Publications

Here is an overview of my papers and presentations, I do not double-count the proceedings presented as posters.

Journal Articles

Lucca, K., Yuen, F., … Fei, W., … Hamlin, J. K. (2025). Infants’ Social Evaluation of Helpers and Hinderers: A Large-Scale, Multi-Lab, Coordinated Replication Study. Developmental Science. Full Paper

Fei, W., & Hsu, Y-Y. (2025, July). Mapping Acoustic Cues to Pragmatic Functions: Perceptual Cue Weighting of Prosodic Focus in Mandarin. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci2025), 240-246. Full Paper
Weng, M., Fei, W., & Yip, C. W. M. (2024, July). Influence of Vocal Cues on Perception of Traits: Evidence from Educational Context. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci2024), 4865-4871. Full Paper
Fei, W., & Hsu, Y-Y. (2024, July). Investigating Mandarin Tone and Focus Prosody Production in Hong Kong Cantonese Speakers. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Speech Prosody (SP2024), 378-382. Full Paper
Chen, Z., Chen, H., & Fei, W. (2024, July). Exploring the Dynamics of Post Focus Compression in Bilingual Speakers: Evidence from Mandarin-Yangzhou Speakers. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Speech Prosody (SP2024), 487-491. Full Paper
Fei, W., Weng, M., & Lee, A. (2020, May). Phonetic realisation of narrow focus in Wu-Mandarin bilinguals. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Speech Prosody (SP2020), 250-254. Full Paper

Fei, W., & Hsu, Y-Y. (2026, April). How Fast Do Prosodic Cues Update? Evidence from Short-Term Cue Reweighting in Mandarin Prosodic Focus. In the 4th International Conference “Prominence in Language” (ICPL IV).
Fei, W., & Hsu, Y-Y. (2025, July). Mapping Acoustic Cues to Pragmatic Functions: Perceptual Cue Weighting of Prosodic Focus in Mandarin. In the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci2025). (13.8% acceptance rate) Slides
Fei, W., & Hsu, Y-Y. (2025, April). Dominance of F0 in Mapping Acoustic Cues to Pragmatic Meaning: Eye-tracking Evidence from Mandarin Prosodic Focus Processing. In the 33rd Joint Workshops on Linguistics and Language Processing (JWLLP33).
Fei, W., & Hsu, Y-Y. (2024, October). L1 Syntax Influences L2 Prosody: Cantonese Speakers’ Mandarin Focus. In the 15th International Conference of Experimental Linguistics (ExLing 2024). Slides

*Fei, W., *Tan, T., & *Su, Z. (2022, July). Univariate or Machine Learning Analysis: Which Represents Important Brain Regions Better? Neuromatch Academy 2022 (*Equally distributed).

Fei, W., & Hsu, Y-Y. (2025, March). Perceptual Weightings of Prosodic Cues in Mandarin Prosodic Focus Processing. The 38th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP2025). Abstract
Wang, Y., Şen, H., Buyurucu, G., Fei, W., … Lucca, K. (2024, June). Individual Differences in Infants’ Prosocial Behaviors Across Cultures: ManyBabies4 Spin-off Project. The 27th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development (ISSBD). Poster
Fei, W., & Hsu, Y-Y. (2023, December). Whether Face-Voice (A)Synchrony Affects Multimodal Identity Recognition by Non-Native Speakers of English. AMLaP-Asia 2023. Abstract
Fei, W., & Lee, A. (2020, December). A quantitative study of sound change in progress: The case of Suzhou Wu. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 148(4), 2474. Abstract
Fei, W., Weng, M., & Lee, A. (2019, December). Effect of Language Dominance on Focus Prosody: Evidence from Wu-Mandarin Bilinguals. In the 6th NINJAL International Conference on Phonetics and Phonology, Tokyo. Abstract The pilot of this project was presented at the 2019 Annual Research Forum of the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong (LSHK).
Weng, M., Fei, W., & Lee, A. (2019, December). Interviewer effects on speech production in Cantonese: A pilot study. In the 6th NINJAL International Conference on Phonetics and Phonology, Tokyo. Abstract

Fei, W. (2023, March). Review of the book Prosodic Theory and Practice (2022) by Barnes, J., & Shattuck-Hufnagel, S., The LINGUIST List. Full Review