Booyakasha!

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5185-1804

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PERSONAL

Born Sintek (a.k.a. Hsinchu), Taiwan, 2517 (B.E.)

BRIEF CV

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

• Associate Professor, Institute of Linguistics, National Tsing Hua University — August, 2012-Present
• Assistant Professor, Institute of Linguistics, National Tsing Hua University — August, 2007-July, 2012

Short-term appointments

• Visiting scholar, Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan — February-July, 2018
• Visiting chair professor and Honorary Director, Research Center for Monsoon Asian Languages and Cultures, School of Foreign Languages for Business, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Chengdu, China — 2016-Present
• Faculty, Linguistics Institute of China (中国语言学书院), Beijing/Tianjin, China — 2014-2017

EDUCATION

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA — Ph.D. in Linguistics, 2007
  Ph.D. Dissertation: Relational Correspondence in Tone Sandhi (ix+283 pp.)
  Committee: Professors Michael Kenstowicz (co-chair), Donca Steriade (co-chair) and Edward Flemming

• Universiteit Leiden, Leiden, the Netherlands — M.Phil. in Linguistics, 2002

• National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan — M.A. in Linguistics, 1999
  M.A. Thesis: Theoretical Aspects of Zhuokeji rGyalrong Phonology (vii+218 pp.) Committee: Professors Su-I Chen (chair), Yueh-chin Chang, and Hui-chuan Hsu

• National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan — B.A. in Arabic Language and Literature, 1996

Other academic experience

• Linguistics Society of America Summer Institute, Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA — 2005
• Linguistics Society of America Summer Institute, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA — 2003
• Landelijke Onderzoekschool Taalwetenschap (LOT) Winter School, Universiteit Leiden, Leiden, the Netherlands — 2002

ACADEMIC HONORS

• Ta-you Wu Memorial Award, Early Career Award from the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan — 2013
• National Tsing Hua University Faculty Research Incentive — 2009, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
• National Tsing Hua University Faculty Publication Incentive — 2012, 2013
• National Tsing Hua University Faculty Teaching Incentive — 2010, 2012, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2022
• Project for Excellent Junior Research Investigators, National Science Council of Taiwan — 2011
• The Tsing Hua Linguistics Fellowship for Young Scholars (Outstanding Paper Award), The Tsing Hua Linguistics Fellowship Committee of the Second International Theoretical East-Asian Linguistics Workshop, Graduate Institute of Linguistics, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan — 2004

SERVICE (Selected)

• Treasurer, the Linguistic Society of Taiwan — 2017-2019
• Executive committee, International Association of Chinese Linguistics — 2015-2017
• Evaluation committee for Linguistics and Language Teaching, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Ministry of Science and Technology (Taiwan) — 2015-2016, 2019-2020
• Board member of the Linguistic Society of Taiwan — 2012-2016
• Moderator of Ling-TW, the Newsletter of the Linguistic Society of Taiwan — September, 2010-Present

Editorships and Editorial Board Memberships

• Journal of East Asian Linguistics (Editorial Board) — 2020-Present
• Journal of Monsoon Asian Studies (Editorial Board) — 2015-Present
• Journal of Taiwanese Languages and Literature (Editorial Board) — 2021-2022
• Language and Linguistics (Associate editor) - 2022-Present
• Open Linguistics (Section editor) — 2020-Present
• Tsing Hua Journal of Chinese Studies (Editorial Board/Associate editor) — 2019-2020

Reviewer of manuscripts (in alphabetical order)

• Acta Linguistica Hafniensia: International Journal of Linguistics
• Ampersand
• Australian Journal of Linguistics
• Chinese Studies
• Concentric: Studies in Linguistics
• Contemporary Linguistics
• Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory
• Dialectologia et Geolinguistica
• Folia Linguistica
• Frontiers in Psychology
• Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics
• International Journal of Chinese Linguistics
• International Journal of Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing
• International Journal of Lexicography
• Journal of Chinese Linguistics
• Journal of East Asian Linguistics
• Journal of the International Phonetic Association
• Journal of Linguistics
• Journal of Phonetics
• Journal of Taiwanese Languages and Literature
• Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association of Laboratory Phonology
• Language
• Language and Linguistics
• Language and Linguistics Compass
• Language and Speech
• Lingua
• Linguistic Inquiry
• Linguistics
• Morphology
• Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
• Oceanic Linguistics
• Phonetica
• Phonological Data Analysis
• Phonology
• Providence Forum: Language and Humanities
• Studia Linguistica
• Studies in Prosodic Grammar
• Taiwan Journal of Linguistics
• The Linguistic Review
• Tsing Hua Journal of Chinese Studies

Book chapters

Asia-Pacific Linguistics Series (ANU), De Gruyter Mouton, National Academy of Marine Research

Awards

• Linguistic Society of Taiwan Thesis of the Year Award
• Taiwan Languages and Literature Society Distinguished Dissertation Award
• Robins Prize, The Philological Society
• Outstanding Research Award, National Science and Technology Council

Reviewer of Grant Proposals

• National Science and Technology Council (former Ministry of Science and Technology and National Science Council) (2008-2024)
• Graduate Student Study Abroad Program, National Science Council (2013)
• Research Grant Council of Hong Kong (2014-Present)
• TOP Grants, National Applied Research Laboratories (2021)
• L'Agence Nationale de la Recherche, France (2021)

Conference organizing

• The 8th Theoretical East Asian Linguistics Workshop (TEAL-8), 2013
• The 10th Generative Linguistics in the Old Word (Asia) (GLOW in Asia X), 2014
• 30 Years of Linguistics at Tsing Hua, 2015
• Symposium on Syntax and Semantics in Memory of Professor Kuang Mei, 2023

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS

Research grants (as PI)

• An articulatory study of liquids in Formosan languages (113-2410-H-007-064-MY2), NSTC research grant, National Science and Technology Council of Taiwan — 2024-2026
• Articulatory correlates of prosodic prominence in Taiwanese Mandarin (110-2410-H-007-025-), MOST research grant, Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan — 2021-2022
• A quantitative study of segmental evidence for metrical structure in Sinitic languages (II) (109-2410-H-007-063-), MOST research grant, Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan — 2020-2021
• Revisiting the AABB reduplication in Sinitic languages (108-2410-H-007-026-), MOST research grant, Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan — 2019-2020
• A quantitative study of segmental evidence for metrical structure in Sinitic languages (107-2410-H-007-049-), MOST research grant, Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan — 2018-2019
• Phonetic effects on the timing of gestural coordination in Taiwanese Southern Min (106-2410-H-007-029-), MOST research grant, Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan — 2017-2018
• Articulatory bases of phonotactics in Sinitic languages, Ta-You Wu Memorial Award Grant (103-2410-H-007-036-MY3), MOST research grant, Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan (Co-PI: Professor Yueh- chin Chang) — 2014-2018
• A phonetic and phonological study of gemination in prosodically weak elements in Taiwanese Southern Min and Hakka, NSC research grant (102-2410-H-007-069-MY2), National Science Council of Taiwan (Co-PI: Professor Yueh-chin Chang) — 2013-2015
• A linguistic study of Huayitongyu, a 19th-century Hokkien-Malay dictionary, a subproject of “Cultural Diversity of the Monsoon Asia Area” (Phase 3), to Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, National Tsing Hua University, sponsored by the Ministry of Education of Taiwan — 2012-2014
• A comparative study of the phonetics and phonology of closed syllables in Sinitic and Non-Sinitic languages. Project for Excellent Junior Research Investigators (100-2628-H-007-036-MY2), National Science Council of Taiwan — 2011-2013
• An experimental assessment of the rightward bias in tone spreading. NSC research grant (99-2410-H-007-050-), National Science Council of Taiwan — 2010-2011
• A study of Malay-to-Hakka loanwords, a subproject of “Cultural Diversity of the Monsoon Asia Area” (Phase 2), to Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, National Tsing Hua University, sponsored by the Ministry of Education of Taiwan — 2010-2012
• An EMMA-based study of speech errors in Taiwanese Southern Min. NSC research grant (98-2410-H-007-042-), National Science Council of Taiwan (Co-PI: Professor Yueh-chin Chang)— 2009-2010
• A study of Hokkien-to-Malay and Malay-to-Hokkien loanwords, a subproject of “Cultural Diversity of the Monsoon Asia Area” (Phase 1), to Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, National Tsing Hua University, sponsored by the Ministry of Education of Taiwan — 2008-2010
• A study of the phonology of checked syllables in Taiwanese Southern Min, NSC research grant (97-2410-H-007-025-), National Science Council of Taiwan — 2008-2009

Other grants (Selected)

• Center for Sustainable Development of Linguistic Diversity in Taiwan, Higher Education Sprout Project (Part II: Leading Research Centers), Ministry of Education (PI: Professor Wei-tien Dylan Tsai) — 2023-Present
• When Humanities meet Technology: Perspectives from Experimental Linguistics, Flagship Project, Ministry of Education (PI: Professor Yueh-chin Chang) — 2020-2022
• Co-Articulation between Consonant and Vowel in Cantonese, Beijing Mandarin, and Quanzhou, The Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange (PI: Professor Wai-sum Lee, City University of Hong Kong; Co-PI: Professor Yueh-chin Chang) — 2014-2017.
• Aspects of articulatory phonetics in Taiwanese Southern Min: An EMA study (101-2410- H-007-052-MY2), National Science Council of Taiwan (PI: Professor Yueh-chin Chang) — 2012-2014
• Voiced initial plosives and voiceless applosive finals in Taiwanese: Laryngoscopic case studies, NSC research grant (99-2410-H-007-062-), National Science Council of Taiwan (PI: Professor Yueh-chin Chang) — 2010-2011
• Research grant for fieldwork in Sichuan, China, Research and Development Council, National Tsing Hua University — 1998
• Research grant for fieldwork in Sichuan, China, Research and Development Council, National Tsing Hua University — 1997

Fellowships

• Linguistics Society of America Tuition Scholarship to attend the LSA Summer Institute 2003 at the Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA — 2003
• Graduate Fellowships, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA — 2002-2007
• The DELTA (Dutch Education: Learning at Top Level Abroad) Scholarship for the Advanced Master’s Program at Universiteit Leiden, the NUFFIC (Netherlands Organization for International Cooperation in Higher Education), the Netherlands — 2001

Language skills:
Taiwanese Mandarin - Native
Taiwanese Southern Min - Proficient (my ethnic language)
American English - Proficient
Taiwanese Hoiliuk Hakka - Fluent
Japanese - Conversational
Cantonese - Beginner: Limited working proficiency
Modern Standard Arabic - Beginner: Grammatical knowledge
French - Beginner: Basic