Publications
Journal publications
Conference proceedings
Presentations
* indicates presenting author(s), † indicates PhD student co-author(s).
Theses
Ph.D. Dissertation: Chong, J.A. (2017). On the relation between phonotactic learning and alternation learning. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. University of California, Los Angeles, USA. [pdf]
M.A. Thesis: Chong, J.A. (2013). Processing allophonic variants in the visual world paradigm. Unpublished MA Thesis. University of California, Los Angeles, USA [contact me for a copy] (see BUCLD 2015 proceedings paper above)
B.A. (Hons.) Thesis: Chong, A.J. (2011).Continuant-stop alternations in the Top-End: A look at Yolngu and Wubuy. Unpublished BA Honours Thesis. The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia. [pdf]
- Chong, A.J. & German, J.S. (Forthcoming). Prominence and intonation in Singapore English. Journal of Phonetics.
- Chong, A.J. & Kasstan, J. (2022). Acoustic characteristics of fricatives in Francoprovençal (Nendaz). Journal of the International Phonetic Association. [External link]
- Chong, A.J. (2021). The effect of phonotactics on alternation learning. Language, 97(2), 213-244. [pre-print pdf][External link]
- Sundara, M., White, J., Kim, Y.J. & Chong, A. J. (2021). Stem similarity modulates infants' acquisition of phonological alternations. Cognition, 209. [pre-print pdf][External link]
- Chong, A.J., Risdal, M., Aly, A., Zymet, J. & Keating, P. (2020). Effects of consonantal constrictions on voice quality. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America-Express Letters, 148(1), EL65-EL71. [External Link].
- Chong, A.J. (2019). Exceptionality and derived-environment effects: A comparison of Korean and Turkish. Phonology, 36(4), 543-572. [pre-print pdf][External link]
- Chong, A.J., Vicenik, C. & Sundara, M. (2018). Intonation plays a role in language discrimination by infants. Infancy, 23(6), 795-819. [pre-print pdf][External link]
- Chong, A.J. & Garellek, M. (2018). Online perception of glottalized coda stops in American English. Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology, 9(1), 4. [External link][Supplementary Materials] [Sample audio]
- Chong, A.J. & German, J.S. (2017). The accentual phrase in Singapore English. Phonetica, 17(2), 63-80. [pre-print pdf][External link]
- Chong, A.J. (2011). Lenition in Gaalpu: An Optimality Theoretic analysis. Australian Journal of Linguistics, 31(4), 473-490. [pre-print pdf][External link]
Conference proceedings
- Chong, A. J. & German, J.S. (2019). Variability in tonal realisation in Singapore English intonation. Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. [pdf]
- German, J.S. & Chong, A.J. (2018). Stress, tonal alignment, and phrasal position in Singapore English. Proceedings of Tonal Aspects of Language 2018. [pdf]
- Chong, A.J. (2016). Learning consequences of derived-environment effects. Proceedings of Linguistic Society of America, Vol. 1 [pdf]
- Chong, A.J. & Sundara, M. (2016). Perceptual similarity modulates online compensation for phonological variation. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting on Phonology 2. [pdf]
- Chong, A.J. & German, J.S. (2015). Prosodic phrasing and F0 in Singapore English. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. [pdf]
- Bishop, J.B., Chong, A.J., Jun, S.-A. (2015). Individual differences in prosodic strategies in sentence processing. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. [pdf]
- Chong, A.J. & Sundara, M. (2015). 18-month-olds compensate for a phonological alternation. Proceedings of Boston University Conference on Language Development 39. [pdf]
- Chong, A.J. (2013). Towards a model of Singaporean English intonational phonology. Proceedings of ICA 2013. [Link]
- Chong, A.J. (2012). A preliminary model of Singaporean English intonational phonology. UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics, 111, 41-62. [pdf]
Presentations
* indicates presenting author(s), † indicates PhD student co-author(s).
- van Urk, C. & *Chong, A.J. (2022). The roots of non-concatenative morphology in Western Nilotic. Poster presented at Annual Meeting on Phonology 2022, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA, 21-23 October. [pdf]
- *†Barnard, M., Chong, A.J. & Sharma, D. (2022). Age, gender and cognitive style in sociophonetic perception. Poster presented at BAAP 2022, University of York, York, 4-8 April.
- *†Khlystova, E., Chong, A.J., & Sundara, M. (2021). Quantifying phonetic variation: A large- scale corpus analysis of coronal segments in English infant-directed speech. Poster presented at 181st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Seattle, WA, 29 November-3 December.
- *†Khlystova, E., Chong, A.J., & Sundara, M. (2021). Phonetic variation in coronals in English infant-directed speech: A large-scale corpus analysis. Poster presented at 46th Annual Meeting of the Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, USA, 4-7 November.
- *Chong, A. J. & German, J.S. (2019). Variability in tonal realisation in Singapore English intonation. Talk presented at the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. [see ICPhS 2019 proceedings above]
- *Chong, A.J. & German, J.S. (2018). The interaction of stress, tonal alignment and phrasal position in Singapore English. Poster presented at Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody 4 (ETAP4), UMass Amherst, MA, 10-13 Oct. [pdf].
- *Lin, I., *Chong, A.J. & Sundara, M. (2018). Variation in coronal consonants in infant-directed speech. Poster presented at LabPhon 16, Lisbon Portugal, 19-22 June. [pdf]
- *German, J.S. & Chong, A.J. (2018). Stress, tonal alignment, and phrasal position in Singapore English. Poster presented at Tonal Aspects of Language 2018, 18-20 June. [see proceedings paper above & ETAP4 poster]
- *Lin, I., Chong, A.J. & Sundara, M. (2018). Variation in English infant-directed speech. Poster presented at 175th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Minneapolis, MN, 7-11 May. [pdf]
- Chong, A.J. & Garellek, M. (2018). Perception of glottalisation in American English. Talk given at the 2018 Colloquium of the British Association of Academic Phoneticians (BAAP), University of Kent, Canterbury, 12-14 Apr. [see 2018 J. LabPhon paper]
- Chong, A.J. (2017). Derived-environment effects and learning: an experimental study. Talk given at the 91st Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Austin, TX, 5-8 Jan. [slides]
- Chong, A.J. & Garellek, M. (2016). Online perception of coda glottalization in American English. Poster presented at 5th Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America/Acoustical Society of Japan. [poster]
- Chong, A.J. (2016). Examining the lexicon in derived-environment effects. Talk given at Annual Meeting of Phonology 4, USC, Los Angeles, 21-23 October. [handout]
- Risdal, M.L., Aly, A., Chong, A.J., *Keating, P. & Zymet, J. (2016). On the link between glottal vibration and sonority. Poster presented at Laboratory Phonology 15, Cornell, Ithaca, NY, 13-16 July. [handout]
- Chong, A.J.. (2016). Looking under the hood: Korean palatalization and derived-environments effects. Talk given at Southern California April Meeting on Phonology (SCAMP), UCSD, 8-9 April. [handout]
- *Risdal, M.L., Aly, A., Chong, A.J., Keating, P. & Zymet, J. (2016). The relationship between sonority and glottal vibration. Talk presented at the CUNY Phonology Forum 2016: Conference on Sonority. [slides]
- Chong, A.J.. (2016). Learning consequences of derived-environment effects. Talk given at the 90th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Washington, DC, 7-10 Jan. [slides]
- *Bishop, J.B., Chong, A.J. & Jun, S.-A. (2016). Memory-dependent prominence effects on relative clause disambiguation. Talk given at the 90th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Washington, DC, 7-10 Jan.
- Chong, A.J. (2015). Exploring the relationship between static and dynamic generalizations in learning. Poster presented at Annual Meeting on Phonology 3, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 9-11 Oct. (see LSA 2016 slides above)
- *Chong, A.J. & German, J.S. (2015). Prosodic phrasing and F0 in Singapore English. Talk given at the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Glasgow, UK. (See ICPhS 2015 proceeedings above)
- *Bishop, J.B., *Chong, A.J., Jun, S.-A. (2015). Individual differences in prosodic strategies in sentence processing. Poster presented at the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Glasgow, UK. (See ICPhS 2015 proceeedings above)
- *Bishop, J.B., Chong, A.J., Jun, S.-A. (2015). Prosodic phrasing and individual differences in relative clause attachment. Poster presented at Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody 3, UIUC, Urbana-Champaign, 28-30 May. (See ICPhS 2015 proceeedings above)
- Bishop, J.B., *Chong, A.J., Jun, S.-A. (2015). Explicit prosodic phrasing and individual differences in relative clause attachment. Poster presented at the 28th CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, USC, Los Angeles, 19-21 March. (See ICPhS 2015 proceeedings above)
- *White, J., Kim, Y., Chong, A.J. & Sundara, M. (2015). Phonetic similarity as a bias in infant phonological learning. Talk given at the DGfS workhop on universal biases on phonological acquisition and processing, Leipzig, Germany, 4-6 March.
- Bishop, J.B., *Chong, A.J., Jun, S. (2015). Explicit prosodic phrasing in relative clause attachment. Talk presented at the Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, Portland, USA, 8-11 January. (See ICPhS 2015 proceeedings above)
- *Chong, A.J. & Sundara, M. (2014). 18-month-olds compensate for a phonological alternation. Talk presented at Boston University Conference on Language Development 39, Boston, 7-9 November. [pdf] (see BUCLD proceedings paper above)
- *Chong, A.J. & Sundara, M. (2014). Perceptual similarity modulates context effects in online compensation for phonological variation. Poster presented at Annual Meeting on Phonology 2, MIT, Boston, 20-21 September. [pdf] (see AMP 2 proceedings paper above)
- *White, J., Sundara, M., Kim, Y. & Chong, A.J. (2014). Infant learning of phonological alternations is biased by phonetic similarity. Poster presented at LAGB Workshop on Learning Biases in Natural and Artificial Language Acquisition, Annual Meeting of LAGB, Oxford, UK, 1-5 September.
- *Chong, A.J. & Sundara, M. (2014). Tapping in American English: Context matters. Poster presented at Laboratory Phonology 14, Tokyo, Japan, 25-27 July. [poster]
- *Chong, A.J. & Sundara, M. (2014). 1.5 year-old children's compensation for a phonological alternation. Symposium on Cognitive and Language Development, UCLA, 10 May.
- *Sundara, M., Kim, Y., White, J. & Chong, A.J. (2013). There is no pat in patting: Acquisition of phonological alternations by English-learning 12-month-olds. Talk presented at Boston University Conference on Language Development 38, Boston. (see manuscript above)
- *Chong, A.J. & Sundara, M. (2013). Allophonic variation and word recognition 1.5 year-old children. Poster presented at Workshop on Variation in the Acquisition of Sound Systems. LSA Institute 2013, Universty of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, 28 June.
- Chong, A.J. (2013). Towards a model of Singaporean English intonational phonology. Poster presented at the 2013 International Conference on Acoustics, Montreal, QC, Canada, 6 June. [poster]
- Chong, A.J. (2011). Lenition and Fortition in Australian Languages: The case of Yolngu and Wubuy. 10th Australian Languages Workshop. University of Queensland, 13 March. [handout]
Theses
Ph.D. Dissertation: Chong, J.A. (2017). On the relation between phonotactic learning and alternation learning. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. University of California, Los Angeles, USA. [pdf]
M.A. Thesis: Chong, J.A. (2013). Processing allophonic variants in the visual world paradigm. Unpublished MA Thesis. University of California, Los Angeles, USA [contact me for a copy] (see BUCLD 2015 proceedings paper above)
B.A. (Hons.) Thesis: Chong, A.J. (2011).Continuant-stop alternations in the Top-End: A look at Yolngu and Wubuy. Unpublished BA Honours Thesis. The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia. [pdf]