Optimally Phonological

Most of my/our papers, slides, posters, etc. are available from my academia.edu or researchgate websites.
Please also refer to my Google scholar profile.

Work-in-Progress

• Chang, Chiung-yu and Feng-fan Hsieh. In prep. Tone and consonant: A Mandarin mismatch with nonwords.
• Cheng, Chia-fang, Feng-fan Hsieh, Chia-Hsuan Liao. In prep. Not all tone sandhis are processed equally: Tone 3 and Yi sandhi in Taiwanese Mandarin.
• Hsieh, Feng-fan and Jing Huang. In prep. Articulating word-level prominence patterns in Southwestern Mandarin.
• Hsieh, Feng-fan, Song Jiang, Yueh-chin Chang, and Mark Tiede. In prep. Not quite two birds of a feather: A cross-dialectal study of the r-suffix (and the rhotic schwa) in Beijing and Northeastern Mandarin.
• Huang, Jing, Kye Shibata, Feng-fan Hsieh, Yueh-chin Chang, and Mark Tiede. In prep. Articulatory insights into the l ~ n merger in Southwestern Mandarin.
• Liu, Cheng-yen Roger and Feng-fan Hsieh. In prep. To spread or not to spread: A non-Mandarin perspective on neutral tone.
• Liu, Cheng-yen Roger and Feng-fan Hsieh. In prep. Not so rightly aligned right edges: The role of neutral tone in Southern Min tone sandhi domain and Beyond.
• Shibata, Kye, Feng-fan Hsieh, Yueh-chin Chang and Mark Tiede. In prep. A new angle on lateralization.

Publications

( # = Invited submission; * = Corresponding author)

• 73 Chen, Po-rong, Feng-fan Hsieh, and Yueh-chin Chang. 2024. C-G vs. C-V Timing Differences in Hong Kong Cantonese. To appear in the Proceedings of the 13th International Speech Production Seminar (ISSP 2024).
• 72 McGuire, Paul, Feng-fan Hsieh, and Yueh-chin Chang. 2024. Articulatory Dynamics of Lexical Stress in L2 English: A Case Study of Taiwanese Mandarin Speakers. To appear in the Proceedings of the 13th International Speech Production Seminar (ISSP 2024).
• 71 Shibata, Kye, Feng-fan Hsieh, and Yueh-chin Chang. 2024. Allophones of Korean /l/: a classification using EMA. To appear in the Proceedings of the 13th International Speech Production Seminar (ISSP 2024).
• 70 Hsieh, Feng-fan. Forthcoming. Lenition in Taiwanese Southern Min at the Syntax-Phonology Interface. To appear in Journal of Chinese Linguistics.
• 69 Sirintranon, Noppakao and Feng-fan Hsieh*. 2024. How word stress is realized in Thai: Evidence from the ordering of coordinate compounds. To appear in The Linguistic Review 41.2. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/tlr-2024-2008
• 68 Huang, Jing, Feng-fan Hsieh*, Yueh-chin Chang, and Mark Tiede. 2024. On the two rhotic schwas in Southwestern Mandarin: When homophony meets morphology in articulation. Phonetica 81.1: 43-80. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/phon-2022-0036
• 67 Huang, Jing, Kye Shibata, Feng-fan Hsieh, Yueh-chin Chang, and Mark Tiede. 2023. The l ~ n merger in Southwestern Mandarin: An articulatory study. In Proceedings of International Congress of Phonetic Sciences 2023, pp. 1092-1096.
• 66 Hallé, Pierre, Philipp Buech, Jiayin Gao, Yueh-chin Chang, Feng-fan Hsieh and Rachid Ridouane. 2023. Perception of Tashlhiyt consonant quantity contrasts by native vs. nonnative listeners from three Languages. In Proceedings of International Congress of Phonetic Sciences 2023, pp. 2130-2134.
• 65 Liu, Cheng-yen Roger, Feng-fan Hsieh, and Yueh-chin Chang. 2023. On the distribution of neutral tones in Southern Min: LCC and beyond. Noah Elkins, Bruce Hayes, Jinyoung Jo, and Jian-Leat Siah (eds.), Proceedings of the 2022 Annual Meeting on Phonology. Washington, DC: Linguistic Society of America. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3765/amp.v10i0.5418
• 64 Chang, Chiung-yu* and Feng-fan Hsieh. 2022. Do subsyllabic units play a role in Mandarin spoken word recognition? Evidence from phonotactic processing. Journal of Neurolinguistics 64 : 101089. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneuroling.2022.101089
• 63 Liu, Zirui*, Yi Xu, and Feng-fan Hsieh. 2022. Coarticulation as synchronised CV co-onset – Parallel evidence from articulation and acoustics. Journal of Phonetics 90 : 101116. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2021.101116
• 62 Xiong, Jiajuan and Feng-fan Hsieh. 2021. Same Degree of Intensification with Different Degrees of Sentential Projections. Lingua Sinica 7.1:1-22. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/linguasinica-2021-0001
• 61 Huang, Jing, Feng-fan Hsieh, and Yueh-chin Chang. 2021. A cross-dialectal comparison of apical vowels in Beijing Mandarin, Northeastern Mandarin and Southwestern Mandarin: An EMA and ultrasound study. In Proc. Interspeech 2021, 3989-3993, DOI: https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2021-1326
• 60 Liu, Cheng-yen Roger, Feng-fan Hsieh, and Yueh-chin Chang. 2021. Targeted and Targetless Neutral Tones in Taiwanese Southern Min. In Proc. Interspeech 2021, 2631-2635, DOI: https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2021-434
• 59 # Hsieh, Feng-fan. 2021. 论汉语有词重音 [On the existence of word stress in Mandarin Chinese]. Studies in Prosodic Grammar 7.1: 27-58.
• 58 Xiong Jiajuan and Feng-fan Hsieh. 2021. Degree Intensification and Sentential Functions in Chengdu Chinese. In: Liu M., Kit C., Su Q. (eds) Chinese Lexical Semantics. CLSW 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 12278. Springer, Cham. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81197-6_7
• 57 Huang, Jing, Feng-fan Hsieh, and Yueh-chin Chang. 2020. Er-suffixation in Southwestern Mandarin: An EMA and ultrasound study. In Proceedings of Interspeech 2020, pp. 661-665. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2020-2453
• 56 Liu, Zirui, Yi Xu, and Feng-fan Hsieh. 2020. Coarticulation as synchronised sequential target approximation: An EMA study. In Proceedings of Interspeech 2020, pp. 1381-1385. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2020-1432
• 55 Chang, Chiung-yu and Feng-fan Hsieh. 2020. Tone-Consonant Occurrence Probability in Mandarin. In Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Experimental Linguistics ed. by Atonis Botinis, University of Athens.
• 54 Hsieh, Feng-fan. 2020. Forward for Pain, Frederic (2020) ""GIAO CHỈ" ("JIĀOZHǏ" 交趾) as a diffusion center of Chinese diachronic changes: Syllable weight contrast and phonologisation of its phonetic correlates" Tsing Hua Journal of Chinese Studies 50.3: 353-354.
• 53 Jiang, Song, Yueh-chin Chang, and Feng-fan Hsieh. 2019. An EMA Study of Er-suffixation in Northeastern Mandarin Monophthongs. In the Proceedings of International Congress of Phonetic Sciences 2019, pp. 3617-3621. Melbourne: Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc.
• 52 Chang, Yueh-chang, Feng-fan Hsieh, and Hsin-yi Chen. 2019. Emphatically Lengthened Segments in Siwkolan Amis: Phonetics and Phonology. In the Proceedings of International Congress of Phonetic Sciences 2019, pp. 2149-2153. Melbourne: Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc.
• 51 Lo, Chiachih, Feng-fan Hsieh, and Yueh-ching Chang. 2019. Variegated VC rime restrictions in Sinitic languages. In Katherine Hout, Anna Mai, Adam McCollum, Sharon Rose & Matt Zaslansky (eds.), Supplemental Proceedings of the 2018 Annual Meeting on Phonology. Washington, DC: Linguistic Society of America. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3765/amp.v7i0.4490
• 50 Lee, Wai-Sum, Yueh-chin Chang, and Feng-fan Hsieh. 2018. Co-articulation between Consonant and Vowel in Cantonese and Taiwanese CVC Syllables. 11th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP), Taipei, Taiwan, 2018, pp. 463-467. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCSLP.2018.8706708
• 49 # Hsieh, Feng-fan. 2017. "声母参重"的语音及音系理据--兼论汉语介音能否参重 [A critical review of recent approaches to onset weight: with special reference to the "medial" (onglides) in Chinese]. Studies in Prosodic Grammar 2.2: 32-51.
• 48 # Hsieh, Feng-fan. 2017. Loanword Phonology. In Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics Vol. 2, ed. by Rint Sybesma (Editor-in-Chief), Leiden: Brill, pp. 624-629
• 47 # Hsieh, Feng-fan. 2017. Reduplication. In Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics Vol. 3, ed. by Rint Sybesma (Editor-in-Chief), Leiden: Brill, pp. 548-555.
• 46 # Hsieh, Feng-fan. 2017. Transcribing foreign names. In Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics Vol. 4, ed. by Rint Sybesma (Editor-in-Chief), Leiden: Brill, pp. 391-396.
• 45 Huang, Ting, Yueh-chin Chang, and Feng-fah Hsieh. 2016. Articulatory characteristics of the coronal consonants in Malaysian Mandarin: with special reference to the non-“canonical” sibilants. Tsing Hua Journal of Chinese Studies 46.4: 743-783. DOI: https://doi.org/10.6503/THJCS.2016.46(4).03
• 44 Chang, Yue-chin, Feng-fan Hsieh, Kai-yun Ou, and Yu-lun Hsieh. 2016. 臺灣華語鼻音及元音鼻化的氣流研究 [An Aerodynamic Study of the Nasals and Nasalization in Taiwanese Mandarin]. Tsing Hua Journal of Chinese Studies 46.4: 631-653. DOI: https://doi.org/10.6503/THJCS.2016.46(4).01
• 43 Hsieh, Feng-fan. 2016. Foreword. In Feng-fan Hsieh and Hui-chuan Hsu (eds.), A Festischrift for the 30th Anniversary of NTHU Linguistics: Phonetics and Phonology. Tsing Hua Journal of Chinese Studies 46.4: 627-629. [In Chinese]
• 42 Hsieh, Feng-fan and Hui-chuan Hsu (eds). 2016. A Festschrift for the 30th Anniversary of NTHU Linguistics: Phonetics and Phonology. Tsing Hua Journal of Chinese Studies 46.4.
• 41 Hsieh, Feng-fan, Guan-Sheng Li, and Yueh-Chin Chang. 2016. Temporal organization of onglides in Standard Chinese and Taiwanese Mandarin: A cross-dialectal study. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 140.4: 3107-3107.
• 40 Huang, Ting and Feng-fan Hsieh. Post-focus Compression: All or nothing? 2016. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 140.4: 3224-3224.
• 39 Chang, Yueh-chin, Yi-cheng Chen, and Feng-fan Hsieh. 2015. Articulation of vowel height in Taiwanese vowels: An EMA study. Journal of Acoustical Society of America 137.4, pp. 2269-2269.
• 38 Wang, Yu-sheng, Yueh-chin Chang, and Feng-fan Hsieh. 2015. Mapping vowels from American English to Taiwanese Mandarin: A perceptual study. Journal of Acoustical Society of America 137.4, pp. 2380-2380.
• 37 Huang, Ting, Yueh-chin Chang, and Feng-fan Hsieh. 2014. Incomplete neutralization of sibilant consonants in Penang Mandarin: A palatographic case study. Journal of Acoustical Society of America 136.4, pp. 2173-2173.
• 36 # Hsieh, Feng-fan. 2014. 借词音系学与汉语借词研究 [Loanword Phonology: A Chinese perspective]. Contemporary Linguistics 16.3, pp. 358-71.
• 35 Hsieh, Yu-lun, Ching-ting Chuang, Feng-fan Hsieh, Yueh-chin Chang, and Wen-lian Hsu. 2014. Taiwanese tone recognition using fractionalized curve-fitting of prosodic features. In Campbell, Nick, Dafydd Gibbon, and Daniel Hirst (eds.), Speech Prosody 7, pp. 772-5.
• 34 Chuang, Ching-ting, Yueh-chin Chang, and Feng-fan Hsieh. 2013. Complete and not-so-complete tonal neutralization in Penang Hokkien. In Lee, Wai-Sum (ed.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Phonetics of the Languages in China (ICPLC-2013), pp. 54-7.
• 33 Chang, Yueh-chin, Heng-po Peng, and Feng-fan Hsieh. 2013. 沙巴客語語音系統初探 [A preliminary phonetic study of the consonant, vowel and tone systems in Sabah Hakka]. In Lee, Wai-Sum (ed.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Phonetics of the Languages in China (ICPLC-2013), pp. 98-100.
• 32 Chen, Yi-cheng, Wei-rong Chen, Yueh-chin Chang, and Feng-fan Hsieh. 2013. 台灣閩南語聲母與韻尾輔音協同構音之異同 [An EMA study of onset-vowel vs. vowel-coda coarticulation in Taiwanese Southern Min]. In Lee, Wai-Sum (ed.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Phonetics of the Languages in China (ICPLC-2013), pp. 101-3.
• 31 Huang, Ting, Yueh-chin Chang, and Feng-fan Hsieh. 2013. 從聲學及構音的角度探討檳城華語中齒齦擦音的顎化變異 [An acoustic and palatographic study of palatalized and non-palatalized sibilants in Penang Mandarin]. In Lee, Wai-Sum (ed.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Phonetics of the Languages in China (ICPLC-2013), pp. 111-4.
• 30 Hsieh, Feng-fan and Yueh-chin Chang. 2012. 台灣海陸客語不同音節結構下的元音音質變異研究 [Vowel quality change in various contexts in Taiwanese Hoiliuk Hakka]. In Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Conference of Chinese Linguistic Society of Japan, pp. 272-6.
• 29 Hsieh, Feng-fan. 2012. Low vowel raising in Sinitic languages: Assimilation, reduction, or both? Language and Linguistics 13.4, pp. 583-623.
• 28 # Chang, Yueh-chin and Feng-fan Hsieh. 2012. Tonal coarticulation in Malaysian Hokkien: A typological anomaly? The Linguistic Review 29.1, pp. 37-73.
• 27 Hsieh, Feng-fan and Rint Sybesma. 2011. On the linearization of Chinese sentence-final particles: Max spell out and why CP moves. Korea Journal of Chinese Language and Literature 1 (48.3), pp. 53-90.
• 26 Hsieh, Feng-fan, Yueh-chin Chang, Wei-rong Chen, Man Gao, Christine Mooshammer, Hosung Nam, Mark Tiede, and Louis Goldstein. 2011. Speech errors in Taiwanese: An EMMA study. In Wai-Sum Lee and Eric Zee (eds.), Proceedings of the 17th International Conference of Phonetic Sciences, pp. 894-7.
• 25 Chang, Yueh-chin, Feng-fan Hsieh, and Yu-lun Hsieh. 2011. Phonetic implementation of nasality in Taiwanese (and French): Aerodynamic case studies. In Wai-Sum Lee and Eric Zee (eds.), Proceedings of the 17th International Conference of Phonetic Sciences, pp. 436-9.
• 24 Chuang, Ching-ting, Yueh-chin Chang, and Feng-fan Hsieh. 2011. Productivity of Taiwanese tone sandhi redux. In Wai-Sum Lee and Eric Zee (eds.), Proceedings of the 17th International Conference of Phonetic Sciences, pp. 492-5.
• 23 Edmondson, Jerold A., Yueh-chin Chang, Feng-fan Hsieh and Hui-chuan J. Huang. 2011. Reinforcing voiceless finals in Taiwanese and Hakka: Laryngoscopic case studies. In Wai-Sum Lee and Eric Zee (eds.), Proceedings of the 17th International Conference of Phonetic Sciences, pp. 627-630.
• 22 Edmondson, Jerold A., Yueh-chin Chang, Feng-fan Hsieh, and Hui-chuan J. Huang. 2011. Laryngoscopic fieldwork: A guide. In Wai-Sum Lee and Eric Zee (eds.), Proceedings of the 17th International Conference of Phonetic Sciences, pp. 88-91.
• 21 Huang, Ting, Yueh-chin Chang, and Feng-fan Hsieh. 2011. An Acoustic Analysis of Central Vowels in Malaysian Hokkien. In Wai-Sum Lee and Eric Zee (eds.), Proceedings of the 17th International Conference of Phonetic Sciences, pp. 914-7.
• 20 Gao, Man, Christine Mooshammer, Christina Hagedorn, Hosung Nam, Mark Tiede, Yueh-chin Chang, Feng-fan Hsieh, and Louis Goldstein. 2011. Intra- and inter-syllabic coordination: An articulatory study of Taiwanese and English. In Wai-Sum Lee and Eric Zee (eds.), Proceedings of the 17th International Conference of Phonetic Sciences, pp. 723-6.
• 19 Hsieh, Feng-fan. 2010. Rhyme phonotactics in Taiwanese: A dispersion-theoretic perspective. In Lauren Eby Clemens and Chi-Ming Louis Liu (eds.), Proceedings of the 22nd North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-22) and the 18th Annual Meeting of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-18) Vol. 1. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, pp. 316-330.
• 18 # Hsieh, Feng-fan, Michael Kenstowicz, and Xiaomin Mou. 2009. Mandarin adaptations of coda nasals in English loanwords. In Andrea Calabrese and W. Léo Wetzels (eds.), Loan Phonology (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 307). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp.131-154.
• 17 Gao, Man, Yueh-chin Chang, Feng-fan Hsieh, Hosung Nam, Mark Tiede, and Louis Goldstein. 2009. Gestural intrusions in Taiwanese and English. Journal of Acoustical Society of America, Volume 125, Issue 4, pp. 2499-2499.
• 16 Hsieh, Feng-fan and Ching-ting Chuang. 2008. A study of the phonetics and phonology of neutral tones in Urumqi Chinese. In Xin-xian Rex Yu and Chia-Yin Hu (eds.), University System of Taiwan Working Papers in Linguistics (USTWPL) 4. Hsinchu: Graduate Institute of Linguistics, National Tsing Hua University, pp. 57-71.
• 15 # Hsieh, Feng-fan and Michael Kenstowicz. 2008. Phonetic knowledge in tonal adaptation: Mandarin and English loanwords in Lhasa Tibetan. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 17.4, pp. 279-297.
• 14 # Hsieh, Feng-fan. 2008a. Preservation of the marked as slope correspondence in Hangzhou Chinese disyllabic tone sandhi. In Yuchau E. Hsiao, Hui-chuan Hsu, Lian-Hee Wee and Dah-an Ho (eds.) Interfaces in Chinese Phonology: Festschrift in Honor of Matthew Y. Chen on His 70th Birthday, Language and Linguistics Monograph Series Number W8. Taipei: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, pp. 223-242.
• 13 Hsieh, Feng-fan. 2008b. A tale of two rising tones in Hangzhou Chinese: Slope-matching in tone sandhi. In Huaiqiao Bao and Jiaxuan Shen (eds.) Proceedings of PCC 2008/ISPF 2008. Beijing: Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. [CD ROM Publication]
• 12 # Hsieh, Feng-fan and Rint Sybesma. 2008. 生成语法理论和汉语语气词研究 [Generative syntax and sentence-final particles in Chinese]. In Yang Shen and Shengli Feng (eds.) Contemporary Linguistic Theories and Related Studies on Chinese. Beijing: The Commercial Press, pp. 364-74.
• 11 Hsieh, Feng-fan. 2007. Relational Correspondence in Tone Sandhi. Ph.D. dissertation submitted to the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (ix, 283 pp.)
• 10 Hsieh, Feng-fan. 2007. Winners take all: “Missing paradigms” in Jinghpo. In Erin Bainbridge and Brian Agbayani (eds.) Proceedings of the 34th Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL 2006), California State University, Fresno, pp. 196-207.
• 9 Hsieh, Feng-fan. 2006. High infidelity: The non-mapping of Japanese accent onto Taiwanese tone. In Feng-fan Hsieh and Michael Kenstowicz (eds.), MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 52: Studies in Loanword Phonology. Cambridge: Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, pp. 1-27.
• 8 Hsieh, Feng-fan and Michael Kenstowicz. 2006. Phonetic knowledge in tonal adaptation: Standard Chinese and English loanwords into Lhasa Tibetan. In Feng-fan Hsieh and Michael Kenstowicz (eds.), MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 52: Studies in Loanword Phonology. Cambridge: Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, pp. 29-64.
• 7 Hsieh, Feng-fan and Michael Kenstowicz, eds. 2006. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 52: Studies in Loanword Phonology. Cambridge: Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
• 6 Anand, Pranav and Feng-fan Hsieh. 2005. Long-distance reflexives in perspective. In Alderete et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the 24th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. Somerville: Cascadilla Proceedings Project, pp. 43-51.
• 5 Hsieh, Feng-fan. 2005. Tonal chain-shifts as anti-neutralization-induced tone sandhi. In Arunachalam et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the 28th Penn Linguistics Colloquium, Penn Working Papers in Lingusitics 11.1. Philadelphia: Department of Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania, pp. 99-112.
• 4 Hsieh, Feng-fan. 1999. Theoretical Aspects of Zhuokeji rGyalrong Phonology. Hsinchu: National Tsing Hua University M.A. Thesis.
• 3 Chang, Yueh-chin, Hsiao-feng Cheng, and Feng-fan Hsieh. 1998. The effect of syllable-final glottal stop (on pitch). In Eric Zee and Maocan Lin (eds.), The Proceedings of the Conference on Phonetics of the Languages in China. Hong Kong: MPU, City University of Hong Kong, pp. 17-20. [In Chinese]
• 2 Hsieh, Feng-fan. 1998. The coding of causatives in Japanese and Taiwanese: A comparative study. In Department of English, National Taiwan Normal University (ed.), Proceedings of 1998 National Conference on English/American Literature and Linguistics. Taipei: The Crane Publishing Co. Ltd., pp. 53-64.
• 1 Hsieh, Feng-fan and Uijin Ang. 1998. On the Middle Chinese sonorant-initial rising-toned words and their correspondents in the Modern Hakka dialects. In Chung-ssu Tung (ed.), Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Taiwanese Languages and Teaching. Hsinchu: Chuan-min Bookstore, pp. 83-100. [In Chinese]