Sherry Chien

Dept. of Linguistics

Specialization

Phonetics; prosody; second language acquisition; L2 prosody; speech production and perception; articulatory phonology

Bio

Sherry Chien holds a Master's degree in Linguistics from National Taiwan University and is working on her Ph.D. in Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her interests lie in second language (L2) acquisition of prosody and intonation and the role that the L1 (first language) prosodic system plays. Her work especially focuses on the acquisition of pitch accent and focus-marking realization among Taiwan Mandarin EFL learners.