Dr Karen Huang

PhD (Hawaii), MA (Hawaii), BSc (NTU)

Senior Lecturer

In: Asian Studies » Cultures, Languages and Linguistics » Faculty of Arts

Research | Current

Chinese linguistics
Acoustic phonetics
Speech perception
Chinese dialects
Historical linguistics
Language contact
Tone

Teaching | Current

CHINESE 101 Beginning Modern Chinese 2

CHINESE 178 Study Abroad 1

CHINESE 739 Educational Linguistics in Chinese

CHINESE 200 Intermediate Modern Chinese 1

CHINESE 277 Study Abroad 2A

CHINESE 278 Study Abroad 2B

CHINESE 377 Study Abroad 3A

CHINESE 378 Study Abroad 3B

CHINESE 739 Educational Linguistics in Chinese

Areas of expertise

Chinese linguistics; Acoustic Phonetics; Speech Perception; Chinese dialects; Historical Linguistics; Language contact; Tone

Selected publications and creative works (Research Outputs)

Huang, K. (2018). Phonological Identity of the Neutral-tone Syllables in Taiwan Mandarin: An Acoustic Study. Acta Linguistica Asiatica, 8 (2), 9-50. 10.4312/ala.8.2.9-50
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/43675
Huang, K. (2017). A typological analysis of Chinese heritage language programs at Universities in North America and Oceania = 北美紐澳大學華裔中文傳承教育類型分析. Taiwan Journal of Chinese as a Second Language = 台灣華語文教學學會, 14, 3-28.
Huang, K. (2017). From pitch contour variation to tone change: An analysis of the phonological representations of the tones in Taiwan Mandarin. International Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 4 (2), 273-307. 10.1075/ijchl.16016.hua
Huang, K. (2016). Production of lexical tones by Southern Min-Mandarin bilinguals. Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody, 2016, 1047-1051. Boston, U.S.A.. 10.21437/SpeechProsody.2016
Huang, K. (2013). Revisiting the four tones in Taiwan Mandarin. In W.-S. Lee (Ed.) Proceedings of ICPLC-2013, 58-61. Hong Kong, China.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/22525
Huang, K. (2012). A study of neutral-tone syllables in Taiwan Mandarin University of Hawai'i at Manoa. ProQuest.
Huang, K. (2011). On the perception of the neutral tone in Taiwan Mandarin. Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS XVII), 910-913. Hong Kong, China. Related URL.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/22520
Huang, K. (2009). A reconstruction of Proto-Yue vowels. , 2. Honolulu, Hawaii, USA: University of Hawai’i. Related URL.