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Man Gao
Man Gao
Haskins Laboratories
300 George Street
New Haven, CT 06511

Haskins Phone: (203) 865-6163, ext. 221
Yale Phone: (203) 764-9353, ext. 221
Haskins Fax: (203) 865-8963

Regular Days at Haskins: Monday - Friday

Postdoctoral Fellow, Haskins Laboratories
Adjunct Professor, University of Connecticut

Research interests

Speech production and perception
Articulatory Phonology
Chinese linguistics
Chinese language pedagogy
Languages/dialects in China

Education

Ph.D., Yale University, 2008 (Linguistics)
Dissertation Title: Tonal Alignment in Mandarin Chinese: An Articulatory Phonology Account
M.Phil.,Yale University, 2006 (Linguistics)
M.A., University of Victoria (Canada), 2002 (Linguistics)
B.A., Sun Yat-sen University (P. R. China) 1999 (English Language and Literature)

Selected presentations & publications

Gao, M. (to appear). Gestural Coordination among Vowel, Consonant and Tone Gestures in Mandarin Chinese. Chinese Journal of Phonetics. Beijing: Commercial Press.

Gao, M. (2009). Tone-to-Segment Alignment in Syllables with Voiceless Onset: an Articulatory Phonology Account. Paper to be presented at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. San Francisco, California.

Mooshammer, C., Goldstein, L., Tiede, M., Nam, H. & Gao, M. (2008). Effects of Syllable Structure on Reaction Times in a Delayed Naming Task. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 123(5, 2), 3883.

Gao, M. (2006). Gestural Representation and Alignment Patterns of Mandarin Tones. Poster presented at the 10th Conference on Laboratory Phonology. Paris, France.

Gao, M. (2005). Preposition Incorporation in Mandarin. Paper presented at the 17th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics. Monterey, California.

Gao, M. & Esling, J. (2003). Articulatory Features of Tones in Whispered Chinese. Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Barcelona, Spain, 2629-2632.