Xiaoluan Liu

	PhD in Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences, University College London, UK MPhil in Linguistics,  University of Cambridge, UK MSt in Linguistics,  University of Oxford, UK BA in English, Shanghai International Studies University, China

East China Normal University, Department of English, Associate Professor

New York University Shanghai, Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Postdoctoral Fellow

Phonetics, Psycholinguistics

Speech prodution, perception, second language acquisition The relations between speech and music

Selected research papers: 

Liu, X. L., & Nie, J. X. (2024). The influence of bilingualism and bidialectalism on executive control: evidence from a short-term language switching training paradigm. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/13670050.2024.2344098.

Liu, X. L., & Liu, Y. Y. (2024). Musical rhythmic cueing for the production of non-native speech rhythm: Evidence from Chinese learners of French. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research,53 (10), 1-23. 

Liu, X. L., & Escudero, P. (2023). How bidialectalism affects non-native speech acquisition: Evidence from Shanghai and Mandarin Chinese. Applied Psycholinguistics, 44(6), 969-990.

Liu, X. L. (2022). Individual differences in processing non-speech acoustic signals influence cue weighting strategies for L2 speech contrasts. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 51, 903–916.

 

Liu, X. L., Xu, Y., Zhang, W. J., & Tian, X. (2021). Multiple prosodic meanings are conveyed through separate pitch ranges: Evidence from perception of focus and surprise in Mandarin Chinese. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioural Neuroscience, 21 (6), 1164-1175.

 

Liu, X. L. (2021).Prominence and expectation in speech and music through the lens of pitch processing. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 620640.

 

Liu, X. L., & Tian, X. (2018). The functional relations among motor-based prediction, sensory goals and feedback in learning non-native speech sounds: Evidence from adult Mandarin Chinese speakers with an auditory feedback masking paradigm. Scientific Reports, 8, 11910.

 

Liu, X. L., Xu, Y., Alter, K., & Tuomainen, J. (2018). Emotional connotations of musical instrument timbre in comparison with emotional speech prosody: Evidence from acoustics and event-related potentials. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 737.

 

Liu, X. L., & Xu, Y. (2016). Pitch perception of focus and surprise in Mandarin Chinese: Evidence for parallel encoding via additive division of pitch range. In Proceedings of the 5th International symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (pp.129-132), Buffalo, New York, USA.

 

Liu, X. L., & Xu, Y. (2015). Relations between affective music and speech: evidence from dynamics of affective piano performance and speech production. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 866.

 

Liu, X. L., & Xu, Y. (2014). Body size projection by voice quality in emotional speech: Evidence from Mandarin Chinese. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Speech Prosody (pp. 974-977), Dublin, Ireland.