Xuanda Chen
xuanda.chen@mail.mcgill.ca
I'm a PhD Student at Department of Linguistics, McGill.
Xuanda Chen
ABOUT ME
I am a fourth-year PhD student at McGill Linguistics, affiliated with MILA and the Centre for Brain, Language, and Music. I have a wide-ranging interest in language and speech, and I adopt behavioral, computational, and neuroimaging methods to investigate interesting questions in phonetics, phonology, language acquisition, and psycholinguistics.
I work on speech perception and language comprehension. My research focuses on the effect of phonological knowledge on speech perception and several key aspects of the predictive mechanisms in language comprehension, including their computational nature, the levels at which predictions occur, the pre-activation of lower-level representations using higher-level ones, and any commitment to predictions beyond pre-activation.
PUBLICATION
2024
- Xuanda Chen, Koustuv Sinha, Siva Reddy and Timothy J. O'Donnell. When does word order matter and when doesn't it? https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18838. [Paper] [Code] [Demo] [Slide]
2023
- Xuanda Chen, Eva Portelance. Grammar induction pretraining for language modeling in low resource contexts. Proceedings of the BabyLM Challenge at the 27th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, 69-73. [Paper] [Code] [Demo] [Slide]
- Xuanda Chen, Meghan Clayards, Heather Goad and Donghyun Kim. L1 effects on naive perception and production of [ʉ] by Mandarin and Italian speakers. ICPhS 2023, 2493-2496. [Paper] [Code] [Demo] [Slide]
2021
- Meng Liu, Longbiao Wang, Kong Aik Lee, Xuanda Chen and Jianwu Dang. Replay-attack detection using features with adaptive spectro-temporal resolution. ICASSP 2021, 6374-6378. [Paper] [Code] [Demo] [Slide]
2018
- Xuanda Chen, Yuan Jia and Ziyu Xiong. Measuring prosodic transfer in vector space by weighted tonal events. ISCSLP 2018, 6374-6378. [Paper] [Code] [Demo] [Slide]
- Xuanda Chen, Ziyu Xiong and Jian Hu. The trajectory of voice onset time with vocal aging. Interspeech 2018, 1556-1560. [Paper] [Code] [Demo] [Slide]
2017
- Xuanda Chen, Eva Portelance. Grammar induction pretraining for language modeling in low resource contexts. Proceedings of the BabyLM Challenge at the 27th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, 69-73. [Paper] [Code] [Demo] [Slide]
- Xuanda Chen, Meghan Clayards, Heather Goad and Donghyun Kim. L1 effects on naive perception and production of [ʉ] by Mandarin and Italian speakers. ICPhS 2023, 2493-2496. [Paper] [Code] [Demo] [Slide]
2021
- Meng Liu, Longbiao Wang, Kong Aik Lee, Xuanda Chen and Jianwu Dang. Replay-attack detection using features with adaptive spectro-temporal resolution. ICASSP 2021, 6374-6378. [Paper] [Code] [Demo] [Slide]
2018
- Xuanda Chen, Yuan Jia and Ziyu Xiong. Measuring prosodic transfer in vector space by weighted tonal events. ISCSLP 2018, 6374-6378. [Paper] [Code] [Demo] [Slide]
- Xuanda Chen, Ziyu Xiong and Jian Hu. The trajectory of voice onset time with vocal aging. Interspeech 2018, 1556-1560. [Paper] [Code] [Demo] [Slide]
2017
- Xuanda Chen, Yuan Jia and Ziyu Xiong. Measuring prosodic transfer in vector space by weighted tonal events. ISCSLP 2018, 6374-6378. [Paper] [Code] [Demo] [Slide]
- Xuanda Chen, Ziyu Xiong and Jian Hu. The trajectory of voice onset time with vocal aging. Interspeech 2018, 1556-1560. [Paper] [Code] [Demo] [Slide]