Việt Tones ~ Việt Tunes
I analyzed the phonological and phonetic relationship between the lexical tones of lyrics and their corresponding melodies across 45 Vietnamese pop songs.
V-pop tonal category formation
An expansion of the Việt Tones ~ Việt Tunes thesis with (1) statistics demonstrating that tone-tune interaction type is predictable from lexical tone, and (2) acoustic data showing how phonetic cues besides pitch are present in Vietnamese tone.
Malay pop syllabification (expanded)
An expansion of the Malay pop song project with Jian-Leat Siah outlining various musicolinguistic parameterizations that arise in Malay vocoids such as congruent musical note assignment, syllable size duration matching, and gliding with respect to syllable size threshold.
Syllabification in Malay pop
In collaboration with Jian-Leat Siah, this project investigates glides in Malay pop song lyrics as evidence that complex onsets do indeed appear in Malay syllables (contrary to previous analyses).