Yen-Chen Hao

Yen-Chen Hao is an associate professor in Chinese. She received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from Indiana University, concentrating on areas such as phonetics, second language acquisition, and phonology. She is interested in second language learners of Mandarin Chinese as well as English, examining the relationship between speech perception and production, influence of first language background and second language experience on sound learning, relative difficulty in acquiring consonants, vowels, and lexical tones, and the effect of orthography on second language phonological encoding. Some of her work has been published in the Journal of Phonetics, Second Language Research, Applied Psycholinguistics, Language and Speech, Speech Communication, etc.

Phone: 865-974-7162

Email: yhao6@utk.edu

Education

Ph.D., Indiana University Bloomington