Una Chow

PhD Student


I am a third-year PhD student in linguistics. My research interests include speech prosody, phonetic variation, acoustic phonetics, language documentation, and computational phonetics. I have explored using intonation to disambiguate syntactic structure in Mandarin. I have investigated how listeners can cope with speech variability and whether listener experience (e.g., Exemplar Theory) can account for the perception of statement and question intonation in English, Cantonese, and Mandarin. Currently, I am analyzing and documenting the acoustic characteristics of consonants and stress in Gitksan, an indigenous language in British Columbia. My research often involves computational methods (e.g., neural net or machine learning models).