Publications (Refereed Journal Articles)

• Liu, K., Liang, L., & Qin, Z. (2024). The role of acoustic cues in the production of checked-unchecked merging tones from the Qixian Jin dialect. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Express Letters, 4(12), 125202.
• Liu, K., Chen, Y., & Liang, L. (2021). Gender variation of entering tone in Tongcheng dialect. Experimental Linguistics, 10(2), 64-68.

Publications (Refereed Conference Proceedings)

• Liu, K., & Liang, L. (2023). Usage-based second language acquisition for verb-resultative construction in Modern Chinese. In J. Zheng, J. Yin, & M. Hu (Eds.), New Ideas and Explorations in International Chinese Education: Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Chinese Language Pedagogy (ICCLP-16) (pp. 118-127). Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press.

Presentations

• Liu, K., Feng, Y., & Qin, Z. (2025). Extended pre-sleep training reinforces memory consolidation of Cantonese tones in older adults. Oral presentation at the Joint Postgraduate Student Symposium on Language, Culture and Cognition, Hong Kong: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
• Liu, K., Feng, Y., & Qin, Z. (2024). Does prior knowledge benefit Mandarin-speaking older adults’ memory consolidation in Cantonese tone learning? Poster presentation at the Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing Asia (AMLaP Asia-2024), Singapore: National University of Singapore.
• Liu, K., Feng, Y., & Qin, Z. (2024). Prior knowledge benefits older adults’ tonal consolidation through talker generalization. Poster presentation at the 186th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA), Ottawa, Canada.
• Liang, L., & Liu, K. (2023). The new trend of tone evolution in Taiyuan dialect: Evidence from acoustic and perceptual studies. Oral presentation at the 29th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-29), Macau: Macau University of Science and Technology.
• Liu, K. (2022). The semantic acquisition of verbs in verb-resultative construction. Oral presentation at the 10th International Symposium on Chinese Function Words and Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language (Awarded the Excellent Paper for Young Researchers), Shanghai: Shanghai Normal University.
• Liu, K., & Liang, L. (2022). The evolution of entering tones in Qixian dialect. Oral presentation at the 34th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-34), Bloomington: Indiana University, USA.
• Liu, K., & Liang, L. (2022). The acoustic realization and evolutionary trend of entering tones in Qixian dialect. Oral presentation at the 28th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-28), Hong Kong: The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
• Liang, L., Liu, K., & Wang, J. (2022). A longitudinal study of individual tone variation. Oral presentation at the 28th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-28), Hong Kong: The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
• Liang, L., Liu, K., & Hou, W. (2021). Synchronic tonal variation in Taiyuan Dialect. Oral presentation at the 14th Phonetic Conference of China (PCC-2021), Lanzhou: Northwest Minzu University.