Hongchen Wu
Assistant Professor
Member Of:
- School of Modern Languages
Office Phone: 404-894-7327
Office Location: Swann 218
Related Links:
Email Address: hwu480@gatech.edu
Overview
Personal Pronouns:
she/herHongchen Wu joined the School of Modern Languages as an Assistant Professor in August 2021. As a linguist, she researches how the core components of the language faculty interact, how language is processed and represented in the mind and brain, and how theoretical linguistics research and speech technologies can empower each other, specializing in experimental and computational tools for the study of Asian languages.
Education:
- Stony Brook University, Ph.D. in Linguistics
- Peking University, M.A. in Chinese Linguistics
- Jilin University, B.A. in Chinese Language and Literature
Awards and
Distinctions:
Distinctions:
- Excellence in Service Award, School of Modern Languages, Georgia Tech, 2025
- Junior Faculty Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor Award, Georgia Tech, 2025
- Faculty Excellence in Research Award, Ivan Allen College of Liberal and Arts, 2024
- IAC Short-term Opportunity for Professional Development and Scholarly Activities (SODA) 2024
- Undergraduate Sustainability Education Innovation Grants 2023
- Student Recognition of Excellence in Teaching: 2023 CIOS Award
- Student Recognition of Excellence in Teaching: Fall 2023 Honor Roll
- Student Recognition of Excellence in Teaching: Spring 2023 Honor Roll
- Student Recognition of Excellence in Teaching: Fall 2022 Honor Roll
- Atlanta Global Studies Center Title VI NRC awards (two funded projects, 2022-2023)
- Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts Summer 2022 Professional Development Award
- Student Recognition of Excellence in Teaching: Spring Semester 2022 CIOS Honor Roll
- Student Recognition of Excellence in Teaching: Fall Semester 2021 Class of 1934 Honor Roll
Interests
Teaching Interests:
My teaching philosophy is grounded in applying my research expertise in language research to help students build strong analytical skills and a deeper understanding of language, culture, and scientific inquiry. I strive to prepare students to become lifelong learners and adaptable professionals in a rapidly evolving world. I bring this philosophy into practice through innovative and student-centered course design and active research mentorship.
Research Interests:
My research begins with an investigation into how interactions among the core structural elements of languages contribute to linguistic ambiguity, gradually extending toward the intersection of theoretical linguistics and speech technologies, reflecting my growth as an interdisciplinary researcher at Georgia Tech.
Research Fields:
- Linguistics
Geographic
Focuses:
Focuses:
- Asia (East)
Issues:
- Language Acquisition
- Syntax
- Technology
Courses
- CHIN-1002: Elementary Chinese II
- CHIN-3003: Intermediate Chinese III
- CHIN-3021: Chinese Society and Culture I
- CHIN-3022: Chin Society& Culture II
- CHIN-4699: Undergraduate Research
- LING-2100: Intro to Linguistics
- LING-3100: Apps of Linguistics
- LING-4100: Language & Computers: cross-listed with CS 4813, CS 8803
- LING-4699: Undergraduate Research
- LING-4813: Structure of Language: Structure of Language
- LING-8803: Special Topics
- LING-8803: Structure of Language: Structure of Language
- ML-2500: Think Globally, Act Locally: An Introduction to Cross-Cultural Studies
Publications
Recent Publications
Journal Articles
- Experimental investigation on quantifier scope in Chinese relative clauses
In: Linguistics Vanguard [Peer Reviewed]
Date: February 2025
- Which cross-language acoustic model to choose: Assessing tonality and phonemic inventories effects
In: Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics [Peer Reviewed]
Date: February 2025
Conferences
- CrossPhon: An Auto Phone Mapping Tool to Streamline Cross-language Modeling for Phone Alignment of Low-resource Languages
In: Interspeech 2025 [Peer Reviewed]
Date: August 2025
- Evaluating Automatic Speech Recognition Pipelines for Mandarin-English Bilingual Child Language Assessment in Telehealth
In: Interspeech 2025 [Peer Reviewed]
Date: August 2025
- Speech Annotation for A: Accuracy, Access, and Application
In: Interspeech 2025 [Peer Reviewed]
Date: August 2025
All Publications
Journal Articles
- Experimental investigation on quantifier scope in Chinese relative clauses
In: Linguistics Vanguard [Peer Reviewed]
Date: February 2025
- Which cross-language acoustic model to choose: Assessing tonality and phonemic inventories effects
In: Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics [Peer Reviewed]
Date: February 2025
- Code-switching in computer-mediated communication by Gen Z Japanese Americans
In: Linguistics Vanguard [Peer Reviewed]
Date: December 2024
- Using a forced aligner for prosody research
In: Humanities and Social Sciences Communications [Peer Reviewed]
Date: July 2023
- An experimental investigation into scope rigidity in written Mandarin
In: Frontiers in Psychology, section Psychology of Language [Peer Reviewed]
Date: June 2023
- Prosodic disambiguation of wh-indeterminates in Mandarin Chinese
In: Proceedings of Linguistics Society of America, 8(1), 5556 [Peer Reviewed]
Date: May 2023
- Processing of the Mandarin polarity item renhe ‘any’
In: Language and Linguistics [Peer Reviewed]
Date: September 2021
Conferences
- CrossPhon: An Auto Phone Mapping Tool to Streamline Cross-language Modeling for Phone Alignment of Low-resource Languages
In: Interspeech 2025 [Peer Reviewed]
Date: August 2025
- Evaluating Automatic Speech Recognition Pipelines for Mandarin-English Bilingual Child Language Assessment in Telehealth
In: Interspeech 2025 [Peer Reviewed]
Date: August 2025
- Speech Annotation for A: Accuracy, Access, and Application
In: Interspeech 2025 [Peer Reviewed]
Date: August 2025
- On the availability of inverse scope reading in Dutch doubly-quantified thetic sentences
In: Proceedings of the 24rd Amsterdam Colloquium [Peer Reviewed]
Date: December 2024
- Influences of Morphosyntax and Semantics on the Intonation of Mandarin Chinese Wh-indeterminates
In: Proceeding of Interspeech 2024 [Peer Reviewed]
Date: September 2024
- Introducing linguistics to Atlanta high school students by opening linguistics talks through Zoom for everyone
In: Proceedings of the Linguistic Society [Peer Reviewed]
Date: August 2024
- Processing Mandarin Negative Polarity and Free-Choice Item renhe
In: Proceedings of the 34th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics [Peer Reviewed]
Date: December 2023
Updated: Dec 11th, 2025 at 3:05 PM