Anqi Chen
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 73409 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Anqi Chen |
| PRENOMES | Anqi |
| SOBRENOME | Chen |
| ASSINATURA | CHEN A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Utrecht University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6745-9794 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 44 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 44 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2004 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Association between the skeletal muscle-to-visceral fat area ratio and liver fibrosis risk in patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
Background Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is highly prevalent and closely linked to metabolic dysfunction, with progressive liver fibrosis driving adverse outcomes. Conventional obesity metrics such as body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference inadequately capture body-composition imbalance. The skeletal muscle-to-visceral fat area ratio (SVR) integrates muscle reserve and visceral adiposity and may better reflect metabolic risk. H…
Cue-weighting in processing of prosodic boundaries in Dutch
Across languages, major prosodic boundaries, such as intonational phrase (henceforth, IP) boundaries, are typically signalled via three types of prosodic cues, namely pitch change, final lengthening, and pause. However, the relative weight of each cue in the perception of IP boundaries differs across languages. Little is known about which cues are important in Dutch. This study investigates cue-weighting during processing of IP boundaries in Dutc…
The Influence of Prenatal Language Exposure on the Use of Pitch in Newborns’ Vocalisations
Prenatal language exposure has been shown to influence early speech perception, with evidence suggesting that the acquisition of certain aspects of native-language prosody may begin before birth. While this notion has been well-supported from a perceptual perspective, findings across available production studies are inconsistent. This study, therefore, explored whether the pitch of newborns’ early vocalisations is influenced by prenatal exposure …
Social participation and cognitive function in Chinese older couples
Non-linear relationships between age-friendly neighborhood environments and cognitive health among older adults in Guangzhou, China
Eco‐Social Policy in Emerging Economies
As a nascent field, little is known about eco‐social policy, and to an even lesser extent, within emerging economies. This article examines how eco‐social policies are framed and practiced in this context using a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) of 20 peer‐reviewed articles, selected from an initial pool of 985 records following a multi‐stage screening and eligibility assessment process. The findings reveal that eco‐social policy in developing …
Age moderates the social participation-mental health association differently in urban and rural areas
Objectives Recent studies suggest that the association between social participation (SP) and mental health may change with age, although the direction of this relationship is unclear. Although some suggest that the mental health benefits of SP decline with age, others argue they become more important in later life. In this article, we suggest a context-dependent divergence in aging trajectories: whereas urban older adults continue to gain mental …
Production of intonational phrase boundaries in Dutch
In spoken language, major prosodic boundaries can be marked by three types of prosodic cues: pitch change, final lengthening, and pause. Although these cues appear cross-linguistically, their relative weight in signaling boundaries is considered language-specific. However, very little is known about prosodic phrasing in the production of Dutch. Past studies on Dutch prosodic phrasing mostly focused on boundary perception, suggesting that pause is…
The Role of Prosody in Expressing Subjective and Objective Causality in English
Numerous studies have established that prosody plays an important role in expressing meanings and functions. However, it remains unknown whether prosody is employed to convey the distinction between subjective causality (CLAIM-ARGUMENT) and objective causality (CONSEQUENCE-CAUSE). This study aimed to address this issue in English, where both types of causality are typically expressed using the same connective. Two production experiments were cond…
The Production-Comprehension Relationship in the Acquisition of Prosodic Focus Marking
Central to the debate on the production-comprehension relationship in prosodic development is the acquisition of the focus-to-prosody mapping in West Germanic languages. Past research primarily examined the production-comprehension relationship in 4- to 5-year-old English and Dutch-speaking children and yielded evidence both for and against a production-precedes-comprehension asymmetry. Recent research shows a protracted developmental trajectory …
Nexus Between Exposure to Natural Outdoor Environments and Cognitive Competence among Older Adults in China
With a rapidly aging population and an increasing number of older people with cognitive impairment, a multitude of social problems could arise. The natural outdoor environments (NOEs) surrounding residential areas are important environments as they directly influence the residents’ quality of life and even physical health. A plethora of studies have suggested the definitive impact of NOE on the physical and mental health of older people. There ha…
Exploring the motivational consequences of intergenerational contact
Prosodic processing in sentences with ‘only’ in L1 and L2 English
It has been proposed that second language (L2) learners differ from native speakers in processing due to either influence from their native language or an inability to integrate information from multiple linguistic domains in a second language. To shed new light on the underlying mechanism of L2 processing, we used an event-related potentials (ERP) paradigm to examine the processing of sentences with only in English by native speakers of English …
The influence of family health on self-efficacy in patients with chronic diseases
Chronic diseases have become a global health challenge, and more attention should be paid to improving the self-efficacy of the chronically ill population. Our results not only facilitate the understanding of the relationship mechanisms between family health and self-efficacy in chronic patients but can also serve as a guide for healthcare workers and policymakers who wish to provide better care for patients
Re-understanding well-being in the Global South
Purpose The significance of well-being in social development policy and practice is increasingly acknowledged by scholars and practitioners worldwide. Nevertheless, when examining well-being within the context of Global South trends, existing conceptualisations seem to yield incongruent indicators. Given the background, this paper aims to synthesise theoretical and empirical literature on well-being to foster an understanding of well-being in con…
Y-STR analysis of highly degraded DNA from skeletal remains over 70 years old
The goal of the following study is to clarify whether the skeletal remains over 70 years old from missing persons and their alleged relatives shared identical Y-STR loci. Nowadays, advances in ancient DNA extraction techniques and approaches of using multiple different Y-STRs have significantly increased the possibility of obtaining DNA profiles from highly degraded skeletal remains. Given the ages and conditions of the skeletal remains, ancient …
Theoretical evaluation on CO 2 removal potential of enhanced weathering based on shrinking core model
The discrepancy between current CO 2 emission trend and the targeted 1.5 °C warming requires the implementation of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies. Among the engineered CDRs, enhanced weathering (EW) is expected to exhibit substantial potential for CO 2 removal, owing to the availability of abundant reserves of ultramafic rocks and demonstration of worldwide liming practice. While the shrinking core model (SCM) has been commonly adopted…
A Sustainable Road Transport Decarbonisation
Due to the prosperous development of the economy, the emissions of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) and other greenhouse gases (GHGs) have intensified and attracted attention worldwide. China has set the "dual-carbon" aim to pursue sustainable development in the transport sector. Thus, this study created a generalised Bass model to forecast new energy vehicle (NEV) ownership by introducing a new factor, charging piles, to reflect the infrastructure effects…
Examining individuals’ behavior intentions toward reducing haze through the extended lenses of theory of planned behavior
Processing of Grammatical Agreement in the Face of Variation in Lexical Stress
Previous electroencephalography studies have yielded evidence for automatic processing of syntax and lexical stress. However, these studies looked at both effects in isolation, limiting their generalizability to everyday language comprehension. In the current study, we investigated automatic processing of grammatical agreement in the face of variation in lexical stress. Using an oddball paradigm, we measured the Mismatch Negativity (MMN) in Dutch…
Empirical Study of Monthly Economic Losses Assessments for “Standard Unit Lockdown” Due to Covid-19
Background: The pandemic of COVID-19 has been shaping economic developments of the world. From the standpoint of government measures to prevent and control the epidemic, the lockdown was widely used. It is essential to access the economic losses in a lockdown environment which will provide government administration with a necessary reference for decision making in controlling the epidemic. Methods: We introduce the concept of "standard unit incid…
A proposal for research on the acquisition of prosodic focus marking in diverse languages
Kidd and Garcia demonstrate a dire lack of diversity in language acquisition research. We present a concrete proposal to improve language and area coverage in the field. Our approach outlines key questions in an understudied area, that is, prosody, methods for collecting and analyzing data, resources for training and tools, and a means to foster research collaboration and publication of crosslinguistic findings. The proposal, if implemented on a …
The acquisition of prosodic marking of narrow focus in Central Swedish
We investigated how Central Swedish-speaking four to eleven-year-old children acquire the prosodic marking of narrow focus, compared to adult controls. Three measurements were analysed: placement of the prominence-marking high tone (prominence H), pitch range effects of the prominence H, and word duration. Subject-verb-object sentences were elicited in sentence-medial and sentence-final focus conditions via a semi-spontaneous elicitation task. Th…
Investigation on the Genetic-Inconsistent Paternity Cases Using the MiSeq FGx System
Mutations might challenge the paternity index calculation in forensic identification. While many studies have focussed on the autosomal short tandem repeats (A-STR), the mutation status of sex chromosomes and single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) remain blank. Next generation sequencing (NGS), known as high throughput and large sequence polymorphism, is a promising tool for forensic genetics. To describe the mutation landscapes in the paternity ca…
The role of auditory and visual cues in the interpretation of Mandarin ironic speech
Language-Specificity in the Perception of Paralinguistic Intonational Meaning
This study examines the perception of paralinguistic intonational meanings deriving from Ohala's Frequency Code (Experiment 1) and Gussenhoven's Effort Code (Experiment 2) in British English and Dutch. Native speakers of British English and Dutch listened to a number of stimuli in their native language and judged each stimulus on four semantic scales deriving from these two codes: SELF-CONFIDENT versus NOT SELF-CONFIDENT, FRIENDLY versus NOT FRIE…
What's in a word
Using a simulated telephone conversation task, we elicited sarcastic production in different utterance types (i.e. declaratives, tag questions andwh-exclamatives from native speakers of the southern variety of British English. Unlike previous studies which focus on static prosodic measurements at the utterance level (e.g. mean pitch, pitch span, intensity), we examined both static prosodic measurements and continuous changes in contour shape in t…
Intonation of 'now' in resolving scope ambiguity in English and Dutch
The role of auditory and visual cues in the interpretation of Mandarin ironic speech
Quiet is the New Loud
In a number of languages, prosody is used to highlight new information (or focus). In Dutch, focus is marked by accentuation, whereby focal constituents are accented and post-focal constituents are de-accented. Even if pausing is not traditionally seen as a cue to focus in Dutch, several previous studies have pointed to a possible relationship between pausing and information structure. Considering that Dutch-speaking 4 to 5 year olds are not yet …
Is there really an asymmetry in the acquisition of the focus-to-accentuation mapping
Forensic Parameters of 41 Y-STR Loci in Shandong Han Individuals and Comparison with 42 other Populations
Perception of Paralinguistic Intonational Meaning in a Second Language
Recent studies of paralinguistic intonational meaning show that languages differ systematically in how pitch range is used to signal meaning differences, contra previous claims. This poses an additional challenge to second language learners, who generally receive little tutoring on intonation. This study investigates learners' competence and strategies in the perception of paralinguistic intonational meaning by examining the perception of "emphat…
The Climate Studies Group Mona
Introduction The Climate Studies Group Mona (CSGM) was launched in 1994, in the Department of Physics, the University of the West Indies, Mona campus. The initiative was set in motion by Professor the Honourable A. Anthony Chen, O. M., Professor of Applied Physics. During the formative years we were given valuable assistance from by the Centre for Ocean Land Atmosphere Studies (COLA), the Inter American Institute (IAI) for A Global Change Researc…
Language-Specificity in the Perception of Paralinguistic Intonational Meaning
This study examines the perception of paralinguistic intonational meanings deriving from Ohala's Frequency Code (Experiment 1) and Gussenhoven's Effort Code (Experiment 2) in British English and Dutch. Native speakers of British English and Dutch listened to a number of stimuli in their native language and judged each stimulus on four semantic scales deriving from these two codes: SELF-CONFIDENT versus NOT SELF-CONFIDENT, FRIENDLY versus NOT FRIE…
Pitch accent type matters for online processing of information status
Adopting an eyetracking paradigm, we investigated the role of H*L, L*HL, L*H, H*LH, and deaccentuation at the intonational phrase-final position in online processing of information status in British English in natural speech. The role of H*L, L*H and deaccentuation was also examined in diphonesynthetic speech. It was found that H*L and L*HL create a strong bias towards newness, whereas L*H, like deaccentuation, creates a strong bias towards given…
The Climate Studies Group Mona
Introduction The Climate Studies Group Mona (CSGM) was launched in 1994, in the Department of Physics, the University of the West Indies, Mona campus. The initiative was set in motion by Professor the Honourable A. Anthony Chen, O. M., Professor of Applied Physics. During the formative years we were given valuable assistance from by the Centre for Ocean Land Atmosphere Studies (COLA), the Inter American Institute (IAI) for A Global Change Researc…
Perception of Paralinguistic Intonational Meaning in a Second Language
Recent studies of paralinguistic intonational meaning show that languages differ systematically in how pitch range is used to signal meaning differences, contra previous claims. This poses an additional challenge to second language learners, who generally receive little tutoring on intonation. This study investigates learners' competence and strategies in the perception of paralinguistic intonational meaning by examining the perception of "emphat…
Is there really an asymmetry in the acquisition of the focus-to-accentuation mapping
Intonation of 'now' in resolving scope ambiguity in English and Dutch
Tuning information packaging
This study examined how four- to five-year-olds and seven- to eight-year-olds used intonation (accent placement and accent type) to encode topic and focus in Dutch. Naturally spoken declarative sentences with either sentence-initial topic and sentence-final focus or sentence-initial focus and sentence-final topic were elicited via a picture-matching game. Results showed that the four- to five-year-olds were adult-like in topic-marking, but were n…
The antithrombotic effect of RSNK in blood-stasis model rats
Quiet is the New Loud
In a number of languages, prosody is used to highlight new information (or focus). In Dutch, focus is marked by accentuation, whereby focal constituents are accented and post-focal constituents are de-accented. Even if pausing is not traditionally seen as a cue to focus in Dutch, several previous studies have pointed to a possible relationship between pausing and information structure. Considering that Dutch-speaking 4 to 5 year olds are not yet …
Massively parallel sequencing of 231 autosomal SNPs with a custom panel
The custom-designed single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) panel amplified 231 autosomal SNPs in one PCR reaction and subsequently sequenced with massively parallel sequencing (MPS) technology and Ion Torrent personal genome machine (PGM). SNPs were chosen from SNPforID, IISNP, HapMap, dbSNP, and related published literatures. Full concordance was obtained between available MPS calling and Sanger sequencing with 9947A and 9948 controls. Ten SNPs (r…
Four- to five-year-olds’ use of word order and prosody in focus marking in Dutch
This study investigated Dutch-speaking four- to five-year-olds’ use of word order and prosody in distinguishing focus types (broad focus, narrow focus, and contrastive narrow focus) via an interactive answer-reconstruction game. We have found an overall preference for the unmarked word order SVO and no evidence for the use of OVS to distinguish focus types. But the children used pitch and duration in the subject-nouns to distinguish focus types i…
The developmental path to adult-like prosodic focus-marking in Mandarin Chinese-speaking children
This study investigates how children acquire prosodic focus-marking in Mandarin Chinese. Using a picture-matching game, we elicited spontaneous production of sentences in various focus conditions from children aged four to eleven. We found that Mandarin Chinese-speaking children use some pitch-related cues in some tones and duration in all tones in an adult-like way to distinguish focus from non-focus at the age of four to five. Their use of pitc…
What's in a word
Using a simulated telephone conversation task, we elicited sarcastic production in different utterance types (i.e. declaratives, tag questions andwh-exclamatives from native speakers of the southern variety of British English. Unlike previous studies which focus on static prosodic measurements at the utterance level (e.g. mean pitch, pitch span, intensity), we examined both static prosodic measurements and continuous changes in contour shape in t…
Development of Phrase-Level Prosody From Infancy to Late Childhood
This chapter reviews the state-of-the-art research on phrase-level prosodic development. The chapter first discusses prosodic variation in early vocalizations, its communicative connotations, and perception of tonal patterns and prosodic phrases in infancy. Second, it reviews the main findings on development in the inventory of phonologically distinct tonal patterns (i.e. pitch accents, boundary tones) and in prosodic phrasing and rhythm from the…
(Mis) understanding your native language
Beyond Ethnic Enclave
This paper studies the integration of Chinese immigrants in the Triangle de Choisy neighborhood in Paris, which is known for being an exotic hub of Chinese commercial and cultural activities. Based on Serge Paugam’s model, we investigated the social integration of Chinese residents in the neighborhood. Our ndings show that while dense social bonds allowed for better connection, our respondents are generally reluctant to address political engageme…
Comprehension of Focus-to-Accentuation Mapping in Sentences With Only by Advanced Cantonese Learners and Dutch Learners of English
This study investigates L2 comprehension of focus-to-accentuation mapping in English sentences with focus particle only by advanced learners of English whose L1 was either Cantonese or Dutch. Two experiments were conducted to examine (a) whether L2 learners could map accentuation to focus; and (b) whether they could perceive accentuation in English sentences. Results show that accentuation played little role in Cantonese learners’ comprehension o…
Going beyond F0
Using a semi-spontaneous speech corpus, we present evidence from computational modelling of tonal productions from Mandarin-speaking children (4- to 11-years old) and adults, showing that children exceed the adult-level tonal distinction at the age of 7 to 8 years using F0 cues, but do not reach the high adult-level distinction using spectral cues even at the age of 10 to 11 years. The difference in the developmental curves of F0 and spectral cue…
Forensic Parameters of 41 Y-STR Loci in Shandong Han Individuals and Comparison with 42 other Populations
Empirical Study of Monthly Economic Losses Assessments for “Standard Unit Lockdown” Due to Covid-19
Background: The pandemic of COVID-19 has been shaping economic developments of the world. From the standpoint of government measures to prevent and control the epidemic, the lockdown was widely used. It is essential to access the economic losses in a lockdown environment which will provide government administration with a necessary reference for decision making in controlling the epidemic. Methods: We introduce the concept of "standard unit incid…
A proposal for research on the acquisition of prosodic focus marking in diverse languages
Kidd and Garcia demonstrate a dire lack of diversity in language acquisition research. We present a concrete proposal to improve language and area coverage in the field. Our approach outlines key questions in an understudied area, that is, prosody, methods for collecting and analyzing data, resources for training and tools, and a means to foster research collaboration and publication of crosslinguistic findings. The proposal, if implemented on a …
The acquisition of prosodic marking of narrow focus in Central Swedish
We investigated how Central Swedish-speaking four to eleven-year-old children acquire the prosodic marking of narrow focus, compared to adult controls. Three measurements were analysed: placement of the prominence-marking high tone (prominence H), pitch range effects of the prominence H, and word duration. Subject-verb-object sentences were elicited in sentence-medial and sentence-final focus conditions via a semi-spontaneous elicitation task. Th…
Investigation on the Genetic-Inconsistent Paternity Cases Using the MiSeq FGx System
Mutations might challenge the paternity index calculation in forensic identification. While many studies have focussed on the autosomal short tandem repeats (A-STR), the mutation status of sex chromosomes and single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) remain blank. Next generation sequencing (NGS), known as high throughput and large sequence polymorphism, is a promising tool for forensic genetics. To describe the mutation landscapes in the paternity ca…
The role of auditory and visual cues in the interpretation of Mandarin ironic speech
Theoretical evaluation on CO 2 removal potential of enhanced weathering based on shrinking core model
The discrepancy between current CO 2 emission trend and the targeted 1.5 °C warming requires the implementation of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies. Among the engineered CDRs, enhanced weathering (EW) is expected to exhibit substantial potential for CO 2 removal, owing to the availability of abundant reserves of ultramafic rocks and demonstration of worldwide liming practice. While the shrinking core model (SCM) has been commonly adopted…
Psychology (24 obras) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (19 obras) · Linguistics (18 obras) · Prosody (14 obras) · Computer Science (13 obras) · Language Development and Disorders (12 obras) · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (12 obras) · Geography (7 obras) · Perception (7 obras) · Cognitive psychology (6 obras)