ZHANG Caicai

Education

2014–2015   Postdoctoral Fellow, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

2010–2014   Ph.D. in Linguistics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

2007–2009   M.Phil. in Humanities, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

2003–2007   B.A. in Chinese Language, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Work Experience

2015-present       Assistant Professor, Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

2017-present       Visiting Research Fellow, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2014-2016    Visiting Associate Research Fellow, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Research Interests

Neurolinguistics, psycholinguistics, cognitive neuroscience, phonetics, phonology, lexical tone, music

Representative Publications

Journal articles

Zhang, C., Peng, G., Shao, J., and Wang, W. S-Y. (2017). Neural bases of congenital amusia in tonal language speakers. Neuropsychologia, 97, 18-28.

Chen, S., Zhang, C., McCollum, A. G. and Wayland, R. (2017). Statistical modeling of phonetic and phonologised perturbation effects in tonal and non-tonal languages. Speech Communication, 88, 17-38.

Zhang, C., and Chen, S. (2016). Toward an integrative model of talker normalization. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 42(8), 1252-1268.

Zhang, C., Pugh, K. R., Mencl, W. E., Molfese, P. J., Frost, S. J., Magnuson, J. S., Peng, G., and Wang, W. S-Y. (2016). Functionally integrated neural processing of linguistic and talker information: An event-related fMRI and ERP study. NeuroImage, 124, 536-549.

Zhang, C., Xia, Q., and Peng, G. (2015). Mandarin third tone sandhi requires more effortful phonological encoding in speech production: Evidence from an ERP study. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 33, 149-162.

Zheng, H.-Y., Peng, G., Chen, J.-Y., Zhang, C., Minett, J. W., and Wang, W. S-Y. (2014). The influence of tone inventory on ERP without focal attention: A cross-language study. Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine. vol. 2014, Article ID 961563, 7 pages, 2014.

Wang, R., and Zhang, C. (2014). Effect of classifier system on object similarity judgment: A cross-linguistic study. Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 42(1), 188-217.

Gu, F.*, Zhang, C.*, Hu, A., and Zhao, G. (2013). Left hemisphere lateralization for lexical and acoustic pitch processing in Cantonese speakers as revealed by mismatch negativity. NeuroImage, 83, 637-645. (*co-first-author)

Zhang, C., Peng, G., and Wang, W. S-Y. (2013). Achieving constancy in spoken word identification: Time course of talker normalization. Brain and Language, 126(2), 193-202.

Zhang, C., Peng, G., and Wang, W. S-Y. (2012). Unequal effects of speech and nonspeech contexts on the perceptual normalization of Cantonese level tones. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 132(2), 1088-1099.

Peng, G., Zhang, C., Zheng, H.-Y., Minett, J. W., and Wang, W. S-Y. (2012). The effect of intertalker variations on acoustic-perceptual mapping in Cantonese and Mandarin tone systems. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 55(2), 579–595.

Li, B., Zhang, C., and Wayland, R. (2012). Acoustic characteristics and distribution of variants of /l/ in the Nanjing dialect. Journal of Quantitative Linguistics, 19(4), 281–300.

Zhang, C., and Peng, G. (2011). Review: Itahashi and Tseng: Computer processing of Asian spoken languages. Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 39(2), 510–521.

Gong, T., Yang, R., Zhang, C., and Ansaldo, U. (2010). Review of the Summer Institute in Cognitive Sciences (2010): The Origins of Language. Biolinguistics, 4(4), 385–402.

Book chapters

Zhang, C., and Wang, W. S-Y. (accepted). Perceptual normalization of lexical tones: Behavioral and neural evidence. Cambridge Handbook of Chinese Linguistics. Cambridge University Press.

Zhang, C. (to appear). Tone and music processing in Chinese？. In Huang, C.-R., Jing-Schmidt, Z., and Meisterernst, B. (Eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Applied Chinese Linguistics.

Peng G., and Zhang, C. (2015). Tone perception. In Wang, W. S-Y., and Sun, C. (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Chinese Linguistics, pp. 516-530. Oxford University Press.

Zhang, C., and Peng, G. (2013). Productivity of Mandarin Third Tone sandhi: A wug test. In Peng G. and Shi F. (Eds.) Eastward Flows the Great River: Festschrift in Honor of Prof. William S-Y. Wang on his 80th Birthday, pp. 256-282. Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong Press.

Zhu X., Jiao L., and Zhang C. (2010). Shengdiao si weidu [Four dimensions in tonal description]. In Pan W. Y. and Shen Z. W. (Eds.), The Joy of Research II: A Festschrift in Honor of Professor William S-Y. Wang on His Seventy-Fifth Birthday, pp. 401-419. Shanghai: Shanghai Education Press.

Contact Information

caicai.zhang@polyu.edu.hk; cc.zhang@siat.ac.cn;

(+852) 34008465

Personal Homepage

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