Early linguistic experience shapes bilingual adults' hearing for phonemes in both languages by Pan, Lei, Ke, Han, Styles, Suzy J.

“…English and Mandarin Chinese differ in the voice onset times (VOTs) of /b/ and /p/. Hence the way bilinguals perceive these sounds may show 'tuning' to the language-specific acoustic structure of a bilingual's languages (a discrete model), or a shared representation across languages (a unitary model). …”
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Is retroflexion a stable cue for distributional learning for speech sounds across languages? Learning for some bilingual adults, but not generalisable to a wider population in a well powered pre-registered study by Goh, Hannah Letitia, Onnis, Luca, Styles, Suzy J.

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Creating a corpus of multilingual parent-child speech remotely: lessons learned in a large-scale onscreen picturebook sharing task by Woon, Fei Ting, Yogarrajah, Eshwaaree C., Fong, Seraphina, Nur Sakinah Mohd Salleh, Sundaray, Shamala, Styles, Suzy J.

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Understanding the puzzle of vocabulary development in multilingual Singapore and its missing pieces by Woon, Fei Ting, Cai, Shirong, Styles, Suzy J.

“…However, these studies often sample children from minority bilingual communities (Bialystok et al, 2010) where the languages may be used in somewhat separate contexts. …”
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Implicit Association Test (IAT) studies investigating pitch-shape audiovisual cross-modal associations across language groups by Shang, Nan, Styles, Suzy J.

“…In a series of IAT studies, conducted with participants with three kinds of language backgrounds (Chinese-dominant bilinguals, Chinese balanced bilinguals, and English speakers with no Chinese experience) we find language-specific congruence effects for Mandarin lexical tones but not for matched sine-wave stimuli. …”
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Do you say what you hear? Perception-production link of a phoneme contrast in Singapore Mandarin by Goh, Hannah Letitia, Styles, Suzy J.

“…In this paper we examine this link using data collected on Singapore English-Mandarin bilingual adults. We used a 2AFC task to measure perception of the Singapore Mandarin [tsʰuə́n]-[ʈʂʰuə́n] alveolar-retroflex contrast, and measured production using centre of gravity (CoG) measurements on speech recordings of alveolar and retroflex words. …”
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Is a high tone pointy? Speakers of different languages match Mandarin Chinese tones to visual shapes differently by Shang, Nan, Styles, Suzy J.

“…Chinese English balanced bilinguals showed a bivalent pattern, swapping between the Chinese pitch-change pattern and the English pitch-height pattern depending on the task. …”
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