2026
Child phonology in a language revitalization context: Evidence from Hul’q’umi’num
Boey Kwan, Sonya Bird, Martina Joe, Quaysultunaat (Randeana) Jack, Henny Yeung
Journal of Child Language 2026
Explores how child learn consonants in an Indigenous language, from caregivers who themselves learned it as a second language.
Child phonology in a language revitalization context: Evidence from Hul’q’umi’num
Boey Kwan, Sonya Bird, Martina Joe, Quaysultunaat (Randeana) Jack, Henny Yeung
Journal of Child Language 2026
Explores how child learn consonants in an Indigenous language, from caregivers who themselves learned it as a second language.
Associations between music perception and the production of acoustic cues to lexical stress in Mandarin learners of English
Xizi Deng, Cathy Lin, Henny Yeung
Journal of Applied Linguistics 2026
Music perception is correlated with native Mandarin speakers' production of English lexical stress, even in naturalistic speech tasks.
Associations between music perception and the production of acoustic cues to lexical stress in Mandarin learners of English
Xizi Deng, Cathy Lin, Henny Yeung
Journal of Applied Linguistics 2026
Music perception is correlated with native Mandarin speakers' production of English lexical stress, even in naturalistic speech tasks.
An investigation of the phonetic variation of the word-initial /l/ and /n/ across regional varieties of Mandarin
Fenqi Wang, Delin Deng, Ratree Wayland, Henny Yeung, Yue Wang
Language and Speech 2026
Uses classifier techniques to analyze the phonetics of accented consonants in regional Mandarin varieties.
An investigation of the phonetic variation of the word-initial /l/ and /n/ across regional varieties of Mandarin
Fenqi Wang, Delin Deng, Ratree Wayland, Henny Yeung, Yue Wang
Language and Speech 2026
Uses classifier techniques to analyze the phonetics of accented consonants in regional Mandarin varieties.
“I just only speak English English”: stakeholders’ language ideologies and multilingual children’s monolingual becoming
Guofang Li, Ziwen Mei, Sonoka Inomoto, Jonathan Ferreira, Henny Yeung
Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 2026
Explores English-dominance in an afterschool literacy program within a highly multilingual school district.
“I just only speak English English”: stakeholders’ language ideologies and multilingual children’s monolingual becoming
Guofang Li, Ziwen Mei, Sonoka Inomoto, Jonathan Ferreira, Henny Yeung
Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 2026
Explores English-dominance in an afterschool literacy program within a highly multilingual school district.
From monolingualism to plurilingualism: Multimodal arts-based cultural probes as catalysts for linguistic justice in an afterschool literacy program
Guofang Li, Jonathan Ferreira, Ziwen Mei, Henny Yeung
The Reading Teacher 2026
Examines how arts-based cultural probes support multilingualism in an afterschool literacy program.
From monolingualism to plurilingualism: Multimodal arts-based cultural probes as catalysts for linguistic justice in an afterschool literacy program
Guofang Li, Jonathan Ferreira, Ziwen Mei, Henny Yeung
The Reading Teacher 2026
Examines how arts-based cultural probes support multilingualism in an afterschool literacy program.
2025
Hul’q’umi’num’ listening quizzes: Speech perception in a language revitalization classroom context
Maida Percival, Henny Yeung, Sonya Bird, Quaysultunaat (Randeana) Jack
Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 2025
Describes the development of online quizzes for improving speech perception in adult learners of an Indigenous language.
Hul’q’umi’num’ listening quizzes: Speech perception in a language revitalization classroom context
Maida Percival, Henny Yeung, Sonya Bird, Quaysultunaat (Randeana) Jack
Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 2025
Describes the development of online quizzes for improving speech perception in adult learners of an Indigenous language.
Legitimizing plurilingual and pluricultural identities: Designing an arts‑infused cultural‑historical activity system
Guofang Li, Ziwen Mei, Jonathan Ferreira, Sonoka Inomoto, Henny Yeung
Canadian Modern Language Review 2025
Reports on changes to an after‑school program designed to support plurilingual and pluricultural identity.
Legitimizing plurilingual and pluricultural identities: Designing an arts‑infused cultural‑historical activity system
Guofang Li, Ziwen Mei, Jonathan Ferreira, Sonoka Inomoto, Henny Yeung
Canadian Modern Language Review 2025
Reports on changes to an after‑school program designed to support plurilingual and pluricultural identity.
You sound a little tense: L2 tailored TTS using durational vowel properties
Paige Tuttösí, Henny Yeung, Yue Wang, Jean‑Julien Aucouturier, Angelica Lim
Proceedings of the 13th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop 2025
Presents the first TTS system tailored to L2 listeners; uses “clarity mode” to improves vowel intelligibility using duration cues.
You sound a little tense: L2 tailored TTS using durational vowel properties
Paige Tuttösí, Henny Yeung, Yue Wang, Jean‑Julien Aucouturier, Angelica Lim
Proceedings of the 13th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop 2025
Presents the first TTS system tailored to L2 listeners; uses “clarity mode” to improves vowel intelligibility using duration cues.
Take a look, it’s in a book, a reading robot
Paige Tuttösí, Shivam Mehta, Zachary Syvenky, Bermet Burkanova, Mohammed Hfsafsti, Yue Wang, Henny Yeung, Gustav Henter, Jean‑Julien Aucouturier, Angelica Lim
Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human‑Robot Interaction 2025
Demonstrates EmojiVoice, a customizable TTS toolkit for expressive storytelling.
Take a look, it’s in a book, a reading robot
Paige Tuttösí, Shivam Mehta, Zachary Syvenky, Bermet Burkanova, Mohammed Hfsafsti, Yue Wang, Henny Yeung, Gustav Henter, Jean‑Julien Aucouturier, Angelica Lim
Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human‑Robot Interaction 2025
Demonstrates EmojiVoice, a customizable TTS toolkit for expressive storytelling.
Generating consistent prosodic patterns from open-source TTS systems
Ha Eun Shim, Olivia Yung, Paige Tuttösí, Boey Kwan, Angelica Lim, Yue Wang, Henny Yeung
INTERSPEECH 2025
Shows that open-source text-to-speech (TTS) systems fail to make clear prosodic boundaries when needed to disambiguate sentence meanings.
Generating consistent prosodic patterns from open-source TTS systems
Ha Eun Shim, Olivia Yung, Paige Tuttösí, Boey Kwan, Angelica Lim, Yue Wang, Henny Yeung
INTERSPEECH 2025
Shows that open-source text-to-speech (TTS) systems fail to make clear prosodic boundaries when needed to disambiguate sentence meanings.
Predicting social competence in autistic and non-autistic children: Effects of prosody and the amount of speech input
Alyssa Janes, Elise McClay, Mandeep Gurm, Troy Boucher, Henny Yeung, Grace Iarocci, Nikki Scheerer
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 2025
Examines how both mothers' and children's speech prosody is related to autistic and non-autistic children's social skills.
Predicting social competence in autistic and non-autistic children: Effects of prosody and the amount of speech input
Alyssa Janes, Elise McClay, Mandeep Gurm, Troy Boucher, Henny Yeung, Grace Iarocci, Nikki Scheerer
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 2025
Examines how both mothers' and children's speech prosody is related to autistic and non-autistic children's social skills.
The perception of accented English by Mandarin learners of English: Revisiting the interlanguage speech intelligibility benefit
Xizi Deng, Henny Yeung
Journal of Phonetics 2025
Adult learners of a second language must cope with accents in that language: The most comprehensive study to date at the word-level.
The perception of accented English by Mandarin learners of English: Revisiting the interlanguage speech intelligibility benefit
Xizi Deng, Henny Yeung
Journal of Phonetics 2025
Adult learners of a second language must cope with accents in that language: The most comprehensive study to date at the word-level.
2024
Mmm whatcha say? Uncovering distal and proximal context effects in first and second-language word perception using psychophysical reverse correlation
Paige Tuttösí, Henny Yeung, Yue Wang, Fenqi Wang, Guillaume Denis, Jean-Julien Aucouturier, Angelica Lim
INTERSPEECH 2024
Explains a new technique using voice synthesis that reveals how the prosody of sentential contexts influences vowel perception.
Mmm whatcha say? Uncovering distal and proximal context effects in first and second-language word perception using psychophysical reverse correlation
Paige Tuttösí, Henny Yeung, Yue Wang, Fenqi Wang, Guillaume Denis, Jean-Julien Aucouturier, Angelica Lim
INTERSPEECH 2024
Explains a new technique using voice synthesis that reveals how the prosody of sentential contexts influences vowel perception.
LINCing learners to digital literacy: Supporting social integration and English language learning during COVID-19
Robert Hanks, Mark Turin, Henny Yeung
Multilingua 2024
Examines how digital literacy initiatives supported English language learning and social integration during the COVID-19 pandemic.
LINCing learners to digital literacy: Supporting social integration and English language learning during COVID-19
Robert Hanks, Mark Turin, Henny Yeung
Multilingua 2024
Examines how digital literacy initiatives supported English language learning and social integration during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Visual scanning patterns of a talking face when evaluating phonetic information in a native and non-native language
Xizi Deng, Elise McClay, Erin Jastrzebski, Yue Wang, Henny Yeung
PLoS ONE 2024
Shows how looking to the eyes or mouth of a face is guided by the search for prosodic of segmental speech cues.
Visual scanning patterns of a talking face when evaluating phonetic information in a native and non-native language
Xizi Deng, Elise McClay, Erin Jastrzebski, Yue Wang, Henny Yeung
PLoS ONE 2024
Shows how looking to the eyes or mouth of a face is guided by the search for prosodic of segmental speech cues.
An exploration of voice quality in mothers speaking Canadian English to infants
Andrew Cheng, Elise McClay, Henny Yeung
Language Learning and Development 2024
The first study to compare creakiness and breathiness in English adult- and infant-directed speech.
An exploration of voice quality in mothers speaking Canadian English to infants
Andrew Cheng, Elise McClay, Henny Yeung
Language Learning and Development 2024
The first study to compare creakiness and breathiness in English adult- and infant-directed speech.
2023
Developmental change in children’s speech processing of auditory and visual cues: An eye-tracking study
Tania Zamuner, Theresa Rabideau, Margarethe McDonald, Henny Yeung
Journal of Child Language 2023
Examines surprisingly slow development in children's use of visual speech information for lexical access.
Developmental change in children’s speech processing of auditory and visual cues: An eye-tracking study
Tania Zamuner, Theresa Rabideau, Margarethe McDonald, Henny Yeung
Journal of Child Language 2023
Examines surprisingly slow development in children's use of visual speech information for lexical access.
Contextual effects on spoken word processing: An eye-tracking study of the time course of tone and vowel activation in Mandarin
Xizi Deng, Ashley Farris-Trimble, Henny Yeung
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 2023
Shows that lexical activation of either tonal or vocalic parts of a Mandarin word are influenced by sentential context, even BEFORE the word is heard.
Contextual effects on spoken word processing: An eye-tracking study of the time course of tone and vowel activation in Mandarin
Xizi Deng, Ashley Farris-Trimble, Henny Yeung
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 2023
Shows that lexical activation of either tonal or vocalic parts of a Mandarin word are influenced by sentential context, even BEFORE the word is heard.
2022
Rethinking the phonetics of baby-talk: Differences across Canada and Vanuatu in the articulation of mothers' speech to infants
Elise McClay, Senay Cebioğlu, Tanya MacGillivray, Henny Yeung
Developmental Science 2022
Shows how the phonetic properties of infant-directed speech are strikingly different across cultures/languages.
Rethinking the phonetics of baby-talk: Differences across Canada and Vanuatu in the articulation of mothers' speech to infants
Elise McClay, Senay Cebioğlu, Tanya MacGillivray, Henny Yeung
Developmental Science 2022
Shows how the phonetic properties of infant-directed speech are strikingly different across cultures/languages.
2021
2019
Infants’ statistical word segmentation in an artificial language is linked to both parental speech input and reported production abilities
Melanie Hoareau, Henny Yeung, Thierry Nazzi
Developmental Science 2019
Relates infant word segmentation to the language environment and emerging productive language.
Infants’ statistical word segmentation in an artificial language is linked to both parental speech input and reported production abilities
Melanie Hoareau, Henny Yeung, Thierry Nazzi
Developmental Science 2019
Relates infant word segmentation to the language environment and emerging productive language.
2018
Perceptual reorganization of lexical tones: Effects of age and experimental procedure
Antonia Götz, Henny Yeung, Alexandra Krasotkina, Gudrun Schwarzer, Barbara Höhle
Frontiers in Psychology 2018
Examines how infants' sensitivity to lexical tones varies with age and experimental methods.
Perceptual reorganization of lexical tones: Effects of age and experimental procedure
Antonia Götz, Henny Yeung, Alexandra Krasotkina, Gudrun Schwarzer, Barbara Höhle
Frontiers in Psychology 2018
Examines how infants' sensitivity to lexical tones varies with age and experimental methods.
2017
2016
2015
Foreign language learning in French speakers is associated with rhythm perception but not with melody perception
Anjali Bhatara*, Henny Yeung*, Thierry Nazzi (* equal contribution)
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 2015
Links success in learning a language with lexical stress to rhythmic processing abilities
Foreign language learning in French speakers is associated with rhythm perception but not with melody perception
Anjali Bhatara*, Henny Yeung*, Thierry Nazzi (* equal contribution)
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 2015
Links success in learning a language with lexical stress to rhythmic processing abilities
2014
The development of sensorimotor influences in the audiovisual speech domain: Some critical questions
Bahia Guellaï, Arlette Streri, Henny Yeung
Frontiers in Psychology 2014 Review
Reviews outstanding questions concerning how sensorimotor processes contribute to audiovisual speech perception.
The development of sensorimotor influences in the audiovisual speech domain: Some critical questions
Bahia Guellaï, Arlette Streri, Henny Yeung
Frontiers in Psychology 2014 Review
Reviews outstanding questions concerning how sensorimotor processes contribute to audiovisual speech perception.
