My research interests primarily lie in sociolinguistics and phonetics. More specifically, I am interested in how social meaning is produced and perceived through phonetic variation, particularly in prosody. I also work on dialect categorization, multilingualism, and code-switching.
Here are some projects I've been working on:
Sociophonetic correlates of Singlish
Pitch variability cues perceptions of Singlish: A perceptually-guided approach to sociophonetic variation. Talk at The 100th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA 2024). With Ting Lin, Robert J. Podesva, and Meghan Sumner.
Pitch variability cues perceptions of Singlish: A perceptually-guided approach to sociophonetic variation. Talk at New Waves of Analyzing Variation 51 (NWAV 51). With Ting Lin and Meghan Sumner.
In prep. Pitch variability cues perceptions of Singlish: A perceptually-guided approach to sociophonetic variation. To appear in University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics. With Ting Lin and Meghan Sumner.
In prep. Identifying the social correlates of Singlish: The relationship between Singlish-ness and locally relevant meanings. Talk to be presented at Sociolinguistics Symposium 25 (SS 25). With Ting Lin and Meghan Sumner.
NLP in Southeast Asia (with Rojak NLP)
Prompting large language models to generate code-mixed texts: The case of South East Asian languages. Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Linguistic Code-Switching. With Zheng-Xin Yong, Ruochen Zhang, Jessica Zosa Forde, Skyler Wang, Arjun Subramonian, Holy Lovenia, Samuel Cahyawijaya, Genta Indra Winata, Lintang Sutawika, Jan Christian Blaise Cruz, Long Phan, Rowena Garcia, Thamar Solorio, and Alham Fikri Aji.
Current status of NLP in South East Asia with insights from multilingualism and language diversity. Proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 3rd Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. With Alham Fikri Aji, Jessica Zosa Forde, Alyssa Marie Loo, Lintang Sutawika, Skyler Wang, Genta Indra Winata, Zheng-Xin Yong, Ruochen Zhang, A. Seza Dogruöz, and Jan Christian Blaise Cruz.
Topic formality in matched guise experiments
Five decades of matched guise studiesâwhat do we know about contextual constraints?. Talk at International Symposium of Bilingualism 14 (ISB 14). With Bee Chin Ng and Francesco Cavallaro.
In prep. An alternative perspective on matched-guise study: The effect of topic formality on accent evaluation. With Bee Chin Ng and Francesco Cavallaro.
Rhythm in English-Mandarin code-switching
Variation in multilingual communities: Rhythm and English-Mandarin code-switching in Singapore. Poster at International Symposium of Bilingualism 14 (ISB 14).
Rhythmic variation in code-switching between Mandarin, English, and Singlish in Singapore. Talk at New Ways of Analyzing Variation Asia-Pacific 7 (NWAV-AP 7).