I am a PhD student at McGill Linguistics, affiliated with MILA and the Centre for Brain, Language, and Music. I work with Prof. Siva Reddy, Prof. Timothy O'Donnell and Prof. Meghan Clayards. I am interested in computational linguistics, NLP and speech techs. I have experience in behavioral studies and computational modeling in the related fields.

Research

I seek for behavioral and computational evidence to answer questions regarding language and speech.

The Link Between Speech Perception and Production

Successful communication requires a symmetric relationship between speech perception and production. We attempt to reveal how the two modalities synchronize during speech learning.

Prosodic Event Detection for L2 Speech

In linguistics, prosody refers to properties of syllables and larger units of speech, including linguistic functions such as intonation, stress, and rhythm. We relied on statistacal learning algorithms to find L2 prosody patterns.

Dialect Effect on Language Learning

Chinese, also known as Sinitic, is a branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family consisting of hundreds of local varieties, many of which are not mutually intelligible. We are interested in how Chinese dialect affects English learning.

Publication

  • Xuanda Chen, Zhenhua Ling, Ziyu Xiong and Aijun Li. Automatic Prosodic Annotation for L2 Speech Evaluation. Submitted to Speech Communication. Under Review. [pdf]
  • Meng Liu, Longbiao Wang, Kong Aik Lee, Xuanda Chen and Jianwu Dang. Replay-Attack Detection Using Features With Adaptive Spectro-Temporal Resolution. Proceedings of ICASSP 2021. IEEE, 2021: 6374-6378. [pdf]
  • Xuanda Chen, Yuan Jia and Ziyu Xiong. Measuring Prosodic Transfer in Vector Space by Weighted Tonal Events. Proceedings of ISCSLP 2018. IEEE, 2018: 220-224. [pdf]
  • Xuanda Chen, Ziyu Xiong and Jian Hu. The Trajectory of Voice Onset Time with Vocal Aging. Proceedings of Interspeech 2018. IEEE, 2018: 1556-1560. [pdf]
  • Jian Hu, Xuanda Chen and Qingyu Wu. An Empirical Case Study of Children's Perception and Production of Stop Consonants (in Chinese). Journal of Hefei University, 2017, 34(6): 139-144. [pdf]

    • Presentation

  • Xuanda Chen, Qingyu Wu, and Jian Hu. The Dialect Effect on English Stop Acquisition Between Mandarin and Wu Children. The Phonectic Conference of China, 2016. [Best Student Paper]

    • Contact Me

    xuanda.chen@mail.mcgill.ca
    Department of Linguistics
    McGill University
    1085 Ave Dr Penfield, 111
    Montreal, QC H3A 1A7
    Canada