On the Perception of a Chinese American English Accent

CHUNSHENG YANG is an associate professor of Chinese and applied linguistics at the University of Connecticut. His main research areas are Chinese phonetics, phonology, second language acquisition, especially with respect to second language prosody, Chinese sociolinguistics, and Chinese pedagogy. He has published widely on the acquisition of L2 Chinese prosody and other aspects of Chinese sounds. Email: [email protected].

GAO NIU is an assistant professor in actuarial science at Bryant University. He has years of experience in academic actuarial research and consulting practice. His areas of research include big data analytics application in insurance industry, property and casualty insurance practice, predictive modeling, agent-based modeling, financial planning, life insurance and health insurance pricing, reserving, and data mining. Email: [email protected].

HAN LUO is an associate professor of Chinese at Lafayette College. Her research interests include Chinese linguistics, cognitive linguistics, second language acquisition, foreign language anxiety, heritage language education, online intercultural exchange, and foreign language pedagogy. Email: [email protected].