International Conference on Speech Language Pathology
Las Vegas, USA
Li-Hsin Ning
National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan
Biography
Li-Hsin Ning has received her PhD in Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She formerly worked at Google as a Speech Data Evaluator and currently is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English (Linguistics Track) at National Taiwan Normal University. She has her expertise in phonetics and psycholinguistics. Her research primarily investigates the internal models for tone in native speakers of Mandarin and second language learners of Mandarin. She used the pitch-shift paradigm to examine the reflex-like responses represented by point estimation and F0 contours. She is additionally interested in speech technology (such as speech recognition) and sentence processing (both in the behavioral level and the neurophysiological level).