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Chenzi Xu
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Leverhulme Early Career Fellow @Oxford |Postdoc @York | DPhil (PhD) in Linguistics @Oxford | Phonetics, Neurolinguistics, ASR, Speech tech | https://chenzixu.rbind.io
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Chenzi Xu @chenzi.bsky.social · Mar 21
✨Our team is expanding. Join us at #ManyTones!
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Alumni talk this afternoon at PolyU. Drop by if you’re around and interested!

#linguistics #polyu #academia
November 12, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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If you are curious about Plastic Mandarin, feel free to check out my new paper: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

#phonetics #linguistics #citationtone
Plastic Mandarin tones: regional identity in prosody
Local differentiation and innovation in spoken Mandarin are now ubiquitous in metropolises in China, accelerated by the widespread promotion of the national lingua franca Standard Mandarin. This paper...
www.degruyterbrill.com
October 29, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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We presented our #ManyTones project at the 2025 #BigTeamScience Conference. We talked about project background, pilot study, and challenges. The slides are available at chenchenzi.github.io/manytones/pr.... Feel free to check them out 👀
Perception of F0 Perturbations across Many Languages | ManyTones
First Main Project
chenchenzi.github.io
October 6, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Join me at the #BigTeamScience Conference, where I'll be presenting live via Zoom today (Oct 6) from 14:30-14:55 UTC(15:30 UK). Register now (for free or pay-what-you-want) at bigteamscience.github.io to catch my Talk on our “ManyTones” project!

#ManyTones #linguistics #phonetics
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October 6, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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There's still time to register for the 2025 Big Team Science Conference (October 6-8, live on Zoom)! All fees are OPTIONAL, so you can pay what you'd like (or nothing at all!) to gain access to a ton of amazing BTS content.

bigteamscienceconference.github.io/registration/
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>>> Register for the 2025 BTSCON now! *** ### BTSCON Registration Info To balance inclusivity with our funding needs, *registration fees for the Big Team Science Conference are optional*. You can pay ...
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October 1, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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manylanguagesc.bsky.social
The ManyTones project is looking for several lead positions. See poster for details. 📢📣✨ Get involved! 🎉🤝🌟
August 19, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Thank you the team at Leiden University for the opportunity to present on working with large-scale speech corpus.

🖥️Slides are available at: chenzixu.rbind.io/talk/corpus/.

#Corpusphonetics #speechcorpus #linguistics
August 16, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Hands-on MFA series on low-resource language Bora, based on fieldwork word lists from a single speaker (~1.5 hours!).

#phonetics #MFA #forcedalignment #tutorial

⭐️ available at: chenzixu.rbind.io/resources/3a...
ASR from Scratch III: Training models of Bora, a Low-resource Language (MFA) | Dr Chenzi Xu
This chapter we focus on Bora, an endangered indigenous language of South America, primarily spoken in the western Amazon rainforest. I will demonstrate how to train a mini Bora acoustic model for for...
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August 8, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Experimental Phonetics Postdoc opportunity at HKU with Ricky Chan (HKU), Paul Foulkes (York UK) , Cuiling Zhang (Southwest University of Political Science & Law, China) and Bruce Wang(PolyU, HK). Please feel free to email Ricky (rickykwc@hku.hk) for an informal chat.

jobs.hku.hk/en/job/53256...
HKU Careers
The University of Hong Kong (HKU) offers an intellectually-stimulating and culturally-rich academic environment, with attractive remuneration packages.
jobs.hku.hk
July 5, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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✨Our team is expanding. Join us at #ManyTones!
March 21, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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ManyLanguages starts its first BigTeamScience project: ManyTones. Get in touch with the lead team if you want to be involved.
manylanguagesc.bsky.social ManyLanguages @manylanguagesc.bsky.social · Feb 28
🆕New project approved🎉

Exciting news! We’ve just accepted our first-ever ManyLanguages Project:
📌 Perception of Fundamental Frequency Perturbations Across Many Languages
March 1, 2025 at 5:28 AM
chenzi.bsky.social
Super excited that our project is accepted and is officially launching 🎊

Stay tuned for more details!
manylanguagesc.bsky.social ManyLanguages @manylanguagesc.bsky.social · Feb 28
🆕New project approved🎉

Exciting news! We’ve just accepted our first-ever ManyLanguages Project:
📌 Perception of Fundamental Frequency Perturbations Across Many Languages
February 28, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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New Cantonese acoustic models are available!

💛trained using the Common Voice 19 Cantonese subset and Chinese (Hong Kong) subset, with 3400 speakers.

💛different phone set/dictionary options
#MFA #phonetics #Cantonese

github.com/chenchenzi/H...
GitHub - chenchenzi/HKCantonese_models: This is a repository dedicated for pre-trained acoustic models of Hong Kong Cantonese and Cantonese forced alignment.
This is a repository dedicated for pre-trained acoustic models of Hong Kong Cantonese and Cantonese forced alignment. - chenchenzi/HKCantonese_models
github.com
November 9, 2024 at 3:25 PM
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🚨New preprint🚨

"Big Team Science for language science: Opportunities and Challenges"

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#langsky #linguistics
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October 27, 2024 at 6:43 PM
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New paper out🔥🔥🔥

We conducted a cross-linguistic review of citation tone studies and proposed a range of recommendations on ‘distilling’ citation tones.

⭐️: pubs.aip.org/asa/jasa/art...

#phonetics #linguistics #tone #prosody
A cross-linguistic review of citation tone production studies: Methodology and recommendations
The study of citation tones, lexical tones produced in isolation, is one of the first steps towards understanding speech prosody in tone languages. However, met
pubs.aip.org
October 15, 2024 at 6:38 PM
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🔥 The first paper on Plastic Mandarin in the Journal of Phonetics is out! Check it out🌟 It’s fully open access. #phonetics #linguistics

🔗 authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
ScienceDirect.com | Science, health and medical journals, full text articles and books.
authors.elsevier.com
July 22, 2024 at 4:13 PM
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Officially started my @leverhulme.bsky.social Early Career Fellowship at the University of Oxford. I am working on a variety of tone languages. Contact me if you have any collaboration ideas💡

🌟Check out my project:
www.leverhulme.ac.uk/early-career...
The rise and fall of a tone | The Leverhulme Trust
www.leverhulme.ac.uk
March 4, 2024 at 10:45 AM
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Do you have a nerdy tier list? In my blog I talked about reference management and provided a thorough guide to @zotero and Zotero plugins.

🌟Read here: chenzixu.rbind.io/resources/4r...
Tier list of reference management
October 18, 2023 at 10:58 AM