annual Meeting on Phonology2019 Stony Brook University NY USA

2019 Kevin Tang amp Jason Shaw May 2018 Sentence prosody leaks into thelexicon evidence from Mandarin Chinese 7th Annual Meeting on Phonology2019 Stony Brook University NY USA

2019 Hope Stevens Bronwen Evans amp Kevin Tang (Offered but Declined)September 2019 The centre cannot holdrdquo phonetic variation and changein a rural east midlands community 2019 Annual Meeting of the LinguisticsAssociation of Great Britain Queen Mary University of London UK

2018 Kevin Tang amp Faruk Akkus May 2018 OCP effects in Turkish partialreduplication locality and feature specificity 26th Manchester PhonologyMeeting University of Manchester UK

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2017 Kevin Tang amp Andrew Nevins January 2017 Expectation and lexicalretrieval in naturalistic and experimental misperception The 91st Annualmeeting of the Linguistic Society of America Austin TX USA [Poster]

2016 MMC DeMille JC Frijters Kevin Tang Christopher Geissler NR Pow-ers BM Bowen AK Adams DT Truong amp JR Gruen October 2016 Aninvestigation of the evolution and worldwide distribution of the READ1 ele-ment in DCDC2 and its contribution to language development The 66th An-nual Meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics Vancouver Canada[Poster]

2015 Kevin Tang Ye Tian E-L Schwabe Jyrki Tuomainen amp Judit Druks Jan-uary 2015 Chinese abstract verbs and nouns electrified behavioural andelectrophysiological evidence for grammatical class difference at single wordprocessing level Thirty-Third European Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsy-chology Bressanone Italy [Poster]

2014 Kevin Tang amp Brent de Chene July 2014 A new corpus of colloquialKorean and its applications The 14th Conference on Laboratory PhonologyTachikawa Tokyo Japan [Poster]

2013 Kevin Tang Andrew Nevins amp Michael Becker January 2013(b) Prosodydrives alternations evidence from a 61 million word corpus of Brazilian Por-tuguese The 87th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of AmericaBoston Massachussetts USA [Poster]

Invited talks

2021 Kevin Tang February 2021 To be determined Seminar series ldquoTypical andatypical language acquisitionrdquo at the Department of Linguistics University ofPotsdam Germany

2020 Kevin Tang Raffaele Vacca Till Krenz amp Thomas Smith October 2020College of Liberal Arts and Sciences AI Workshop Natural Language Pro-cessing University of Florida FL USA [Further info]

2020 Kevin Tang October 2020 Revealing mental representation with smalland big data ndash a corpus-phonetic approach Seminar at the SFI Centre forResearch Training in Digitally-Enhanced Reality (D-REAL) Trinity CollegeDublin Ireland

2019 Kevin Tang Feburary 2019(a) Predictability and mental representationevidence from Mayan and Chinese Shortlisted Job Talk University of FloridaFL USA

2019 Kevin Tang Feburary 2019(b) Predictability and mental representationevidence from Mayan and Chinese Shortlisted Job Talk Wayne State Univer-sity MI USA

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Peer-reviewed posters

[2021] Kevin Tang amp Jason A Shaw Accepted Non-homophonic homophones inMandarin Chinese evidence for phonetic detail in the lexicon 95th AnnualMeeting of Linguistic Society of America 2021 San Francisco USA

[2021] Alejandro Lopez Hae Won Kim Monae McKinney amp Kevin Tang Ac-cepted Reducing racial bias in word embeddings with counterfactual dataaugmentation 95th Annual Meeting of Linguistic Society of America 2021San Francisco USA [Student Authors AL HWK and MM]

[2021] Fenqi Wang Kevin Tang amp Jun Lyu Accepted The effect of pitch accenton the perception of English lexical stress by native and non-native listeners95th Annual Meeting of Linguistic Society of America 2021 San FranciscoUSA [Student Authors FW and JL]

2020 Kevin Tang amp Jason Shaw 2020 Prosody or information rate informativ-ity effects on pitch intensity and duration in Mandarin Chinese words The17th Conference on Laboratory Phonology University of British Columbia andSimon Fraser University

[2020] Bronwen Evans Hope Stevens amp Kevin Tang (Postponed due to COVID-19) The centre cannot holdrdquo phonetic variation and change in a rural eastmidlands community British Association of Academic Phoneticians (BAAP)2020 University of York UK

2020 John Harris Nicholas Neasom amp Kevin Tang Feburary 2020 Regular doesnot guarantee categorical aw+coronal in English BLS Workshop Phono-logical representations at the crossroad between gradience and categoricityUC Berkeley USA

2019 Kevin Tang amp Jason Shaw May 2018 Sentence prosody leaks into thelexicon evidence from Mandarin Chinese 7th Annual Meeting on Phonology2019 Stony Brook University NY USA

2019 Kevin Tang amp Jason Shaw May 2018 Sentence prosody leaks into thelexicon evidence from Mandarin Chinese 7th Annual Meeting on Phonology2019 Stony Brook University NY USA

2019 Hope Stevens Bronwen Evans amp Kevin Tang (Offered but Declined)September 2019 The centre cannot holdrdquo phonetic variation and changein a rural east midlands community 2019 Annual Meeting of the LinguisticsAssociation of Great Britain Queen Mary University of London UK

2018 Kevin Tang amp Faruk Akkus May 2018 OCP effects in Turkish partialreduplication locality and feature specificity 26th Manchester PhonologyMeeting University of Manchester UK

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2017 Kevin Tang amp Andrew Nevins January 2017 Expectation and lexicalretrieval in naturalistic and experimental misperception The 91st Annualmeeting of the Linguistic Society of America Austin TX USA [Poster]

2016 MMC DeMille JC Frijters Kevin Tang Christopher Geissler NR Pow-ers BM Bowen AK Adams DT Truong amp JR Gruen October 2016 Aninvestigation of the evolution and worldwide distribution of the READ1 ele-ment in DCDC2 and its contribution to language development The 66th An-nual Meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics Vancouver Canada[Poster]

2015 Kevin Tang Ye Tian E-L Schwabe Jyrki Tuomainen amp Judit Druks Jan-uary 2015 Chinese abstract verbs and nouns electrified behavioural andelectrophysiological evidence for grammatical class difference at single wordprocessing level Thirty-Third European Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsy-chology Bressanone Italy [Poster]

2014 Kevin Tang amp Brent de Chene July 2014 A new corpus of colloquialKorean and its applications The 14th Conference on Laboratory PhonologyTachikawa Tokyo Japan [Poster]

2013 Kevin Tang Andrew Nevins amp Michael Becker January 2013(b) Prosodydrives alternations evidence from a 61 million word corpus of Brazilian Por-tuguese The 87th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of AmericaBoston Massachussetts USA [Poster]

Invited talks

2021 Kevin Tang February 2021 To be determined Seminar series ldquoTypical andatypical language acquisitionrdquo at the Department of Linguistics University ofPotsdam Germany

2020 Kevin Tang Raffaele Vacca Till Krenz amp Thomas Smith October 2020College of Liberal Arts and Sciences AI Workshop Natural Language Pro-cessing University of Florida FL USA [Further info]

2020 Kevin Tang October 2020 Revealing mental representation with smalland big data ndash a corpus-phonetic approach Seminar at the SFI Centre forResearch Training in Digitally-Enhanced Reality (D-REAL) Trinity CollegeDublin Ireland

2019 Kevin Tang Feburary 2019(a) Predictability and mental representationevidence from Mayan and Chinese Shortlisted Job Talk University of FloridaFL USA

2019 Kevin Tang Feburary 2019(b) Predictability and mental representationevidence from Mayan and Chinese Shortlisted Job Talk Wayne State Univer-sity MI USA

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2017 Kevin Tang amp Andrew Nevins January 2017 Expectation and lexicalretrieval in naturalistic and experimental misperception The 91st Annualmeeting of the Linguistic Society of America Austin TX USA [Poster]

2016 MMC DeMille JC Frijters Kevin Tang Christopher Geissler NR Pow-ers BM Bowen AK Adams DT Truong amp JR Gruen October 2016 Aninvestigation of the evolution and worldwide distribution of the READ1 ele-ment in DCDC2 and its contribution to language development The 66th An-nual Meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics Vancouver Canada[Poster]

2015 Kevin Tang Ye Tian E-L Schwabe Jyrki Tuomainen amp Judit Druks Jan-uary 2015 Chinese abstract verbs and nouns electrified behavioural andelectrophysiological evidence for grammatical class difference at single wordprocessing level Thirty-Third European Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsy-chology Bressanone Italy [Poster]

2014 Kevin Tang amp Brent de Chene July 2014 A new corpus of colloquialKorean and its applications The 14th Conference on Laboratory PhonologyTachikawa Tokyo Japan [Poster]

2013 Kevin Tang Andrew Nevins amp Michael Becker January 2013(b) Prosodydrives alternations evidence from a 61 million word corpus of Brazilian Por-tuguese The 87th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of AmericaBoston Massachussetts USA [Poster]

Invited talks

2021 Kevin Tang February 2021 To be determined Seminar series ldquoTypical andatypical language acquisitionrdquo at the Department of Linguistics University ofPotsdam Germany

2020 Kevin Tang Raffaele Vacca Till Krenz amp Thomas Smith October 2020College of Liberal Arts and Sciences AI Workshop Natural Language Pro-cessing University of Florida FL USA [Further info]

2020 Kevin Tang October 2020 Revealing mental representation with smalland big data ndash a corpus-phonetic approach Seminar at the SFI Centre forResearch Training in Digitally-Enhanced Reality (D-REAL) Trinity CollegeDublin Ireland

2019 Kevin Tang Feburary 2019(a) Predictability and mental representationevidence from Mayan and Chinese Shortlisted Job Talk University of FloridaFL USA

2019 Kevin Tang Feburary 2019(b) Predictability and mental representationevidence from Mayan and Chinese Shortlisted Job Talk Wayne State Univer-sity MI USA

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2019 Kevin Tang Feburary 2019(c) Predictability and mental representationevidence from Mayan and Chinese NOSH New Observations in Speech andHearing Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Germany

2018 Kevin Tang July 2018(a) Expectation shapes speech production and per-ception psycholinguistics with lsquosmall datarsquo CRC 1102 University of Saar-land Germany

2018 Kevin Tang July 2018(b) Revealing the representation of phonemesthrough the lens of the probablistic reduction effect psycholinguistics withldquosmall datardquo SFB Colloquium University of Duumlsseldorf Germany

2017 Kevin Tang June 2017 Experience and expectation predict fine details ofperception and production Shortlisted Job Talk Zhejiang University China

2017 Kevin Tang April 2017 Experience and expectation predict fine details ofperception and production Shortlisted Job Talk National Research UniversityHigher School of Economics Russia

2017 Kevin Tang amp Ryan Bennett March 2017 Expectation shapes speechperception in Kaqchikel Mayan Psycholinguistics with ldquoSmall Datardquo StaffTalk Haskins Laboratories USA

2017 Kevin Tang March 2017(a) Experience and expectation predict fine de-tails of perception and production Linguistics and Modern Language (LML)Seminar Series The Education University of Hong Kong China

2017 Kevin Tang March 2017(b) Experience and expectation predict fine detailsof perception and production Linguistics Seminar Series The Hong KongPolytechnic University China

2017 Kevin Tang March 2017(c) Experience and expectation predict fine detailsof perception and production Linguistics Seminar Series University of HongKong China

2017 Kevin Tang March 2017(d) Experience and expectation predict fine detailsof perception and production The Ling-Lang Lunch series Brown UniversityUSA

2017 Kevin Tang March 2017(e) Pushing the lexicon to its limits ShortlistedJob Talk University of Essex UK

2016 Kevin Tang December 2016 What is your vision for research-led teachingin corpus linguistics at the undergraduate level Shortlisted Job Talk Univer-sity College Dublin Ireland

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2016 John Harris Nicholas Neasom amp Kevin Tang May 2016(b) Phonotacticswith [awt] rules the learnability of a simple unnatural pattern in EnglishCambridge Linguistics Society University of Cambridge UK

2016 Lawrence Solan Silvia Dahmen amp Kevin Tang March 2016 Legal inde-terminacy in the spoken word Linguistics Friday Lunch Time Talk YaleUniversity USA

2015 Andrew Nevins amp Kevin Tang September 2015 A graceful degradationaccount of lexical retrieval ndash evidence from naturalistic misperception Lin-guistics Monday Colloquia Yale University USA

2014 Kevin Tang Sam Green amp Stefanie Anyadi November 2014 The impor-tance of peer-learning a case study on PeerWise Learning Technology ampInnovation Show amp Tell London School of Economics and Political ScienceLondon UK

2013 Sam Green amp Kevin Tang November 2013 The importance of peer-learning a case study on PeerWise The 1st Internet of Education conferenceKnowledge 4 All Foundation Ltd (K4A) and the Artificial Intelligence LabJožef Stefan Institute Ljubljana Slovenia [Video httpsgoogljHlPvK]

2013 Kevin Tang amp Sam Green May 2013 Implementing a peer learning toolat UCL ndash Peerwise UCL Summits and Horizons Using technology to givebetter and faster feedback University College London London UK

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2016 John Harris Nicholas Neasom amp Kevin Tang May 2016(b) Phonotacticswith [awt] rules the learnability of a simple unnatural pattern in EnglishCambridge Linguistics Society University of Cambridge UK

2016 Lawrence Solan Silvia Dahmen amp Kevin Tang March 2016 Legal inde-terminacy in the spoken word Linguistics Friday Lunch Time Talk YaleUniversity USA

2015 Andrew Nevins amp Kevin Tang September 2015 A graceful degradationaccount of lexical retrieval ndash evidence from naturalistic misperception Lin-guistics Monday Colloquia Yale University USA

2014 Kevin Tang Sam Green amp Stefanie Anyadi November 2014 The impor-tance of peer-learning a case study on PeerWise Learning Technology ampInnovation Show amp Tell London School of Economics and Political ScienceLondon UK

2013 Sam Green amp Kevin Tang November 2013 The importance of peer-learning a case study on PeerWise The 1st Internet of Education conferenceKnowledge 4 All Foundation Ltd (K4A) and the Artificial Intelligence LabJožef Stefan Institute Ljubljana Slovenia [Video httpsgoogljHlPvK]

2013 Kevin Tang amp Sam Green May 2013 Implementing a peer learning toolat UCL ndash Peerwise UCL Summits and Horizons Using technology to givebetter and faster feedback University College London London UK

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TeachingUniversity of Florida

Spring 2021 Sounds of Human Language (Undergraduate)

Spring 2021 Introduction to Computational Linguistics (Undergraduate and Graduate)Spring 2020 Spring 2020rsquos symposium

Fall 2020 Introduction to Graduate Research (Graduate)

Fall 2020 Introduction to Phonology (Undergraduate)Fall 2019

Fall 2019 LIN6323 Phonology 1 (Graduate)

Zhejiang University

2019 Introduction to Laboratory Phonology (Graduate)2018 Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology (Graduate)

2018 2019 Introduction to Linguistics (Undergraduate)

Yale University

2017 Quantitative Linguistics using Corpora (Undergraduate and graduate)Primary Instructor

2016 Topics in Phonology The Phonetics-Phonology Interface (Undergraduate andgraduate)Primary Instructor (with Prof Ryan Bennett)

University College London

2014 Introduction to Statistics for Linguists using R (Graduate)Primary Instructor

2012 2013 Introduction to Statistics for Linguists using R (Graduate)Primary Instructor (with Dr Ye Tian)

2011 2012 Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology B (Undergraduate and graduate)Teaching Assistant (Instructor Prof Andrew Nevins)

2011 2012 Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology A (Undergraduate and graduate)Teaching Assistant (Instructor Prof Andrew Nevins)

Invited guest lectures

2017 Slips of the Ear as a Window into GrammarBrown University USACourse CLPS 0050M (Undergraduate) Host Prof Scott AnderBois DateMarch 8th 2017

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2017 Sufficient Data Not lsquoBigrsquo Data ndash A case of using lsquoSmallrsquo Data to Model theProduction and Perception of Kaqchikel MayanAristotle University of Thessaloniki GreeceCourse Computational Linguistics (Graduate) Host Prof Alexandros Tan-tos Date June 2nd 2016

Educational training2013 Certified Member of Association for Learning Technology (CMALT)

CMALT is a portfolio-based professional accreditation scheme developed byAssociation For Learning Technology to enable people whose work involveslearning technology to have their professional experience and capabilities as-sessed by peers httpwwwaltacukcmalt

AdvisingUniversity of Florida Graduate PhD committees

Fall 2020-Present

Aditya Dutt (Computer Science)

Spring 2020-Present

Tristan Czarnecki-Verner

Fall 2019-Present

Joshua Martin

University of Florida Undergraduate research projects

Fall 2020-Present

Alex Diep and Harrison Santiago

Spring 2020-Present

Robin Fintz (Emerging Scholar) Michelle Moyeacute and Andrew Penton

Fall 2019-Present

Universty Research Scholars Ryan Aponte Nathan Furlow Nancy ChenRayyan Merchant and Calvin YangMason Collins and Halee Corbin

Fall 2019-Spring2020

Universty Research Scholars Grace Tovkach

Fall 2019 Alexandra Kcomt Robin Fintz

Zhejiang University Graduate MA Dissertations

2017ndash2019 Qi Xin Modelling the nativeness and intelligibility of Mandarin-accented En-glish pronunciationSubmitted on time

Zhejiang University Undergraduate research projects

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2018ndash2020 Gong Kaixuan Yang Jingyi and Du Sixian Behavioural databases for phono-logical research

Yale University Graduate Students Qualifying Papers

2015ndash2017 Luke Lindemann Phonological Variation Throughout Texas German sS al-ternationSubmitted on time

Martin Fuchs Syllable weight and antepenultimate stress in Spanish experi-mental evidence and phonotactic learning modelsSubmitted on time

University College London Masters Students MA dissertations

2013 Carly Morris The Effect of Alcohol on Consonant Cluster ReductionDistinction and submitted on time (Co-advising with Prof John Harris)

2013 Mike Hindley A Study into the Effect of Alcohol on L2 Germans SpeakingEnglishDistinction and submitted on time (Co-advising with Prof Andrew Nevins)

2013 Ji Hye Kwon The Effect of Alcohol on the L2 Vowels of Korean L1 SpeakersDistinction and submitted on time (Co-advising with Prof Andrew Nevins)

2013 Yan Lou Mandarin Chinese Speech Perception in NoiseDistinction and submitted on time (Co-advising with Prof Andrew Nevins)

2013 Yuen Lam Slips of the Ear in Mandarin ChinesePass and submitted on time (Co-advising with Prof Andrew Nevins)

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Service to the fieldArticle reviewing ndash See my peer reviewerrsquos profile at publons publonscoma1495542

Ad hoc Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence (2) ndash httpswwwfrontiersinorgjournalsartificial-intelligence

(9 journals) Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (1) ndash httpsasascitationorgjournaljasPLOS One (3) ndash httpsjournalsplosorgplosoneLinguistics Vanguard (2) ndash httpswwwdegruytercomviewjournalslingvanlingvan-overviewxmlJournal of Fluency Disorders (4)ndash httpswwwjournalselseviercomjournal-of-fluency-disordersLingua ndash httpswwwjournalselseviercomlingua (1 pre-Glossa)Language and Speech (1) ndash httpsjournalssagepubcomloilasMuitas Vozes (1) ndash httpswwwrevistas2uepgbrindexphpmuitasvozesGenes (1) ndash httpswwwmdpicomjournalgenes

Abstractpaper reviewing for conferences

2020 Annual Meeting on Phonology 2020 University of California Santa CruzUSA September 2020

2020 Interspeech 2020 Shanghai China October 20202019 Interspeech 2019 Graz Austra September 20192018 Interspeech 2018 Hyderabad India September 20182017 92nd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America Salt Lake City

USA January 20182017 Interspeech 2017 Stockholm Sweden August 20172017 ICASSP The 42nd IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and

Signal Processing New Orleans USA March 20172016 Interspeech San Francisco USA September 20162016 2018 Conference of the Student Organisation of Linguistics in Europe (ConSOLE)

York UK2013 2015 University College London Graduate Conference in Linguistics London UK

Conference Organiser

2020 Florida Linguistics Yearly Meeting 2020 Co-organiser with Ratree Wayland

Editorial BoardCommittee member

2020ndashpresent International Editorial Board for Revista Uniletras (httpswwwrevistas2uepgbrindexphpuniletrasabouteditorialTeam)

2019ndashpresent International Conference on Humanities and Social Science Research (httpwwwichssrnetcommittee)

Article editing

2013 University College London Working Papers in Linguistics Volume 25

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Service to the fieldArticle reviewing ndash See my peer reviewerrsquos profile at publons publonscoma1495542

Ad hoc Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence (2) ndash httpswwwfrontiersinorgjournalsartificial-intelligence

(9 journals) Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (1) ndash httpsasascitationorgjournaljasPLOS One (3) ndash httpsjournalsplosorgplosoneLinguistics Vanguard (2) ndash httpswwwdegruytercomviewjournalslingvanlingvan-overviewxmlJournal of Fluency Disorders (4)ndash httpswwwjournalselseviercomjournal-of-fluency-disordersLingua ndash httpswwwjournalselseviercomlingua (1 pre-Glossa)Language and Speech (1) ndash httpsjournalssagepubcomloilasMuitas Vozes (1) ndash httpswwwrevistas2uepgbrindexphpmuitasvozesGenes (1) ndash httpswwwmdpicomjournalgenes

Abstractpaper reviewing for conferences

2020 Annual Meeting on Phonology 2020 University of California Santa CruzUSA September 2020

2020 Interspeech 2020 Shanghai China October 20202019 Interspeech 2019 Graz Austra September 20192018 Interspeech 2018 Hyderabad India September 20182017 92nd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America Salt Lake City

USA January 20182017 Interspeech 2017 Stockholm Sweden August 20172017 ICASSP The 42nd IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and

Signal Processing New Orleans USA March 20172016 Interspeech San Francisco USA September 20162016 2018 Conference of the Student Organisation of Linguistics in Europe (ConSOLE)

York UK2013 2015 University College London Graduate Conference in Linguistics London UK

Conference Organiser

2020 Florida Linguistics Yearly Meeting 2020 Co-organiser with Ratree Wayland

Editorial BoardCommittee member

2020ndashpresent International Editorial Board for Revista Uniletras (httpswwwrevistas2uepgbrindexphpuniletrasabouteditorialTeam)

2019ndashpresent International Conference on Humanities and Social Science Research (httpwwwichssrnetcommittee)

Article editing

2013 University College London Working Papers in Linguistics Volume 25

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Departmental serviceFall 2020 Reviewer for 2021 Research Opportunity Seed Fund for the College of Liberal

Arts and Sciences University of Florida

2019ndashPresent Director (with Caroline Wilshire and Ratree Wayland) of the Speech Lexiconand Modelling (SLaM) laboratory (slamlinufledu) University of Florida

2019ndashPresent Chair of Visiting Scholars Committee University of Floridahttpslinufledupeoplevisiting-scholars

2019 Organiser (with Ratree Wayland) Florida Linguistics Yearly Meeting (FLYM2019) ndashhttpslinufledueventsflym2020

2018ndash2019 Director Phon-Circle Zhejiang University

2018ndash2019 Co-director (with Matthew Reeve) Ling-Lunch Zhejiang University ndashhttpsgooglWPwQ6f

2011ndash2015 Organiser Laboratory for Language and Speech Diversions Director ProfAndrew Nevins University College London ndash httpswwwuclacukllsd

2013ndash2014 Organiser (with Nicholas Neasom) Phonology Reading Group UniversityCollege London ndash httpswwwuclacukpalsresearchlinguisticslinguistics-eventsphonology-reading-group

2011-2012 Student academic representative MPhilPhD in Linguistics University Col-lege London

Professional affiliations2014ndashPresent Member Association for Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon)

2013ndashPresent Member Linguistic Society of America (LSA)

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ExperimentalndashComputational skillsProgramming Python amp Matlab

Datacollection

Lab-experiment PsychoPy Web-experiment jspsych Experigen (httpsgithubcomtlozootexperigen) amp Amazon Mechanical Turk

Data analysis R Statistical Software Praat Forced-Alignment EEGLAB amp ERPLAB

Document LaTeX Markdown amp Microsoft Open Office

OS UnixLinux(Terminal) amp Windows

Languages

English Fluent

Cantonese Advanced Heritage

MandarinChinese

Advanced Courses at Cambridge University Engineering Language Depart-ment 2006ndash2008

ModernGreek

Intermediate Level 25 course at University of Cyprus JulyndashAug 2009

Spanish Beginner A1 course at El Instituto Salmantino de Lenguas AplicadasSpain AugndashSep 2007

Industry employmentSepndashDec 2013 Altitude Education Ltd London UK ndash E-Learning

Position Linguistic consultant (Part-time)Description Examined and restructured the English phonics encoding forthe Pippop phonics course app (wwwpippoplearningcom)Manager Alexander Thompson

JulyndashAug 2008 Hyder Consulting Hong Kong ndash Engineering consultancy

Position Summer Trainee (Part-time)Description Site investigation report writing administrative work

2005ndash2006 Oxford Danfysik (now FMB Oxford) Oxford UK ndash Specialist in synchrotroncomponents

Position Year In Industry Student (Full-time)Description Co-founded a project for automatic testing of novel high res-olution X-ray optics using Matlab which subsequently reached finals of theIET Innovation Awards 2009 This software enables unattended motion test-ing of synchrotron components which allows 70 of the companyrsquos testing tobe automated and gives an approximate annual saving of pound20000Mentor Dr Alexander Babkevich

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ReferencesName Prof Ryan BennettTitle Associate Professor of LinguisticsRelationship Post-Doc supervisor and CollaboratorAffiliation UC Santa CruzAddress Stevenson Academic Services UC Santa Cruz 1156 High Street Santa Cruz

CA 95064-1077Tel +18314592045Email rbennettucscedu

Name Prof Jason ShawTitle Associate Professor of LinguisticsRelationship CollaboratorAffiliation Yale UniversityAddress Dow Hall (370 Temple St) Room 204 PO Box 208366Tel +1203-432-8289Email jasonshawyaleedu

Name Prof Andrew NevinsTitle Professor of LinguisticsRelationship PhD supervisor and CollaboratorAffiliation University College LondonAddress Room 114 Chandler House 2 Wakefield Street London WC1N 1PFTel +442076794278Email anevinsuclacuk

Name Prof John HarrisTitle Professor of LinguisticsRelationship Viva Committee and CollaboratorAffiliation University College LondonAddress Room 109 Chandler House 2 Wakefield Street London WC1N 1PFTel +442076794042Email johnharrisuclacuk

Name Prof Peter HowellTitle Professor of Experimental PsychologyRelationship CollaboratorAffiliation University College LondonAddress Department of Psychology University College London London WC1E 6BTTel +442076797566Email phowelluclacuk

Name Prof Lawrence SolanTitle Don Forchelli Professor of LawRelationship CollaboratorAffiliation Brooklyn Law SchoolAddress 250 Joralemon Street Brooklyn NY 11201Tel +17187800357Email larrysolanbrooklawedu

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