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Referred journal articles

  • Chan, R. & Wang, B. (2024). Do long-term acoustic-phonetic features and mel-frequency cepstral coefficients provide complementary speaker-specific information for forensic voice comparison? Forensic Science International, 363, 112199.
  • Chan, R. & Wang, B. X. (2024). Modelling lexical tones for speaker discrimination. Language and Speech. Advance online publication.
  • Chan, R. (2023). Evidential value of voice quality acoustics in forensic voice comparison. Forensic Science International, 348, 111725.
  • Cayado, D., Chan, R. (2023) The influence of prior linguistic knowledge on L2 semantic implicit learning: Evidence from Cantonese-English bilinguals. Language Learning, 73(3), 657-682.
  • Chan, R. & Leung, J. (2020). Why are lexical tones difficult to learn? Insights from the incidental learning of tone-segment connections. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 42(1), 33-59.
  • Chan, R. (2020). Speaker discrimination: citation tones vs. coarticulated tones. Speech Communication, 117, 38-50.
  • Chan, R. & Leung, J. (2018). Implicit knowledge of L2 lexical stress rules: Evidence from the combined use of subjective and objective awareness measures. Applied Psycholinguistics, 39(1), 37-66.
  • Chan, R. (2016). Speaker variability in the realization of lexical tones. International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law, 23(2), 195-214.
  • Chan, R. & Leung, J. (2014). Implicit learning of L2 word stress regularities. Second Language Research, 30(4), 463-484.
  • Leung, J. & Williams, J. (2014) Cross-linguistic differences in implicit language learning. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 36(4): 733-755.
  • Leung, J. & Williams, J. (2012) Constraints on implicit learning of grammatical form-meaning connections. Language Learning, 62(2): 634-662.
  • Leung, J. & Williams, J. (2011) The implicit learning of mappings between forms and contextually-derived meanings. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 33(1): 33-55.

Book chapters

  • Chan, R. (accepted, expected in 2025). Forensic phonetics. In P. Pope (Ed.), Forensic Linguistics. Bloomsbury Publishing.
  • Chan, R. (accepted, expected in 2025). Tone languages. In F. Nolan, K. McDougall & T. Hudson (Eds), Oxford Handbook of Forensic Phonetics. Oxford University Press.
  • Xia, X. & Leung, J. (2014) L1-based prototypicality effects in L2 vocabulary learning. In Filipović, Luna and Pütz, Martin (eds.), Multilingual Cognition and Language Use: Processing and Typological Perspectives. John Benjamins. 287-308.
  • Xia, X. & Leung, J. (2012) Category typicality effects in foreign language acquisition: The role of L1-based typicality in L2 semantic organization. In Tizón-Couto, D., Tizón-Couto, B., Pastor-Gómez, I. and Rodriguez-Puente, P. (eds), New Trends and Methodologies in Applied English Language Research II: Studies in Language Variation, Meaning and Learning. Bern: Peter Lang.
  • Williams, J.N. & Cheung, A. (2011). Using priming to explore early word learning. In P. Trofimovich & K. McDonough (Eds.), Applying priming methods to L2 learning, teaching and research: Insights from psycholinguistics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Conference proceedings

  • Chan, R. (2023). Speaker discriminatory power of voice quality acoustics under forensic conditions. Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Prague, Czech Republic.
  • Chan, R. (2019). Difficulty in learning L2 tones: Insights from the incidental learning of tone-segment mappings. Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Melbourne, Australia.
  • Leemann, A., Kolly, M. J., Li, Y., Chan, R., Kwek, G. & Jesperson, A. (2016). Towards a typology of prominence perception: the role of duration. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Speech Prosody (SP2016). Boston, MA.
  • Chan, R. (2015). Speaker variability in the production of coarticulated Tones. Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Glasgow, UK.
  • Chan, R. & Leung, J. (2012). Implicit learning of L2 word stress rules. In Miyake, N., Peebles, D. & Cooper, R. P. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
  • Leung, J. & Williams, J. (2006) Implicit learning of form-meaning connections. In R. Sun and N. Miyake (eds.), Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 465-70. Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum.