Chai-Shune Hsu
UCLA Linguistics Department
3125 Campbell Hall
Los Angeles, CA
90095-1543
email: cshsu@humnet.ucla.edu
Research Interests
- Phonetics and Phonology:
- the representation and realization of contrast
- articulation
- prosody
Education
Papers
- To appear. Voicing Underspecification in Taiwanese Word-final
Consonants. UCLA Working Papers in Phonology 2.
- Oct. 1995. A Phonetically-Based Optimality-Theoretic Account of Consonant
Reduction in Taiwanese. UCLA M.A. Thesis. (See also: UCLA Working
Papers in Phonetics 1992.)
Conference Presentations
- January 1997. (Sun-Ah Jun, co-author.) Prosodic Strengthening in
Taiwanese: Syntagmatic or Paradigmatic? Paper presented at the Annual Meeting
of the Linguistic Society of America, Chicago.
- December 1996. (Sun-Ah Jun, co-author.) Is Tone Sandhi Group Part of the
Prosodic Hierarchy in Taiwanese? Poster presented at the 3rd Joint Meeting of
the Acoustical Societies of America and Japan, Honolulu.
- January 1996. Voicing Underspecification in Taiwanese Word-final
Consonants. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of
America, San Diego.
- November 1995. Aerodynamic Evidence of Pre-consonantal Stop Lenition in
Taiwanese. Poster presented at the 130th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of
America, St. Louis.
- October 1995. A Phonetically-based Optimality Theoretic Account of Stop
Lenition in Taiwanese. Paper presented at the Workshop on Theoretical East
Asian Linguistics, UC Irvine.
Research Experience
- September 1997-present: Research Assistant on Professor Patricia Keating's
NSF Grant, working on prosody and articulation in American English.
- August 1997-present: Research Assistant on Professor Patricia Keating's
Academic Senate Grant, working on pronunciation variability in TIMIT and in the
Switchboard Corpus.
- Spring-Fall 1996: Research Assistant on Professor Patricia Keating's NSF
Grant, working on prosody and articulation in Taiwanese.
- February-March 1995: Research Assistant on Professor Bruce Hayes' Academic
Senate Grant, working on code-switching between English, Taiwanese, and Mandarin
Teaching Experience
- Fall 1995: UCLA teaching assistant for
Linguistics 20:
Introduction to Linguistics
- Winter 1997: UCLA teaching assistant for
Linguistics 120A:
Introduction to Phonology
Academic Achievements
- 1993: UCLA, graduated with summa cum laude and Departmental
Honors in Linguistics
- 1992: Phi Beta Kappa
- 1992: Golden Key National Honor Society
- 1989: Phi Eta Sigma (Freshman Honor Society)
- 1989: Alpha Lambda Delta (National Scholastic Honor Society for Freshman)
- 1989: Outstanding College Students of America
Services
- 1996: Editor, UCLA Working Papers in Phonology I.
- July 1994-June 1995: UCLA Linguistics Department Computer Room RA.
- July 1993-June 1995: UCLA Linguistics Department Reading Room RA.
- 1994-1995: UCLA Graduate Linguistics Circle President
- 1994: Co-organizer, 1994 Western Conference on Linguistics
- 1993-1994: UCLA Graduate Linguistics Circle Vice-President
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