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Wai Yi Peggy Wong

The Ohio State University

Department of Linguistics

222 Oxley Hall

1712 Neil Avenue

Columbus, OH43210

USA

Tel: (614) 292-8878

Fax: (614) 292-8833

pwong@ling.osu.edu

• Research

• Doctoral Dissertation

• Current Projects

• Publications

• Presentations

• CV

• About me

• Some Favourite Links

• Photos

Research

Interests:  Phonetics; Laboratory phonology; Text-to-speech synthesis; Psycholinguistics; Dialectal variation in Chinese; Child language acquisition

Foci:  Prosody of spoken Cantonese; Speech synthesis for Cantonese

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Doctoral Dissertation

Syllable fusion in Hong Kong Cantonese connected speech

Current Projects

*  Cross-language investigation of language development

*  Cantonese Tones and Break Indices (C_ToBI)

    What is ToBI?  Click here.

*  Concatenative speech synthesis for Cantonese

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Wong, W. Y. P., Chan, M. K.-M. and Beckman, M. E. (2005). ‘An autosegmental-metrical analysis and prosodic annotation conventions for Cantonese.’  In: Prosodic Typology: The Phonology of Intonation and Phrasing.  (Collection of papers from the 14^th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences 1999 Satellite Workshop on “Intonation: Models and ToBI Labeling”, San Francisco, CA. 1-7 August 1999.)  Edited by Sun-Ah Jun.  Oxford University Press. [a preprint paper in PDF & accompanying sound files in WAV]

Tserdanelis, G. and Wong, W. Y. P. (eds.) (2004). Language Files 9: Materials for an Introduction to Language and Linguistics. Ohio State University Press.

Wong, W. Y. P. (2004). ‘Syllable fusion and speech rate in Hong Kong Cantonese’. In: Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2004, 255-258. 22-26 March , Nara, Japan. [paper in PDF & accompanying sound files in WAV]

Wong, W. Y. P., Brew, C., Chan, S.-D. and Beckman, M. E. (2002). ‘Using the Segmentation Corpus to define an inventory of concatenative units for Cantonese speech synthesis.’ In: Proceedings of the First SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing in conjunction with COLING 2002. (Papers presented at the First SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, 1 September 2002.) Edited by Benjamin K. T’sou, Olivia O. Y. Kwong and Tom B. Y. Lai. [paper in PDF] [poster in powerpoint]

Fung, R. S. Y., Law, S. P., Yu, M. Y. Y. and Wong, W. Y. P. (1999). ‘Virtual tutorials in phonology: A new approach to raise phonological awareness among Hong Kong students.’ In: Proceedings of First Conference on Quality in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 154-159.

Fung, R. S. Y., Law, S. P., Wong, W. Y. P. and Yu, M. Y. Y. (1997). Web teaching development: ‘Enhancing phonetic skills in Cantonese, English and Mandarin on the Internet.’

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Wong, W. Y. P. (2004). ‘Investigating the prosody of Cantonese: Syllable fusion and speech rate in Hong Kong Cantonese’. Invited talk. Department of Electronic Engineering, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 23 April 2004. [presentation in PDF & accompanying sound files in WAV]

Wong, W. Y. P. (2004). ‘Syllable fusion and speech rate in Hong Kong Cantonese’. Poster presented at Speech Prosody 2004, 22-26 March 2004, Nara, Japan.

Fon, J., Wong, W. Y. P., Peng, S., Jun, S.-A., Chen, Y. (2003). ‘Some observation from the Asian languages group regarding cross-language similarities and differences in principles of prosodic grouping.’ Paper presented at Intonation in Language Varieties -- Autosegmental-Metrical Approaches, Satellite Meeting, ICPhS 2003, Barcelona, 3 August 2003. [powerpoint presentation]

Wong, W. Y. P., Brew, C., Chan, S.-D. and Beckman, M. E. (2002). ‘Using the Segmentation Corpus to define an inventory of concatenative units for Cantonese speech synthesis.’ In: Proceedings of the First SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing in conjunction with COLING 2002. (Papers presented at the First SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, 1 September 2002.) Edited by Benjamin K. T’sou, Olivia O. Y. Kwong and Tom B. Y. Lai. [paper in PDF] [poster in powerpoint]

Wong, W. Y. P. (2001). ‘Cues and constraints: Perception of stop place by Hong Kong Cantonese listeners.’ Summer 2000 Research Fellowships Brown Bag Series paper presentation, Center for Cognitive Science, The Ohio State University.

Wong, W. Y. P. (2000). ‘Syllable fusion in Hong Kong Cantonese connected speech.’ Colloquium Fest, Department of Linguistics, The Ohio State University.

Wong, W. Y. P., Chan, M. K.-M. and Beckman, M. E. (1999). ‘Cantonese.’ ToBI Workshop, Satellite Meeting, ICPhS 1999, San Francisco, August 1, 1999.

Columbus, Ohio --

The Columbus Chinese Christian Church (Joshua Fellowship)

Hong Kong --

* Taipo Baptist Church 大埔浸信會

* SKH Lui Ming Choi Memorial Primary School

* Hong Kong True Light College

* Marymount Secondary School

* Class webpage for Ling 500 (Winter 2006 with Kathleen Hall)