Ping Tang

Ping Tang is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Linguistics at Macquarie University, associated with The Child Language Lab as a senior research officer. Their work focuses on Mandarin tone acquisition in children, including those with hearing impairments. Ping has contributed to projects like "Improving Child Hearing Health in China: Assessing Tone Acquisition by Children with Cochlear Implants" (2019).

Key research interests include child language development, phonological acquisition, speech acoustics, and the impact of hearing loss on linguistic skills. Their studies often explore how Mandarin-speaking children process prosodic cues like tone, duration, and pitch in comprehension and production.

Publications span topics such as infant-directed speech variability, lexical segmentation in preschoolers, and prosody challenges faced by cochlear-implant users. Collaborations involve experts in linguistics, audiology, and developmental psychology.