Phonetics 2025 Hong Kong – Day 1 (Onsite Sessions)

Day one of Phonetics 2025 Hong Kong opened with a welcome address from Professor Peter Yuen and a keynote lecture by Professor Niels Schiller, followed by a diverse set of oral presentations. Speakers explored topics including voice mirroring, tonal preservation, accentual awareness, Cantonese prosody, tone sandhi, Malay nasal harmony, and more.

Use the chapters below to jump directly to each presentation.
0:00 Welcome address – Prof. Peter Yuen, Dean of College of Professional and Continuing Education, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

4:32 Keynote lecture 1 – From thought to sound in speech production | Niels Schiller

35:29 Oral presentation 1 – Enhancing Learner Engagement and Implicit Acquisition through Voice Mirroring | N, Wang

46:20 Oral presentation 2 – Tonal Preservation vs Prosodic Transfer (Mandarin Intonation) | X. Shujing, C.Ge, G. W. Cao, P. Mok

57:16 Oral presentation 3 – Enhancing Accentual Awareness through Video Analysis | W, Lai

1:12:52 Oral presentation 4 – Acoustic Features of Cantonese Speech Acts | M. Li, B. Liu, S. Chen

1:23:22 Oral presentation 5 – A Three-Dimension Quantitative Model about Tone Sandhi | W. Chun, L. Huijing, H. Maoxin

1:35:04 Oral presentation 6 – The realization of tones in spontaneous spoken Taiwan Mandarin | Y. Lu, Y. Chuang, R. Baayen

1:48:04 Oral presentation 7 – Generative Phonetic Modeling of Malay Nasal Harmony | J, Siah

1:59:20 Oral presentation 8 – Vowel Restructuring in JingMen Mandarin | Y. Xie, R. Hassan, P. Chiew

2:09:45 Oral presentation 9 – Temporal Dynamics of Acoustic Emotion Encoding | Y. Fan, Y. Wu

2:24:01 Oral presentation 10 – Tense-Lax Vowels in Tibeto-Burman Languages (Lahu) | H. Ying