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  1. The Role of L1 Tonal Experience in Cross-Situational Learning of Non-Native Tone Contrasts

    Article • May 2026, International Speech Communication Association

    Quentin Zhen Qin

  2. The Attentional Control of Younger and Older Adults in Forced-Attention Dichotic Listening of Cantonese Tones

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, May 2026, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Xiaohu Yang, Quentin Zhen Qin

  3. Towards an Attentional Theory of Second-Language Speech Perception: Evidence from Cue Ecology

    Article • February 2026, Center for Open Science

    Quentin Zhen Qin

  4. Overnight Consolidation of Cantonese Tones in Mandarin-Speaking Older Adults The Role of Encoding Strength

    Article • January 2026, Elsevier

    Quentin Zhen Qin

  5. Towards an Attentional Theory of Second-Language Speech Perception: Evidence from Cue Ecology

    Article • January 2026, Elsevier

    Quentin Zhen Qin

  6. The role of prior knowledge in second-language learners’ overnight consolidation of Cantonese tones

    Article • Journal of Phonetics, July 2025, Elsevier

    Quentin Zhen Qin

  7. Daytime naps consolidate Cantonese tone learning through promoting cross-talker perception: The role of prior knowledge

    Article • Brain and Language, June 2025, Elsevier

    Quentin Zhen Qin

  8. Aging and Distributional Tone Learning: The Role of Pitch Memory in Older Adults’ Discrimination of Mandarin Lexical Tones

    Article • March 2025, Center for Open Science

    Quentin Zhen Qin

  9. Aging and distributional tone learning: the role of pitch memory in older adults’ discrimination of mandarin lexical tones

    Article • Language and Cognition, January 2025, Cambridge University Press

    Quentin Zhen Qin

  10. The role of acoustic cues in the checked-unchecked tone merging of the Qixian Jin dialect

    Article • JASA Express Letters, December 2024, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Quentin Zhen Qin

  11. Individual differences in the distributional learning and overnight consolidation of the Mandarin level-falling tone contrast

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, December 2024, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Quentin Zhen Qin

  12. Distributional Learning and Overnight Consolidation of Lexical Tones

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, June 2024, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Quentin Zhen Qin

  13. The role of coarticulatory tonal information in Cantonese spoken word recognition: an eye-tracking study

    Article • Linguistics Vanguard, June 2024, De Gruyter

    Quentin Zhen Qin

  14. The effect of second-language learning experience on Korean listeners’ use of pitch cues in the perception of Cantonese tones

    Article • Second language Research, April 2024, SAGE Publications

    Quentin Zhen Qin

  15. Distributional learning of non-native tone contrasts by older adults after training and overnight consolidation

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, March 2024, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Quentin Zhen Qin

  16. Prior knowledge benefits older adults' tonal consolidation through talker generalization

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, March 2024, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Quentin Zhen Qin

  17. The Role of Prior Knowledge in Second-Language Learners’ Overnight Consolidation of Cantonese Tones

    Article • January 2024, Elsevier

    Quentin Zhen Qin

  18. The Effects of Training Variability and Pitch Aptitude on the Overnight Consolidation of Lexical Tones

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, September 2022, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Caicai Zhang, Quentin Zhen Qin

  19. The Second-Language Productivity of Two Mandarin Tone Sandhi Patterns

    Article • Speech Communication, March 2022, Elsevier

    Quentin Zhen Qin

  20. The use of tonal coarticulation cues in Cantonese spoken word recognition

    Article • JASA Express Letters, March 2022, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Quentin Zhen Qin

  21. Neural responses in novice learners’ perceptual learning and generalization of lexical tones: The effect of training variability

    Article • Brain and Language, December 2021, Elsevier

    Quentin Zhen Qin

  22. The effect of Mandarin listeners' musical and pitch aptitude on perceptual learning of Cantonese level-tones

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, January 2021, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Quentin Zhen Qin

  23. How Does Mandarin Learning Experience Modulate Second-Language Learners’ Phonological Knowledge of Tone 3 Sandhi in Word Production?

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Quentin Zhen Qin

  24. How sleep-mediated memory consolidation modulates the generalization across talkers: evidence from tone identification

    Article • May 2020, International Speech Communication Association

    Quentin Zhen Qin

  25. The effect of overnight consolidation in the perceptual learning of non-native tonal contrasts

    Article • PLOS One, December 2019, PLOS

    Quentin Zhen Qin

  26. The effect of overnight consolidation in the perceptual learning of non-native tonal contrasts

    Article • August 2019, openRxiv

    Quentin Zhen Qin

  27. Influence of within-category tonal information in the recognition of Mandarin-Chinese words by native and non-native listeners: An eye-tracking study

    Article • Journal of Phonetics, March 2019, Elsevier

    Quentin Zhen Qin

  28. English Learners’ Use of Segmental and Suprasegmental Cues to Stress in Lexical Access: An Eye‐Tracking Study

    Article • Language Learning, March 2018, Wiley

    Quentin Zhen Qin

  29. Just noticeable differences for pitch direction, height, and slope for Mandarin and English listeners

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, August 2017, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Allard Jongman, Quentin Zhen Qin

  30. Processing of word-level stress by Mandarin-speaking second language learners of English

    Article • Applied Psycholinguistics, October 2016, Cambridge University Press

    Quentin Zhen Qin

  31. Effects of native language on the use of segmental and suprasegmental cues to stress in English word recognition: An eye-tracking study

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, October 2016, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Quentin Zhen Qin

  32. Just noticeable differences for pitch height and pitch contour for Chinese and American listeners

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, October 2016, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Quentin Zhen Qin

  33. Does Second Language Experience Modulate Perception of Tones in a Third Language?

    Article • Language and Speech, August 2016, SAGE Publications

    Allard Jongman, Quentin Zhen Qin

  34. Does second language experience modulate perception of tones in a third language?

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, October 2014, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Quentin Zhen Qin

  35. Discrimination of Cantonese Tones by Speakers of Tone and Non-tone Languages

    Article • Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, January 2014, The University of Kansas

    Quentin Zhen Qin