Si Chen

Si Chen

Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University   

Contact details: email address sarah.chen@polyu.edu.hk

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

  • Dec 2019 - Present:  Assistant Professor, Dept of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, HK PolyU

  • Jan 2015 – Nov 2019: Research Assistant Professor, Dept of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, HK PolyU

EDUCATION

  • Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of Florida, August 2014

  • Ph.D. Minor in Statistics, University of Florida, June 2014

  • M.S. in Statistics, University of Florida, June 2014

  • M.A. in Linguistics, University of Florida, August 2010

  • B.A. in English Literature and Linguistics, Beijing International Studies University, June 2008

PUBLICATIONS > Journal papers &book chapters  

 

H-index: 11 (google scholar)

Citation count: 478 (Google Scholar)

  1. Hong, Y. T., Chen, S. (corresponding author), Jiang, H. (accepted). Does musical experience facilitate phonetic accommodation during human-robot interaction? Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 68(5):2259-2274. doi: 10.1044/2025_JSLHR-24-00495.

  2. Chen, S., Zhang, Y., Li, M., Li, B., Lv, S., Chan, A., Ge,H., Tang, T. & Chen, Z. (accepted) Acquisition of Speech Prosody in a Non-native Tone Language by Children with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-024-06698-4

  3. Chen, S., Zhang, Y., Zhou, F., Chan, A., Li, B., Li, B., Tang, T., Chun, E. & Chen, Z. (2024). Focus-marking in a tonal language: Prosodic differences between Cantonese-speaking children with and without autism spectrum disorder. PloS One, 19(7), e0306272. [Faculty Grade A*; IF = 3.752; Performance point = 3; SCIE/SCOPUS, Google Scholar citations: 0]

  4. Fu, N. C., Chan, A., Chen, S., Polišenská, K., & Chiat, S. (2024) Revisiting nonword repetition as a clinical marker of Developmental Language Disorder: Evidence from monolingual and bilingual L2 Cantonese. Brain and Language, 257, 105450. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2024.105450 [Faculty Grade A*; IF = 3.752; Performance point = 1.8; SCIE/SCOPUS; SSCI]

  5. Fu, N.C., Chen, S., Polišenská, K., Chan, A., Kan, R. & Chiat S. (2024). Nonword Repetition in Children with Developmental Language Disorder: Revisiting the Case of Cantonese. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research. doi: 10.1044/2024_JSLHR-22-00397 [Faculty Grade A*; IF = 2.9; Performance point = 1.8; SSCI/SCOPUS] Google Scholar citations: 0.]

  6. Wang, X., Chen, S. (corresponding author), Zhou F., Liu, J., Cheng X., Chan, A., Tang, T. (2024) English prosodic focus marking by Cantonese trilingual children with and without autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 67(3):782-801. doi: 10.1044/2023_JSLHR-23-00508. [Faculty Grade A*; IF = 2.9; Performance point = 1.8; SSCI/SCOPUS] Google Scholar citations: 0.]

  7. Wong, C. H*., Wong, M. N., Chen, S., & Lin, W. Y. (2024). Pitch-variation skills in Cantonese speakers with apraxia of speech after stroke: Preliminary findings of acoustic analyses. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 67(1), 1-33. doi.org/10.1044/2023_JSLHR-23-00242 [Faculty Grade A*; IF = 2.9; Performance point = 1.8; SSCI/SCOPUS] Google Scholar citations: 3.]

  8. Zhang, Y. X., Chen, X., Chen, S., Meng Y. Z.*, Lee K. L, Mizuguchi S., & Tateishi, K. (2023) Visual-Auditory Perception of Prosodic Focus in Japanese by Native and Non-native Speakers. Frontiers in Psychology. doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2023.1237395 [Faculty Grade A; IF = 4.232; Performance point = 1.2; SSCI/SCOPUS] Google Scholar citations: 1.]

  9. Hong Y. T.*, Chen, S. (corresponding author), Zhou, F.*, Chan, A., Tang, Tempo. (2023) Phonetic Entrainment in Human-Robot Interaction: An Investigation of Children with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder. Frontiers in Psychology,14: 1128976. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1128976. [Faculty Grade A; IF = 4.232; Performance point = 2; SSCI/SCOPUS] Google Scholar citations: 0.]

  10. Chen, S., Hong Y. T., Li B., Chun E. (2023). The f0 perturbation effects in focus marking: evidence from Korean and Japanese. PloS One, 18(3), e0283139. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0283139 [Faculty Grade A*; IF = 3.752; Performance point = 3; SCIE/SCOPUS] Google Scholar citations: 2.]

  11. Chan, W. S. A., Chen, S., Hamdani, S. Z., Tse, B., & Cheng, C. W. (2023) Story telling in bilingual Urdu-Cantonese ethnic minority children: macrostructure and its relation to microstructural linguistic skills. Frontiers in Psychology, 14:924056. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.924056. [Faculty Grade A; IF = 4.232; Performance point =2; SSCI/SCOPUS] Google Scholar citations: 0.]

  12. Chen, S., Zhang, C.C. Lau, P. Y., Yang, Y. K., Li, B. (2022). Modelling representations in speech normalization of prosodic cues. Scientific Reports 12(1), 1-21. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-18838-w [Faculty Grade A*; IF = 4.996; Performance point = 3; SCIE/SCOPUS] Google Scholar citations: 5.]

  13. Chen, S., Li, B., He, Y., Chen, S. W., Yang, Y. K., & Zhou, F. (2022). The effects of perceptual training on speech production of Mandarin sandhi tones by tonal and non-tonal speakers. Speech Communication, 139, 10-21. doi.org/10.1016/j.specom.2022.02.008 [Faculty Grade A; IF = 2.723; Performance point = 2; SCIE/SCOPUS] Google Scholar citations: 1.]

  14. Chen, S., Yang, Y. K. &Wayland, R. (2021) Categorical Perception of Mandarin Pitch Directions by Cantonese-Speaking Musicians &Non-musicians. Frontiers in Psychology. 12: 713949. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg. [Faculty Grade A; IF = 4.232; Performance point =2; SSCI/SCOPUS] Google Scholar citations: 3.]

  15. Chen, S., & Li, B. (2021). Statistical Modeling of Application Completeness of Two Tone Sandhi Rules. Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 49(1), 106-141. [Faculty Grade A; IF = 0.28; Performance point = 2; SSCI/SCOPUS] Google Scholar citations: 0.]

  16. Li, B., Shao, J., & Chen, S. (2021). Perception of Mandarin Sibilants by Chinese-as-a-Foreign-Language Beginners. Chinese Journal of Phonetics, 54-62. [Faculty Grade B; Performance point = 0.6; Google Scholar citations: 0.]

  17. Chen, S., Zhu, Y., Wayland, R., & Yang, Y. (2020). How musical experience affects tone perception efficiency by musicians of tonal and non-tonal speakers?. PloS one, 15(5), e0232514. [Faculty Grade A; IF = 3.752; Performance point = 3; SCIE/SCOPUS; Google Scholar citations: 22.]

  18. Cheung, C. C. H., Rong, Y., Chen, F., Chen, S., Leung, M. T., Tang, T. P. Y., & Peng, G. (2020). Comprehension of literal statements and similes in Cantonese-speaking children with and without autism spectrum disorders. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 34(4), 312-326. [Faculty Grade A; IF = 1.339; Performance point = 0.8; SCIE/SSCI/SCOPUS; Google Scholar citations: 8.]

  19. Chen, S., Wiltshire, C., Li, B., & Wayland, R. (2019). A quantitative analysis of tone sandhi in Standard Mandarin and Nanjing Mandarin based on surface pitch contours and underlying pitch targets. International Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 6(2), 183-220. [Faculty Grade B; IF = 0.18; Performance point = 1; Google Scholar citations: 5.]

  20. Chen, S., He, Y., Wayland, R., Yang, Y. K., Li, B., & Yuen, C. W. (2019). Mechanisms of tone sandhi rule application by tonal and non-tonal non-native speakers. Speech Communication, vol. 115, 67-77 [Faculty Grade A; IF = 2.723; Performance point = 2; SCIE/SCOPUS; Google Scholar citations: 13.]

  21. Zhang, C., Shao, J.*, & Chen, S. (2018). Impaired perceptual normalization of lexical tones in Cantonese-speaking congenital amusics. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 144(2), 634-647. [Faculty Grade A; IF = 2.482; Performance point = 1.2; SCIE/SCOPUS] Google Scholar citations: 16.]

  22. McCollum, A., & Chen, S. (2021). Kazakh. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 51(2), 276-298. doi:10.1017/S0025100319000185 [Faculty Grade A; IF = 1.146; Performance point = 2] Google Scholar citations: 17.]

  23. Chen, S., Wiltshire, C., & Li, B. (2018). An updated typology of tonal coarticulation properties. Taiwan Journal of Linguistics, 16(2), 79-114. [Faculty Grade B; IF = 0.25; Performance point = 1; SCOPUS] Google Scholar citations: 17.]

  24. Chan, A., Chen, S., Matthews, S., & Yip, V. (2017). Comprehension of subject and object relative clauses in a trilingual acquisition context. Frontiers in psychology, 8, 1641. [Faculty Grade A; IF = 4.232; Performance point =2; SSCI/SCOPUS] Google Scholar citations: 23.]

  25. Chen, S., Zhu, Y., & Wayland, R. (2017). Effects of stimulus duration and vowel quality in cross-linguistic categorical perception of pitch directions. PloS One, 12(7), e0180656. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0180656 [Faculty Grade A*; IF = 3.752; Performance point = 3; SCIE/SCOPUS] Google Scholar citations: 19.]

  26. Chen, S., Zhang, C., McCollum, A. G., & Wayland, R. (2017). Statistical modelling of phonetic and phonologised perturbation effects in tonal and non-tonal languages. Speech Communication, 88, 17-38. [Faculty Grade A; IF = 2.723; Performance point = 2; SCIE/SCOPUS] Google Scholar citations: 23.]

  27. Zhang, C., & Chen, S. (2016). Toward an integrative model of talker normalization. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 42(8), 1252-1268. [Faculty Grade A*; IF = 3.077; Performance point = 3; SSCI/SCIE/SCOPUS] Google Scholar citations: 41.]

PUBLICATIONS > Proceedings (Peer–reviewed)

  1. Chen, S., Wang, B.X., Hong, Y.T., Zhou, F., Chan, A., Tang, P.Y., Li, B., Wen, C.Y., Cheung, J., Liu, Y., Chen, Z.M. (2024) Acoustic changes in speech prosody produced by children with autism after robot-assisted speech training. Proceeding of INTERSPEECH, September 2024, Kos Island, Greece.

  2. Bakhtiar, M., Zhang Y. X., & Chen, S. (2022). Rhythm of Cantonese Stuttering Speech. In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2022, Lisbon, Portugal.

  3. Yang, Y. & Chen, S. (2022). Does prosody influence segments differently in Cantonese and Mandarin? A case study of the open vowel /a/. In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2022, Lisbon, Portugal.

  4. Zhou, F., Chen, S., Li, B., Chan, A. W. S., Tang, T. P. Y., Chun, E., Choi, P., Ng, C., Cheng, F., Gou, X. (2020). Prosodic Marking of Focus in Cantonese-speaking Children with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder. In Linguistik

  5. International. Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang D.

  6. Wayland, R., Chen, S., Zhou, F., Hong, Y. (2020). Directional asymmetry in lexical tone perception. In Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics 178ASA. Acoustical Society of America.

  7. Yang, Y. Chen, S., & Chen, X. (2020). F0 patterns in Mandarin statements of Mandarin and Cantonese speakers. In Proceedings of Interspeech 2020, Shanghai.

  8. Yang, Y. & Chen, S. (2020). Individual differences in Mandarin focus production. In Proceedings of ExLing 2020, Athens.

  9. Bei Li, Churen Huang, Chen, S. (2020). Comparison of information trustworthiness of epistemic markers: A Corpus-based Study of “Renwei” and “Yiwei” in Chinese. The 34th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, Hanoi, Viet Nam, October 24-26, 2020.

  10. Bin Li, Yihan Guan & Chen, S. (2020).Carryover Effects on Two Rising Tones in Hong Kong Cantonese. Speech Prosody 2020. Proc. 10th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2020, 489-493, DOI: 10.21437/SpeechProsody. 2020-100.Tokyo, Japan

  11. Chun, E., Liu, S. L. & Chen, S. (2020). Syntactic adaptation in L2 comprehension: evidence of implicit learning. Third International Symposium on Bilingual and L2 Processing in Adults and Children. May 28-29, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

  12. Chun, E., Liu, S. L & Chen, S. (2020). The influence of syntactic complexity on L2 prediction. Third International Symposium on Bilingual and L2 Processing in Adults and Children. May 28-29, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

  13. Yang, Y. K. & Chen, S. (2020). Revisiting focus production in Mandarin Chinese: Some preliminary findings. In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2020, 260-264, Tokyo. doi: 10.21437/SpeechProsody.2020-53.

  14. Li, B., Guan Y. H., & Chen, S. (2020). Anticipatory &carryover effects in Hong Kong Cantonese. The 27th Annual Conference of International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-27).

  15. Li, B., Guan Y. H., & Chen, S. (2019). Sounds of Personality: Inference from Voices by Non-Native Speakers. The 11th annual conference of Asia Pacific Signal &Information Processing Association, Lanzhou, China.

  16. Chen, X., & Chen, S. (2019). Acquisition &Interpretation of Mandarin Speech Prosody by Native and Cantonese Learners. The 11th annual conference of Asia Pacific Signal &Information Processing Association, Lanzhou, China.

  17. Yang, Y. K., Chen, S. & Li, K. C. (2019). Effects of Focus on Duration &Intensity in Chongming Chinese. The International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), Melbourne.

  18. Jangjamras, J., Wayland R. & Chen, S. (2019). Acoustic Analysis of Lahu Nyi Tone System. The International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), Melbourne.

  19. Chen, S., Wiltshire, C., Li, B. & Wayland, R. (2018). Analyzing Nanjing Tones and Sandhi: statistical modelling methods. Proceedings of the Annual Meetings on Phonology. October 5-7, San Diego, CA

  20. Chen, S., Yiqing Zhu, Ratree Wayland &Yike Yang (2018). Effects of Stimulus Duration and Vowel Quality in Tone Perception by English Musicians and Non-musicians. The 32nd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, December 1-3, 2018 at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong.

  21. Li, B., Yang, Y. K., & Chen, S. (2018). Perceptual evaluation of Mandarin tone sandhi production by Cantonese speakers before and after perceptual training. The 32nd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, December 1-3, 2018 at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong.

  22. Li, B., Yang, Y.K. & Chen, S. (2018). Evaluating the effects of perceptual training on application of Mandarin tone sandhi rules by English speakers. Proceedings of the 2018 International Conference on Bilingual Learning and Teaching, Hong Kong.

  23. Yang, Y. K., Huang, C. R., Dong S. C. & Chen, S. (2018). Semantic Transparency of Radicals in Chinese Characters: An Ontological Perspective. The 32nd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, December 1-3, 2018 at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong.

  24. Zhang, C.L., Li, B., Chen, S. &Yang, Y. K. (2018). Acoustic analysis of whispery voice disguise in Mandarin Chinese. Proceedings of Interspeech 2018, Hyderabad, India.

  25. Chen, S. &Li, B. (2017). Degree of Incompleteness in Application of Tone Sandhi Rules. Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Sciences. The Korean Society of Speech Sciences, Seoul.

  26. Chen, S., Yunjuan He, Chun Wah Yuen, Bei Li &Yike Yang (2017). Mechanisms of Tone Sandhi Rule Application by Non-native Speakers. Proceedings of Interspeech 2017, Aug 20-24 Stockhom, Sweden.

  27. Chen, S., Caroline Wiltshire &Bin Li (2016). A Reconsideration of Universal Properties of Tonal Coarticulation. Proceedings of Oriental COCOSDA, Bali, Indonesia.

  28. Chen, S. (2015). More than F0: An Additive Model for Tonal Representations. Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Sciences. The Korean Society of Speech Sciences, Seoul, 143-144.

  29. Chen, S. &Caroline Wiltshire. (2011). Differences of tone realization between younger and older speakers of Nanjing dialect. Proceedings of the 23rd North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL 23). Edited by Zhuo Jing-Schmidt. University of Oregon. Vol. 2, pp. 105-122. Distributed by NACCL Proceedings Online, The Ohio State University. Available for download at: http://naccl.osu.edu/sites/naccl.osu.edu/files/NACCL-23_2_08.pdf

ARTICLES UNDER REVIEW AND IN PREP

  1. Chan, A., Chen, S., Tse, B., Hamdani, Cheng, K. (under review). Storytelling in bilingual Urdu-Cantonese ethnic minority children in Hong Kong: macrostructure &its relation to microstructural linguistic skills. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research.

  2. Chan, A., Chen, S., Zhang C. C., Fung, R., Shao J., Lam, I., Pang, S., Ngan, V., Tam, J., Chua, W., Chan, A., Yang, W. C., Sadat, J., & Pinto S. (under review) Lexical Tone Production in Cantonese-Speaking Patients with Parkinson’s Disease: L-Dopa Effects on F0 Curves and Speech Intelligibility.

  3. Chen, S., Zhang, Y. X., Zhou, F., Chan, A., Li, B., Li, B., Tang, T., Chun, E., Chen, Z. (under review) Third Language Prosodic Focus Marking in Mandarin by Cantonese-English-Mandarin Trilingual Children with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder

  4. Lu, W. Z., Singh, G. R.; Chen, S. (under review) The effect of narrative structure and affective communication in corporate leaders’ narrative messages on stakeholders’ attitudes. The effect of narrative structure and affective communication in corporate leaders’ narrative messages on stakeholders’ attitudes

  5. Hong Y. T., Chen, S. (corresponding author) (under review) Does musical experience facilitate phonetic accommodation during human-robot interaction?

  6. Chen, S., Zhang, Y. X., Zhou, F., Chan, A., Li, B., Li, B., Tang, T., Chun, E., Chen, Z. (under review) Third Language Prosodic Focus Marking in Mandarin by Cantonese-English-Mandarin Trilingual Children with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder

  7. Chen, S., Wang, X., Cheung, C.W., Zhou, F., Hong, Y. T., Li, B., Chan, A., Tang, P. Y., Li, B., Chen, Z. M., Wen, C. Y. (in prep). Social interaction in technology-aided interventions for speech prosody by children with autism spectrum disorder.

  8. Chen, S., Chen, X., Zhang Y. X., Kim, D. J., Li M. X., Ou, M. J., Chan, A., Tang, P. Y. (in prep). Multimodal emotion recognition by children with autism spectrum disorder.

  9. Chen, S., Chen, X., Zhang Y. X., Kim, D. J., Li M. X., Ou, M. J., Chan, A., Tang, P. Y. (in prep). Robot-assisted multimodal training improves emotion recognition from speech, music and dynamic facial expressions by children with autism spectrum disorder

  10. Wang, X. Chen, S. (corresponding author), Zhou F., Chan, A., Tang, T. (in prep) Lab perceptual training improves acquisition of focus marking in the second language by Cantonese-speaking children with autism spectrum disorder.

  11. Hong, Y. T., Chen, S. (corresponding author), Zhou, F., Chan, A., Tang, P. Y. (in prep) Sung speech training improves focus marking by Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

  12. Zhang, Y. X., Chen, S., (corresponding author), Zhou, F., Chan, A., Li, B., Li, B., Tang, T., Chun, E., Chen, Z. (in prep) Sung speech training improves third language acquisition of speech prosody by Cantonese-speaking Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

  13. Zhang, Y. X., Chen, S., (corresponding author), Zhou, F., Chan, A., Li, B., Li, B., Tang, T., Chun, E., Chen, Z. (in prep) An EEG study on integration of multimodal cues in emotion recognition by children with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder

PRESENTATIONS & INVITED LECTURES

Chen, S. (2025). Invited talk. Sung-speech and Robot-assisted Training in Improving Cantonese and Mandarin Speech Prosody Produced by Autistic Children. SCOLAR, Education Bureau

Chen, S. (2025). Invited talk. “When social speech signals are not favoured: enhancing the use of speech prosody in autistic children through perceptual training and human-robot interaction”. University of Hong Kong

Li, M., Li, Z., Chen, S., Chen, X., Zhang, Y., Chan, A., Tang, T. & Tian, Z. (2025) Robot-Assisted Training Enhances Emotion Recognition in Cantonese-Speaking Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in Audio-Only Contexts. May 2025. International Society for Autism Research Annual Meeting (INSAR), Seattle, USA.

Yang, X., Chen, S. & Wang, F. (2025) Autism prediction with Random Forest: A machine-learning approach utilizing speech data in a second language (L2). May 2025. International Society for Autism Research Annual Meeting (INSAR), Seattle, USA.

Chen, S. (2024) Invited talk. “Social interaction in technology-aided interventions for speech prosody by children with autism spectrum disorder”. The 2nd Conference on Theory and Practice of Bilingualism, Zhuhai, China, May 2024

Hong, Y. T. & Chen, S. (2024) Individual Variation in Phonetic Accommodation of Mandarin-Speaking Children during Conversations with a Virtual Robot. Speech Prosody 2024, Leiden, The Netherlands, July 2024.

Hong, Y., Chen, S., & Jiang, H. (2024). The Effect of Musical Training Experience on L2 Speakers’ Phonetic Accommodation. The 2nd Conference on Theory and Practice of Bilingualism, in Zhuhai, China, May 2024.

Zhang, Y., Chen, S., Li, M., Li, B., Lu, Shuang., Chan, A., Ge, H., Tang, T., Chen, Z. (2024, July) Mandarin prosodic focus marking by Cantonese Trilingual Children with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder. Oral presentation at the Child language symposium. 9-11 July, 2024. Newcastle, UK

Wang, B. X., Chen, S., Zhou, F., Chan, A. & Tang, T. (2024) The effectiveness of speech training on speech prosody of children with autism spectrum disorder. Poster presentation at the 16th International Congress for Study of Child Language. Prague, Czech Republic. 15-19 July, 2024.

Hong, Y., Chen, S., & Wang, X. (2024) Does degree of partner’s extraversion affect children’s speech accommodation? Oral presentation at the 16th International Congress for the Study of Child Language, in Prague, Czech Republic, 15-19 July 2024.

Wong, E. C. H., Wong, M. N., Chen, S., & Lin, J. Y. W. (2024, February 21-24). Degraded pitch-variation skills in Cantonese speakers with apraxia of speech post-stroke: Preliminary evidence. Motor Speech Conference 2024, San Diego, CA, United States.

Wang M. N., Wong, E., Chen, S., & Lin, W. (submitted) Degraded pitch-variation skills in Cantonese speakers with apraxia of speech post-stroke: Preliminary evidence. Motor Speech Conference.

Li, B., Wang, X., Chen, S., Zhang, C., Lau, P., & Yang, Y. (2023, December). Talker normalisation of prosodic cues in non-native speakers. Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing Asia 2023, Hong Kong.

Li, B. Chen S. (2023) Multimodal Focus Processing in Mandarin-Speaking Children and Adults. The 15th Phonetic Conference of China (PCC 2023), July 7-10, Shenzhen, China.

Liu, J., Chen, S., Wang X., Xiao, C and Zhou F. (2023) Study on the production of prosody by English speaking children. Nineth International Conference on Experimental Phonetics, Vigo, Spain.

Wang X, Chen, S., Zhou F. (2023) Declarative or declarative question? – on the acoustics of English prosody of Hong Kong trilingual children with autism spectrum disorder. The 184th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Chicago, Illinois on May 11, 2023

Hong. Y, Zhou, F., Chen, S., Chan, W. S. A., Tang, P. Y. (2022) Phonetic Convergence in Human-Robot Interaction: An Investigation of Children with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder. The13th International Conference of Experimental Linguistics, 17-19 October 2022, Paris, France.

Chen, S. (2023) Invited talk. Robot-assisted training in improving speech prosody. Faculty of Humanities, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Chen, S. (2023) Invited talk. Modeling of mental representations in native and non-native speakers. University of Lanchester

Chen, S. (2022) Invited talk. Prosodic Differences between Cantonese-speaking Children with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder. Research Centre for Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Yitian Hong, Chen, S., Fang Zhou, Angel Chan. (2022) Phonetic Convergence of Children with and without Autism in Robot Interaction. Exling Conference, Paris, France.

Nga Ching Fu, Chen, S., Kamila Polišenská, Angel Chan, Rachel Kan &Shula Chiat. (2022). Nonword Repetition in Children with Developmental Language Disorder: Revisiting the Case of Cantonese. The 4th Bi-SLI Conference, Berlin, 9 &10 May 2022.

Zhou F., Chen, S., Chen X., Fung C. Emotion recognition in speech and music of Cantonese children with autism spectrum disorder. The 182nd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Denver, Colorado on May 23-27, 2022.

Hong. Y, Zhou, F., Chen, S., Chan, W. S. A., Tang, P. Y., Chun, E., Li, B.,Choi, P., Ng, C., Cheng, F. & Gou, X.(2022) Phonetic Entrainment of Cantonese-speaking Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The 182nd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Denver, Colorado on May 23-27, 2022.

Meng, Yuzhe, Chen, S., & Xi Chen. (2021) Production of Japanese Penultimate Focus Prosody Using A Semi-Naturalistic Task: How Accent and Focus Conditions Work?. The Linguistic Society of Hong Kong Annual Research Forum 2021.

Hong, Yitian, Fang Zhou, Chen, S. Angel Wing Shan Chan, Tempo Po Yi Tang, Eunjin Chun, Bei Li, Phoebe Choi, Chakling Ng, Fiona Cheng, Xinrui Gou. (2021) Investigation on Phonetic Convergence of Cantonese-speaking Children with ASD. First International Conference on Tone &Intonation (TAI). 06-09 Dec, Sonderborg, Denmark.

Chen, S., Chan, A., Chun, E., Li, B., Tang, T., Choi, P., & Zhou F. (2021). Impairment in mapping prosody and meaning by Cantonese-speaking children with autism spectrum disorder. First International Conference on Tone &Intonation (TAI). 06-09 Dec, Sonderborg, Denmark.

Chen, S., Eunjin Chun, Angel Chan, Xi Chen, Bei Li, Tempo Tang, Fiona Cheng and Chakling Ng. (2021). Speech and sung speech training in improving prosody processing by Cantonese speaking children with autism spectrum disorder. First International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI). 06-09 Dec, Sonderborg, Denmark.

Chen, S.(invited talk 2021). Computational modeling of second language acquisition of tones and tone sandhi. Division of Humanities. The Hong Kong University of Science &Technology

Chen, S., Bei Li, Fang Zhou, Angel Wing Shan Chan, Tempo Po Yi Tang, Eunjin Chun Phoebe Choi, Chakling Ng, Fiona Cheng, Xinrui Gou (2020). Training effects on speech prosody production by Cantonese-speaking children with autism spectrum disorder. Acoustics Virtually Everywhere, The 179th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, 7-11 December 2020

Eunjin Chun, Shulin Liu & Chen, S.. (2020). The influence of syntactic complexity on L2 prediction. International Symposium on Bilingual and L2 Processing in Adults &Children (ISBPAC) 2020, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

Jane Man-yu Lai, Angel Wing-Shan Chan, Stephen Matthews & Chen, S.. (2020). A Corpus Study of Relative and Noun-modifying Clause Constructions in Cantonese-speaking Children’s Naturalistic Speech. IASCL 15th International Congress. July 13-17, University of Pennsylvania, USA.

Jane Man-yu Lai, Angel Wing-Shan Chan, Stephen Matthews & Chen, S.. (2019) Relative and Noun-modifying Clause Constructions in Child Cantonese: A Corpus Study of Naturalistic Speech. 10/07/19-12/07/19. The Child Language Symposium. Sheffield, United Kingdom

Zhang, C. W., Chen, S., & Leung, M. T. (2019). The Perception and Production of

Cantonese Syllable-Final Stops in Mandarin Speakers: An Analysis of Perceptibility Scale. In Proceedings of Hanyang International Symposium on Phonetics and Cognitive Sciences of Language 2019 (pp. 145-146). Korea: Hanyang University. Retrieved from http://site.hanyang.ac.kr/web/hisphoncog/online-handbook.

Chen, Xi, Chen, S. &Bei Li (2019) The Influence of Speech Prosodic Structure and Syllable Composition on Consonant VOT in Japanese. The 178th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in San Diego, California on December 2-7, 2019

Chen, S., Caicai Zhang, Puiyin Lau, Yike Yang, Bei Li &Wing Kam Fung. (2019). A Quantitative Model of Talker Normalization by Native and Non-native Speakers. The 178th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in San Diego, California on December 5, 2019

Ratree Wayland, Chen, S., Yitian Hong &Fang Zhou.(2019). Perceptual Asymmetry in Lexical Tone Perception. Keynote speech. The 178th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in San Diego, California, USA

Yitian Hong, Chen, S., Yike Yang &Bei Li (2019) Effects of Prosodic Focus on Voice Onset Time (VOT) in Chongming Chinese. The 33rd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation. Future University Hakodate, Japan. September 13–15, 2019

Li, Bin, Guan Yihan &Chen, S. (2019) Sounds of Personality: Inference from Voices by Non-Native Speakers. Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference, November 18-21, 2019, Lanzhou, China

Chen, S. (2019) Modelling techniques in advancing speech production and perception studies. Invited talk at CUHK

Chen, S. (2019) Recent development of statistical modelling in Chinese Linguistics. Invited talk. The City University of Hong Kong.

Yike Yang & Chen, S.. (2019). Domain of prosodic focus in Cantonese: A pilot study. The Second Forum on Cantonese Linguistics (FoCaL-2). The Education University of Hong Kong. Hong Kong.

Changwei Zhang, Chen, S. &Man Tak Leung. (2019). The Perception and Production of Cantonese Syllable-final Stops in Mandarin Speakers: An Analysis of Perceptibility Scale. Hanyang International Symposium on Phonetics and Cognitive Sciences of Language, May 24th-25th, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea.

Chen, S., Eunjin Chun, Bei Li &Yike Yang. (2019). Perturbation effects in Chongming Chinese with and without focus. Hanyang International Symposium on Phonetics and Cognitive Sciences of Language, May 24th-25th, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea.

Lucrecia Rallo Fabra, Xialin Liu, Chen, S. &Ratree Wayland.(2019).Production of Mandarin tones by L1-Spanish early learners in a classroom setting. New Sounds 2019. The 9th international Symposium on Acquisition of Second Language Speech, August 30th-September 1st, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan.

Bin Li, Yihan Guan &Chen, S.. (2019). Effects of Prosodic Cues on Perception of Personalities and Facts by Non-Native Speakers. The 16th International Pragmatics Conference. Hong Kong, China.

Yike Yang, Chen, S. &Kechun Li. (2019). Effects of focus and tone on vowel space in Chongming Chinese. The 177th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Louisville, KY, USA

Bei Li, Yike Yang, Chen, S. &Yunjuan He. (2019) A comparison of training effects on non-native tone sandhi production between American English and Cantonese speakers. The 177th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Louisville, KY, USA

Chen Si, Shuwen Chen, Yunjuan He, Bei Li, Yike Yang, Ratree Wayland. (2019). Effects of perceptual training in Mandarin tone sandhi production. The 177th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Louisville, KY, USA, 13-17 May

Cheung, Chi-Hang, Chen, S., Man Tak Leung, Tempo Po Yi Tang &Yicheng Rong (2018). Understanding of literal and figurative language in Cantonese-speaking children with and without autism spectrum disorders. The Hong Kong Speech and Hearing Symposium, Hong Kong, Nov 1-4, China.

Cheung, Candice Chi-Hang , Chen, S., Charlene Choi Yin Wong, Mandy Man Ting Yau, Viola Ka Yan Si Tou, Man Tak Leung, &Tempo Po Yi Tang. (2018). Comprehension of figurative language in Cantonese-speaking children with autism: The role of theory of mind. The Hong Kong Speech and Hearing Symposium, Hong Kong, China.

Wayland, R. & Chen, S. (2018). Perceptual asymmetries in lexical tone perception. ASA 176th Meeting in Victoria, Canada

Chen, S., Yike Yang, Ratree Wayland &Yiqing Zhu (2018). Linguistic experience &musical training in shaping Mandarin tone perception by trilingual non-native Cantonese listeners. ASA 176th Meeting in Victoria, Canada.

Yang Yike, Chen, S. Kechun Li. 2018. Pitch realization of post-focus components in Chongming Chinese. The 176th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Victoria, Canada

Li, Shiyue, Chen, S. &Angel Chan. (2018). Categorical perception of Mandarin tones by Cantonese trilingual children. ASA 176th Meeting in Victoria, Canada.

Chen, S., Caroline Wiltshire, Bin Li &Ratree Wayland (2018). Analyzing Nanjing Tones &Sandhi: statistical modelling methods. The 2018 Annual Meeting on Phonology (AMP 2018) at the University of California, San Diego.

Chen, S., Yike Yang, Ratree Wayland &Yiqing Zhu. Oct, 2018. How musical experience affects the role of vowel quality &stimulus duration played in tone perception by Mandarin listeners? International Conference on Tone and Intonation TIE2018, Oct 11-13,Gothenburg, Sweden.

Chen, S., Yiqing Zhu, Ratree Wayland &Caicai Zhang. June, 2018. The relationship between speech production &perception - perceptual experiments based on modeling of corpora. June 8-9. The 24th Joint Workshop on Linguistics &Language Processing. Seoul, Korea.

Zhang, Changwei, Man Tak Leung & Chen, S. Oct, 2018. The Perceptive &Productive Development of Cantonese Syllable-Final Consonants -- A Clinical Application of Optimality Theory”, ICPLA 2018, Malta.

Chan, Angel, Chen, S. Serge Pinto, Jing Shao, Caicai Zhang, Hang Ching Lam, Shirley Pang, Vivian Ngan, Ka Yu Tam, Wenchun Yang, Javis Ngan. Oct, 2018. Effect of medication on lexical tone production in Cantonese patients with Parkinson’s Disease. International Congress of Parkinson’s disease &movement disorders.

Chen, S., Yiqing Zhu &Ratree Wayland. May, (2017). Minimum time for producing &perceiving pitch directions by tonal &non-tonal speakers. Abstraction, Diversity &Speech Dynamics, Herrsching, Germany.

Chan, Angel, Chen, S. Stephen Matthews, Virginia Yip. (2017). Acquisition of relative clauses in Hong Kong trilingual children. Symposium on Acquisition &Processing of Language in Children – A cross-linguistic perspective, Taiwan.

Chen, S., Nov 2016 & 2018. Introduction to biostatistics. Invited lecture, Interdisciplinary Division of Biomedical Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Chen, S., Yiqing Zhu &Ratree Wayland. Dec, 2016. The duration effect in categorical perception of pitch directions &its interactions with vowel quality &language experience. The 5th Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the Acoustical Society of Japan, Honolulu, Hawaii.

Chan, Angel, Chen, S. Stephen Matthews, Virginia Yip. (2016). Reverse transfer in trilingual acquisition of relative clauses. 10th International Conference on Multilingualism and Third Language Acquisition, Vienna, Austria.

Li, B., Shao, J. & Chen, S.. Jul. 2016. Acoustic analysis of L1 and L2 production of Mandarin coronal sibilants, Laboratory Phonology 15, Ithaca, USA, 13-17

Chen, S. June 2015. International Conference on Prosodic Studies: Challenges &Prospects (ICPS-1). Phonological representations of underlying tonal targets based on statistical modeling in tonal languages.

Chen, S. Feb 3, 2015. Phonetics, Phonology and Language Sciences: Potential Application to Language Learning and Speech/Language Therapy. Invited talk, research seminars, Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Chen, S. May 2014. A Phonetic and Perceptual Investigation on Tone Systems of Chongming Chinese. The 26th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics in College Park, US.

Chen, S. &Caroline Wiltshire. Jan, 2013. Contextual Variations of Tones in Nanjing Chinese. The 87th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America in Boston, US.

Chen, S. &Caroline Wiltshire. Dec, 2011. Differences of tone Representations between Younger and Older Speakers of Nanjing Dialect. (A new statistical modeling of data presented in the NACCL was provided). ICCP in Tokyo, Japan.

Chen, S. &Caroline Wiltshire. June, 2011. Differences of tone Representations between Younger and Older Speakers of Nanjing Dialect. The North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL).  

Chen, S. May, 2010. A New Typology of Japanese Compound Accents &an Analysis in Optimality Theory. The International Phonetics-Phonology Conference in Shanghai, China.

Chen, S. Feb, 2010. The Minimum Duration Needed for Chinese Falling Tone Perception. The GSC Interdisciplinary Research Conference in University of Florida

Chen, S.. July, 2009. An OT-CC Analysis of Bidirectional Applications in Tianjin Dialect. Presentation at the (4th) International Conference on Formal Linguistics in Beijing, China

GRANTS

External grants

PI: The duration effect in perceiving pitch directions &its interactions with vowel quality &language experience ECS grant (RGC No. T26023416), Hong Kong government (HK$435,200) 2016-2018

PI: Developing a Social Robot for Cantonese &Mandarin Speech Prosody Training in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder Application No.: 2122-01) Research &Development (R&D) Projects 2021-22 of the Standing Committee on Language Education &Research (SCOLAR) (HK$1,128,760) 2/8/2021- 2/8/2023

PI: The effects of robot-assisted speech training in improving speech prosody by trilingual children with autism spectrum disorder RGC grant (HK$200,000) 2/7/2021-1/7/2023

PI: Early diagnosis and treatment of children with autism spectrum disorder based on an integration of robot and augmented reality technology Sin Wai Kin Foundation Limited (HK$2,500,000) 1/1 2023 to 31/12/2026

PI: Early diagnosis and treatment of children with autism spectrum disorder based on an integration of robot and augmented reality technology RGC matching fund (HK$1,250,000) 1/1/2023 to 31/12/2026

PI: Multimodal and multilingual individualized training in improving empathy and emotion recognition by autistic children, combining robotics and AR technology. Innovation and Technology Fund for Better Living (HK$2,499,238) 1/6 2024 to 31/5 2027

PI: Duologue Language and Dialect Recognition Corpus

PI: Linguistics Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania, supported by the Advanced Research Projects Agency & the National Science Foundation (HK$2,500,000) 1/6/2024 to1/6/2025

PI: The integration of two modalities: gesture and speech prosody in Cantonese focus marking in autistic and typical populations. General Research Fund, RGC HK$654,000 1/1/2026 to 1/1/2028

Co-I: Advancing the identification of Developmental Language Disorder in Mandarin-Cantonese bilingual children: a reference standard and novel assessment measures HK$1,423,201 1/1/2026 to 1/1/2029

Co-I: Underlying brain mechanisms of multimodal integration in language processing and their applications (语言加工中多模态整合的脑机制及其应用) Guangdong Province Key-Area R&D Plan(广东省重点领域研发计划项目) (RMB 11,000,000) 1/1/2023 to 12/31/2025

Co-I: Research on the relationship between schematic construction and grammaticalization, National Social Science Foundation- China Youth Project. 2022-2026

国家社科基金青年项目：图式性构式化和语法化的关系研究，22CYY036 (RMB 200,000)

Co-I: Collaborative Platform for Big Data for Multilingual Speaker Identification Technology, Linguistics Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania ($414,000(first phase)+$1,176,150(second phase) = HK$1,590,150) The Advanced Research Projects Agency &the National Science Foundation. 3/2018 – 6/2018

Co-I: The persuasive effect of the specific communication styles in corporate leaders’ narrative messages on stakeholders’ attitude (HK$236,714), General Research Fund, Hong Kong government, 1/1/2019-31/12/2020.

Co-I: Mainland/GBA Research Joint Research Centre for Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience with Peking University. (HK$7,500,000) 2023-2026

Internal grants

PI: Tonal Coarticulation in Nanjing Chinese Departmental General Research Fund ($37,600) June 2016-May 2017

PI: Statistical modeling of the phonologization of phonetic effects: A cross-linguistic study Dean’s Reserve application (International research collaboration) ($500,000) April 2016-April 2018

PI: Mechanisms in Mandarin Tone Sandhi: an Investigation into Surface Contours &Underlying Pitch Targets Dean’s Reserve (Start-up) $100,000) Mar-2016-Mar-2017

PI: The Minimum Duration for Perception of Pitch Directions &its Relationship with Vowel Quality &Language Experience Central Research Grant ($105,000) Nov 2015-Nov 2016

PI: Mandarin Disyllabic Tone Production Evaluations &Phonetic Training on L2 Learners Teaching &learning grant, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University ($100,000) Aug 2015-July 2016

PI: A quantitative model of learners’ variability in Cantonese tone perception &its application in individualized training paradigms Central Research Grant ($105,000) Jan 2018-Jan 2020

PI The effects of training on directional perceptual asymmetry in lexical tone perception Teaching &learning grant, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University ($100,000) July 2018-July 2019

PI: Perceptual Asymmetry in Mandarin Tone Processing &the Training Effects Faculty of Humanities, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University ($105,000) March 2018-March 2019

PI: The use of speech prosody in Cantonese children with &without autism, Departmental GRF($100,000) May 2019- May 2020

PI: Speech Prosody Processing with &without Visual Information by Native & Non-native Speakers, Departmental GRF ($150,000) 28 May 2020- 27 May 2021

PI: Speech prosody training by Cantonese-speaking children with autism spectrum disorder, Departmental GRF($55,000) 1 August 2020- 1 August 2021

PI: English speech prosody usage in statements &questions     by ASD &TD children &robots development in improving acquisition of English speech prosody, Dean’s Reserve ($505,000) 1 Nov, 2020-1 Nov, 2022

PI: Robot-assisted speech &musical training in improving speech prosody production &processing by Cantonese-speaking autistic children. Project of strategic importance, PolyU ($2,000,000) 2022-2024

PI: Robot-assisted training for children with autism spectrum disorder, Young Innovative Researcher Award (HK$500,000) 1 Jan 2023 to 31 Dec 2025

PI- Emotion Recognition Training based on an integration of Robot and AR technology in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder Inter-Faculty Collaboration Scheme for FH, FHSS and FENG (HK$500,000) 1 Jan 2023 to 31 Dec 2024

Co-I: Second Language Acquisition of Cantonese Tones by Tonal &Non-tonal language speakers Teaching &learning grant, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University ($100,000) Sep 2015-Aug 2016

Co-I: Tones by L2 Speakers: Towards a Better Training Strategy Teaching &learning grant, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University ($100,000) Aug 2015-July 2016

Co-I: Explicating the Persuasive Effect of Dialectical Values in Chinese Corporate Leaders' Narratives on Stakeholders' Engagement Central Research Grant ($105,000) Oct 2016 - Oct 2018

 Co-I: The persuasive effect of the specific communication styles in corporate leaders’ narrative messages on stakeholders’ attitude ($236,714), General Research Fund, Hong Kong government, 1/Jan/2019-31/Dec/2020

AWARDS:

PolyU Young Innovative Researcher Award, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Jun 2022

Research excellence award, Faculty of Humanities, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Aug 2019

Young Scholar Award finalist from the 26th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics, May 2014

Travel Award, Graduate School, University of Florida, May 2014

Travel Award, Graduate School, University of Florida Dec 2011

Travel Award, Linguistics Department, University of Florida, June, Dec 2011

Travel Award, ICCP conference Dec 2011

Fellowship, Beijing Foreign Language University Beijing's outstanding undergraduate student, Aug 2008 June 2008

Scholarships: (Six times, based on academic performance) Beijing International Studies University Sep 2004 - Sep 2007

Scholarship, New Oriental School Aug 2007

TEACHING

  • CBS 230 Fun with Language

  • CBS 421/490 Contrastive Analysis of Chinese &English

  • CBS 470 Contrastive Analysis of Chinese &English (evening)

  • CBS 5212 Adult Communication Disorders: Assessment &Treatment

  • CBS 503 Language in Society

  • CBS 533 Description of Chinese II: Sounds &Script

  • CBS5141 Introduction to Speech Therapy &Audiology

  • CBS5134 Foundations in Linguistics &Language Sciences IV

  • CBS3943 Sounds of Language

  • CBS4954/599 Statistics for Language Studies / Statistical Methods in Language Research

  • CBS4960 Phonetics and phonology

  • CBS4953 Techniques in Language Science

  • CBS 6814 (PhD course) Guided-study in Chinese Grammar

  • FH1000 Freshman Seminars

  • FH6056 (PhD course) Research Methods for Second Language Education

  • CBS T501 Professional ethics and academic integrity

SUPERVISING STUDENTS

  1. Ting Zhang (Postdoc student, supervisor)

  2. Dongjin Kim (Postdoc student, supervisor)

  3. Yixin Zhang (Postdoc student, supervisor; transferred to research assistant professor)

  4. Bruce Xiao Wang (Postdoc student, supervisor; transferred to research assistant professor)

  5. Xiaocong Chen (Postdoc student, Co-supervisor)

  6. Eunjin Chun (Postdoc student, Co-supervisor)

  7. Xu Zhu (PhD, Supervisor)

  8. Jianfei Ma (PhD, Supervisor)

  9. Kexin Zhu (PhD, Supervisor)

  10. Bingxin Liu (PhD, Supervisor)

  11. Bosen Zhang (PhD, Supervisor)

  12. Fang Zhou (PhD, Supervisor)

  13. Zhuoran Li (PhD, Supervisor)

  14. Meixuan Li (PhD, Supervisor)

  15. NgaChing Fu (PhD, Co-supervisor)

  16. Xi Chen (PhD, Supervisor)

  17. Yitian Hong (PhD, Supervisor)

  18. Li Bei (PhD, Supervisor)

  19. Yike Yang (PhD, Supervisor)

  20. Changwei Zhang (PhD, Co-supervisor)

  21. Jane Lai (PhD, Co-supervisor)

  22. Shiyue Li (MA, Supervisor)

  23. Xinrui Gou (MA, Supervisor)

  24. Xi Chen (MA, Supervisor)

  25. Shulin Liu (MA, Supervisor)

  26. Yuzhe Meng (MA, Supervisor)

  27. Jiaqi Ma (MA, Supervisor)

  28. Baobao Yang (MA, Supervisor)

  29. Luwei Ye (MA, Supervisor)

  30. Kwok Ka Man Carmen (MST, Supervisor)

  31. Lau Hoi Kiu Christy (MST, Supervisor)

  32. Lo Ying Ching Lita (MST, Supervisor)

  33. Wong Hei Tung Noel (MST, Supervisor)

  34. Lok Ching Chan (MST, Supervisor)

  35. Vincy Cheng (MST, Supervisor)

  36. Ka Man Cheung (MST, Supervisor)

  37. Lok To Ng (MST, Supervisor)

  38. Sum Elise (MST, Supervisor)

  39. Wu Kin Ching (MST, Supervisor)

  40. Cheung Lok Mang (MST, Supervisor)

  41. Fung Yuen Yu Claudia (MST, Supervisor)

  42. Mak Wai Ling Natalie (MST, Supervisor)

  43. Yee Shui Shan Sara (MST, Supervisor)

  44. Sammi Li (MST, Supervisor)

  45. Ka Lai Fok (MST, Supervisor)

  46. Wai Ting Law, Karina (MST, Supervisor)

  47. Yuen Hung Cheung, Scorbin (MST, Supervisor)

  48. Sze Long Cheung(MST, Supervisor)

  49. Chakling NG (MST, Supervisor)

  50. Lokhang Choi (MST, Supervisor)

  51. Fiona Cheng (MST, Supervisor)

  52. Lai Wei Tong (MST, Supervisor)

  53. Tsz Ching Milla Mak (MST, Supervisor)

  54. Sum Oi Lam Elise (MST, Supervisor)

  55. Chan Lok Ching (MST, Supervisor)

  56. Cheung Ka Man (MST, Supervisor)

  57. Ng Lok To Rachel (MST, Supervisor)

  58. Wu Kin Ching Karen (MST, Supervisor)

  59. Xu Zhan (BA, Supervisor)

  60. Sophie Chun (BA, Supervisor)

  61. Hoi Yuen Lam (BA, Supervisor)

  62. Sin Kei Fung (BA, Supervisor)

  63. Wing Yu Li (BA, Supervisor)

  64. Shan Yan Ho(BA, Supervisor)

  65. Sze Wan Lo (BA, Supervisor)

  66. Wong Cheyan (BA, Supervisor)

  67. LEE Sum Yuet (BA, Supervisor)

  68. LO Lok To (BA, Supervisor)

  69. Jiang Han (BA, Supervisor; Undergraduate Research &Innovation Scheme 2021/22

  70. Scholarship 10,000)

  71. Xikun Yang (BA, Supervisor; Undergraduate Research &Innovation Scheme 2024-2026 30,000)

  72. Wai Sum Chun (BA, Supervisor)

  73. Lok Yi Wong (BA, Supervisor)

CERTIFICATE &SKILLS

  • SLAT (Second Language Acquisition &Teaching) certificate, University of Florida

  • Japanese language proficiency test level 1 (highest level)

  • Coursera certificate: Neural Networks &Deep Learning

  • Programming language: Perl, Python

  • Statistics software: Minitab, R, SAS, SPSS,

  • Phonetics software: Praat, E-prime

  • Editing software: Latex, Word, Excel

SERVICE

  • Academic editor of Journal PLOS ONE 2018-present

  • Review Editor on the Editorial Board of Language Sciences (specialty section of Frontiers in Psychology & Frontiers in Communication) 2020-present

  • Editor of the research topic in Frontiers in Psychology (Linguistic Biomarkers of Neurological, Cognitive, and Psychiatric Disorders: Verification, Analytical Validation, Clinical Validation, and Machine Learning)

  • Reviewer of RGC grants (Faculty Development Scheme)

  • Reviewer of DGRF grants

  • Handling one paper in Frontiers in Psychology 2023

  • Handling one paper in Plos One 2023, 2025

  • Reviewer of Brain and Language, 2025

  • Reviewer of Acta Psychologica (invited) 2025

  • Reviewer of Language learning 2025

  • Reviewer of Clinical linguistics and phonetics 2025

  • Reviewer of Lingua (invited) 2025

  • Reviewer of Autism research 2024

  • Reviewer of Second Language Research 2024

  • Reviewer of Psycholinguistic Research 2024

  • Reviewer of Linguistics Vanguard 2024

  • Reviewer of Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 2024

  • Reviewer of Scientific Reports 2024

  • Reviewer of Frontiers in Psychology 2023

  • Reviewer of Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research 2023

  • Reviewer of Brain and Language (twice) 2023

  • Reviewer of Journal of Acoustical Society of America 2023

  • Reviewer of Journal of Acoustical Society of America 2022 (twice)

  • Reviewer of Frontiers in Psychology 2022 (twice)

  • Reviewer of Language & Speech 2022

  • Reviewer of Scientific Reports 2021

  • Reviewer of Journal of Phonetics (invited) 2021

  • Reviewer of Speech Communication 2021

  • Reviewer of Journal of Cognitive Psychology 2021

  • Reviewer of International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 2021

  • Reviewer of Studies in Chinese Linguistics 2021

  • Reviewer of Laboratory Phonology 2020 Aug

  • Reviewer of Applied Psycholinguistics 2020 June

  • Reviewer of Journal of Acoustical Society of America 2020 Sep

  • Reviewer of Journal of the International Phonetic Association 2019 July

  • Reviewer of Language, Cognition &Neuroscience 2019

  • Reviewer of Journal PLOS ONE 2018

  • Reviewer of Journal Lingua Sinica 2017

  • Reviewer of TESOL Quarterly 2017

  • Reviewer of International Conference on Tone and Intonation 2024

  • Reviewer of PolyU Research Student Conference (PRSC 2024) 2024

  • Reviewer of New Sounds: The 11th International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech, in Toronto, Canada from April 23rd-25th, 2025.

  • Reviewer of Speech Prosody 2024

  • Reviewer of PolyU Research Student Conference (PRSC 2023) 2023

  • Reviewer of New trends in Chinese as a Second Language” (CSL), Lancaster, UK

  • Reviewer of 2nd International Symposium on Automation, Information and Computing (ISAIC 2021) is organized by Beijing Jiaotong University and will be held online during December 3rd-6th, 2021.

  • Reviewer of APSIPA ASC 2019 (EI indexed and available in IEEE Xplore)

  • Reviewer of the 32nd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation

  • Reviewer of Interspeech 2018

  • Reviewer of Annual Research Forum held by Linguistic society of Hong Kong 2018

  • Member of Research Institute for Smart Ageing RISA (2021 Dec)

  • The committee member of China English Language Education Association.

  • The committee member of the International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI) 2021

  • The committee member of Hong Kong Linguistics Olympiad 2020-present

  • The executive committee member of the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong 2018-2019

  • The committee member of the Chinese Language Interface Advisory Committee 2020-2025

  • Moderator of Speech session, 2021 Postgraduate Research Symposium on Linguistics, Language, and Speech, Hong Kong Polytechnic University

  • Evaluator of poster sessions, 5th Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and Acoustical Society of Japan, Honolulu Hawaii

  • Session Chair: Linguistic Society of Hong Kong Annual Research Forum

  • External examiner for PhD examination at Middlesex University 

  •  

  • Departmental Management Committee member

  • Undergraduate research coordinator

  • URIS officer

  • RPg deputy program leader

  • BScST academic advisor

  • BALSS academic advisor

  • CBS working group of BSc in Language Sciences &Analytics

  • Checking documents of PhD applicants and interviewing shortlisted applicants

  • Social robot demonstration or organization for events (EDB representatives, info day & open house, EDB special education branch)

  • Revamp PhD program

  • Presentations about grant applications in the departmental workshops on research excellence

  • CBS library liaise officer

  • CBS Deputy KPI Officer

  • BDLCC Non-JUPAS interviewer

RESEARCH REPORTED IN NEWS

Acoustical Society of America’s online press room(December 07, 2020):

https://acoustics.org/1asca3-training-effects-on-speech-prosody-production-by-cantonese-speaking-children-with-autism-spectrum-disorder-si-chen/

Phonetics, Acquisition & Multilingualism Lab – PAMLab (March 25, 2020)

https://www.polyu.edu.hk/fh/news-and-events/news/2022/dr-chen-si-wins-the-university-young-innovative-researcher-award-2022/

https://www.polyu.edu.hk/fh/news-and-events/news/2021/fh-project-funded-by-the-university-project-of-strategic-importance-scheme-2021-22/

https://www.polyu.edu.hk/fh/news-and-events/news/2021/project-on-building-robots-for-musical-training-of-asd-children-funded-by-scolar/

REFEREES

  • Dr. Ratree Wayland, Department of Linguistics, University of Florida: ratree@ufl.edu

  • Dr. Caroline Wiltshire, Department of Linguistics, University of Florida: wiltshir@ufl.edu

  • Dr. Stephanie Wulff, Department of Linguistics, University of Florida: swulff@ufl.edu