YUHONG ZHU

Last Updated :2025/06/04

Affiliations, Positions
Institute for Foreign Language Research and Education, Assistant Professor
E-mail
yuhongzhuhiroshima-u.ac.jp
Self-introduction
I am a trained phonetician and phonologist, with a focus on the mechanisms of stress. I am interested in how different languages use various cues (e.g., pitch, duration, loudness) to express stress, and how the cues may interact when speakers learn a foreign language.

Basic Information

Major Professional Backgrounds

  • 2025/04/01, Hiroshima University, Institute for Foreign Language Research and Education, Assistant Professor
  • 2023/08/01, 2025/03/31, Hiroshima University, Headquarters for Co-creative Future Sciences / Writing Center, Writing Advisor

Educational Backgrounds

  • The Ohio State University, Department of Linguistics, Linguistics (Ph.D), USA
  • University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of English, Applied English Linguistics (MA), USA

Academic Degrees

  • Linguistics, The Ohio State University
  • Applied English Linguistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Research Fields

  • Humanities;Linguistics;Linguistics

Research Keywords

  • Phonetics, Phonology, Stress, Tone languages

Affiliated Academic Societies

  • Linguistic Society of America, 2018
  • International Association of Chinese Linguistics, 2017

Educational Activity

Course in Charge

  1. 2025, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 2Term, CommunicationIＡ
  2. 2025, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 1Term, CommunicationIＡ
  3. 2025, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 2Term, CommunicationIＡ
  4. 2025, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 3Term, Communication IIＡ
  5. 2025, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 4Term, Communication IIＡ
  6. 2025, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 3Term, Communication IIＡ
  7. 2025, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 4Term, Communication IIＡ
  8. 2025, Liberal Arts Education Program1, Intensive, Basic English UsageI
  9. 2025, Liberal Arts Education Program1, Intensive, Basic English UsageI
  10. 2025, Liberal Arts Education Program1, Intensive, Basic English UsageI
  11. 2025, Liberal Arts Education Program1, Intensive, Basic English UsageI
  12. 2025, Liberal Arts Education Program1, Intensive, Basic English UsageI
  13. 2025, Liberal Arts Education Program1, Intensive, Basic English UsageI
  14. 2025, Liberal Arts Education Program1, Intensive, Basic English UsageII
  15. 2025, Liberal Arts Education Program1, Intensive, Basic English UsageII
  16. 2025, Liberal Arts Education Program1, Intensive, Basic English UsageII
  17. 2025, Liberal Arts Education Program1, Intensive, Basic English UsageII
  18. 2025, Liberal Arts Education Program1, Intensive, Basic English UsageII
  19. 2025, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 1Term, Communication Seminar I
  20. 2025, Undergraduate Education, 1Term, English Oral Presentation Skill Up AI
  21. 2025, Undergraduate Education, 2Term, English Oral Presentation Skill Up AII

Research Activities

Academic Papers

  1. ★, Variable f0 of toneless moras in Suzhou Chinese: a computational analysis, Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 9(1), 20241107
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  2. The Role of University Writing Centers in AI-translated Academic Writing – The case of international graduate students in Japan, 5th International Symposium on Academic Writing and Critical Thinking Proceedings, 202408
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  3. ★, Tone, metrical structure and intonation in Suzhou Chinese: Data, Theory, Typological implications, 202308
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  4. Variable Pitch Realization of Unparsed Moras in Suzhou Chinese, Proceedings of the 2022 Annual Meeting on Phonology., 20230513
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  5. ★, A metrical analysis of light-initial tone sandhi in Suzhou, Natural Language & Linguistic Theory., 41, 1629-1678, 20230228
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  6. Moraic Footing in Suzhou Chinese: Evidence from Toneless Moras, Proceedings of the 2020 Annual Meeting on Phonology, 20210501
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  7. Quantity-sensitive Foot Formation in Suzhou: Evidence from Light-initial Tone Sandhi, Proceedings of The 32th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics, 66-83, 2021
  8. Extending the Autosegmental Input Strictly Local Framework: Metrical Dominance and Floating Tones, Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics, 3, 393-401, 20200101
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  9. Restricting the Power of Cophonologies: A Representational Solution to Stem Allomorphy in Uspanteko, Proceedings of the 2018 Annual Meeting on Phonology, 20190601
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  10. Diachrony of Coda /N/ in Suzhou, Wu Chinese: Generational Change and Differing Readings, Proceedings of The 30th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics, 444-461, 2019

Invited Lecture, Oral Presentation, Poster Presentation

  1. Can AI be a good proofreader? Paring writing center support with AI "language check", Zhu, Yuhong, Fourteenth Symposium on Writing Centers in Asia, 2025/02/15, Without Invitation, English
  2. The Role of University Writing Centers in AI-translated Academic Writing, Zhu, Yuhong, 5th International Symposium on Academic Writing and Critical Thinking, 2024/02/16, Without Invitation, English
  3. Segment-Tone Interactions and Prosodic Typology: Evidence from Franconian, Koehnlein, Bjoern, Zhu, Yuhong, Annual Meeting on Phonology 2022, 2022/10/22, Without Invitation, English
  4. Variable Pitch Realization of Unparsed Moras in Suzhou Chinese: Evaluation Through F0 Trajectory Simulation and Classification, Zhu, Yuhong, Annual Meeting on Phonology 2022, 2022/10/22, Without Invitation, English
  5. Can people learn three levels of sonority-sensitive stress? An online experiment, Zhu, Yuhong, Ian Cameron, Rebekah Stanhope, Kate Kinnaird, Yazhao Huang, Tianyi Ni, Bjoern Koehnlein, LabPhon 18, 2022/06/25, Without Invitation, English
  6. From Many to One: The Segment as the only TBU, Koehnlein, Bjoern, Zhu, Yuhong, 26th Mid-Continental Phonetics & Phonology Conference, 2021/09/18, Without Invitation, English
  7. Phrasal Tonology in Suzhou Chinese: Some Preliminaries, Zhu, Yuhong, Buckeye East Asian Linguistics Forum 4, 2021/03/05, Without Invitation, English
  8. Toneless moras and moraic footing: Preliminary data from Suzhou Chinese, Zhu, Yuhong, 25th Mid-Continental Phonetics Phonology Conference, 2021/01/30, Without Invitation, English
  9. Contrastive moraic and syllabic footing in Suzhou Chinese: pitch patterns of toned and toneless moras, Zhu, Yuhong, 2021 Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, 2021/01/10, Without Invitation, English
  10. Moraic footing in Suzhou Chinese: Evidence from toneless moras, Zhu, Yuhong, Annual Meeting on Phonology 2020, 2020/09/20, Without Invitation, English
  11. Quantity-sensitive Foot Formation in Suzhou: Evidence from Light-initial Tone Sandhi, Zhu, Yuhong, 32nd North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics, 2020/09/19, Without Invitation, English
  12. A metrical analysis of light-initial tone sandhi in Suzhou, Zhu, Yuhong, 2020 Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, 2020/01/05, Without Invitation, English
  13. Extending the Autosegmental Input Strictly Local Framework: Metrical Dominance and Floating Tones, Zhu, Yuhong, Society for Computation in Linguistics 2020 Meeting, 2020/01/02, Without Invitation, English
  14. Syllable quantity and contrastive feet: a metrical analysis of light-initial tone sandhi in Suzhou, Zhu, Yuhong, 24th Mid-Continental Phonetics & Phonology Conference, 2019/08/23, Without Invitation, English
  15. Metrical analysis of light-initial tone sandhi in Suzhou, Wu Chinese, Zhu, Yuhong, 2019 LSA Linguistic Institute, 2019/07/07, Without Invitation, English
  16. Exceptions to left-dominance? A metrical analysis of light-initial tone sandhi in Suzhou, Wu Chinese, Zhu, Yuhong, 27th Manchester Phonology Meeting, 2019/05/24, Without Invitation, English
  17. Are all lexical-specific changes "lexical diffusion"?. Diachronic change of Suzhou Chinese coda /N/ in register-sensitive Differing Readings, Zhu, Yuhong, OSU-Tsukuba Joint Linguistics Workshop, 2019/02/13, Without Invitation, English
  18. Restricting the power of cophonologies: A representational solution to stem allomorphy in Uspanteko, Koehnlein, Bjoern, Zhu, Yuhong, 6th Annual Meeting on Phonology, 2018/10/07, Without Invitation, English
  19. Stem allomorphy in Uspanteko as an epiphenomenon of metrical affixation, Koehnlein, Bjoern; Zhu, Yuhong, 26th Manchester Phonology Meeting, 2018/05/26, Without Invitation, English
  20. Diachronic change and differing readings of coda /N/ in Suzhou, Wu Chinese, Zhu, Yuhong, 26th Annual Conference of International Association of Chinese Linguistics, 2018/05/05, Without Invitation, English
  21. Metrical templates trigger stem allomorphy in Uspanteko, Koehnlein, Bjoern; Zhu, Yuhong, Tenth North American Phonology Conference, 2018/05/04, Without Invitation, English
  22. Diachrony of coda /N/ in Suzhou, Wu Chinese: Generational change and differing readings, Zhu, Yuhong, 30th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics, 2018/03/09, Without Invitation, English
  23. Phonological Change of Suzhou Dialect of Chinese: A Dresherian Hierarchical Analysis, Zhu, Yuhong, 21st Mid-Continental Phonetics Phonology Conference, 2016/09/18, Without Invitation, English
  24. Diachronic change and differing readings of Mandarin /N/-coda words in Suzhou dialect of Chinese, Zhu, Yuhong, 22nd Mid-Continental Phonetics Phonology Conference, 2017/09/29, Without Invitation, English

Social Activities

Organizing Academic Conferences, etc.

  1. Fourteenth Symposium on Writing Centers in Asia, Organizer, 2025/02, 2025/02

History as Peer Reviews of Academic Papers

  1. 2019, Glossa, Others, Reviewer
  2. 2021, Languages, Others, Reviewer
  3. 2022, Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, Others, Reviewer
  4. 2022, Journal of East Asian Linguistics, Others, Reviewer
  5. 2024, Glossa, Others, Reviewer
  6. 2024, Journal of Japanese Linguistics, Others, Reviewer, 2
  7. 2025, Journal of East Asian Linguistics, Others, Reviewer