- Chan, K.Y., Hall, M.D. and Herr, R. (2023). What Accounts for Foreign Accent Reduction in Singing? Auditory Perception & Cognition, 6(3-4), pp. 233–249. doi:10.1080/25742442.2023.2228659.
- Deng, W., Chan, K.Y. and Au Yeung, K.M. (2022). Orthographic effects on L2 production and L2 proficiency in ESL learners with non-alphabetic and orthographically opaque L1. Applied Psycholinguistics, 43(6), pp. 1329–1357. doi:10.1017/s014271642200039x.
- Chan, K.Y., Lyons, C., Kon, L.L., Stine, K., Manley, M. and Crossley, A. (2020). Effect of on-screen text on multimedia learning with native and foreign-accented narration. Learning and Instruction, 67, pp. 101305–101305. doi:10.1016/j.learninstruc.2020.101305.
- Chan, K.Y. and Hall, M.D. (2019). The importance of vowel formant frequencies and proximity in vowel space to the perception of foreign accent. Journal of Phonetics, 77, pp. 100919–100919. doi:10.1016/j.wocn.2019.100919.
- Chan, K.Y., Chiu, M.M., Dailey, B.A. and Jalil, D.M. (2019). Effect of Foreign Accent on Immediate Serial Recall. Experimental Psychology, 66(1), pp. 40–57. doi:10.1027/1618-3169/a000430.
- Chan, K.Y., Hall, M.D. and Assgari, A.A. (2017). The role of vowel formant frequencies and duration in the perception of foreign accent. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 29(1), pp. 23–34. doi:10.1080/20445911.2016.1170746.
- Chan, K.Y. and Vitevitch, M.S. (2015). The influence of neighborhood density on the recognition of Spanish-accented words. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 41(1), pp. 69–85. doi:10.1037/a0038347.
- Vitevitch, M.S., Chan, K.Y. and Goldstein, R. (2014). Insights into failed lexical retrieval from network science. Cognitive Psychology, 68, pp. 1–32. doi:10.1016/j.cogpsych.2013.10.002.
- Vitevitch, M.S., Chan, K.Y. and Roodenrys, S. (2012). Complex network structure influences processing in long-term and short-term memory. Journal of Memory and Language, 67(1), pp. 30–44. doi:10.1016/j.jml.2012.02.008.
- Chan, K.Y. and Vitevitch, M.S. (2010). Network Structure Influences Speech Production. Cognitive Science, 34(4), pp. 685–697. doi:10.1111/j.1551-6709.2010.01100.x.
- Chan, K.Y. and Vitevitch, M.S. (2009). The influence of the phonological neighborhood clustering coefficient on spoken word recognition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 35(6), pp. 1934–1949. doi:10.1037/a0016902.
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About
Overview
Dr. Kit Ying (Vivien) Chan is a Cognitive Psychologist with a research focus on Psycholinguistics. She got her Master's and PhD in Psychology from the University of Kansas in the United States. She then worked as an Assistant Professor at the James Madison University in USA for 4 years and the City University of Hong Kong for 6 years.
Her research focuses on second language acquisition and foreign-accented speech processing. She studies how foreign accents influence native listeners during speech perception, accent perception and other cognitive processing, such as memory and learning. She also investigates how the pronunciation and similarity relations of second-language words are represented differently in the lexicon of second-language learners. Research methods she uses include behavioural experiments and analyses on speech and production errors.
Courses she teaches include Introduction to Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Research Methods in Psychology, and Statistics.
Qualifications
- PhD, University of Kansas, United States
- Master's, University of Kansas, United States
Publications
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Chapter
- Vitevitch, M.S., Chan, K.Y. and Goldstein, R. (2014). Using English as a "Model Language" to Understand Language Processing. Motor Speech Disorders: A Cross-Language Perspective (pp. 58–73). ISBN 978-1-78309-232-1.