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Kevin Tang

Research Student

Email: kevin.tang.10@ucl.ac.uk

Principal Supervisor: Andrew Nevins

Subsidary Supervisor: Stuart Rosen
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Research Interests

For my PhD project, I am investigating speech misperception in its most naturalistic form, namely slips of the ear, particularly with English and Chinese languages. I am approaching it statistically, computationally and experimentally. This project covers also a range of areas, such as corpus collection and compilation, psycholinguistics, speech segmentation, constrain models of diachrony with synchronic data and more.

I hold a BA and an MEng in Engineering at the University of Cambridge as well as an MA in Linguistics from University College London. My PhD project is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

Lab groups

I am a member and an organiser of a lab group, Laboratory for Language and Speech Diversions (LLSD).

Dissertations

Tang, K. (2011). Phonetic trends in slips of the ear. MA Dissertation, University College London, UK.

Tang, K. (2010) Water Quality Modelling of the Beaver Creek Catchment. MEng Dissertation, University of Cambridge, UK.

Publications

Tang, K. (2013) A 61 Million Word Corpus of Brazilian Portuguese Film Subtitles as a Resource for Linguistic Research. UCL Working Papers in Linguistics 24.

Tang, K., & Nevins, A. (2012) Naturalistic Speech Misperception - a Computational Corpus-based Study. Proceedings of the 43rd Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society.

Conference: Oral Presentations

2013

Tang, K., Nevins, A., & Becker, M. Prosody drives alternations: evidence from a 51 Million Word Corpus of Brazilian Portuguese. The 10th Old World Conference in Phonology (OCP10), Istanbul, Turkey. January 2013.

2012

Tang, K., & Nevins, A. Naturalistic Speech Misperception - a Computational Corpus-based Study. Computational Linguistics Workshop, NELS 43 - the 43rd Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, New York City, NY, The City University of New York, USA. October 2012

Tang, K., & Nevins, A. Learning from Mistakes: Computational Modelling of Slips of the Ear. 20th Manchester Phonology Meeting, Manchester, UK. May 2012.

Conference: Poster presentations

2013

Tang, K., Nevins, A., & Becker, M. Prosody drives alternations: evidence from a 51 Million Word Corpus of Brazilian Portuguese. The 87th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Boston, Massachussetts, USA. January 2013.

Grants and Awards

2013. £150. The Big Data Hackathon – April – Data Science London. Second Prize for the Data Visualization Challenge (in 24 hours): develop a data visualization based on data provided by Peerindex (with Joaquin Atria, Mauricio Figueroa & Tim Schoof) See links for a short report and the final product "Twittrends"

2013. €1415. European Science Foundation Short Visit Grant received by NetWordS - 09-RNP-089, The European Network on Word Structure. Openlexicons project at the Center for Reading Research, Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Belgium

2012. £2,377.50 Teaching Innovation Grant,  University College London, London. As part of a small interdisciplinary university-wide team to develop and implement the use of the peer-assisted learning package, PeerWise.

Teaching Experience/Responsibilities

Lecturing:

PLINSTAT: Introduction to Statistics for Linguists using R. Autumn 2012 (~25 MA students) Co-lecturing with Ye Tian

University Service

Student Academic Representatives (StARs), Research Department of Linguistics, University College London (2011 - Present)

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