Name: Feier Gao
Gender: female
Title：lecturer
E-mail: feiergao@seu.edu.cn
Address：Room 404, School of Foreign Languages, Southeast University
Research Interests：
laboratory phonology、psycholinguistics、language variation
Education：
2016-2022 PhD in Linguistics. Indiana University Bloomington, USA
2014-2016 MA in English. University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
2010-2014 Bachelor in Education. Heilongjiang University
Employment：
2022/10- School of Foreign Languages, Southeast University
2020 Department of Linguistics, Indiana University Bloomington
2019-2020 College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington
Honors：
[1]2021-2022 IU College of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Completion Fellowship
[2]2021 IU Libraries Open Access Article Publishing Fund
[3]2019 Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute Fellowship
[4]2019 IU Linguistics Fred W. Householder Memorial Student Research Fund
Research Grant：
PI, 2023 Jiangsu Provincial Social Science Foundation (Young scholar division) “Cognitive mechanism and acquisition for Mandarin tone 3 sandhi at the phonology-morphology interface” (ongoing，2023/08-2025/12)
Publications (*indicates corresponding author):
[1] Feier Gao* & Jon Forrest. (2023). Indexical meaning of Mandarin full tone in the construction of femininity: Evidence from social perceptual data. Language & Communication 91:1-20. (SSCI)
[2] Zuoyu Tian*, Xiao Dong, Feier Gao, Haining Wang, & Chien-Jer Charles Lin. (2022). Mandarin tone sandhi realization: Evidence from large speech corpora. Interspeech 2022. (EI)
[3] Feier Gao. (2022). The Mental Representation of Mandarin Tonal Alternations. Ph.D. Thesis. Indiana University Bloomington, USA.
[4] Feier Gao*, Siqi Lyu & Chien-Jer Charles Lin. (2021). Processing Mandarin Tone 3 sandhi at the morphosyntactic interface: Reduplication and lexical compounds. Frontiers in Psychology 12:713665. (SSCI)
[5] Feier Gao.(2020). Full tone to sound feminine: Analyzing the role of tonal variants in identity construction. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, 25(2), Article 6. (Selective invitation)
Manuscripts under revision:
[1] Feier Gao. Crossmodal correspondence between lexical tones and visual motions: A forced-choice mapping task on Mandarin Chinese.
[2] Feier Gao & Chien-Jer Charles Lin. Incorporating frequency effects in the lexical access of Mandarin tone 3 sandhi.
Selected peer-reviewed conference presentations：
[1] Feier Gao & Chien-Jer Charles Lin. Frequency effects in the lexical access that involves phonological alternation: Evidence from Mandarin tone 3 sandhi. Architecture and Mechanisms of Language Processing Asia 2023 (AMLaP-Asia 2023), Hong Kong, China. December 1-3rd, 2023.
[2] 高霏儿. Cognitive aspects in socially meaningful language variations: A Matched Guise Task on Mandarin neutral tone variation. 中国语文现代化学会神经语言学研究分会第三届年会. 浙江大学城市学院. 2023年10月21-22日.
[3] 高霏儿. 语言变异与社会认知：普通话轻声重读变项中的社会学感知研究. 江苏省外国语言学会第十一届年会暨第十五届江苏省外国语言学学术论坛. 扬州大学. 2023年10月28-29日.
[4] Zuoyu Tian, Xiao Dong, Feier Gao, Haining Wang, & Chien-Jer Charles Lin. Mandarin tone sandhi realization: Evidence from large speech corpora. Interspeech 2022. Seoul, Korea.
[5] Feier Gao, Siqi Lyu & Chien-Jer Charles Lin. Morphological effects on the access of Mandarin sandhi syllables. The 17th Conference on Laboratory Phonology. Vancouver, Canada. July 15, 2020.
[6] Feier Gao & Jon Forrest. Mandarin Full Tone Realization and Indexical Meaning”. Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA. January 2-5, 2020.
[7] Feier Gao. Full tone to sound feminine: Analyzing the role of tonal variants in identity construction. The 47th New Ways of Analyzing Variation. New York City, NY. October 18-21, 2018.
Members and Services：
Members: Linguistic Society of America, Association of Laboratory Phonology, International Association of Chinese Linguistics
Service：Reviewer for Frontiers in Psychology、Language and Speech、NACCL-34
