Xinbing Luo

Xinbing Luo is a PhD student (2023-present) in the Phonetics Laboratory at the University of Cambridge, under the supervision of Prof Brechtje Post and Prof John Williams. Her research centres on the implicit learning of tonal phonology and connectionist modelling. Prior to embarking on her doctoral study, she obtained an MPhil degree in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics with Distinction from the University of Cambridge. Her MPhil dissertation explored the implicit learning of tone-segment associations. She also holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Beijing Foreign Studies University. Additionally, she brings valuable experience from the Text-to-Speech (TTS) industry to her academic pursuits.

Supervisors:  Prof Brechtje Post and Prof John Williams

Research Topic: Incidental learning of tone sandhi: from artificial language learning to connectionist modelling

Conference Papers

Luo, X., Post, B. (2024) Implicit learning of tone-segment connections by adults with and without tonal language backgrounds. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2024, 717-721. http://doi.org/10.21437/SpeechProsody.2024-145

Bakkouche, L., Cooper, S., Luo, X., Rees, M., Lau, E., McGhee, C., Alter, K., Post, B., & Schwarz, J. (2024). Research plan: Neural encoding of AI-generated speech prosody by L1 and L2 speakers. UKiS 2024 Cambridge. https://ukis2024.eng.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/ukis2024-Abstr... [Poster]

Luo, X., & Post, B. (2024). Implicit learning of tone-segment connections. British Association of Academic Phoneticians Colloquium 2024, Cardiff.  https://sites.google.com/view/baap-2024/en/programme  [Oral Presentation]

 Other activities and roles

British Association of Academic Phoneticians

Cambridge Processing and Acquisition of Language (CamPAL) co-organizer

Team member of ProsodAI - - Neural Encoding of AI-Generated Speech Prosody by L1 and L2 Speakers (Language Sciences Incubator Fund Project, 2024)