Publications:

Forthcoming:

1. Whitehouse, P., Usher, T., Ruhlen, M. & Wang, W. S-Y. Kusunda: an Indo-Pacific language in Nepal. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, in press. (.pdf file)

2. Wang, Feng & Wang, William S.-Y., Basic Words and Language Evolution. Language and linguistics 5.2., 2004. (.pdf file)

3. Wang, William S.-Y., Jinyun Ke, & James W. Minett, Computaional Studies of Language Evolution, in press. (.pdf file)

4. Wang, Feng, A study of z/zh variations in Ying-shan Dialect, Yuyanxue Luncong, The Commercial Press, Beijing, in press. (.pdf file)

2003

1. Minett, James W. & William S.-Y. Wang, On detecting borrowing: distance-based and character-based approaches, Diachronica, 20.2:289-330.(.pdf file)

2. Wang, William S.-Y. & Deng, Xiaohua, A Quantitative Study on the Genetic Relationship of Miao-Yao Languages-the Lexicostatics Approach, Chinese Languages (Zhong guo yu wen), Beijing. (.pdf file)

3. Wang, William S.-Y. & Deng, Xiaohua, A study on the lexico-statistic classification of Tibeto-Burman languages and their formation, Ming Zu Yu Wen, Beijing (.pdf file)

4. Ke, Jinyun, Mieko Ogura & William S.-Y. Wang, Optimization Models of Sound Systems Using Genetic Algorithms. Computational Linguistics, 29.1:1-18. (.pdf file)

5. AU, C-P and Coupe, C. A Computational Model on the Emergence of Vowel and Diphthong Perception, ICPHS 2003.

2002

1. Ke, Jinyun, James W. Minett, Ching-pong Au & William S.-Y. Wang, Self-organization and selection in the emergence of vocabulary, Complexity 7.3: 41-4. (.pdf file)

2. Wang, William S.-Y., Jinyun Ke & James W. Minett, Computational studies of language evolution, Proceedings of Nineteenth International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-2002), Taipei, Taiwan, August 24 -September 1, 2002.

2001

1. Wang, Feng, The Evolution of Diminutive Suffixes in Yingshan Dialect, Yuyanxue Luncong, Vol. 24, the Commercial Press, Beijing, Nov 2001. (.pdf file)

2. Wang, William S.-Y. & Jinyun Ke, A preliminary study on language emergence and simulation modeling, Chinese Languages (Zhong guo yu wen), Beijing, April 2001. (.pdf file)

3. Deng, Xiaohua & Yang, Yi, Lineage Society and Folk Religion-An Anthropological Study of the Folk Religion at Three Hakka Villages, Tokyo 2001. (.pdf file)

4. Deng, Xiaohua, A study on the origin of Southern Chinese people and languages, SENRI ENTHNOLOGICAL REPORTS 20, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan, 2001. (.pdf file)

2000

1. Schoenemann, P. Thomas, Thomas F. Budinger, Vincent M. Sarich and William S-Y. Wang, 2000, Brain size does not predict general cognitive ability within families, PNAS 97.9:4932-937. (.pdf file)

2. Peng, Gang & Jinyun Ke, The Fourth National Conference on Modern Phonetics, Journal of Chinese Linguistics 28.1, Berkeley: Project on Linguistic Analysis, University of California.

3. Peng, Gang, Bo Zhang & William S.-Y. Wang, Duration modeling in Mandarin connected digit recognition, International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP), Beijing, China, October 2000, 227-30.

4. Zhang, Bo, Gang Peng & William S.-Y. Wang, Reliable bands guided similarity measure for noise-robust speech recognition, Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP), Beijing, China, October 2000.Zhang, Bo, Gang Peng & William S.-Y. Wang, Noise robust speech recognition based on reliable bands (with overview of CASA), Proceedings of the International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language (ISCSLP), Beijing, China, October 2000, 171-74.

5. Peng, Gang, Bo Zhang & William S.-Y. Wang, Performance of Mandarin connected digit recognizer with word duration modeling, International Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition: Challenges for the Next Millennium (ASR2000), Paris, France, September 2000, 140-44.

6. Ke, Jinyun, Mieko Ogura & William S.-Y. Wang, Modeling evolution of sound systems with genetic algorithm, poster presented at the Workshop on Evolutionary Computation and Cognitive Science (ECCS'2000), Melbourne, Australia, January 28-29, 2000.

7. Yao, Yuan & Jinyun Ke, Exploring semantic complexity by computational learning theory, poster presented at the Workshop on Evolutionary Computation and Cognitive Science (ECCS'2000), Melbourne, Australia, January 28-29, 2000.

1999

1. Zhang, Bo, Mandarin vowel recognition in noisy environment, Fourth Conference on Modern Linguistic, August 1999, Beijing, China.

2. Zhang, Bo, William. S.-Y. Wang & Juan Liu, A high performance Mandarin digit recognizer, Proceedings of 4th Conference on Modern Linguistics, August 1999, Beijing, China.

3. Caodao, Bater & Jiangping Kong, EGG study of 84 Mongolian speakers, Proceedings of 4th National Conference on Modern Phonetics, Beijing, China, August 1999.

4. Kong, Jiangping. Correlation and classification study on EGG parameters of Mongolian language, Proceedings of 4th National Conference on Modern Phonetics, Beijing, China, August 1999.

5. Chen, Jiayou & Jiangping Kong, EGG signal study of 92 Yi language speakers, Proceedings of 4th National Conference on Modern Phonetics, Beijing, China, August 1999.

6. Shen, Mixia & Jiangping Kong, Correlation and classification study on EGG parameters of Yi language, Proceedings of 4th National Conference on Modern Phonetics, Beijing, China, August 1999.

7. Kong, Jiangping, Study on vibration of vocal folds through high-speed image processing, Proceedings of 4th National Conference on Modern Phonetics, Beijing, China, August 1999.

8. Peng, Gang & Jinyun Ke, Tone recognition and studies of Cantonese, Proceedings of 4th National Conference on Modern Phonetics, Beijing, China, August 1999.

9. Liu, Juan & Bo Zhang, Variations of the nine citation tones in different tempos of sentence-intonation in Cantonese, Proceedings of 4th National Conference on Modern Phonetics, Beijing, China, August 1999.

10. Zhu, Siyu, Feng Shi & Gang Peng, A speech analyzing system -MiniSpeechLab, The Proceeding of 4th National Conference on Modern Phonetics, Beijing, China, 273-76, August 1999.

11. Zhang, Bo, Juan Liu, Gang Peng & William S.-Y. Wang, A high performance Mandarin digit recognizer, Proceedings of the Fifth
International Symposium on Signal Processing and its Applications (ISSPA), Vol. 2, Brisbane, Australia, 1999, 629-32.

1998

1. Wang, William S.-Y., Three windows on the past, the Bronze Age and Early Iron Age peoples of Eastern Central Asia," (V. Mair, ed.), University of Pennsylvania Museum.

2. Wang, William S.-Y., Language and the evolution of modern humans, the origins and past of modern humans -toward a reconciliation, (K. Omoto and P. V. Tobias, eds.), World Science, Singapore.

3. Qiao, S. Z., William S.-Y. Wang, Evaluating phylogenetic trees by matrix decomposition, Anthropological Sciences, 106:1-2.

4. Zhang, Bo & Gang Peng, Robust speech end-point detection and F0 extraction by applying image processing techniques, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing, Singapore, December 1998.

5. Zhang, Bo, Sieving-integrating algorithm for robust speech recognition, Proceedings of the International Conference on Neural Networks and Brain, Beijing, China, October 1998.

6. Zhang, Bo, Harmonic peaks method for voice separation, Fourth International Conference on Signal Processing, Beijing, China, October 1998.

7. Zhang, Bo, Harmonics tracking and sieving-integrating algorithm for robust speech recognition, Proceedings of the 1998 International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialog, Brno, Czech Republic, September 1998.

8. Peng, Gang & Siyu Zhu, Study and realization of a text-to-speech system with high intelligibility and naturalness, Proceedings of the 5th
Man-Machine Speech Communication of China, Harbin, China, July 1998, 310-13.

1997

1. Wang, William S.-Y., A quantitative study of Zhuang-dong Languages, In Memory of Mantaro J. Hashimoto (A Yue-Hashimoto and T. Endo, eds.), Tokyo: Uchiyama, 81-6.

2. Wang, William S.-Y., A peek under China's quilt, Hong Kong Standard, February 18, 1997.

1996

1. Freedman, David A., and William S-Y. Wang, 1996, Language polygenesis: A probabilistic model, Anthropological Science 104:131-37. (.ps file)

Unpublished papers:

2002

1. Ke, Jinyun, Feng Wang & Christophe Coupe, The rise and fall of homophones: a window to language evolution, paper presented at the Fourth International Conference on the Evolution of Language, Harvard, MA, U.S.A., March, 2002.

2. Minett, James W. & William S.-Y. Wang, Detecting borrowing among languages: a glottochronological approach, poster presented at the Fourth International Conference on the Evolution of Language, Harvard, MA, U.S.A., March, 2002.

3. Peng, Gang, Reliability index guided prosody modeling in speech recognition, Ph.D. thesis, City University of Hong Kong, February 2002.