Cong's Experience

In September 2016, I went on a field-trip to Tianjin University in China to investigate how intonational tunes are perceived in a tonal language.

After hearing an utterance, my experiment participants were asked to make a forced choice between whether they heard a question or statement. Our experimental equipment measured their individual reaction times precisely to judge the difficulty of this decision.

Whilst visiting Tianjin University, I had the opportunity to visit the university library and see their impressive collection of old documents.