{"id":975,"date":"2022-10-26T20:29:49","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T19:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/?page_id=975"},"modified":"2025-07-22T09:27:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:27:03","slug":"cong-zhang","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/people\/cong-zhang\/","title":{"rendered":"Cong Zhang"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lecturer in Speech and Language Sciences (school of ECLS)\nEmail:&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:cong.zhang@newcastle.ac.uk\">cong.zhang@newcastle.ac.uk<\/a>\nStaff profile: &lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/ecls\/people\/profile\/congzhang.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/ecls\/people\/profile\/congzhang.html\">link<\/a>&gt;\nPersonal website:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/congzhanglinguist.wordpress.com\/\">https:\/\/congzhanglinguist.wordpress.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/congzhanglinguist.files.wordpress.com\/2021\/04\/cropped-cz.jpg?w=937\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:282px;height:273px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Research Interests:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My research mainly focuses on aspects of&nbsp;<strong>speech prosody<\/strong>&nbsp;(e.g. intonation, lexical tone, rhythm), using a variety of approaches including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Phonetics and Phonology (Laboratory Phonology)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Psycholinguistics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Computational linguistics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Language Acquisition<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>I received a DPhil degree from the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/brainlab.clp.ox.ac.uk\/\">Language and Brain Lab<\/a>, University of Oxford. My DPhil thesis, supervised by Professor Aditi Lahiri, was about the intonational tunes in a tonal language \u2014&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tianjin\" target=\"_blank\">Tianjin&nbsp;<\/a>Mandarin (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/congzhanglinguist.wordpress.com\/2017\/10\/02\/my-dphil-project\/\" target=\"_blank\">More about my DPhil project<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I did my Master\u2019s in Linguistics and Language Acquisition from the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/elll\/\">School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics<\/a>, Newcastle University (UK). There, I worked on a number of projects including child language acquisition, second language acquisition, Mandarin lexical tone perception, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For my undergraduate degree, I studied Translation and Interpreting at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bfsu.edu.cn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Beijing Foreign Studies University<\/a>&nbsp;(China). I am therefore also interested in studies about translation and interpreting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following my DPhil, I worked as a TTS linguist (Linguistics Engineer) in A-Lab at&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rokid.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rokid Inc<\/a>. One of my major projects was Singing Synthesis (text-to-singing). After this, I came back to academia and worked on the ERC project&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sprintproject.io\/\"><em>SPRINT<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;(i.e. Speech Prosody in Interaction: The form and function of intonation in human communication, ERC-ADG-835263 ) and further looked into the aspects of English and Greek intonation in speech production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So far, I have studied the subject of \u201clanguage\u201d from quite a number of different perspectives. These experiences are indeed very fascinating and inspiring for my future research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lecturer in Speech and Language Sciences (school of ECLS) Email:&nbsp;cong.zhang@newcastle.ac.uk Staff profile: &lt;link&gt; Personal website:&nbsp;https:\/\/congzhanglinguist.wordpress.com\/ Research Interests: My research mainly focuses on aspects of&nbsp;speech prosody&nbsp;(e.g. intonation, lexical tone, rhythm), using a variety of approaches including: I received a DPhil degree &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/people\/cong-zhang\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10387,"featured_media":0,"parent":2,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-975","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=975"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1239,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/975\/revisions\/1239"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}