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Jiayin GAO
Date of Birth
Nationality
Address
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Email
29 June 1987
Chinese
15 rue de Courcy
94000 Créteil – France
Website
+33 6 45 02 33 71
[email protected]
[email protected]
http://jiayin.gao.free.fr/
Education
05/2015
PhD in Phonetics, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3.
Defense date: 21 May 2015. Mention "Très honorable avec félicitations" (highest distinction).
Reseach topic: Interdependence between Tones, Segments and Phonation Types in Shanghai Chinese:
acoustics, articulation, perception and evolution.
Committee: Yiya Chen (pre-reporter), Pierre Hallé (supervisor), Guillaume Jacques (pre-reporter),
Martine Mazaudon (examiner), Alexis Michaud (examiner), and Laurent Sagart (president).
06/2011
MA in Phonetics, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3.
Supervisor: Pierre Hallé; Mention "Très bien" (highest distinction).
06/2009
BA in French language and literature, Shanghai International Studies University.
2008-2009
Visiting student, Sciences Po Grenoble and Université Stendhal-Grenoble 3, France.
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Qualifications and Awards
2017
05/2016
02/2016
07/2011
06/2009
2005-2008
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Accepted for a JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) postodoctoral fellowship
for Overseas Researchers (Standard). Host: Prof. Takayuki Arai, Sophia University.
Ranked third in the National contest for an Assistant Professor (Tenure track) position
[Maître de Conférences] in Phonetics and Phonology at Université Grenoble-Alpes, France.
Qualification for university professorship,
section 7 (Linguistics) and 15 (Chinese language and literature) of the French National
Council of Universities.
Ranked first for a PhD student researcher fellowship at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3.
Excellent graduate prize, Shanghai International Studies University.
First-grade scholarship for each semester, Shanghai International Studies University.
Research and teaching experience
01/09/2015-31/05/2017
Postdoctoral researcher,
Laboratoire Langues et civilisations à tradition orale, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3.
Project: Evolutionary approaches to phonology (Axe 1-PPC2, LabEx EFL).
Fieldwork of Tamang tone studies in Nepal in November 2015 (supported by LabEx EFL).
Teaching hours: 54 hours (2016-2017).
01/09/2014-31/08/2015
Junior lecturer [Attaché temporaire d’enseignement et de recherche],
Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3. Teaching hours: 192 hours.
01/10/2011-31/08/2014
PhD student researcher [Doctorant contractuel],
Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3.
Teaching hours: 64*3 = 192 hours.
01/06-31/08/2010
Part-time teacher of French as a foreign language,
Centre langues-culture-communication de Paris.
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Teaching and administration
Undergraduate courses in Linguistics, Institut de Linguistique et Phonétique Générales et Appliquées, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3, 448 hours.
• Phonetics (1)/Spoken Communication, first year, 190 hours, 2011-2017.
Introductory phonetics, introduction to French sounds and to IPA symbols, fundamental notions of articulatory, acoustic phonetics and speech perception.
• Phonology (1), second year, 18 hours, 2014-2015.
Introductory phonology, structuralist approach and generativist (SPE) approach.
• Phonology (2), second year, 39 hours, 2012-2014.
Multilineary phonology: autosegmental theory, CV theory, moraic theory, feature geometry, Optimality
Theory, etc.
• Phonetics (3)/Comparative phonetics, third year, 18 hours, 2011-2012.
Crosslinguistic similarities and differences with respect to tone and intonation; spectrogram reading.
• Statistics, third year, 48 hours, 2014-2015.
Descriptive statistics; inferential statistics (t test, ANOVA, etc.).
• Lexicology, first year, 36 hours, 2016-2017.
Lexical morphology (focus on derivation and compounding in French), distributional analyses, word family
and etymology.
• Methodology of academic works, first year, 18 hours, 2014-2015.
Methodology of note taking, comprehension of academic lectures and articles, literature search on linguistic
topics.
• Methodology of linguistic research, first year, 39 hours, 2014-2015.
Presentation of different types of data, tools and methods for different research questions in linguistics.
The term evaluation contains a group work on a linguistic topic.
• Workshop of key notions, first year, 34.5 hours, 2011-2014.
Discussion on linguistic notions and theories learned in different courses of the first year, exercises of
linguistic analyses.
• Tutor for first-year students, 15 hours, 2014-2015.
Contact with first-year students and assistance to their difficulties in education orientation, administrative
procedures, working methods, etc.
PhD training at Laboratoire de Langues et Civilisations à Tradition Orale, 30-31 January 2017.
• Acoustic analyses using Praat, 3.5 hours.
Centre langues-culture-communication de Paris, 2010.
• Courses of French language learning for all levels, around 60 hours.
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Membership
Member of
– the Association for Laboratory Phonology;
– the AFCP (Association Francophone de la Communication Parlée).
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Publications and communications
- Dissertations
• Gao, J. (2015). Interdependence between Tones, Segments and Phonation Types in Shanghai Chinese:
acoustics, articulation, perception and evolution. PhD dissertation. ILPGA, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle
- Paris 3.
• Gao, J. (2011). Étude acoustique des syllables (C)V en shanghaïen: redondance et complémentarité des
caractéristiques tonales et segmentales. MA dissertation. ILPGA, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3.
- Journal articles
• Gao, J., & Hallé, P. (accepted). Phonetic and phonological properties of tones in Shanghai Chinese.
Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale.
• Gao, J. (2016). Sociolinguistic motivations in sound change: on-going loss of low tone breathy voice in
Shanghai Chinese. Papers in Historical Phonology, 1, 166-186. <http://journals.ed.ac.uk/pihph/issue/current>.
• Landron, S., Paillereau, N., Nawafleh. A., Exare C., Ando, H., & Gao, J. (2010). Vers la construction d’un
corpus commun de français langue étrangère : pour une étude phonétique des productions de locuteurs
de langues maternelles plurielles. Cahiers de Praxématique, 54-55, 73-86.
• Gao, J., & Hallé, P. (in revision). Contribution of breathiness to the perception of low tones in Shanghai
Chinese. Journal of Phonetics.
- International conference proceedings
• Gao, J., & Hallé, P. (2015). The role of voice quality in Shanghai tone perception. Proceedings of the
18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS). Paper number 448, 1-5. Oral presentation
(Discussant session). August 2015, Glasgow, UK.
• Gao, J., & Hallé, P. (2013). Are young male speakers losing Tone 3 breathiness in Shanghai Chinese? An
acoustic and electroglottographic study. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Phonetics of
the Languages in China, 163-166. Oral presentation. December 2013, Hong Kong, China.
• Gao, J., & Hallé, P. (2013). Duration as a secondary cue for perception of voicing and tone in Shanghai
Chinese. Proceedings of the 14th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech), 3157-3161. Oral presentation. August 2013, Lyon, France.
• Georgeton, L., Paillereau, N., Landron, S., Gao, J., & Kamiyama, T. (2012). Analyse formantique des
voyelles orales du français en contexte isolé: à la recherche d’une référence pour les apprenants de FLE.
Actes des 29es JEP-TALN-RECITAL, 145-152. Poster presentation. June 2012, Grenoble, France.
• Gao, J., & Hallé, P. (2012). Caractérisation acoustique des obstruantes phonologiquement voisées du
dialecte de Shanghai. Actes des 29es JEP-TALN-RECITAL, 57-64. Poster presentation. June 2012,
Grenoble, France.
• Gao, J., Hallé, P., Honda, K., Maeda, S., & Toda, M. (2011). Shanghai slack voice: acoustic and
ePGG data. Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), 719-722. Oral
presentation. August 2011, Hong Kong, China.
- Chapter
• Landron, S., Gao, J., Chang, Y., & Tian, Y. (2017). Les sinophones. In S. Detey, I. Racine, Y.
Kawaguchi, & J. Eychenne (eds.), La prononciation du français dans le monde: du natif à l’apprenant.
CLE-International.
- Communications at conferences without proceedings
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• Gao, J. & Hallé, P. (2016). Prosodic organization and microprosodic effects in Shanghai Chinese. The
15th Conference on Laboratory Phonology, Ithaca, USA.
• Hallé, P., & Gao, J. (2016). Shanghai Chinese obstruent durations vary with voicing: A phonological or
phonetic effect? The 15th Conference on Laboratory Phonology, Ithaca, USA.
• Chen, T.-C., Gao, J., & Hallé, P. (2016). The discrimination of Mandarin vs. Minnan tones by French
vs. Taiwanese Mandarin-Minnan bilinguals. New Sounds 2016, Aarhus, Denmark.
• Gao J. (2015). Sociolinguistic motivations in sound change: loss of low tone breathy voice in Shanghai
Chinese. The 2nd Edinburgh Symposium on Historical Phonology. December 2015, Edinburgh, UK.
• Gao J. (2014). Production and perception of Yang tone breathiness in today’s Shanghai Chinese. 27èmes
Journées de Linguistique d’Asie Orientale. June 2014, Paris, France.
• Gao, J., Georgeton, L., Kamiyama, T., & Paillereau, N. (2013). Etude inter-langues sur la production des
voyelles focales et des voyelles moyennes en français langue étrangère (FLE). PPLC (Phonetics, phonology
and languages in contact) Conference 2013, August 2013, Paris, France.
• Kamiyama, T., Georgeton L., Paillereau N., Brkan A., & Gao, J. (2012). Corpus PhoDiFle: les voyelles
orales isolées du français prononcées par des apprenants bosniaques, japonais, shanghaïens et tchèques.
Journées IPFC (InterPhonologie du français comtemporain) 2012, December 2012, Paris, France.
- Invited talks and diffusion of knowledge
• Gao, J. (2017). Multidimensional nature of tones: evidence from Shanghainese and Tamang, two distant
Sino-Tibetan languages. Seminar "New Observations in Speech and Hearing". February 2017, Institute
of Phonetics and Speech Processing (IPS). Munich, Germany.
• Gao, J. (2016). Research on tones in Tamang. Carnet du LACITO <https://lacito.hypotheses.org/332>.
• Gao, J., & Mazaudon, M. (2016). Tons en tamang: variation synchronique et évolution diachronique.
Séminaire LACITO « Problèmes d’Analyse et de Comparaison des Langues ». April 2016, Villejuif,
France.
• Mazaudon, M., & Gao, J. (2015). Tamang tone and orthography. Seminar with Tamang scholars and
students. November 2015, Kathmandu, Nepal.
• Gao, J. (2012). Redondance et complémentarité des caractéristiques segmentales et tonales du shanghaïen:
données de production et de perception. Séminaire des doctorants du LLACAN (INALCO). April 2012,
Villejuif, France.
• Gao, J. (2011). Shanghai slack voice: acoustic characteristics and glottal settings. August 2011, Department of Linguistics, National Tsinghua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.
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Activities
2016-2017
2016
2014
2011-2016
2013
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2011-2013
2011
Co-organizer of the LACITO seminar "Problèmes d’analyse et de comparaison des langues".
Conference review for 31es Journées d’Études sur la Parole.
Conference review for ConSOLE XXIII (the 23rd Conference of the Student Organization
of Linguistics in Europe).
Participation in the Fête de la Science (Festival of Science) in Paris.
Volunteer worker, 14th Interspeech Conference, Lyon.
Co-Editor in Chief of the Proceedings of the 16th Rencontres Jeunes Chercheurs.
Member of the editing committee
of the Proceedings of the 14th and 15th Rencontres Jeunes Chercheurs.
Member of the organizing committee for the 15th and 16th Rencontres Jeunes Chercheurs.
Conference review for the 9th Old World Conference in Phonology.
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Skills
- Languages
Chinese (Shanghai and Mandarin): native speaker.
French: near-native.
English: fluent. (TOEFL iBT score: 112/120).
Nepali, Japanese: beginner.
- Computer skills
OS: Mac OS X, Windows, Unix.
Scripting: Praat (good command); LATEX, Matlab, Perl, Awk, Bash (working knowledge).
Phonetic analyses: Praat, Voicesauce, VocalTractLab (articulatory synthesizer).
Psycholinguistics: E-Prime.
Statistics: R, VAR3, Statview.
- Others
Scottish Country Dance: advanced dancer, member of the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society – Paris
Branch and Youth Branch.
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