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D-Index
39
Citations
10376
World Ranking
7519
National Ranking
467

Overview

Yi Xu is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom and conducts research primarily at the intersection of Computer Science and Psychology. Their work spans various subfields including Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Artificial Intelligence, Signal Processing, Linguistics and Language, and Computer Networks and Communications.

Their research topics focus on areas such as Phonetics and Phonology Research, Speech Recognition and Synthesis, Linguistic Variation and Morphology, Speech and Audio Processing, Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism, Speech and Dialogue Systems, and Music and Audio Processing.

Yi Xu has contributed to multiple recent publications, including:

  • Coarticulation as synchronised CV co-onset - Parallel evidence from articulation and acoustics, 2021, Journal of Phonetics
  • Load Balancing for Communication Networks via Data-Efficient Deep Reinforcement Learning, 2021, 2021 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM)
  • Consonantal F0 perturbation in American English involves multiple mechanisms, 2021, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
  • One for All: Traffic Prediction at Heterogeneous 5G Edge with Data-Efficient Transfer Learning, 2021, 2021 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM)
  • Pre-low raising in Cantonese and Thai: Effects of speech rate and vowel quantity, 2021, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Anqi Xu
  • Peter Birkholz
  • Gregory Dudek
  • Daniel van Niekerk
  • Branislav Gerazov

Yi Xu's work has been published in several venues, such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
  • Journal of Phonetics
  • Speech Communication
  • 2021 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM)

Best Publications

  • Effects of tone and focus on the formation and alignment of f0contours

    Yi Xu

  • Contextual tonal variations in Mandarin

    Yi Xu

  • Speech melody as articulatorily implemented communicative functions

    Yi Xu;Yi Xu

  • Pitch targets and their realization: evidence from Mandarin Chinese

    Yi Xu;Q. Emily Wang

  • ProsodyPro — A Tool for Large-scale Systematic Prosody Analysis

    Y Xu

  • Information for Mandarin tones in the amplitude contour and in brief segments.

    D.H. Whalen;Yi Xu

  • Maximum speed of pitch change and how it may relate to speech.

    Yi Xu;Xuejing Sun

  • Consistency of Tone-Syllable Alignment across Different Syllable Structures and Speaking Rates

    Yi Xu

  • Production and perception of coarticulated tones

    Yi Xu

  • Parallel encoding of focus and interrogative meaning in Mandarin intonation.

    Fang Liu;Yi Xu

  • Modeling tone and intonation in Mandarin and English as a process of target approximation

    Santitham Prom-on;Yi Xu;Bundit Thipakorn

  • Production of Weak Elements in Speech – Evidence from F₀ Patterns of Neutral Tone in Standard Chinese

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  • Voice F0 responses to pitch-shifted voice feedback during English speech

    Stephanie H. Chen;Hanjun Liu;Yi Xu;Charles R. Larson

  • Fundamental Frequency Peak Delay in Mandarin

    Yi Xu

  • Effects of consonant aspiration on Mandarin tones

    Ching X. Xu;Yi Xu

  • Prosodic focus with and without post-focus compression: A typological divide within the same language family?

    Yi Xu;Szu-wei Chen;Bei Wang

  • Wave motion in an isotropic elastic layer generated by a time-harmonic point load of arbitrary direction

    Jan Drewes Achenbach;Y. Xu

  • Human vocal attractiveness as signaled by body size projection.

    Yi Xu;Albert Lee;Wing Li Wu;Xuan Liu

  • Compensation for pitch-shifted auditory feedback during the production of Mandarin tone sequences.

    Yi Xu;Charles R. Larson;Jay J. Bauer;Timothy C. Hain

  • Closely related languages, different ways of realizing focus

    Szu-wei Chen;Bei Wang;Yi Xu

  • Sources of tonal variations in connected speech

    Y Xu

  • UNDERSTANDING TONE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF PRODUCTION AND PERCEPTION

    Yi Xu

  • The Mechanism of Speech Processing in Congenital Amusia: Evidence from Mandarin Speakers

    Fang Liu;Cunmei Jiang;William Forde Thompson;Yi Xu

  • POST-FOCUS COMPRESSION: CROSS-LINGUISTIC DISTRIBUTION AND HISTORICAL ORIGIN

    Yi Xu

  • Toward invariant functional representations of variable surface fundamental frequency contours: Synthesizing speech melody via model-based stochastic learning

    Yi Xu;Santitham Prom-On

  • Learning phonetic categories by tracking movements

    Bruno Gauthier;Rushen Shi;Yi Xu

  • Compensatory responses to loudness-shifted voice feedback during production of Mandarin speech

    Hanjun Liu;Qianru Zhang;Yi Xu;Charles R. Larson

  • Prosodic Focus in Hong Kong Cantonese without Post-focus Compression

    WL Wu;Y Xu

  • Differential prosodic encoding of topic and focus in sentence-initial position in Mandarin Chinese

    Bei Wang;Yi Xu

  • Information for Mandarin tones in the amplitude contour and in brief segments

    Yi Xu;D. H. Whalen

Frequent Co-Authors

Fang Liu
Fang Liu Beihang University
Douglas H. Whalen
Douglas H. Whalen Yale University
Murray J. Munro
Murray J. Munro Simon Fraser University
Aniruddh D. Patel
Aniruddh D. Patel Tufts University
Kai Alter
Kai Alter Newcastle University
Lauren Stewart
Lauren Stewart Goldsmiths University of London
Christopher G. Goetz
Christopher G. Goetz Rush University Medical Center
Peter Q. Pfordresher
Peter Q. Pfordresher University at Buffalo, State University of New York
William Forde Thompson
William Forde Thompson Bond University

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