Chilin Shih
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Selected Publications

  • L2 Phonology and Phonetics, Language Teaching Technologies
  • Speech Production and Perception
    • Using map tasks to investigate the effect of contrastive focus on the Mandarin alveolar-retroflex contrast. Yung-Hsiang Shawn Chang, Chilin Shih. Speech Prosody , Shanghai, China. 2012.
    • Prosodic effects on garden-path sentences. Li-Hsin Ning, Chilin Shih. Speech Prosody , Shanghai, China. 2012.
    • Prosodic structure in language understanding: Evidence from tone sandhi in Mandarin. Speer S., Shih C., Slowiaczek M., (1989). Language and Speech, 32(4) 337-354. [Tone_Sandhi_Structure_Perception.pdf]
  • Articulatory Studies with Electromagnetic Articulography (EMA))
    • Compensatory articulation in American English nasalized vowels. Chris Carignan, Ryan Shosted, Chilin Shih and Panying Rong. Journal of Phonetics 39, 668-682. 2011. [Nasal_Articulation.pdf]
    • Mandarin Vowels Revisited: Evidence from Electromagnetic Articulography Study. Chen-Huei Wu and Chilin Shih. Proceedings of the 35th Berkeley Linguistics Society , 2009.
  • Music--A Tribute to Singing Synthesis and 2001: A Space Odyssey
    • Modeling of Vocal Styles Using Portable Features and Placement Rules. Chilin Shih and Greg Kochanski (2003). International Journal of Speech Technology, 6 (4), pp. 393-408. [Vocal_Style_2003.pdf]
    • Prosody Control for Speaking and Singing Styles. Chilin Shih and Greg Kochanski (2001). Eurospeech, pp. 669-672, Aalborg, Denmark.
    • Synthesis of Prosodic Styles. Chilin Shih and Greg Kochanski (2001). 4th ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Speech Synthesis, Scotland, 2001. [styles.pdf]
  • History--A Tribute to Bell Labs
    • Phonetics Research at Bell Laboratories. Chilin Shih and Joseph P. Olive. In A Guide to the History of the Phonetic Sciences in the United States John Ohala, Arthur Bronstein, Grazia Busa, Julie Lewis and William Weigel (eds.), UC-Berkeley, pp. 39-42, 1999. [phonetics.pdf]
  • Tone, Intonation and Prosodic Modeling
    • Long-range prosody prediction and rhythm. Greg Kochanski, Anastassia Loukina, Elinor Keane, Chilin Shih and Burton Rosner. Speech Prosody , Chicago, 2010. [pp.pdf]
    • Rhythm measures and dimensions of durational variation in speech. Anastassia Loukina, Greg Kochanski, Burton Rosner, Eliner Keane, Chilin Shih. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. Volume 129, Issue 5, pp. 3258-3270, 2011. [Rhythm_Measures.pdf]
    • Rhythm measures with language-independent segmentation. A. Loukina, G. Kochanski, C. Shih,E. Keane and I. Watson. Proceedings of interspeech 2009: Speech and Intelligence. Brighton, UK. 6-10 September, International Speech Communications Association. 2009.
    • Unsupervised prosodic break detection in Mandarin speech. Jui-Ting Huang, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson and Chilin Shih. Speech Prosody 2008, Brazil, 2008.
    • Understanding phonology by phonetic implementation. Chilin Shih (2005). Proceedings of Interspeech 2005 , Lisbon, Portugal. September 4-8. [download]
    • Tonal effects on intonation. Chilin Shih (2004). International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages: Emphasis on Tone Languages , Beijing, China, pp. 163-168, March 28-30. [download]
    • Quantitative measurement and prediction of prosodic strength in Mandarin. Greg Kochanski, Chilin Shih and Hongyan Jing (2003). Speech Communication. V. 41, No. 4, pp. 625-645. [Prosodic_Strength_2003.pdf]
    • Modeling intonation: Asking for confirmation in English. Chilin Shih and Greg Kochanski (2003). The 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, August 3-9, 2003, Bacelona, Spain. Paper number 1047. [Confirmation_Question.pdf]
    • Prosody modeling with soft templates. Greg Kochanski and Chilin Shih (2003). Speech Communication, V.39, Issue 3-4, pp. 311-352. [StemML_2003.pdf]
    • Hierarchical structure and word strength prediction of Mandarin prosody. Greg Kochanski, Chilin Shih and Hongyan Jing (2003). International Journal of Speech Technology, 6 (1), pp. 33-43. [Prosodic_Strength_2003.pdf]
    • Automated Modelling of Chinese Intonation in Continuous Speech. Greg Kochanski and Chilin Shih (2001). Eurospeech, pp. 911-914, Aalborg, Denmark. [download]
    • Chinese tone modeling with Stem-ML. Chilin Shih and Greg Kochanski (2000). ICSLP 2000, Beijing. Paper number 01232. [StemML_2000.pdf]
    • A Declination Model of Mandarin Chinese. Chilin Shih (2000). Intonation: Analysis, Modelling and Technology, pp. 243-268. Antonis Botinis (ed.), Kluwer Academic Publishers. [declination_chap.pdf] (The formatting is different from the book chapter.)
    • Chapters in Multilingual Text-to-Speech Synthesis: The Bell Labs Approach. Sproat, R., (ed.) (1997), Kluwer Academic Publishers.
    • Declination in Mandarin. Chilin Shih (1997). Intonation: Theory, Models and Applications. Proceedings of an ESCA Workshop, Athens, Greece. 293-296. [declination.pdf]
    • Pitch downtrend in Spanish. Pilar Prieto, Chilin Shih, Holly Nibert, (1996). Journal of Phonetics 24(4).
      • [Pitch_Downtrend_Spanish.pdf]
    • Variations of the Mandarin Rising Tone. Chilin Shih and Richard Sproat (1992). Proceedings of the IRCS Workshop on Prosody in Natural Speech, 92(37), 193-200, University of Pennsylvania.
    • Tone and Intonation in Mandarin. Shih, C. (1988). In N. Clements (ed). Working Papers of the Cornell Phonetics Laboratory, No. 3, 83-109.
    • Effects of tonal clash on downstep H* accents in Spanish. Pilar Prieto and Chilin Shih (1995). EUROSPEECH '95, Madrid, 1307-1310.
  • Speech Signal
    • A Quasi-glottogram Signal. Greg Kochanski and Chilin Shih (2003). The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 114(4), pp. 2206-2216. [glottogram.pdf]
  • Security
    • A Reverse Turing test using speech. Greg Kochanski, Daniel Lopresti and Chilin Shih, Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Spoken Language Processing , Denver, Colorado, pp. 1357-1360, September 17-20, 2002. [Reverse_Turing.pdf]
    • Towards Voice Generated Cryptographic Keys on Resource Constrained Devices. Fabian Monrose, Michael K. Reiter, Q. (Peter) Li , Daniel Lopresti, Chilin Shih. In Proceedings of the 11th USENIX Security Symposium, August, 2002. [usenix02.pdf]
  • Text-to-Speech Systems
    • Issues in Text-to-Speech Conversion for Mandarin. Chilin Shih and Richard Sproat, (1996). Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing, 1(1), 37-86. [Chinese_TTS.pdf]
    • Bell Laboratories Russian Text-to-Speech System. Pavlova E., Pavlov Y., Sproat R., Shih C., van Santen J. P. H. (1997). Proceedings of EUROSPEECH 97, Rhodes, Greece. 2451-2455.
    • Study of Vowel Variations for a Mandarin Speech Synthesizer. Chilin Shih (1995). EUROSPEECH '95, Madrid, 1807-1810. [vowel.pdf]
    • Design and implementation of a Greek text-to-speech system based on concatenative synthesis. Costas Christogiannis, Yiannis Stavroulas, Yiannis Vamvakoulas, Theodora A. Varvarigou, Agatha Zappa, Chilin Shih, Amalia Arvaniti. Sixth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2000/INTERSPEECH 2000, Beijing, China, October 16-20, 2000. [Greek_TTS.pdf]
    • Synthesis of Trill. Chilin Shih (1996). International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 2223-2226. Paper number a653. [trill.pdf]
  • Voicing
    • Contextual effects on consonant voicing profiles: A cross-linguistic study. Chilin Shih, Bernd Möbius, Bhuvana Narasimhan. Proceedings of the 14th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, San Francisco, CA, pp. 989-992, 1999. [Voicing_Profiles_ICPhS.pdf]
    • Contextual effects on the voicing profiles of German and Mandarin consonants. Chilin Shih and Bernd Möbius. Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Sidney, Australia, pp. 3135-3138, November 30th-December 4th, 1998. [Voicing_Profiles.pdf]
  • Duration
    • Duration Study for the Bell Laboratories Mandarin Text-to-Speech System. Chilin Shih and Benjamin Ao, (1997). In J. van Santen, R. Sproat, J. Olive and J. Hirschberg (eds.), Progress in Speech Synthesis, New York, Springer-Verlag, 382-399. [Mandarin_Duration.pdf]
    • Suprasegmental and segmental timing models in Mandarin Chinese and American English. Jan van Santen and Chilin Shih, (2000). Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. V. 107 (2), pp. 1012-1026. [Timing_Models.pdf]
  • Morphology and Text Analysis
    • A stochastic finite-state word-segmentation algorithm for Chinese. Richard Sproat, Chilin Shih, William Gale, Nancy Chang, (1996). Computational Linguistics, 22(3), 377-404.
    • A corpus-based analysis of Mandarin nominal root compounds. Richard Sproat and Chilin Shih (1996). Journal of East Asian Linguistics, 5, 49-71.
    • Why Mandarin morphology is not stratum-ordered. Richard Sproat and Chilin Shih (1993). Yearbook of Morphology, 185-217.
    • A statistical method for finding word boundaries in Chinese text. Sproat, R., Shih, C., (1990). Computer Processing of Chinese and Oriental Languages, 4, 336-351.
    • The cross-linguistic distribution of adjective ordering restrictions. Sproat, R., Shih, C. (1990). In C. Georgopoulos and R. Ishihara (eds.) Interdisciplinary Approaches to Language: Essays in Honor of S.-Y. Kuroda, 565-593, Dordrecht, Kluwer Academic Publishers.
  • Tone Sandhi
    • Mandarin third tone sandhi and prosodic structure. Chilin Shih (1997). In J. Wang and N. Smith (eds). Studies in Chinese Phonology, Mouton de Gruyter. 81-123.
    • Prosodic structure in language understanding: Evidence from tone sandhi in Mandarin. Speer S., Shih C., Slowiaczek M., (1989). Language and Speech, 32(4) 337-354. [Tone_Sandhi_Structure_Perception.pdf]
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