Publications

Journal Article

2012
forthcoming		 Cooper, A. and Yue Wang. The influence of linguistic and musical experience on Cantonese word learning. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 131(6), 1-14.

Conference Proceedings

2011 Wang, Y., Yang Zhang, Angela Cooper and Mathieu Dovan. Effects of training on the processing of speech and non-speech tone: An event-related potential study. Proceedings of the Psycholinguistic Representation of Tone Conference, Hong Kong, August 22-23. PDF
2011 Cooper, A. and Yue Wang. Effects of linguistic experience and tone training on Cantonese tone word learning. Proceedings of the Psycholinguistic Representation of Tone Conference, Hong Kong, August 22-23. PDF
2011 Cooper, A. and Yue Wang. The influence of tonal awareness and musical experience on tone word learning. Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Hong Kong, August 17-21, pp. 512-515. PDF
2011 Wang, Y., Angela Cooper, Xianghua Wu and Dawn Behne. Effect of semantic context on the perceptual learning of lexical tone. Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Hong Kong, August 17-21, pp. 2098-2101. PDF
2010 Zhang, Y., Angela Cooper and Yue Wang. Processing of speech and non-speech tonal information by native and nonnative tone language speakers: an event-related electrophysiological study. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Canadian Acoustical Association, Victoria, October 13-15. PDF
2010 Cooper, A. and Yue Wang. Cantonese tone word learning by tone and non-tone language speakers. Proceedings of Interspeech 2010, Makuhari, September 26-30. PDF
2010 Cooper, A. and Yue Wang. The role of musical experience in Cantonese lexical tone perception by native speakers of Thai. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Speech Prosody, Chicago, May 11-14. PDF

Manuscripts

Cooper, A. and Yue Wang (in preparation) Effects of tone training on Cantonese tone word learning. To be submitted to Language and Speech.

Conference Presentations

2012 Wang, Y., Yang Zhang, Angela Cooper and Mathieu Dovan. Effects of musical and linguistic experience on the processing of speech and non-speech pitch: an event-related electrophysiological study. 19th Annual Cognitive Neuroscience Meeting, Chicago, IL, March 31 – April 3.
2011 Cooper, A., Michael Blasingame and David Potter. Communicatively- and prosodically-driven hyper-articulation in English. Accepted for oral presentation at the 17th Mid-Continental Phonetics and Phonology Conference, Urbana-Champaign, IL, October 21-23.
2011 Wang, Y., Yang Zhang, Angela Cooper and Mathieu Dovan. Effects of training on the processing of speech and non-speech tone: An event-related potential study. Psycholinguistic Representation of Tone Conference, Hong Kong, August 22-23.
2011 Cooper, A. and Yue Wang. Effects of linguistic experience and tone training on Cantonese tone word learning. Psycholinguistic Representation of Tone Conference, Hong Kong, August 22-23.
2011 Cooper, A. and Yue Wang. The influence of tonal awareness and musical experience on tone word learning. Accepted for oral presentation at the 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Hong Kong, August 17-21.
2011 Wang, Y., Angela Cooper, Xianghua Wu and Dawn Behne. Effect of semantic context on the perceptual learning of lexical tone. Accepted for oral presentation at the 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Hong Kong, August 17-21.
2010 Cooper, A. and Yue Wang. Can musical aptitude and experience predict success in non-native tone word learning? 2nd PanAmerican/Iberian Meeting on Acoustics, Cancun, October 15-19. PDF
2010 Zhang, Y., Angela Cooper and Yue Wang. Processing of speech and non-speech tonal information by native and nonnative tone language speakers: an event-related electrophysiological study. Accepted for oral presentation at the 2010 Annual Conference of the Canadian Acoustical Association, Victoria, October 13-15.
2010 Cooper, A. and Yue Wang. Cantonese tone word learning by tone and non-tone language speakers. Interspeech 2010, Makuhari, September 26-30. PDF
2010 Cooper, A. and Yue Wang. The role of musical experience in Cantonese lexical tone perception by native speakers of Thai. Accepted for oral presentation at the 5th International Conference on Speech Prosody, Chicago, May 11-14.
2009 Cooper, A. and Yue Wang. Effects of linguistic and musical experience on non-native perception of Thai vowel duration. 2nd Acoustical Society of America Workshop on Speech: Cross-language speech perception and variations in linguistic experience, Portland, May 22-23. PDF
2008 Wang, Y., Dawn Behne, Angela Cooper, and Jung-Yueh Tu. Domain-specific processing of Mandarin tone. 157th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Portland, May 18-22. PDF
2008 Wang, Y., Dawn Behne, Angela Cooper, Haisheng Jiang, Nina Leung, and Jung-Yueh Tu. Effects of auditory, visual and audio-visual training on nonnative perception of English fricatives. Acoustics 2008, Paris, Jun. 29 – Jul. 4. PDF
2008 Wang, Y., Dawn Behne, Angela Cooper, Haisheng Jiang, Nina Leung, and Jung-Yueh Tu. Effects of training modality on audio-visual perception of place of articulation and voicing in nonnative speech. Accepted for oral presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Acoustics Association, Vancouver, Oct. 6-8.

MA Thesis

2010 Cooper, A. Effects of linguistic and musical experience on Cantonese tone word learning. Master’s thesis. PDF
Senior supervisor: Yue Wang
Supervisory committee: Murray Munro, Dean Mellow
External examiner: Valter Ciocca