Jiayin GAO Date of Birth Address

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29 June 1987 7-1 Kioi-cho, Chiyoda-ku Arai Lab, Sophia University Tokyo, 102-8554 JAPAN

Nationality Tel Email Website

Chinese +81 80 4675 5089 [email protected] http://jiayin.gao.free.fr/

Research and teaching experience

09/08/2017-08/08/2019

Postdoctoral fellow under a JSPS Fellowship for Overseas Researchers. Host: Prof. Takayuki Arai, Speech Communication Lab, Sophia University. Project: Laryngeal mechanisms in speech production and perception: a cross-linguistic study on consonant-pitch interaction. Grand-in-Aid Number 17F17006.

01/09/2015-31/05/2017

Postdoctoral researcher, Laboratoire Langues et civilisations à tradition orale, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3. Project: Evolutionary approaches to phonology (Axe 1-PPC2, LabEx EFL). Fieldwork of Tamang tone studies in Nepal in November 2015 and March-April 2017. Teaching hours: 54 hours (2016-2017).

01/09/2014-31/08/2015

Junior lecturer [Attaché temporaire d’enseignement et de recherche], Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3. Teaching hours: 192 hours.

01/10/2011-31/08/2014

PhD student researcher [Doctorant contractuel], Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3. Teaching hours: 64*3 = 192 hours.

01/06-31/08/2010

Part-time teacher of French as a foreign language, Centre langues-culture-communication de Paris.

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Education

05/2015

PhD in Phonetics, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3. Defense date: 21 May 2015. Mention "Très honorable avec félicitations" (highest distinction). Reseach topic: Interdependence between Tones, Segments and Phonation Types in Shanghai Chinese: acoustics, articulation, perception and evolution. Committee: Yiya Chen (pre-reporter), Pierre Hallé (supervisor), Guillaume Jacques (pre-reporter), Martine Mazaudon (examiner), Alexis Michaud (examiner), and Laurent Sagart (president).

06/2011

MA in Phonetics, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3. Supervisor: Pierre Hallé; Mention "Très bien" (highest distinction).

06/2009

BA in French language and literature, Shanghai International Studies University.

2008-2009

Visiting student, Sciences Po Grenoble and Université Stendhal-Grenoble 3, France.

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Qualifications and Awards

05/2017

Finalist in the National contest for an Assistant Professor (Tenure track) position [Maître de Conférences] in Phonology and Psycholinguistics at Université Paris-Diderot, France.

05/2017

Finalist in the competition for a Professoriate position in Phonology at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China.

2017

JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) Postodoctoral Fellowship for Overseas Researchers (Standard).

05/2016

Ranked third in the National contest for an Assistant Professor (Tenure track) position [Maître de Conférences] in Phonetics and Phonology at Université Grenoble-Alpes, France.

02/2016

Qualification for university professorship, section 7 (Linguistics) and 15 (Chinese language and literature) of the French National Council of Universities.

07/2011

Ranked first for a PhD student researcher fellowship at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3.

06/2009

Excellent graduate prize, Shanghai International Studies University.

2005-2008

First-grade scholarship for each semester, Shanghai International Studies University.

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Teaching and administration

Undergraduate courses in Linguistics, Institut de Linguistique et Phonétique Générales et Appliquées, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3, 448 hours. • Phonetics (1)/Spoken Communication, first year, 190 hours, 2011-2017. Introductory phonetics, introduction to French sounds and to IPA symbols, fundamental notions of articulatory, acoustic phonetics and speech perception. • Phonology (1), second year, 18 hours, 2014-2015. Introductory phonology, structuralist approach and generativist (SPE) approach. • Phonology (2), second year, 39 hours, 2012-2014. Multilineary phonology: autosegmental theory, CV theory, moraic theory, feature geometry, Optimality Theory, etc. • Phonetics (3)/Comparative phonetics, third year, 18 hours, 2011-2012. Crosslinguistic similarities and differences with respect to tone and intonation; spectrogram reading. • Statistics, third year, 48 hours, 2014-2015. Descriptive statistics; inferential statistics (t test, ANOVA, etc.). • Lexicology, first year, 36 hours, 2016-2017. Lexical morphology (focus on derivation and compounding in French), distributional analyses, word family and etymology. • Methodology of academic works, first year, 18 hours, 2014-2015. Methodology of note taking, comprehension of academic lectures and articles, literature search on linguistic topics. • Methodology of linguistic research, first year, 39 hours, 2014-2015. Presentation of different types of data, tools and methods for different research questions in linguistics. The term evaluation contains a group work on a linguistic topic. • Workshop of key notions, first year, 34.5 hours, 2011-2014. Discussion on linguistic notions and theories learned in different courses of the first year, exercises of linguistic analyses. 2

• Tutor for first-year students, 15 hours, 2014-2015. Contact with first-year students and assistance to their difficulties in education orientation, administrative procedures, working methods, etc. PhD training at Laboratoire de Langues et Civilisations à Tradition Orale, 30-31 January 2017. • Acoustic analyses using Praat, 3.5 hours. Centre langues-culture-communication de Paris, 2010. • Courses of French language learning for all levels, around 60 hours.

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Publications and communications - Dissertations • Gao, J. (2015). Interdependence between Tones, Segments and Phonation Types in Shanghai Chinese: acoustics, articulation, perception and evolution. PhD dissertation. ILPGA, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3. • Gao, J. (2011). Étude acoustique des syllables (C)V en shanghaïen: redondance et complémentarité des caractéristiques tonales et segmentales. MA dissertation. ILPGA, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3. - Journal articles • Gao, J., & Hallé, P. (2017). Phonetic and phonological properties of tones in Shanghai Chinese. Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale, 46, 1-31. • Gao, J. (2016). Sociolinguistic motivations in sound change: on-going loss of low tone breathy voice in Shanghai Chinese. Papers in Historical Phonology, 1, 166-186. • Landron, S., Paillereau, N., Nawafleh. A., Exare C., Ando, H., & Gao, J. (2010). Vers la construction d’un corpus commun de français langue étrangère : pour une étude phonétique des productions de locuteurs de langues maternelles plurielles. Cahiers de Praxématique, 54-55, 73-86. - International conference proceedings • Gao, J., & Mazaudon, M. (2017). Relative use of de-phonologized cues in perception of tones in Tamang (Nepal). Proceedings of 2017 Seoul International Conference on Speech Sciences, 86-87. Oral presentation. November 2017, Seoul, South Korea. • Hallé, P., Chen, T.-C., & Gao, J. (2017). Discrimination of Mandarin and Minnan tones by French listeners vs. Taiwanese Mandarin-Minnan Bilinguals. Proceedings of 2017 Seoul International Conference on Speech Sciences, 107-108. Oral presentation. November 2017, Seoul, South Korea. • Gao, J., & Hallé, P. (2015). The role of voice quality in Shanghai tone perception. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS). Paper number 448, 1-5. Oral presentation (Discussant session). August 2015, Glasgow, UK. • Gao, J., & Hallé, P. (2013). Are young male speakers losing Tone 3 breathiness in Shanghai Chinese? An acoustic and electroglottographic study. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Phonetics of the Languages in China, 163-166. Oral presentation. December 2013, Hong Kong, China. • Gao, J., & Hallé, P. (2013). Duration as a secondary cue for perception of voicing and tone in Shanghai Chinese. Proceedings of the 14th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech), 3157-3161. Oral presentation. August 2013, Lyon, France.

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• Georgeton, L., Paillereau, N., Landron, S., Gao, J., & Kamiyama, T. (2012). Analyse formantique des voyelles orales du français en contexte isolé: à la recherche d’une référence pour les apprenants de FLE. Actes des 29es JEP-TALN-RECITAL, 145-152. Poster presentation. June 2012, Grenoble, France. • Gao, J., & Hallé, P. (2012). Caractérisation acoustique des obstruantes phonologiquement voisées du dialecte de Shanghai. Actes des 29es JEP-TALN-RECITAL, 57-64. Poster presentation. June 2012, Grenoble, France. • Gao, J., Hallé, P., Honda, K., Maeda, S., & Toda, M. (2011). Shanghai slack voice: acoustic and ePGG data. Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), 719-722. Oral presentation. August 2011, Hong Kong, China. - Chapter • Landron, S., Gao, J., Chang, Y., & Tian, Y. (2017). Les sinophones. In S. Detey, I. Racine, Y. Kawaguchi, & J. Eychenne (eds.), La prononciation du français dans le monde: du natif à l’apprenant, pp. 193-199. CLE-International. - Communications at conferences without proceedings • Gao, J., & Mazaudon, M. (2017). Differential cue perception in plosive onset words after a tone-split in Tamang (Tibeto-Burman, Nepal). Third Edinburgh Symposium on Historical Phonology. November 2017, Edinburgh, UK. • Gao, J., & Mazaudon, M. (2017). On the retention of an old feature in the Tamang dialect of Taglung. 4th Workshop on Sound Change. April 2017, Edinburgh, UK. • Gao, J., & Hallé, P. (2016). Prosodic organization and microprosodic effects in Shanghai Chinese. The 15th Conference on Laboratory Phonology, Ithaca, USA. • Hallé, P., & Gao, J. (2016). Shanghai Chinese obstruent durations vary with voicing: A phonological or phonetic effect? The 15th Conference on Laboratory Phonology, Ithaca, USA. • Chen, T.-C., Gao, J., & Hallé, P. (2016). The discrimination of Mandarin vs. Minnan tones by French vs. Taiwanese Mandarin-Minnan bilinguals. New Sounds 2016, Aarhus, Denmark. • Gao J. (2015). Sociolinguistic motivations in sound change: loss of low tone breathy voice in Shanghai Chinese. The 2nd Edinburgh Symposium on Historical Phonology. December 2015, Edinburgh, UK. • Gao J. (2014). Production and perception of Yang tone breathiness in today’s Shanghai Chinese. 27èmes Journées de Linguistique d’Asie Orientale. June 2014, Paris, France. • Gao, J., Georgeton, L., Kamiyama, T., & Paillereau, N. (2013). Etude inter-langues sur la production des voyelles focales et des voyelles moyennes en français langue étrangère (FLE). PPLC (Phonetics, phonology and languages in contact) Conference 2013, August 2013, Paris, France. • Kamiyama, T., Georgeton L., Paillereau N., Brkan A., & Gao, J. (2012). Corpus PhoDiFle: les voyelles orales isolées du français prononcées par des apprenants bosniaques, japonais, shanghaïens et tchèques. Journées IPFC (InterPhonologie du français comtemporain) 2012, December 2012, Paris, France. - Invited talks and diffusion of knowledge • Gao, J. & Mazaudon, M. (2017). Tons et traits pertinents : perspective diachronique. « Atelier de Phonologie ». Juin 2017, Paris, France. • Gao, J. (2017). Multidimensional nature of tones: evidence from Shanghainese and Tamang, two distant Sino-Tibetan languages. Seminar "New Observations in Speech and Hearing". February 2017, Institute of Phonetics and Speech Processing (IPS). Munich, Germany. • Gao, J., & Mazaudon, M. (2016). Tons en tamang: variation synchronique et évolution diachronique. Séminaire LACITO « Problèmes d’Analyse et de Comparaison des Langues ». April 2016, Villejuif, France.

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• Gao, J. (2016). Research on tones in Tamang. Carnet du LACITO . • Mazaudon, M., & Gao, J. (2015). Tamang tone and orthography. Seminar with Tamang scholars and students. November 2015, Kathmandu, Nepal. • Gao, J. (2012). Redondance et complémentarité des caractéristiques segmentales et tonales du shanghaïen: données de production et de perception. Séminaire des doctorants du LLACAN (INALCO). April 2012, Villejuif, France. • Gao, J. (2011). Shanghai slack voice: acoustic characteristics and glottal settings. August 2011, Department of Linguistics, National Tsinghua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.

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Membership

Member of – the Association for Laboratory Phonology; – the AFCP (Association Francophone de la Communication Parlée); – the ASJ (Acoustical Society of Japan).

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Activities

2017 2016-2017 2016 2014 2011-2016 2013 2013 2011-2013

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Journal review for JIPA and JASA. Co-organizer of the LACITO seminar "Problèmes d’analyse et de comparaison des langues". Conference review for 31es Journées d’Études sur la Parole. Conference review for ConSOLE XXIII (the 23rd Conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe). Participation in the Fête de la Science (Festival of Science) in Paris. Volunteer worker, 14th Interspeech Conference, Lyon. Co-Editor in Chief of the Proceedings of the 16th Rencontres Jeunes Chercheurs. Member of the editing committee of the Proceedings of the 14th and 15th Rencontres Jeunes Chercheurs. Member of the organizing committee for the 15th and 16th Rencontres Jeunes Chercheurs. Conference review for the 9th Old World Conference in Phonology.

Skills

- Languages Chinese (Shanghai and Mandarin): native speaker. French: near-native. English: fluent. (TOEFL iBT score: 112/120). Japanese, Nepali: beginner. - Computer skills OS: Mac OS X, Windows, Unix. Scripting: Praat (good command); LATEX, Matlab, Perl, Awk, Bash (working knowledge). Phonetic analyses: Praat, Voicesauce, VocalTractLab (articulatory synthesizer). Psycholinguistics: E-Prime, PsychoPy. Statistics: R, VAR3, Statview. - Others Scottish Country Dance (advanced), Scottish Highland Dance (beginner), member of the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society – Paris Branch and Tokai Branch (Tokyo). 5