Fang Liu

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(0)118 378 8122
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Associate Professor
- Associate Professor
- Outreach and Widening Participation Lead
Areas of interest
Speech prosody in tone versus non-tonal languages, pitch processing in typical and atypical populations (amusia, autism), speech/music production and perception, and cognitive and neural bases of pitch processing.
Teaching
PY3MLB: Music, Language and the Brain
Research centres and groups
- Centre for Autism
- Language, Development and Ageing.
Academic qualifications
- BA MA Linguistics, Peking University
- MSc Statistics, PhD Linguistics, University of Chicago
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).
Websites/blogs
Publications
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Loutrari, A.
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Alqadi, A.
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Jiang, C.
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Liu, F.
ORCID: 0000-0002-7776-0222 (2023) Exploring the role of singing, semantics, and amusia screening in speech-in-noise perception in musicians and non-musicians. Cognitive Processing ISSN: 1612-4782 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10339-023-01165-x
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Ong, J.
ORCID: 0000-0003-1503-8311 , Leung, F. , Liu, F.
ORCID: 0000-0002-7776-0222 (2023) The Reading Everyday Emotion Database (REED): a set of audio-visual recordings of emotions in music and language. Language Resources and Evaluation ISSN: 1574-0218
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Ge, H.
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Lee, A.
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Yuen, H.
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Liu, F.
ORCID: 0000-0002-7776-0222 , Yip, V. (2023) Bilingual exposure might enhance L1 development in Cantonese-English bilingual autistic children: evidence from the production of focus. Autism ISSN: 1362-3613 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/13623613231207449
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Tichborne, B.
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Liu, F.
ORCID: 0000-0002-7776-0222 , Bose, A. (2023) Subjective experience of word production difficulties in aphasia: a metaphor analysis of autobiographical accounts. Aphasiology ISSN: 1464-5041 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02687038.2023.2243672
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Ong, J.
ORCID: 0000-0003-1503-8311 , Zhao, C. , Bacon, A. , Leung, F. , Veic, A. , Wang, L. , Jiang, C. , Liu, F.
ORCID: 0000-0002-7776-0222 (2023) The relationship between autism and pitch perception is modulated by cognitive abilities. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders ISSN: 0162-3257 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-023-06075-7
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Wang, L.
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Xiao, S.
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Jiang, C.
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Hou, Q.
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Chan, A.
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Wong, P.
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Liu, F.
ORCID: 0000-0002-7776-0222 (2023) The form and function processing of lexical tone and intonation in tone-language-speaking children with autism spectrum disorder. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America , 154 pp. 467-481. ISSN: 0001-4966 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1121/10.0020271
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Honda, C.
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Pruitt, T.
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Greenspon, E.
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Liu, F.
ORCID: 0000-0002-7776-0222 , Pfordresher, P. (2023) The effect of musical training and language background on vocal imitation of pitch in speech and song. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance ISSN: 1939-1277 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001146
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Jiang, J.
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Liu, F.
ORCID: 0000-0002-7776-0222 , Zhou, L. , Chen, L. , Jiang, C. (2023) Explicit processing of melodic structure in congenital amusia can be improved by redescription-associate learning. Neuropsychologia , 182 ISSN: 1873-3514 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2023.108521
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Leung, F.
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Stojanovik, V.
ORCID: 0000-0001-6791-9968 , Micai, M. , Jiang, C. , Liu, F.
ORCID: 0000-0002-7776-0222 (2023) Emotion recognition in autism spectrum disorder across age groups: a cross-sectional investigation of various visual and auditory communicative domains. Autism Research , 16 (4). pp. 783-801. ISSN: 1939-3806 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/aur.2896
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Ge, H.
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Liu, F.
ORCID: 0000-0002-7776-0222 , Yuen, H. , Chen, A. , Yip, V. (2023) Comprehension of prosodically and syntactically marked focus in Cantonese-speaking children with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders , 53 (3). pp. 1255-1268. ISSN: 0162-3257 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-022-05770-1
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Ong, J.
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Liu, F.
ORCID: 0000-0002-7776-0222 (2023) Frequent experience with face coverings for 10 months improves emotion perception among individuals with high autistic traits: a repeated cross-sectional study. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology , 76 (7). pp. 1599-1608. ISSN: 1747-0218 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/17470218221135585
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Loutrari, A.
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Ansell, K.
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Beaman, P.
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Jiang, C.
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Liu, F.
ORCID: 0000-0002-7776-0222 (2022) Auditory imagery in congenital amusia. Musicae Scientiae ISSN: 2045-4147 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/10298649221122870
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Xiao, J.
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Zhao, J.
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Luo, Z.
ORCID: 0000-0002-2082-3958 , Liu, F.
ORCID: 0000-0002-7776-0222 , Greenwood, D. (2022) The impact of built environment on mental health: a COVID-19 lockdown perspective. Health & Place , 77 ISSN: 1353-8292 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2022.102889
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Ong, J.
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Liu, F.
ORCID: 0000-0002-7776-0222 (2022) Probabilistic learning of cue-outcome associations is not influenced by autistic traits. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders ISSN: 0162-3257 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-022-05690-0
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Li, W.
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Ong, J.
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Ponsot, E.
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Hou, Q.
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Jiang, C.
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Liu, F.
ORCID: 0000-0002-7776-0222 (2022) Mental representations of speech and musical pitch contours reveal a diversity of profiles in autism spectrum disorder. Autism ISSN: 1362-3613 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/13623613221111207
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Loutrari, A.
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Jiang, C.
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Liu, F.
ORCID: 0000-0002-7776-0222 (2022) Song imitation in congenital amusia: performance partially facilitated by melody familiarity but not by lyrics. Music Perception , 39 (4). pp. 341-360. ISSN: 0730-7829 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1525/mp.2022.39.4.341
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Xu, J.
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Zhou, L.
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Liu, F.
ORCID: 0000-0002-7776-0222 , Xue, C. , Jiang, J. , Jiang, C. (2022) The autistic brain can process local but not global emotion regularities in facial and musical sequences. Autism Research , 15 (2). pp. 222-240. ISSN: 1939-3806 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/aur.2635
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Yik Nam Leung, F.
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Sin, J.
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Dawson, C.
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Ong, J.
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Zhao, C.
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Veić, A.
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Liu, F.
ORCID: 0000-0002-7776-0222 (2022) Emotion recognition across visual and auditory modalities in autism spectrum disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Developmental Review , 63 ISSN: 0273-2297 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dr.2021.101000
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Wang, L.
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Beaman, C.
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Jiang, C.
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Liu, F.
ORCID: 0000-0002-7776-0222 (2022) Perception and production of statement-question intonation in autism spectrum disorder: a developmental investigation. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders , 52 pp. 3456-3472. ISSN: 0162-3257 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-021-05220-4
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Williams, T.
ORCID: 0000-0003-0072-3316 , Loucas, T. , Sin, J. , Jeremic, M. , Aslett, G. , Knight, M. , Fincham Majumdar, S. , Liu, F.
ORCID: 0000-0002-7776-0222 (2021) A randomised controlled feasibility trial of music-assisted language telehealth intervention for minimally verbal autistic children - the MAP study protocoL. Pilot and feasibility studies , 7 ISSN: 2055-5784 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40814-021-00918-9
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Wang, L.
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Pfordresher, P.
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Jiang, C.
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Liu, F.
ORCID: 0000-0002-7776-0222 (2021) Individuals with autism spectrum disorder are impaired in absolute but not relative pitch and duration matching in speech and song imitation. Autism Research , 14 (11). pp. 2355-2372. ISSN: 1939-3806 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/aur.2569
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Liu, F.
ORCID: 0000-0002-7776-0222 , Yin, Y. , Chan, A. , Yip, V. , Wong, P. (2021) Individuals with congenital amusia do not show context-dependent perception of tonal categories. Brain and Language , 215 ISSN: 0093-934x | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2021.104908
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Ong, J.
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Wong, P.
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Liu, F.
ORCID: 0000-0002-7776-0222 (2020) Musicians show enhanced perception, but not production, of native lexical tones. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America , 148 (3443). ISSN: 0001-4966 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1121/10.0002776
- Sun, L. , Thompson, W. , Liu, F. , Zhou, L. , Jiang, C. (2020) The human brain processes hierarchical structures of meter and harmony differently: evidence from musicians and nonmusicians. Psychophysiology , 57 (9). ISSN: 0048-5772 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/psyp.13598
- Bacon, A. , Beaman, C. , Liu, F. (2020) An exploratory study of imagining sounds and “hearing” music in autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders , 50 pp. 1123-1132. ISSN: 0162-3257 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-019-04346-w
- Zhang, W. , Liu, F. , Zhou, L. , Wang, W. , Jiang, H. , Jiang, C. (2019) The effects of timbre on neural responses to musical emotion. Music Perception , 37 (2). pp. 134-146. ISSN: 0730-7829 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1525/mp.2019.37.2.134
- Zhou, L. , Liu, F. , Jiang, J. , Jiang, C. (2019) Impaired emotional processing of chords in congenital amusia: electrophysiological and behavioral evidence. Brain and Cognition , 135 ISSN: 0278-2626 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2019.06.001
- Zhou, L. , Liu, F. , Jiang, J. , Jiang, H. , Jiang, C. (2019) Abnormal neural responses to harmonic syntactic structures in congenital amusia. Psychophysiology , 56 (9). ISSN: 1469-8986 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/psyp.13394
- Jiang, J. , Liu, F. , Zhou, L. , Jiang, C. (2019) The neural basis for understanding imitation-induced musical meaning: the role of the human mirror system. Behavioural Brain Research , 359 pp. 362-369. ISSN: 0166-4328 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2018.11.020
- Sun, L. , Liu, F. , Zhou, L. , Jiang, C. (2018) Musical training modulates the early but not the late stage of rhythmic syntactic processing. Psychophysiology , 55 (2). ISSN: 0048-5772 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/psyp.12983
- Jiang, C. , Liu, F. , Wong, P. (2017) Sensitivity to musical emotion is influenced by tonal structure in congenital amusia. Scientific Reports , 7 ISSN: 2045-2322 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-08005-x
- Zhou, L. , Liu, F. , Jing, X. , Jiang, C. (2017) Neural differences between the processing of musical meaning conveyed by direction of pitch change and natural music in congenital amusia. Neuropsychologia , 96 pp. 29-38. ISSN: 0028-3932 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2016.12.024
- Liu, F. , Jiang, C. , Francart, T. , Chan, A. , Wong, P. (2017) Perceptual learning of pitch direction in congenital amusia: evidence from Chinese speakers. Music Perception , 34 (3). pp. 335-351. ISSN: 0730-7829 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1525/mp.2017.34.3.335
- Maggu, A. , Liu, F. , Antoniou, M. , Wong, P. (2016) Neural correlates of indicators of sound change in Cantonese: evidence from cortical and subcortical processes. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience , 10 ISSN: 1662-5161 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2016.00652
- Jiang, C. , Liu, F. , Thompson, W. (2016) Impaired explicit processing of musical syntax and tonality in a group of Mandarin-speaking congenital amusics. Music Perception , 33 (4). pp. 401-413. ISSN: 0730-7829 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1525/MP.2016.33.4.401
- Liu, F. , Chan, A. , Ciocca, V. , Roquet, C. , Peretz, I. , Wong, P. (2016) Pitch perception and production in congenital amusia: evidence from Cantonese speakers. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America , 140 (1). pp. 563-575. ISSN: 0001-4966 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4955182
- Liu, F. , Jiang, C. , Wang, B. , Xu, Y. , Patel, A. (2015) A music perception disorder (congenital amusia) influences speech comprehension. Neuropsychologia , 66 pp. 111-118. ISSN: 0028-3932 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.11.001
- Liu, F. , Maggu, A. , Lau, J. , Wong, P. (2015) Brainstem encoding of speech and musical stimuli in congenital amusia: evidence from Cantonese speakers. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience , 8 ISSN: 1662-5161 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2014.01029
- Lu, X. , Ho, H. , Liu, F. , Wu, D. , Thompson, W. (2015) Intonation processing deficits of emotional words among Mandarin Chinese speakers with congenital amusia: an ERP study. Frontiers in Psychology , 6 ISSN: 1664-1078 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00385
- Jiang, J. , Liu, F. , Wan, X. , Jiang, C. (2015) Perception of melodic contour and intonation in autism spectrum disorder: evidence from mandarin speakers. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders , 45 (7). pp. 2067-2075. ISSN: 0162-3257 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-015-2370-4
- Xu, Y. , Lee, A. , Prom-on, S. , Liu, F. (2015) Explaining the PENTA model: a reply to Arvaniti and Ladd. Phonology , 32 (3). pp. 505-535. ISSN: 0952-6757 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0952675715000299
- Liu, F. , Xu, Y. , Prom-on, S. , Yu, A. (2013) Morpheme-like prosodic functions: evidence from acoustic analysis and computational modeling. Journal of Speech Sciences , 3 (1). pp. 85-140. ISSN: 2236-9740
- Liu, F. , Jiang, C. , Pfordresher, P. , Mantell, J. , Xu, Y. , Yang, Y. , Stewart, L. (2013) Individuals with congenital amusia imitate pitches more accurately in singing than in speaking: implications for music and language processing. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics , 75 (8). pp. 1783-1798. ISSN: 1943-3921 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13414-013-0506-1
- Williamson, V. , Liu, F. , Peryer, G. , Grierson, M. , Stewart, L. (2012) Perception and action de-coupling in congenital amusia: Sensitivity to task demands. Neuropsychologia , 50 (1). pp. 172-180. ISSN: 0028-3932 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.11.015
- Liu, F. , Jiang, C. , Thompson, W. , Xu, Y. , Yang, Y. , Stewart, L. , eds. (2012) The mechanism of speech processing in congenital amusia: evidence from Mandarin speakers. In: Rodriguez-Fornells, A. , (eds.) PLoS ONE , 7 (2). ISSN: 1932-6203 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0030374
- Liu, F. , Xu, Y. , Patel, A. , Francart, T. , Jiang, C. (2012) Differential recognition of pitch patterns in discrete and gliding stimuli in congenital amusia: evidence from Mandarin speakers. Brain and Cognition , 79 (3). pp. 209-215. ISSN: 0278-2626 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2012.03.008
- Prom-on, S. , Liu, F. , Xu, Y. (2012) Post-low bouncing in Mandarin Chinese: acoustic analysis and computational modeling. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America , 132 (1). ISSN: 0001-4966 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4725762
- Liu, F. , Patel, A. , Fourcin, A. , Stewart, L. (2010) Intonation processing in congenital amusia: discrimination, identification and imitation. Brain , 133 (6). pp. 1682-1693. ISSN: 0006-8950 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/brain/awq089
- Xu, Y. and Liu, F. (2007) Determining the temporal interval of segments with the help of F0 contours. Journal of Phonetics , 35 (3). pp. 398-420. ISSN: 0095-4470 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2006.06.002
- Xu, Y. and Liu, F. (2006) Tonal alignment, syllable structure and coarticulation: toward an integrated model. Italian Journal of Linguistics , 18 pp. 125-159. ISSN: 1120-2726
- Fulop, S. , Ladefoged, P. , Liu, F. , Vossen, R. (2005) Yeyi clicks: acoustic description and analysis. Phonetica , 60 (4). pp. 231-260. ISSN: 0031-8388 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000076375
- Liu, F. and Xu, Y. (2005) Parallel encoding of focus and interrogative meaning in Mandarin intonation. Phonetica , 62 (2-4). pp. 70-87. ISSN: 0031-8388 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000090090