Feng-Fan Hsieh
Biographic Data
| ID | 1720259 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Feng-Fan Hsieh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Feng-Fan |
| FAMILY NAME | Hsieh |
| SIGNATURE | HSIEH F |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Tsing Hua University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5185-1804 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Improved measurement of lateral parasagittal articulation integrating three-dimensional palate shape
Parasagittal tongue sensor positions alone unreliably measure lateralization. • Lateralization is reliably quantified using EMA with 3D palate shape data. • Tongue-side lowering relative to the palate distinguishes /l/ from /t/ and /n/. • Taiwanese Mandarin /l/ does not show greater lateral asymmetry than /t/ or /n/. • Lateral tongue bracing before /l/ release is vowel-dependent, occurring only in /i/. This study uses electromagnetic articulograp…
How word stress is realized in Thai
This study challenges the widespread belief that Thai lacks word stress, demonstrating its pivotal role in morphophonology. Through a Maximum Entropy analysis, we investigated how specific segmental properties statistically influence speakers’ choices of word order in coordinate compounds. Results indicate a significant effect of phonological weight on the ordering patterns. Specifically, the dispreference for stop codas in final positions and th…
On the Distribution of Neutral Tone in Southern Min
The aim of this paper is to address an often-overlooked topic in Southern Min tonology: neutral tone. We show that the tone sandhi domain in Southern Min is not always isomorphic with an XP in syntax or a phonological phrase. In fact, this domain may be smaller than what has been predicted, as evidenced in the phrase-final functional morphemes as well as in the rhythmic effect. We propose that the tone sandhi domain in Southern Min is defined by …
Coarticulation as synchronised CV co-onset - Parallel evidence from articulation and acoustics
Same Degree of Intensification with Different Degrees of Sentential Projections
In Chengdu Chinese, degree intensifiers for APs/VPs are attested to pair with three different types of sentence-final particles (SFPs), i.e., the FinP-level, the FocP-level and the ExclP-level SFPs, which function to complete a sentence, encode a focus and express exclamation. In our analysis, a degree intensifier projects a DegP, which pairs with one of the three sentential projections, viz., FinP, FocP and ExclP. This pairing is motivated by fe…
Variegated VC Rime Restrictions in Sinitic Languages
In this study, we consider a non-Markedness-based account for VC rime phonotactics in Sinitic languages, with special reference to Taiwanese Southern Min and Hakka. Rime gaps in Chinese languages have been customarily analyzed as co-occurrence markedness constraints. But analyses along this line not only overgenerate by predicting unattested gaps, but also fail to motivate those phonotactic constraints in a principled fashion. By adopting Hsieh’s…
Tonal coarticulation in Malaysian Hokkien
Contextual tonal variations in Malaysian Hokkien (Southern Min) display three features of unusual typological interest. First, our acoustic study shows that carryover and anticipatory tonal influences do not substantially differ in the magnitude, suggesting that tonal coarticulation may not be universally asymmetric, or, the carryover bias is not as robust as previously assumed. Second, carryover coarticulation is not predominantly assimilatory a…
Phonetic knowledge in tonal adaptation
Phonetic knowledge in tonal adaptation
Tonal coarticulation in Malaysian Hokkien
Contextual tonal variations in Malaysian Hokkien (Southern Min) display three features of unusual typological interest. First, our acoustic study shows that carryover and anticipatory tonal influences do not substantially differ in the magnitude, suggesting that tonal coarticulation may not be universally asymmetric, or, the carryover bias is not as robust as previously assumed. Second, carryover coarticulation is not predominantly assimilatory a…
Variegated VC Rime Restrictions in Sinitic Languages
In this study, we consider a non-Markedness-based account for VC rime phonotactics in Sinitic languages, with special reference to Taiwanese Southern Min and Hakka. Rime gaps in Chinese languages have been customarily analyzed as co-occurrence markedness constraints. But analyses along this line not only overgenerate by predicting unattested gaps, but also fail to motivate those phonotactic constraints in a principled fashion. By adopting Hsieh’s…
Same Degree of Intensification with Different Degrees of Sentential Projections
In Chengdu Chinese, degree intensifiers for APs/VPs are attested to pair with three different types of sentence-final particles (SFPs), i.e., the FinP-level, the FocP-level and the ExclP-level SFPs, which function to complete a sentence, encode a focus and express exclamation. In our analysis, a degree intensifier projects a DegP, which pairs with one of the three sentential projections, viz., FinP, FocP and ExclP. This pairing is motivated by fe…
Coarticulation as synchronised CV co-onset - Parallel evidence from articulation and acoustics
On the Distribution of Neutral Tone in Southern Min
The aim of this paper is to address an often-overlooked topic in Southern Min tonology: neutral tone. We show that the tone sandhi domain in Southern Min is not always isomorphic with an XP in syntax or a phonological phrase. In fact, this domain may be smaller than what has been predicted, as evidenced in the phrase-final functional morphemes as well as in the rhythmic effect. We propose that the tone sandhi domain in Southern Min is defined by …
How word stress is realized in Thai
This study challenges the widespread belief that Thai lacks word stress, demonstrating its pivotal role in morphophonology. Through a Maximum Entropy analysis, we investigated how specific segmental properties statistically influence speakers’ choices of word order in coordinate compounds. Results indicate a significant effect of phonological weight on the ordering patterns. Specifically, the dispreference for stop codas in final positions and th…
Improved measurement of lateral parasagittal articulation integrating three-dimensional palate shape
Parasagittal tongue sensor positions alone unreliably measure lateralization. • Lateralization is reliably quantified using EMA with 3D palate shape data. • Tongue-side lowering relative to the palate distinguishes /l/ from /t/ and /n/. • Taiwanese Mandarin /l/ does not show greater lateral asymmetry than /t/ or /n/. • Lateral tongue bracing before /l/ release is vowel-dependent, occurring only in /i/. This study uses electromagnetic articulograp…
Linguistic Variation and Morphology (7 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (7 works) · Linguistics (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Mathematics (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Physics (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Vowel (4 works) · Acoustics (3 works)