Grants/Awards

External funding

1. 8/2022 –7/2025. Phonetic convergence of consonant spectral characteristics across the lifespan -- Using deretroflexion and retroflexion in Taiwan Mandarin as an example [MOST 111-2410-H-002 -094 -MY3]
2. 1/2021 –12/2022.教育部大專校院人文與社會科學領域標竿計畫（語言學類）子計畫二 [110L9A00102]
3. 8/2018 –7/2022. A study on the role of sibilant variation in Taiwan Mandarin and Min sentence processing via acoustic, behavioral and ERP experiment [MOST107-2410-H-002 -136 -MY3]
4. 8/2015 –7/2018. The effect of prosody and speaker group on production and perception of phonetic variation in Taiwan Mandarin [MOST104-2410-H-002-160-MY3]
5. 8/2013 – 7/2015. Factors affecting the realization of incompletely phonologized rules in spontaneous speech--using the syllable-final nasal merger in Taiwan Mandarin as an example [NSC102-2410-H-002-081-]
6. 8/2013 – 7/2015. Factors affecting the realization of incompletely phonologized rules in spontaneous speech--using the syllable-final nasal merger in Taiwan Mandarin as an example [NSC102-2410-H-002-081-]
7. 8/2012 – 7/2013. A family of intelligent service robots in a next generation office building (III) [NSC101-2221-E-002-118-]
8. 8/2011 – 7/2012. A family of intelligent service robots in a next generation office building (II)  NSC100-2221-E-002-095-
9. 8/2010 – 7/2013. Discourse boundary cues in Mandarin-Min bilinguals. NSC99-2410-H-002-222-MY3
10. 8/2010 – 7/2011. A corpus-based study on production and perception of emotion acoustics in robot users. NSC99-2221-E-002-204-
11. 8/2008 – 7/2011. The impact of phonetic variation on phone cognition in spontaneous speech—Speech corpus construction and application. [NSC Center for Humanities Research]
12. 8/2008 – 7/2010. Mandarin tonal production and perception in monolingual and bilingual speakers. NSC97-2628-H-002-112-MY2
13. 8/2007 – 7/2008. The effect of gender and familiarity on exchange intervals in Mandarin and Min conversations using medium-sized spontaneous dialog speech corpora. NSC96-2411-H-002-080-
14. 8/2006 – 9/2007. The effect of region and genre on pitch range of Tone 1 in Taiwan Mandarin. NSC95-2411-H-002 -046-
15. 8/2005 – 7/2006. A study on English exchange rhythm in a cross-cultural context. NSC94-2411-H-002-103-
16. 8/2004 – 7/2005. A study on tonal convergence of Tone 2 and Tone 3 in Taiwan Mandarin. NSC93-2411-H-003-072-
17. 8/2003 – 7/2004. A preliminary construction of Taiwan Southern Min spontaneous speech corpus. NSC92-2411-H-003-050-
18. 11/2002 – 7/2003. Perceptibility of discourse boundaries in divergent languages. NSC91-2411-H-003-065-

University funding

1. 10/2011. Small research fund. College of Liberal arts. NTU10R30101
2. 9/2011 – 1/2012. English Lecture Encouragement Fund. College of Liberal Arts, NTU10R20021
3. 8/2011 – 7/2014. A study on discourse boundary cue variations in Taiwan Mandarin users. NTU10R70801.
4. 1/2010 – 12/2010.  A perceptual study of disjuncture signals in Taiwan Mandarin speakers, NTU99R901111
5. 1/2009 – 12/2009. Syllable-final nasal variation in Mandarin spontaneous speech (II), NTU98R0501-11
6. 9/2008 – 1/2009. English Lecture Encouragement Fund. College of Liberal Arts, NTU97R0501-01
   
7. 1/2008 – 12/2008. Syllable-final nasal variation in Mandarin spontaneous speech, NTU97R0501-11
8. 1/2008 – 10/2008. Advancing to Top University: Teaching quality improvement in special courses--phonology, NTU97R0079-38
9. 1/2007 – 10/2007. Advancing to Top University: Teaching quality improvement in special courses--statistics, NTU96R0078-04
10. 1/2006 – 6/2006. English Lecture Encouragement Fund. College of Liberal Arts, NTU96R0033-01
11. 8/2005 – 10/2005. Perception of discourse boundary cues. NTU Commission on Research and Development
12. 10/2004 – 7/2005. A study on tonal convergence of Tone 2 and Tone 3 in Taiwan Mandarin. NTNU-ORD 93091004
13. 11/2003 – 7/2004. A preliminary construction of Taiwan Southern Min spontaneous speech corpus. NTNU-ORD 92091003
14. 11/2002 – 11/2003. Perceptibility of discourse boundaries in divergent languages. NTNU-ORD 91091003
15. 7/1999 – 9/1999. Speech rate tracking using an oscillator model. Center for Cognitive Science, OSU

Awards

1. 2021 Faculty Excellence Award
2. 2019 Departmental Distinguished Teaching Award
3. 2018 NTU National Taiwan University Award for Outstanding Faculty
4. 2012 NTU Graduate Mentor Award
5. 2012 NTU Outstanding Teacher Award
6. 2010 NSC Subsidy for Distinguished Scholars
7. 2009 Ta-you Wu Award
8. 2007 Departmental Distinguished Teaching Award
9. 2007 NSC Distinguished Young Scholar Award