Yi Xu's Most Cited Publications

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[353] Xu, Y. (1999). Effects of tone and focus on the formation and alignment of F0 contours. Journal of Phonetics 27: 55-105.

[302] Xu, Y. (1997). Contextual tonal variations in Mandarin. Journal of Phonetics 25: 61-83.

[203] Xu, Y. and Wang, Q. E. (2001). Pitch targets and their realization: Evidence from Mandarin Chinese. Speech Communication 33: 319-337.

[155] Xu, Y. (1998). Consistency of tone-syllable alignment across different syllable structures and speaking rates. Phonetica 55: 179-203. Xu, Y. (1998). Consistency of tone-syllable alignment across different syllable structures and speaking rates. Phonetica 55: 179-203.

[137] Whalen, D. H. and Xu, Y. (1992). Information for Mandarin tones in the amplitude contour and in brief segments. Phonetica 49: 25-47.

[134] Xu, Y. and Xu, C. X. (2005). Phonetic realization of focus in English declarative intonation. Journal of Phonetics 33: 159-197.

[129] Xu, Y. and Sun X. (2002). Maximum speed of pitch change and how it may relate to speech. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 111: 1399-1413.

[121] Xu, Y. (1994). Production and perception of coarticulated tones. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 95: 2240-2253.

[104] Xu, Y. (2005). Speech melody as articulatorily implemented communicative functions. Speech Communication 46: 220-251.

[79] Xu, Y. (2001). Fundamental frequency peak delay in Mandarin. Phonetica 58: 26-52.

[60] Liu, F. and Xu, Y. (2005). Parallel Encoding of Focus and Interrogative Meaning in Mandarin Intonation. Phonetica 62: 70-87.

[53] Chen, Y. and Xu, Y. (2006). Production of weak elements in speech -- Evidence from f0 patterns of neutral tone in standard Chinese. Phonetica 63: 47-75.

[42] Xu, Y., Larson, C. R., Bauer, J. J. and Hain, T. C. (2004). Compensation for pitch-shifted auditory feedback during the production of Mandarin tone sequences. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 116: 1168-1178.

[41] Xu, Y. (2002) Articulatory constraints and tonal alignment. In Proceedings of The 1st International Conference on Speech Prosody, Aix-en-Provence, France. pp. 91-100.

[40] Xu, C. X., Xu, Y. and Luo, L-S. (1999). A pitch target approximation model for F0 contours in Mandarin. In Proceedings of The 14th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, San Francisco. pp. 2359-2362.

[38] Xu, C. X. and Xu, Y. (2003). Effects of Consonant Aspiration on Mandarin Tones. Journal of the International Phonetic Association 33: 165-181.

[37] Xu, Y. (2004). Understanding tone from the perspective of production and perception. Language and Linguistics 5: 757-797.

[34] Prom-on, S., Xu, Y. and Thipakorn, B. (2009) Modeling tone and intonation in Mandarin and English as a process of target approximation. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 125: 405-424.

[34] Xu, Y., Xu, C. X. and Sun, X. (2004). On the Temporal Domain of Focus. In Proceedings of International Conference on Speech Prosody 2004, Nara, Japan: 81-84.

[33] Xu, Y. (1993). Contextual tonal variation in Mandarin Chinese. Ph.D. dissertation. The University of Connecticut.

[31] Xu, Y. (2001). Sources of tonal variations in connected speech. Journal of Chinese Linguistics, monograph series #17. 1-31

[31] Chen, S. H., Liu, H., Xu, Y. and Larson, C. R. (2007). Voice F0 Responses to Pitch-Shifted Voice Feedback During English Speech. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 121: 1157-1163.

[28] Xu, Y. and Liu, F. (2006) Tonal alignment, syllable structure and coarticulation: Toward an integrated model. Italian Journal of Linguistics 18: 125-159. PDF Author version with better figures

[22] Liu, F. and Xu, Y. (2007). Question intonation as affected by word stress and focus in English. In Proceedings of The 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Saarbrucken. August, 2007. pp. 1189-1192.

[20] Xu, Y. (1991). Depth of phonological recoding in short-term memory. Memory & Cognition 19: 263-273.

[19] Xu, Y. and Wang, Q. E. (1997). What can tone studies tell us about intonation? In A. Botinis et al. (Eds.), Intonation: Theory, Models and Applications, Proceedings of an ESCA Workshop. European Speech Communication Association, Athens, Greece, pp. 337-340.

[19] Gauthier, B., Shi, R. and Xu, Y. (2007). Learning phonetic categories by tracking movements. Cognition 103: 80-106.

[18] Xu, Y. (1986). 普通话音联的声学语音学特性 [Acoustic-phonetic characteristics of juncture in Mandarin Chinese]. 《中国语文》[Zhongguo Yuwen: Journal of Chinese Linguistics] No. 4: 353- 360 (Beijing, China)

[17] Xu, Y. and Sun, X. (2000) How fast can we really change pitch? Maximum speed of pitch change revisited. In Proceedings of The 6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Beijing. III-666-669.

[17] Chen, S.-w., Wang, B. and Xu, Y. (2009). Closely related languages, different ways of realizing focus. In Proceedings of Interspeech 2009, Brighton, UK: 1007-1010.

[16] Wang, B. and Xu, Y. (2006). Prosodic encoding of topic and focus in Mandarin. In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2006, Dresden, Germany. PS3-12_0172.

[16] Xu, Y. (2006). Principles of tone research. In Proceedings of International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages, La Rochelle, France. pp. 3-13.

[15] Xu, Y. and Liu, F. (2007) Determining the temporal interval of segments with the help of F0 contours. Journal of Phonetics 35: 398-420.

[15] Xu, Y. (2004). Transmitting Tone and Intonation Simultaneously -- The Parallel Encoding and Target Approximation (PENTA) Model. In Proceedings of International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages: With Emphasis on Tone Languages, Beijing: 215-220.

[14] Chuenwattanapranithi, S., Xu, Y., Thipakorn, B. and Maneewongvatana, S. (2008) Encoding emotions in speech with the size code -- A perceptual investigation. Phonetica 65: 210-230.

[13] Prom-on, S., Xu, Y. and Thipakorn, B. (2006). Quantitative Target Approximation model: Simulating underlying mechanisms of tones and intonations. In Proceedings of The 31st International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Toulouse, France. pp. I-749-752.

[13] Wang, E., R. K. Peach, Xu, Y., Schneck, M., & Manry, C. II (2000). Perception of dynamic acoustic patterns by an individual with unilateral verbal auditory agnosia. Brain and Language 73: 442-455.

[12] Xu, Y. (1999). F0 peak delay: When, where and why it occurs. In Proceedings of The 14th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, San Francisco. pp. 1881-1884.

[12] Xu, Y. (2009) Timing and coordination in tone and intonation -- An articulatory-functional perspective. Lingua 119: 906-927.

[11] Xu, Y. (2004). The PENTA model of speech melody: Transmitting multiple communicative functions in parallel. In Proceedings of From Sound to Sense: 50+ years of discoverries in speech communication, Cambridge, MA, C-91-96.

[11] Xu, Y. and Wang, M. (2009) Organizing syllables into groups -- Evidence from F0 and duration patterns in Mandarin. Journal of Phonetics 37: 502-520.

[11] Xu, Y., Liberman, A.M., and Whalen, D.H. (1997). On the immediacy of phonetic perception. Psychological Science 8: 358-362.

[10] Xu, Y. and Liu, F. (2002) Segmentation of glides with tonal alignment as reference. In Proceedings of The 7th Internatonal Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Denver, Colorado. September, 2002. pp. 1093-1096.