Feng Hui

Name：Feng Hui

Department：English Department

Professional Title：Associate professor

Research Area：experiment acoustics, second language acquisition and sociolinguistics

1.Curriculum Vitae:

HUI FENG

Associate professor of linguistics

Hui Feng received her B.A. degree, M.A. degree and Ph. D. degree from Nankai University, China, in 1995, 2002, and 2007 respectively. She joined the Department of English at Tianjin University as a research associate in 1995 and was a lecturer from 1995 to 2008. Since 2008 she has been an associate professor in the School of Foreign Languages, Tianjin University, China. She did her post-doc research in the Department of Linguistics of the University of Arizona, USA, in 2011-2012, and worked as a visiting scholar at the Department of Linguistics and LDC of the University of Pennsylvania in 2018-2019. Her research interests include automatic speech recognition, experiment acoustics, second language acquisition and sociolinguistics.

2.Education Background:

• 09/2004—06/2008  Nankai University, Tianjin  

• Ph.D. in Linguistics.

• 09/1999—06/2002  Nankai University, Tianjin  

• M.A. in Linguistics.

• 09/1991—06/1995  Nankai University, Tianjin   B.A. in English

3.Positions & Employments:

• 09/2022—present  Associate Professor. College of Foreign Languages, Tianjin University

• 11/2018—12/2019  Visiting scholar at the Department of Linguistics and LDC, University of Pennsylvania

• 01/2013—12/2017  Associate Professor. Cognitive Computing and Application, Tianjin Key Laboratory

• 02/2011—03/2012  Pos-doc at the Department of Anthropology and Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona

• 07/2008—08/2022  Associate Professor. College of Foreign Languages and Literature, Tianjin University

• 07/2001—06/2008  Lecturer. Department of Foreign Languages, Tianjin University

• 07/1996—06/2001  Teaching Assistant. Department of Foreign Languages, Tianjin University

• 07/1995—06/1996  Graduate Student Instructor. Department of Foreign Languages, Tianjin University

4.Courses:

• Advanced Course of Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition, Sociolinguistics (to postgraduates majoring in English)

• Introduction to Linguistics, Language and Society, Introduction to phonetics and phonology, Language acquisition, Pragmatics and Translation, Contrastive Studies of Chinese and English (to undergraduates majoring in English)

• A comprehensive English course, including reading and writing (to English major undergraduates)

• Various courses concerning English listening, speaking, reading, writing and translation (to non-English major undergraduates)

5.Academic achievements:

RESEARCH GRANTS:

• 2025-2026 National Special Program “Cognitive Screening for Older Adults and Transnational Public Service Collaboration in Belt and Road Multilingual Communities”

• 2019-2023 Effect of music training on the perception and production of English lexical stress by Chinese EFL Learners, Funding Agency: Tianjin Social Science Fund

• 2019-2022 Brain-inspired language recognition and interaction based on the mechanism of language cognition, Funding Agency: Ministry of Science and Technology of the People´s Republic of China

• 2017-2022 Perception and production of English lexical stress by Uyghur and Tibetan speakers, Funding Agency: Tianjin Social Science Fund

• 2015-2017 Study on the effective method of improving English monophthongs by Chinese EFL Learners, Funding Agency: Tianjin Social Science Fund

• 2013-2017 Chinese speech information processing in the Internet age: From representation to understanding, a national program on key basic research (also known as Project 973), Funding Agency: Ministry of Science and Technology of People’s Republic of China

• 2013-2015 Contact-induced changes in Tianjin speech in the context of urbanization, Funding Agency: Tianjin Social Science Fund

Books:

• Gu, Yuxia, Lv, Li, and Feng, Hui. Practical English Writing (Revised). Tianjin University Press. 2016.

• Feng, Hui. Dialect leveling and Dialect Maintenance: Contact-induced Changes in the Tianjin Speech in the Context of Urbanization. Tianjin University Press. 2015.

• Feng, Hui, and Gu, Yuxia. Practical English Writing. Tianjin University Press. 2011.

• Feng, Hui, and Zhang, Pei.  On Translation Practice. Tianjin University Press. 2011. [In Chinese]

Journal Articles:

• Feng H, Wang L. Acoustic analysis of English tense and lax vowels: Comparing the production between Mandarin Chinese learners and native English speakers. J Acoust Soc Am. 2024 May 1; 155(5): 3071-3089. doi: 10.1121/ 10.0025931. PMID: 38717213.

• Xiaoke Bu, Hui Feng, Qiuxiang Ang, Jiangchao Chen. Comparison of the acoustic features of prosodic boundaries in Chinese formal and informal speech, Journal of Chinese Phonetics, 2022, 12: 16-25.

• Hui Feng, Jie Lian, Yingjie Zhao. Effect of Music Training on the Production of English Lexical Stress by Chinese English Learners, International Journal of Asian Language Processing 2020, 30 (2).

• FENG Hui, SONG Rui, GAO Xiaodong, WU Tongyu, DANG Jianwu. “Visualized correction of English Monophthongs: in the case of Tibetan speakers”, Journal of Tsinghua University (Sci&Technol), 2016, 56:1161-1165. [In Chinese]

• FENG Hui，ZHU Lijiao，YAO Jian. “Monophthongal Changes in Received Pronunciation”, Journal of Tianjin University (Social science), 2016, 6:541-546. [In Chinese]

• FENG Hui, AN Shourong, ZHU Lijiao. “Reflections on identity construction of college English majors”, Social Sciences on Chinese Youth，2015, 5:107-111．[In Chinese]

• Jianwu Dang, Qinghua Hu, Hui Feng, “Chinese speech information processing in the Internet age: From representation to understanding”, The Chinese Research Paradigm: Addressing Global Science Issues, pp53-57. 2014.

• Hyon Songgun, Dang Jianwu, Feng Hui, Wang Hongcui, Honda Kiyoshi, “Detection of speaker individual information using a phoneme effect suppression method”, Speech Communication, pp87-100. 2014.

• Feng, Hui. Different languages, different cultures, different language ideologies, different linguistic models. Journal of Multicultural Discourses, 2009, 4:151-164.

• Feng, Hui. Influence of Western Mainstream Language Ideologies on Linguistic Inquiry. Journal of Tianjin University (Social Sciences).2008, 6: 539-543. [In Chinese]

Conference proceedings:

• Zhijie Li, Hui Feng. Acoustic Representation and Realization of Weak Elements Subcategories: In the Case of Tianjin Mandarin, Interspeech 2025, August 17-21, 2025, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

• Siqi Lu, Hui Feng, Ziyu Xiong. The Role of Syntactic Structures in Shaping Directionality in Trisyllabic Tone Sandhi: Evidence from Tianjin Mandarin, Interspeech 2025, August 17-21, 2025, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

• Tianqi Geng, Hui Feng. Form and Function in Prosodic Representation: In the Case of “ma” in Tianjin Mandarin, Interspeech 2024, September 1-5, 2024, Kos, Greece.

• Yiying Hu, Hui Feng. Key Acoustic Cues for the Realization of Metrical Prominence in Tone Languages: A Cross-Dialect Study, Interspeech 2024, September 1-5,  2024, Kos, Greece.

• Yiying Hu, Hui Feng, Aijun Li. Syntactic and prosodic effects on reconstruction of tone sandhi domains: evidence from xiamen dialect, ICPhS, August 7-11, 2023, Prague, Czech.

• Lijuan Wang, Jiwei Guo, Hui Feng. Perception and production of english tense and lax vowels by chinese efl learners, ICPhS, August 7-11, 2023, Prague, Czech.

• Xiaoyu Zhou, Binbin Sun, Hui Feng. Phonetic realization of narrow focus by chinese EFL learners, ICPhS, August 7-11, 2023, Prague, Czech.

• Yiying Hu, Hui Feng, Qinghua Zhao, Aijun Li. Effects of Tonal Coarticulation and Prosodic Positions on Tonal Contours of Low Rising Tones: In the Case of Xiamen Dialect, Interspeech 2023, August 19-25, 2023, Dublin, Ireland.

• Yiying Hu, Hui Feng. Effects of the Syntactic Structure on the Productivity of Tone Sandhi Rules: In the Case of Xiamen Dialect, Proceedings of 25th O-COCOSDA 2022.

• Tong Li, Hui Feng, Yuan Jia. Prosodic Encoding of Mandarin Chinese Intonation by Uygur Speakers in Declarative and Interrogative Sentences, Proceedings of ISCSLP-2022.

• Jiwei Guo, Hui Feng, Yuan Jia. Influence of Chinese Er Suffixation on American English R-colored Vowels by Northeast Chinese EFL Learners, Proceedings of the International Conference on Asian Language Processing 2022.

• Tong Li, Hui Feng. A study on English word-final coronal stop deletion by Chinese EFL learners, Proceedings of 24th O-COCOSDA 2021, 88-93.

• Binbin Sun, Hui Feng. Influence of Syntactic Structures on the Acquisition of Wh-questions: In the case of Tianjin English Learners, Proceedings of 2021 IALP, 298-303.

• Dan Hu, Hui Feng, Tongyu Wu. English stress acquisition by native speakers of Tibetan. The 10th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP-2016), October 17-19, 2016, Tianjin, China.

• Aihui Zhang, Hui Feng, Siyu Wang, and Jianwu Dang. Relationship between perception and production of English vowels by Chinese English learners. The 10th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP-2016), October 17-19, 2016, Tianjin, China.

• Wenfu Bao, Hui Feng, Jianwu Dang, Zhilei Liu, Yang Yu, Siyu Wang. Perception of Mandarin Tones by Native Tibetan Speakers. INTERSPEECH, September 6-11, 2015, Dresden, Germany. EI.

• Aihui Zhang, Hui Feng, Jianwu Dang, Xinyuan Zheng and Zhihao Xu. The Perception of English Vowel Contrasts by Chinese EFL Learners and Native English Speakers. ICPhS, August 8-14, 2015, Glasgow, UK.

• Feng Hui, Zhao Lu, Dang Jianwu. An Empirical Study of Phonetic Transfer in English Monophthong Learning by Tibetan (Lhasa) Speakers. The 18th Oriental COCOSDA/CASLRE, November 24-27, 2015, Shanghai, China.

• Huixia Wang, Jianwu Dang, Hui Feng, Hongcui Wang, Yang Yu and Kiyoshi Honda, "Investigation of Learning Trajectory of Mandarin for Tibetan Speakers", Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC 2015), December 9-12, 2015, Hong Kong, China.

• Lu Zhao, Hui Feng, Huixia Wang, Jianwu Dang, “Acoustic Features of Mandarin Monophthongs by Tibetan Speakers”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Asian Language Processing, 147-150, October 19-22, 2014.

• Shourong An, Hui Feng, Huixia Wang, Jianwu Dang, “An Acoustic Analysis of English Monophthongs by Tibetan Speakers”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Asian Language Processing, 144-146. October 19-22, 2014.  

6.Honors & Awards:

• 2014  Hire for Excellence, Tianjin University

• 2014  Winner of “My Ideal Supervisor” (awarded to top 10 of over 1,000 supervisors in Tianjin University)

• 2013  Winner of “Excellent Teaching Achievements” . The project was focused on helping students improve their English intelligibility with proper software

• 2012  Winner of “Best Textbook Award” , Tianjin University (the two books are Practical English Writing and On Translation Practice)

7.Contact Information:

Email: fenghui@tju.edu.cn

Address: Room A295, Building 33, School of Foreign Languages and Literature, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300354, P. R. China