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Fang Liu
School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences
University of Reading
Earley Gate, Reading RG6 6AL

Associate Professor
Office: Room 1S25, Harry Pitt Building
Phone: +44 (0)118 378 8122
E-mail: f.liu@reading.ac.uk




Refereed Journal Articles

  1. Li, J., Petrova, A., Bernotaite, Z., Sujawal, M., Zhao, C., Ahmed, H., Jiang, C., & Liu, F. (2025). Linguistic and musical syntax processing in autistic and non-autistic individuals: An event-related potential (ERP) study. Autism Research. http://doi.org/10.1002/aur.70038.

  2. Ong, J., Zhang, L., & Liu, F. (2025). Do autistic individuals show atypical performance in probabilistic learning? A comparison of cue-number, predictive strength, and prediction error. Molecular Autism, 16, 15. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13229-025-00651-7.

  3. Ong, J., Leung, F., & Liu, F. (2025). The Reading Everyday Emotion Database (REED): A set of audio-visual recordings of emotions in music and language. Language Resources and Evaluation, 59, 27-49. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10579-023-09698-5.

  4. Tichborne, B., Liu, F., Bose, A. (2024). "The illuminating quiet": A metaphor analysis of autobiographical descriptions of inner speech in aphasia. Aphasiology. https://doi.org/10.1080/02687038.2024.2423930.

  5. Wang, L., Pfordresher, P., Jiang, C., & Liu, F. (2024). Atypical vocal imitation of speech and song in autism spectrum disorder: Evidence from Mandarin speakers. Autism, 29, 408-423. https://doi.org/10.1177/13623613241275395.

  6. Xue, C., Chen, Y., Thompson, W. F., Liu, F., Jiang, C. (2024). Time-varying similarity of neural responses to musical tension is shaped by physical features and musical themes. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 202, 112387. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2024.112387.

  7. Ozaki, Y., Tierney, A., Pfordresher, P. Q., McBride, J. M., Benetos, E., Proutskouva, P., Chiba, G., Liu, F., Jacoby, N., ..., & Savage, P. E. (2024). Globally, songs and instrumental melodies are slower, higher, and use more stable pitches than speech: A Registered Report. Science Advances, 10, eadm9797. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adm9797.

  8. Zhao, C., Ong, J., Veic, A., Patel, A. D., Jiang, C., Fogel, A. R., Wang, L., Hou, Q., Das, D., Crasto, C., Chakrabarti, B., Williams, T. I., Loutraria, A., & Liu, F. (2024). Predictive processing of music and language in autism: Evidence from Mandarin and English speakers. Autism Research, 17, 1230-1257. https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.3133.

  9. Leung, F., Stojanovik, V., Jiang, C., & Liu, F. (2024). Investigating implicit emotion processing in autism spectrum disorder across age groups: A cross-modal emotional priming study. Autism Research, 17, 824-837. https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.3124.

  10. Kachlicka, M., Patel, A. D., Liu, F., & Tierney, A. (2024). Weighting of cues to categorization of song versus speech in tone-language and non-tone-language speakers. Cognition, 246, 105757. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105757.

  11. Williams, T., Loucas, T., Sin, J., Jeremic, M., Meyer, S., Boseley, S., Fincham-Majumdar, S., Aslett, G., Renshaw, R., & Liu, F. (2024). Using music to assist language learning in autistic children with minimal verbal language: The MAP feasibility RCT. Autism, 28, 2515-2533. https://doi.org/10.1177/13623613241233804.

  12. Loutrari, A., Al-Qadi, A., Jiang, C., & Liu, F. (2024). Exploring the role of singing, semantics, and amusia screening in speech-in-noise perception in musicians and non-musicians. Cognitive Processing, 25, 147-161. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-023-01165-x.

  13. Ge, H., Lee, A., Yuen, H. K., Liu, F., & Yip, V. (2024). Bilingual exposure might enhance L1 development in Cantonese-English bilingual autistic children: Evidence from the production of focus. Autism, 28, 1795-1808. https://doi.org/10.1177/13623613231207449.

  14. Tichborne, B., Liu, F., & Bose, A. (2024). Subjective experience of word production difficulties in aphasia: A metaphor analysis of autobiographical accounts. Aphasiology, 38, 862-894. https://doi.org/10.1080/02687038.2023.2243672.

  15. Ong, J., Zhao, C., Bacon, A., Leung, F., Veic, A., Wang, L., Jiang, C., & Liu, F. (2023). The relationship between autism and pitch perception is modulated by cognitive abilities. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 54, 3400-3411. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-023-06075-7.

  16. Honda, C., Pruitt, T., Greenspon, E., Liu, F., & Pfordresher, P. Q. (2023). The effect of musical training and language background on vocal imitation of pitch in speech and song. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 49, 1296-1309. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001146.

  17. Wang, L., Xiao, S., Jiang, C., Hou, Q., Chan, A. H. D., Wong, P. C. M., & Liu, F. (2023). The form and function processing of lexical tone and intonation in tone-language-speaking children with autism spectrum disorder. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 154, 467-481. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0020271.

  18. Jiang, J., Liu, F., Zhou, L., Chen, L., & Jiang, C. (2023). Explicit processing of melodic structure in congenital amusia can be improved by redescription-associate learning. Neuropsychologia, 182, 108521. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2023.108521.

  19. Ong, J., & Liu, F. (2023). Frequent experience with face coverings for 10 months improves emotion perception among individuals with high autistic traits: A repeated cross-sectional study. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 76, 1599-1608. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218221135585.

  20. Leung, F., Stojanovik, V., Micai, M., Jiang, C., & Liu, F. (2023). Emotion recognition in autism spectrum disorder across age groups: A cross-sectional investigation of various visual and auditory communicative domains. Autism Research, 16, 783-801. https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.2896.

  21. Wang, L., Ong, J., Ponsot, E., Hou, Q., Jiang, C., & Liu, F. (2023). Mental representations of speech and musical pitch contours reveal a diversity of profiles in autism spectrum disorder. Autism, 27, 629-646. https://doi.org/10.1177/13623613221111207.

  22. Ge, H., Liu, F., Yuen, H. K., Chen, A., & Yip, V. (2023). Comprehension of prosodically- and syntactically-marked focus in Cantonese-speaking children with and without autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 53, 1255-1268. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-022-05770-1.

  23. Loutrari, A., Ansell, K., Beaman, P., Jiang, C., & Liu, F. (2023). Auditory imagery in congenital amusia. Musicae Scientiae, 27, 698-716. https://doi.org/10.1177/10298649221122870.

  24. Xiao, J., Zhao, J., Luo, Z., Liu, F., & Greenwood, D. (2022). The impact of built environment design on mental health: A COVID-19 lockdown perspective. Health and Place, 77:102889. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2022.102889.

  25. Ong, J., & Liu, F. (2022). Probabilistic learning of cue-outcome associations is not influenced by autistic traits. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 53, 4047-4059. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-022-05690-0.

  26. Loutrari, A., Jiang, C., & Liu, F. (2022). Song imitation in congenital amusia: Performance partially facilitated by melody familiarity but not by lyrics. Music Perception, 39, 341-360. https://doi.org/10.1525/mp.2022.39.4.341.

  27. Leung, F., Sin, J., Dawson, C., Ong, J., Zhao, C., Veic, A., & Liu, F. (2022). Emotion recognition across visual and auditory modalities in autism spectrum disorder (ASD): A systematic review and meta-analysis. Developmental Review, 63, 101000. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dr.2021.101000.

  28. Xu, J., Zhou, L., Liu, F., Xue, C., Jiang, J., & Jiang, C. (2022). The autistic brain can process local but not global emotion regularities in facial and musical sequences. Autism Research, 15, 222-240. https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.2635.

  29. Wang, L., Beaman, P., Jiang, C., & Liu, F. (2022). Perception and production of statement-question intonation in autism spectrum disorder: A developmental investigation. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 52, 3456-3472. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-021-05220-4.

  30. Williams, T., Loucas, T., Sin, J., Jeremic, M., Aslett, G., Knight, M., Fincham-Majumdar, S., & Liu, F. (2021). A randomised controlled feasibility trial of music-assisted language telehealth intervention for minimally verbal autistic children - the MAP study protocol. Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 7, 182. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40814-021-00918-9.

  31. Wang, L., Pfordresher, P. Q., Jiang, C., & Liu, F. (2021). Individuals with autism spectrum disorder are impaired in absolute but not relative pitch and duration matching in speech and song imitation. Autism Research, 14, 2355-2372. https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.2569.

  32. Liu, F., Yin, Y., Chan, A. H. D., Yip, V., & Wong, P. C. M. (2021). Individuals with congenital amusia do not show context-dependent perception of tonal categories. Brain and Language, 215, 104908. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2021.104908.

  33. Ong, J., Wong, P. C. M., & Liu, F. (2020). Musicians show enhanced perception, but not production, of native lexical tones. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 148(6), 3443-3454. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0002776.

  34. Sun, L., Thompson, W. F., Liu, F., Zhou, L., & Jiang, C. (2020). The human brain processes hierarchical structures of rhythm and harmony differently: Evidence from musicians and nonmusicians. Psychophysiology, 57, e13598. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.13598.

  35. Bacon, A., Beaman, P., & Liu, F. (2020). An exploratory study of imagining sounds and "hearing" music in autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 50, 1123-1132. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-019-04346-w.

  36. Zhang, W., Liu, F., Zhou, L., Wang, W., Jiang, H., & Jiang, C. (2019). The effects of timbre on neural responses to musical emotion. Music Perception, 37, 134-146. https://doi.org/10.1525/mp.2019.37.2.134.

  37. Zhou, L., Liu, F., Jiang, J., & Jiang, C. (2019). Impaired emotional processing of chords in congenital amusia: Electrophysiological and behavioral evidence. Brain and Cognition, 135, 103577. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2019.06.001.

  38. Zhou, L., Liu, F., Jiang, J., Jiang, H., & Jiang, C. (2019). Abnormal neural responses to harmonic syntactic structures in congenital amusia. Psychophysiology, e13394. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.13394.

  39. Jiang, J., Liu, F., Zhou, L., & Jiang, C. (2019). The neural basis for understanding imitation-induced musical meaning: The role of the human mirror system. Behavioural Brain Research, 359, 362-369. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2018.11.020.

  40. Sun, L., Liu, F., Zhou, L., & Jiang, C. (2018). Musical training modulates the early but not the late stage of rhythmic syntactic processing. Psychophysiology, 55(2), e12983. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.12983.

  41. Jiang, C., Liu, F., & Wong, P. C. M. (2017). Sensitivity to musical emotion is influenced by tonal structure in congenital amusia. Scientific Reports, 7:7624. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-08005-x.

  42. Zhou, L., Liu, F., Jing, X., & Jiang, C. (2017). Neural differences between the processing of musical meaning conveyed by direction of pitch change and natural music in congenital amusia. Neuropsychologia, 96, 29-38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2016.12.024.

  43. Liu, F., Jiang, C., Francart, T., Chan, A. H. D., & Wong, P. C. M. (2017). Perceptual learning of pitch direction in congenital amusia: Evidence from Chinese speakers. Music Perception, 34, 335-351. https://doi.org/10.1525/mp.2017.34.3.335.

  44. Maggu, A. R., Liu, F., Antoniou, M., & Wong, P. C. M. (2016). Neural correlates of indicators of sound change in Cantonese: Evidence from cortical and subcortical processes. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 10:652. http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2016.00652.

  45. Liu, F., Chan, A. H. D., Ciocca, V., Roquet, C., Peretz, I., & Wong, P. C. M. (2016). Pitch perception and production in congenital amusia: Evidence from Cantonese speakers. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 140, 563-575. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4955182.

  46. Jiang, C., Liu, F., & Thompson, W. F. (2016). Impaired explicit processing of musical syntax and tonality in a group of Mandarin-speaking congenital amusics. Music Perception, 33, 401-413. doi: 10.1525/MP.2016.33.4.401.

  47. Xu, Y., Lee, A., Prom-on, S., & Liu, F. (2015). Explaining the PENTA model: A reply to Arvaniti & Ladd (2009). Phonology, 32, 505-535. doi:10.1017/ S0952675715000299.

  48. Jiang, J., Liu, F., Wan, X., & Jiang, C. (2015). Perception of melodic contour and intonation in Autism Spectrum Disorder: Evidence from Mandarin speakers. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 45, 2067-2075. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-015-2370-4.

  49. Lu, X., Ho, H.-T., Liu, F., Wu, D., & Thompson, W. F. (2015). Intonation processing deficits of emotional words among Mandarin Chinese speakers with congenital amusia: An ERP study. Frontiers in Psychology. 6:385. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00385.

  50. Liu, F., Maggu, A. R., Lau, J. C. Y., & Wong, P. C. M. (2015). Brainstem encoding of speech and musical stimuli in congenital amusia: Evidence from Cantonese speakers. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 8:1029. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.01029

  51. Liu, F., Jiang, C., Wang, B., Xu, Y., & Patel, A. D. (2015). A music perception disorder (congenital amusia) influences speech comprehension. Neuropsychologia, 66, 111-118. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.11.001.

  52. Liu, F., Jiang, C., Pfordresher, P. Q., Mantell, J. T., Xu, Y., Yang, Y., & Stewart, L. (2013). Individuals with congenital amusia imitate pitches more accurately in singing than in speaking: Implications for music and language processing. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 75, 1783-1798. http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13414-013-0506-1.

  53. Liu, F., Xu, Y., Prom-on, S., & Yu, A. C. L. (2013). Morpheme-like prosodic functions: Evidence from acoustic analysis and computational modeling. Journal of Speech Sciences, 3, 85-140. https://doi.org/10.20396/joss.v3i1.15041.

  54. Prom-on, S., Liu, F., & Xu, Y. (2012). Post-low bouncing in Mandarin Chinese: Acoustic analysis and computational modeling. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 132, 421-432. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4725762.

  55. Liu, F., Xu, Y., Patel, A. D., Francart, T., & Jiang, C. (2012). Differential recognition of pitch patterns in discrete and gliding stimuli in congenital amusia: Evidence from Mandarin speakers. Brain and Cognition, 79, 209-215. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2012.03.008.

  56. Liu, F., Jiang, C., Thompson, W. F., Xu, Y., Yang, Y., & Stewart, L. (2012). The mechanism of speech processing in congenital amusia: Evidence from Mandarin speakers. PLoS ONE, 7(2): e30374. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0030374.

  57. Williamson, V. J., Liu, F., Peryer, G., Grierson, M., & Stewart, L. (2012). Perception and action de-coupling in congenital amusia: Sensitivity to task demands. Neuropsychologia, 50, 172-180. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.11.015.

  58. Liu, F., Patel, A. D., Fourcin, A., & Stewart, L. (2010). Intonation processing in congenital amusia: Discrimination, identification, and imitation. Brain, 133, 1682-1693. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093 /brain/awq089.

  59. Xu, Y., & Liu, F. (2007). Determining the temporal interval of segments with the help of F0 contours. Journal of Phonetics, 35, 398-420. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2006.06.002.

  60. Xu, Y., & Liu, F. (2006). Tonal alignment, syllable structure and coarticulation: Toward an integrated model. Italian Journal of Linguistics, 18, 125-159.

  61. Liu, F., & Xu, Y. (2005). Parallel encoding of focus and interrogative meaning in Mandarin intonation. Phonetica, 62, 70-87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000090090.

  62. Fulop, S., Ladefoged, P., Liu, F., & Vossen, R. (2003). Yeyi clicks: Acoustic description and analysis. Phonetica, 60, 231-260. http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000076375

  63. Liu, F. (2002). Sociophonetic variation of 'Shenme' ('what') in Beijing Mandarin. Yuyanxue Luncong [Essays on Linguistics], 25, 116-151.

Book Chapters

  1. Xu, Y., Prom-on, S., & Liu, F. (2022). The PENTA model: Concepts, use and implications. In: S. Shattuck-Hufnagel, & J. Barnes (Eds.), Prosodic Theory and Practice. Cambridge: The MIT Press.

  2. Xu, Y., Prom-on, S., & Liu, F. (2022). Response to commentary by Pierrehumbert. In: S. Shattuck-Hufnagel, & J. Barnes (Eds.), Prosodic Theory and Practice. Cambridge: The MIT Press.

  3. Thompson, W. F., & Liu, F. (2014). Musical disorders. In: W. F. Thompson (Ed.), Music in the Social and Behavioral Sciences: An Encyclopedia. New York: Sage Publications.

  4. Xu, Y., & Liu, F. (2013). Yunlv yanjiu de zuixin fazhan yiji yu qita lingyu de guanxi [Advances in prosody research and how they are related to other areas]. In: J. Wang, & D. Chen (Eds.), Yuyanxue [Linguistics]. Beijing: China Renmin University Press.

  5. Xu, Y., & Liu, F. (2012). Intrinsic coherence of prosodic and segmental aspects of speech. In: O. Niebuhr (Ed.), Understanding Prosody: The Role of Context, Function and Communication (pp. 1-26). Berlin/New York: de Gruyter.

Refereed Conference Proceedings

  1. Zhao, C., Hou, Q., Loutrari, A., Wang, L., Jiang, C., & Liu, F. (2024). Immediate sentence repetition in autism: Effects of listening background, mode of presentation, and semantic content. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2024. Leiden, Netherlands.

  2. Ozaki, Y., Kuroyanagi, J., Chiba, G., McBride, J., Proutskova, P., Tierney, A. T., Pfordresher, P. Q., Benetos, E., Liu, F., & Savage, P. E. (2022). Similarities and differences in a cross-linguistic sample of song and speech recordings. Proceedings of the 2022 Joint Conference on Language Evolution (pp. 569-572). Kanazawa, Japan & Online.

  3. Liu, F., Xu, Y., Prom-on, S., & Whalen, D. H. (2015). Computational modelling of double focus in American English. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Glasgow, UK.

  4. Prom-on, S., Xu, Y., & Liu, F. (2011). Simulating post-L F0 bouncing by modeling articulatory dynamics. Proceedings of Interspeech 2011 (pp. 289-292). Florence, Italy.

  5. Prom-on, S., Liu, F., & Xu, Y. (2011). Functional modeling of tone, focus and sentence type in Mandarin Chinese. Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 1638-1641). Hong Kong, China.

  6. Liu, F. (2010). Single vs. double focus in English statements and yes/no questions. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2010. Chicago, USA.

  7. Liu, F., & Xu, Y. (2007). The neutral tone in question intonation in Mandarin. Proceedings of Interspeech 2007 (pp. 630-633). Antwerp, Belgium.

  8. Liu, F., & Xu, Y. (2007). Question intonation as affected by word stress and focus in English. Proceedings of The 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 1189-1192). Saarbrucken, Germany.

  9. Liu, F., Surendran, D., & Xu, Y. (2006). Classification of statement and question intonations in Mandarin. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2006. Dresden, Germany.

  10. Liu, F., & Xu, Y. (2003). Underlying targets of initial glides -- Evidence from focus-related F0 alignments in English. Proceedings of The 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 1887-1890). Barcelona, Spain.

  11. Xu, Y., & Liu, F. (2002). Segmentation of glides with tonal alignment as reference. Proceedings of The 7th Internatonal Conference on Spoken Language Processing (pp. 1093-1096). Denver, USA.

Other Publications

  1. Zhou, L., Liu, F., Hai, T., Jiang, J., Man, D., & Jiang, C. (preprint). Absolute pitch ability is not associated with advantage in musical tension processing. PsyArXiv Preprints. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/r6vm8.

  2. Liu, F. (2019). Can music-assisted language interventions improve communication skills in children with autism spectrum disorder? ISRCTN, 2019, ISRCTN12536062. https://doi.org/10.1186/ISRCTN12536062.

  3. Leung, F., Sin, J., Dawson, C., Ong, J., Zhao, C., Veic, A., & Liu, F. (2018). Emotion recognition across visual and auditory modalities in autism spectrum disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis. PROSPERO, 2018, CRD42018091703. https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/display_record.php?ID=CRD42018091703.

Datasets

  1. Ong, J., Leung, F., & Liu, F. (2021). The Reading Everyday Emotion Database (REED). University of Reading. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.17864/1947.000336.

  2. Liu, F., & Ong, J. (2021). Autism, pitch perception and cognition. University of Reading. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.17864/1947.316.
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