Publications

Journal papers

1. Chuang, Y.-Y. & Fon, J. (2018). The effect of speaker gender and talker proficiency on the realization of Taiwan Min /dz/ among young speakers. Lingua Sinica, 4(1), 1-36. [supported by MOST104-2410-H-002-160-MY3]
2. Chuang, Y.-Y. & Fon, J.* (2017). On the dialectal variations of voiced sibilant /dz/ in Taiwan Min young speakers. Lingua Sinica, 3(1), 1-34. [supported by MOST104-2410-H-002-160-MY3]
3. Fon, J.,* Hung, J.-m., Huang, Y.-H, & Hsu, H.-j. (2011). Dialectal variations on syllable-final nasal mergers in Taiwan Mandarin. Language and Linguistics, 12(2), 273–311. [supported by NTU97R0501-11, NTU98R0501-11] (AHCI/SSCI)
4. Fon, J.,* Johnson, K., & Chen, S. (2011). Durational patterning at syntactic and discourse boundaries in Mandarin spontaneous speech. Language and Speech, 54(1), 5–32.  [supported by NSC93-2411-H-003-072-, NTNU-ORD 93091004] (SSCI)
5. Fon, J.*, Chiang, W.-Y., & Cheung, H. (2004). Production and perception of two dipping tones (T2 and T3) in Taiwan Mandarin. Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 32 (2), 249–280. (AHCI/SSCI)
   
6. Fon, J.* & Johnson, K. (2004). Syllable onset intervals as an indicator of discourse/syntactic boundaries in Taiwan Mandarin. Language and Speech, 47 (1), 57–82. (SSCI)
   
7. Fon, J.* & Chiang, W.-Y. (1999). What does Chao have to say about tones? –a case study of Taiwan Mandarin. Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 27 (1), 15–37. (AHCI/SSCI)

Edited Book 

1. Fon, J. (Ed.) (2019). Cognitive Linguistics Research: Dimensions of Diffusion and Diversity (Series Eds.: Dirk Geeraerts, Dagmar Divjak, & John R. Taylor). De Gruyter Mouton.

Book chapters

1. 馮怡蓁. (2021). 從唧唧咕咕到咭咭呱呱：淺談現代漢語語音學. In 黃宣範 (Ed.) 語言學──結構、認知與文化的探索. 臺大出版中心.
2. Chuang, Y.-Y., Fon, J., Papakyritsis, I., Baayen, R. H.* (2021). Analyzing phonetic data with generalized additive mixed models. In M. J. Ball (Ed.) Manual of Clinical Phonetics. (pp.108 -138) Taylor & Francis Routledge.  
3. Lee, C.-l. & Fon, J. (2021). How linguistic cultural experiences shape our realities: Demonstrations of Whorfian effects with classroom experiments. In M. S. Wong, L. Weiner, J. Cerniak, & L. T. S. Yee (Eds.) Incorporating Diversity in Classroom Settings: Real and engaging examples for various psychology courses. (Vol 1: Ability, age, culture, ethnicity/race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, and socioeconomic status) (pp. 97-102). Society for the Teaching of Psychology. 
4. Fon, J.* (2020). The phonetic realizations of the Mandarin phoneme inventory: The canonical and the variants. In H.-M. Liu, F.-M. Tsao, & P. Li (Eds.) Speech Perception, Production and Acquisition - Multidisciplinary approaches in Chinese languages (pp. 11–36). Springer.
5. Fon, J.* (2017). Speech Perception. In R. Sybesma, W. Behr, Y. Gu, Z. Handel, C.-T. J. Huang, & J. Myers (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics, Vol.4 (pp.177-181). Leiden, Netherlands: Brill.
6. Chen, S. & Fon, J.* (2009). How levels of consonantal similarity interact with vocalic information in L1-L2 Consonant-/i/ syllabic identification. In Current Issues in Unity and Diversity of Languages (pp. 1034–1044). Seoul: The Linguistic Society of Korea. [supported by College of Liberal Arts, NTU 97R0501-01 & NSC96-2411-H-002-080-]
7. Fon, J.* & Hung, J. (2009). Dialectal variations on the syllable-final nasal merger in Taiwan Mandarin. In Current Issues in Unity and Diversity of Languages (pp. 3330–3349). Seoul: The Linguistic Society of Korea. [supported by NSC96-2411-H-002-080-]
8. Fon, J.* & Hsu, H. (2007). Positional and phonotactic effects on the realization of dipping tones in Taiwan Mandarin. In A. Lahiri (Series Ed.), C. Gussenhoven & T. Riad (Vol. Eds.), Phonology and phonetics, Tones and tunes: Vol. 2. Phonetic and behavioural studies in word and sentence prosody (pp. 239–269). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. [supported by NSC93-2411-H-003-072- & NTNU-ORD 93091004]
9. Fon, J. (2005). Exchange rhythm in Singapore English in a cross-cultural context. In D. Deterding, A. Brown, & E. L. Low (Eds.), English in Singapore: Phonetic research on a corpus (pp. 126–137). McGraw-Hill Education (Asia). [supported by NSC94-2411-H-002-103-]

Conference proceedings

1. Fon, J.* & Chuang, Y.-Y. (2023). Dialectal differences in the realisation of Tone 1 in Taiwan Mandarin. Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 1960 – 1964.
2. Hsu, Y.-H., Fon, J.,* & Lee, C. L.* (2023). The representation of onset sibilant variants in Taiwan Mandarin: An ERP study. Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. 396 – 400.
3. Chen, C.-C. & Fon, J.* (2023). The effect of prosodic prominence on diphthong reduction in Taiwan Mandarin spontaneous speech–using /aɪ/ as an example. Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 1435 – 1439.
4. Chen, S. & Fon, J.* (2020). On rhythm, prosodic grouping, and declination pattern of Taiwan Mandarin learners of English. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Speech Prosody, 862–866.
5. Chien, S. & Fon, J.* (2020). On the learnability of nuclear and prenuclear accents ― Using Taiwan Mandarin learners of English as an example. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Speech Prosody, 886–889.
6. Chen, S. & Fon, J.* (2019). Declination of read speech in L1 and L2 English. Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 3373–3377
7. Chuang, Y.-Y. & Fon, J.* (2019). Can degree of bilingualism help sustain a difficult sound? — Using Taiwan Mandarin /ʐ/ as an example. Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 3343–3347
8. Chien, H.-Y. & Fon, J.* (2019) Are nuclear accents easier to acquire than prenuclear accents? ― Using peak alignment in advanced Mandarin EFL learners as an example. Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 2856–2860.
9. Chuang, Y.-Y., Sun, C.-C., Fon, J., & Baayen, R. H. (2019). Geographical variation of the merging between dental and retroflex sibilants in Taiwan Mandarin. Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 472-476.
10. Fon, J.* & Chuang, Y. (2017). How variations in syllable-final nasals affect word recognition in Taiwan Mandarin. Proceedings of the 31st General Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan, 120-125.
11. Chuang, Y., Fon, J.* (2016) Production and perception of incredulity in yes-no question intonation in Taiwan Mandarin. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2016, 854-858.
12. Chuang, Y.-Y., Wang, S.-F., & Fon, J.* (2015). Cross-linguistic interaction between two voiced fricatives in Mandarin-Min simultaneous bilinguals. Proceedings of the 18^th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences.  
13. Wang, S.-F. & Fon, J.* (2015). Syllable duration and discourse organization at intonational phrase boundaries in Taiwan Southern Min. Proceedings of the 18^th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences.
14. Wang, S.-F. & Fon, J.* (2013). A Taiwan Southern Min spontaneous speech corpus for discourse prosody. Proceedings of Tools and Resources for the Analysis of Speech Prosody, 20–23.
15. Fon, J. (2012). The effect of prosody and discourse structure on final lengthening in Japanese spontaneous speech. [Abstract] Proceedings of the 26^th General Meeting of the PSJ, 187–188. 
16. Lin, H.-Y. & Fon, J.* (2012). Prosodic and acoustic features of emotional speech in Taiwan Mandarin. Proceedings of the 6^th International Conference on Speech Prosody, 450–453.
17. Wang, S.-F. & Fon, J.* (2012). Durational cues at discourse boundaries in Taiwan Southern Min. Proceedings of the 6^th International Conference on Speech Prosody, 599–602.
18. Huang, Y.-H., Wu, E.-c. & Fon, J.* (2012). The effect of Min proficiency on production and perception of tones in Taiwan Mandarin. Proceedings of 6^th International Conference on Speech Prosody, 637–640.
19. Lin, H.-Y. & Fon, J.* (2011). The prosodic and acoustic features of emotional speech in Taiwan Mandarin. Proceedings of 2011 International Conference on Service and Interactive Robots, No.1070. [supported by NSC99-2221-E-002-204-]
20. Chen, S. & Fon, J.* (2011). Prosodic features of non-native English production.  Proceedings of the 17^th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 456–459.
21. Huang, Y,-H. & Fon, J.* (2011). Investigating the effect of Min on dialectal variations of Mandarin tonal realization. Proceedings of the 17^th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 918–921. [supported by NSC100-2922-I-002-372]
22. Wang, S.-F. & Fon, J.* (2011). Exploring boundary tones in Taiwan Southern Min. Proceedings of the 17^th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 2094–2097. [supported by NSC99-2410-H-002-222-MY3]
23. Chuang, Y.-Y. & Fon, J.* (2011). Cross-dialectal perception of voiceless dental and retroflex sibilant variants in Taiwan Mandarin. Proceedings of the 17^th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 496–499. [supported by NSC100-2922-I-002=370]
24. Lin, H.-Y. & Fon, J.* (2011). The role of pitch reset in perception at discourse boundaries. Proceedings of the 17^th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 1242–1245 [supported by NSC100-2922-I-002--371]
25. Chen, M.-H., Goldman, J.-P., Pan, H.-h., & Fon, J. (2011). Taiwan Min EasyAlign: an automatic phonetic alignment tool under Praat. Proceedings of the Workshop on New Tools and Methods for Very-Large-Scale Phonetics Research, 109–112.
26. Lin, H.-Y. & Fon, J.* (2010). Perception of temporal cues at discourse boundaries. Proceedings of The 10^th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association, 10, 670–673. 
27. Chuang, Y.-Y. & Fon, J.* (2010). The effect of prosodic prominence on the realizations of voiceless dental and retroflex sibilants in Taiwan Mandarin spontaneous speech. Proceedings of the 5^th International Conference on Speech Prosody, No. 100414. [supported by NSC 99-2922-I-002-161]
28. Wu, E.-C. & Fon, J.* (2010). The effect of Min proficiency on the realization of Mandarin tones in Mandarin-Min bilinguals. Proceedings of the 5^th International Conference on Speech Prosody, No. 100420. [supported by NSC 97-2628-H-002-112-MY2-]
29. Chen, S. & Fon, J.* (2010). A corpus-based study on prosodic grouping and boundary tones in Mandarin learners’ English. Proceedings of the 5^th International Conference on Speech Prosody, No. 100175. [supported by NSC-97-2628-H-002-112-MY2]
30. Huang, Y.-H. & Fon, J.* (2009). Dialectal variations on the realization of high tonal targets for focused and non-focused syllables in Taiwan Mandarin. [Abstract] The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 126(4), Pt.2, 2162.
31. Chen, S., Fon, J., & Cheung, H.* (2009). Do they read aloud in a different way? A glimpse on the prosodic features of corpus-based second language spoken English. [Abstract] The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 126(4), Pt.2, 2312.
32. Lin, H.-Y. & Fon, J.* (2009). Perception of temporal cues at discourse boundaries. Proceedings of the 10^th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association, 3–6.
33. Lin, H.-Y. & Fon, J.* (2009). Perception of temporal cues at discourse boundaries. Proceedings of Interspeech 2009, 808–811. [supported by NSC-98-2922-I-002-301-]
34. Wu, E.-C. & Fon, J.* (2008). Pitch production by bilingual Mandarin-Min speakers and monolingual Mandarin speakers in speaking Taiwan Mandarin and Min [Abstract]. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 123 (5), Pt.2, 3740.
35. Chuang, Y.-Y. & Fon, J.* (2008). An acoustic study on voiceless retroflex and dental sibilants of young native Min speakers in Taiwan Mandarin [Abstract]. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 123 (5), Pt.2, 3077.
36. Chen, S., Shen, W.-c., Sung, L-M. & Fon, J.* (2008). How prosody correlates with syntax: An observation on Sakizaya, an endangered Formosan language [Abstract]. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 123 (5), Pt.2, 3461. [supported by NSC96-2411-H-002-080-]
37. Huang, Y.-H. & Fon, J.* (2008). Dialectal variations in tonal register and declination pattern of Taiwan Mandarin. In P. A. Barbosa, S. Madureira, & C. Reis (Eds.), Proceedings of the 4^th International Conference on Speech Prosody, 605–608. [supported by NSC95-2411-H-002 -046-, NSC96-2411-H-002-080- & College of Liberal Arts, NTU 97R0501-01]
    
38. Chen, S. & Fon, J.* (2008). The peak alignment of prenuclear and nuclear accents among advanced L2 English learners. In P. A. Barbosa, S. Madureira, & C. Reis (Eds.), Proceedings of the 4^th International Conference on Speech Prosody, 643–646. [supported by NSC96-2411-H-002-080- & College of Liberal Arts, NTU 97R0501-01]
39. Chuang, Y.-Y., Huang, Y.-H., & Fon, J.* (2007). The effect of incredulity and particle on the intonation of yes/no questions in Taiwan Mandarin. Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 1261–1264. [supported by GIL, NTU & NSC95-2411-H-002 -046-]
    
40. Fon, J.*, Hsu, H.-j., Huang, Y.-H., & Chen, S. (2007). The effect of onset and position in the realization of Tone 1 in two dialects of Taiwan Mandarin. Proceedings of the 16^th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 1297–1300. [supported by NSC95-2411-H-002 -046-]
41. Huang, Y.-H. & Fon, J.* (2007). The effect of acquisition order and word relatedness on code-switching in balanced bilingual speakers. Proceedings of the 16^th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 1577–1580. [supported by GIL, NTU & NSC95-2411-H-002 -046-]
42. Chen, S. & Fon, J.* (2007). The effects of phonetic distance, learning context and leaner proficiency on L2 perception. Proceedings of the 16^th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 1721–1724. [supported by China Foundation for the Promotion of Education and Culture & NSC95-2411-H-002 -046-]
43. Chen, S. & Fon, J.* (2007). The effect of phonetic similarity on L2 speakers in discerning L1 and L2 consonants [Abstract]. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 121 (5), Pt. 2, 3073–3074. [supported by NSC-96-2922-I-002-045]
44. Huang, Y.-H. & Fon, J.* (2007). Asymmetrical costs of code-switching in Mandarin-Min bilingual speakers [Abstract]. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 121(5), Pt. 2, 3072.
45. Hung, R. & Fon, J.* (2007). When is a phonological rule acquired?—A look at children’s production on syllable-final nasals in Taiwan Mandarin [Abstract]. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 121 (5), Pt. 2, 3170.
46. Chen, S. & Fon, J.* (2006). Context really matters!–The influence of input types on L2 speakers' perception of English liquids [Abstract]. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 120 (5), Pt. 2-2, 3173. [supported by Ministry of Education]
47. Hung, R. & Fon, J.* (2006). When is a phonological rule acquired? A look at children’s production on syllable-final nasals in Taiwan Mandarin [Abstract]. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 120 (5), Pt. 2-2, 3133.
48. Lin, H.-Y.*, Tse, K. P. J., Fon, J. (2006). An acoustic study on the paralinguistic prosody in the politeness talk in Taiwan Mandarin. Proceedings of the International Speech Communication Association Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics, 173–176.
49. Chen, S.* & Fon, J. (2006). Context matters! – The influence of listening materials on L2 speakers' performance of devoiced liquids in English [Abstract]. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 119 (5), Pt. 2, 3391.
50. Li, N.*, Lee, C., Fon, J., & Cheung, H. (2006). The error patterns of different nonword repetition tasks in 3-year-old Mandarin-speaking children [Abstract]. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 119 (5), Pt. 2, 3392.
51. Lin, Y.-j*. & Fon, J. (2006). The effect of tonal information and word frequency on spoken word processing [Abstract]. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 119 (5), Pt. 2, 3443.
52. Fon, J. (2006). Shape display: Task design and corpus collection. Proceedings of the 3^rd International Conference on Speech Prosody, PS5-32-181. [supported by NIDCD R01DC04421]
53. Fon, J. (2006). Cross-dialectal turn exchange rhythm in English interviews. Proceedings of the 3^rd International Conference on Speech Prosody, PS4-16-179. [supported by NSC94-2411-H-002-103-]
54. Fon, J. (2005). Turn exchange rhythm in English dialogues [Abstract]. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 118 (3), Pt. 2, 2033–2034. [supported by NSC94-2411-H-002-103-]
55. Chen, S.* & Fon, J. (2005). To play or to pray?--The influences of initial exposure age and environment on perception of Mandarin speakers of English on devoiced liquids [Abstract]. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 118 (3), Pt. 2, 1898–1899.
56. Fon, J.* & Hsu, H. (2004). Positional and Phonotactic Effects on the Realization of Taiwan Mandarin Tone 2. Proceedings of Interspeech 2004 — the 8^th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 395–398. [supported by NSC93-2411-H-003-072- & NTNU-ORD 93091004]
57. Fon, J. (2004). An old question but a new answer: doing phonetics can be easy. Proceedings of the 2^nd Linguistics Research Methods Workshop, 67–71. Taipei, Taiwan.
58. Fon, J. (2004). Perception of discourse boundaries by Taiwan Mandarin Speakers. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Speech Prosody, 709–712. [supported by NSC91-2411-H-003-065- & NIDCD R01DC04421]
59. Fon, J. (2004). A cross-linguistic study of discourse and syntactic boundary cues in spontaneous speech in the time domain. Proceedings of the 1st Session of the 10^th  International Symposium on Spontaneous Speech: Data and Analysis, 1–27. The National Institute for Japanese Language, Tokyo, Japan. [supported by NIDCD R01DC04421]
60. Yoneyama, K.*, Fon, J., & Koiso, H. (2003). Durational and prosodic patterning at discourse boundaries in Japanese spontaneous monologs. Proceedings of the 15^th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 2637–2640. [supported by National Institute of Japanese Languages]
61. Yoneyama, K.*, Koiso, H. & Fon, J. (2003). A corpus-based analysis on prosody and discourse structure in Japanese spontaneous monologues. Proceedings of the ISCA & IEEE Workshop on Spontaneous Speech Processing and Recognition, 27–30. Tokyo, Japan. [supported by National Institute of Japanese Languages]
62. Koiso, H.*, Yoneyama, K., Maki, Y., & Fon, J. (2003). An analysis of prosodic and discourse structure in the Corpus of Spontaneous Japanese. Proceedings of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence: Special Interested Group Notes, 37th Meeting of Spoken Language Understanding and Dialog Processing, A203-P17, 139–144. (written in Japanese) [supported by National Institute of Japanese Languages]
63. Fon, J. (2002). A cross-linguistic study on discourse and syntactic boundary cues in spontaneous speech: using duration as an example. Proceedings of the 3^rd International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing, 379–382. [supported by NIDCD R01DC04421]
64. Cheung, H.* & Fon, J. (2002). The construction of classifier system in Mandarin Chinese. In Y. E. Hsiao (Ed.), Proceedings of 1st Cognitive Linguistics Conference, 425–439. Taipei, Taiwan. [supported by NSC85-2411-H-001-017-]
65. Fon, J.* & Johnson, K. (2001). A cross-linguistic study on discourse and syntactic boundary cues in speech [Abstract]. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 109(5), Pt. 2, 2475. [supported by NIDCD R01DC04421]
66. Fon, J.* & Johnson, K. (2000). Speech timing patterning as an indicator of discourse and syntactic boundaries. Proceedings of 6^th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 2, 555–558.
67. Fon, J. (1999). Speech rate as a reflection of variance and invariance in conceptual planning in storytelling. Proceedings of 14^th International Congress of Phonetics Sciences, 663–666.
68. Fon, J. (1998). Variance and Invariance in Speech Rate as a Reflection of Conceptual Planning. Proceedings of 5^th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 7, 3095–3098.

Technical reports

1. Fon, J. (2018). The effect of prosody and speaker group on production and perception of phonetic variation in Taiwan Mandarin. Ministry of Science and Technology technical report. [MOST104-2410-H-002-160-MY3].
2. Fon, J. (2015). Factors affecting the realization of incompletely phonologized rules in spontaneous speech--using the syllable-final nasal merger in Taiwan Mandarin as an example. National Science Council technical report. [NSC102-2410-H-002-081-].
3. Fon, J. (2013). A family of intelligent service robots in a next generation office building (III). National Science Council technical report. [NSC101-2221-E-002-118-].
4. Fon, J. (2013).  Discourse boundary cues in Mandarin-Min bilinguals. National Science Council technical report [NSC99-2410-H-002-222-MY3].
5. Fon, J. (2012). A family of intelligent service robots in a next generation office building (II). National Science Council technical report [NSC100-2221-E-002-095-].
6. Fon, J. (2011). A corpus-based study on production and perception of emotion acoustics in robot users. National Science council technical report [NSC99-2221-E-002-204-].
7. Fon, J. (2010). Mandarin tonal production and perception in monolingual and bilingual speakers. National Science Council technical report [NSC97-2628-H-002-112-MY2].
8. Fon, J. (2008). The effect of gender and familiarity on exchange intervals in Mandarin and Min conversations using medium-sized spontaneous dialog speech corpora. National Science Council technical report [NSC96-2411-H-002-080-].
9. Fon, J. (2007). The effect of region and genre on pitch range of Tone 1 in Taiwan Mandarin. National Science Council technical report [NSC95-2411-H-002-046-].
10. Fon, J. (2006). A study on English exchange rhythm in a cross-cultural context. National Science Council technical report [NSC94-2411-H-002-103-].
11. Fon, J. (2005). A study on tonal convergence of Tone 2 and Tone 3 in Taiwan Mandarin. National Science Council technical report [NSC93-2411-H-003-072-].
12. Fon, J. (2004). A preliminary construction of Taiwan Southern Min spontaneous speech corpus. National Science Council technical report [NSC-92-2411-H-003-050-].
13. Fon, J. (2003). Perceptibility of discourse boundaries in divergent languages. National Science Council technical report [NSC-91-2411-H-003-065-].