Qi WU
Assistant Professor at the University of Tsukuba, Japan

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Name Qi WU

Position Assistant Professor

Institution University of Tsukuba

Email wu.qi.ge[at]u.tsukuba.ac.jp

Research Fields Phonetics, Foreign Language Education

Research Keywords Phonetics, Chinese, Japanese, Second Language Acquisition, MRI

Last Updated: January 22, 2025

Publications

  • Wu Qi, Sun Jing, & Tatsuya Kitamura. (2024). On the Articulation of Retroflex Sounds in Chinese. (in Japanese) Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Japan Autumn Meeting 2024, pp.939-940.

  • Wu Qi. (2024). Mandarin T3 Production by Chinese and Japanese Native Speakers. Proceedings of INTERSPEECH 2024,

  • Wu Qi. (2024). Production of Mandarin tones by Japanese native speakers. Proceedings of the Speech Prosody,

  • Wu Qi. (2023). Effects of Language Training on Mandarin Lexical Tone Perception by Japanese Speakers. Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, pp.2675-2679.

  • Wu Qi. (2023). Production of Mandarin Third Tone by Japanese Learners and Native Speakers. (in Japanese) Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Japan, pp.567-570.

  • Zhu Chunyue, Wu Qi, & Zhang Xiaozhao. (2022). MRI Observation of Japanese and Chinese Vowel Sequences /-a.i/ and Diphthongs /-ai/. (in Japanese) Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan, pp.139-144.

  • Wu Qi. (2022). A Study on the Production of Chinese Tones by Japanese Learners. (in Japanese) Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Japan Spoken Language Processing Research Meeting, pp.43-48.

  • Zhu Chunyue, & Wu Qi. (2021). Physiological Characteristics of Rounded Vowels in Standard Chinese—An Experimental Analysis of Frontal and Lateral Head Images. (in Japanese) Chinese Linguistics, pp.54-75.

  • Wu Qi, & Zhu Chunyue. (2021). Confusion of Japanese /n/, /ɾ/, /t/, and /d/ Sounds Observed in Fuzhou Dialect Speakers. (in Japanese) Studies in Japanese Language Education for Chinese Speakers (12), pp.48-63.

  • Wu Qi, & Zhu Chunyue. (2020). Perception of Chinese Tones in Different Registers: A Comparison between Japanese Learners of Chinese and Native Speakers. (in Japanese) Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan, pp.133-138.

  • Wu Qi. (2019). Auditory Categories of Mandarin Tones in Different Pitch Ranges. (in Japanese) Studies in Modern Chinese (21), pp.36-45.

  • Zhu Chunyue, & Wu Qi. (2019). What is the Determinative Factor in the Production of "Roundedness"?—Production and Perception Experiments of [i]/[y] Using TC Model Resonant Tubes (T. Arai). (in Japanese) Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan, pp.192-197.

  • Wu Qi. (2017). A Study on the Confusion of Japanese /n/, /ɾ/, /t/, and /d/ Sounds by Chinese Speakers—Focusing on Fuzhou Dialect Speakers. (in Japanese) Proceedings of the 2017 Autumn Meeting of the Society for Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language, pp.360-365.

Presentations

  • Wu Qi, Sun Jing, & Tatsuya Kitamura. (2024). On the Articulation of Retroflex Sounds in Chinese. Presentation at Acoustical Society of Japan.

  • Wu Qi. (2024). Mandarin T3 Production by Chinese and Japanese Native Speakers. Presentation at INTERSPEECH.

  • Wu Qi. (2024). Production of Mandarin tones by Japanese native speakers. Presentation at Speech Prosody 2024.

  • Wu Qi. (2023). Effects of Language Training on Mandarin Lexical Tone Perception by Japanese Speakers. Presentation at International Congress of Phonetic Sciences.

  • Wu Qi. (2023). Production of Mandarin Third Tone by Japanese Learners and Native Speakers. Presentation at Acoustical Society of Japan.

  • Zhu Chunyue, Wu Qi, & Zhang Xiaozhao. (2022). MRI Observation of Japanese and Chinese Vowel Sequences /-a.i/ and Diphthongs /-ai/. Presentation at 36th Annual Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan.

  • Wu Qi. (2022). A Study on the Acoustic Characteristics of Mandarin Third Tone by Japanese Learners. Presentation at 46th Annual Meeting of the Japanese-Chinese Contrastive Linguistics Society and 2022 International Symposium on Japanese-Chinese Contrastive Linguistics.

  • Wu Qi, & Zhu Chunyue. (2020). Perception of Chinese Tones in Different Registers: A Comparison between Japanese Learners of Chinese and Native Speakers. Presentation at 34th Annual Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan.

  • Wu Qi, & Zhu Chunyue. (2019). Perceptual Boundaries of Mandarin Tones: Level vs. Rising and Level vs. Falling. Presentation at 6th NINJAL International Conference on Phonetics and Phonology.

  • Zhu Chunyue, & Wu Qi. (2019). What is the Determinative Factor in the Production of "Roundedness"?—Production and Perception Experiments of [i]/[y] Using TC Model Resonant Tubes (T. Arai). Presentation at 33rd Annual Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan.

  • Wu Qi. (2017). A Study on the Confusion of Japanese /n/, /ɾ/, /t/, and /d/ Sounds by Chinese Speakers—Focusing on Fuzhou Dialect Speakers. Presentation at Autumn Meeting of the Society for Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language.