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Siā Honghôan

Booyakasha!

ORCID iD icon https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5185-1804


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
  • 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

Acta Linguistica Hafniensia: International Journal of Linguistics, Ampersand, Australian Journal of Linguistics, Chinese Studies, Concentric: Studies in Linguistics, Contemporary Linguistics, Dialectologia et Geolinguistica, 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 Speech, Lingua, Linguistic Inquiry (Squib), Linguistics, Morphology, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Oceanic Linguistics, Phonetica, Phonology, Phonological Data Analysis, Providence Forum: Language and Humanities, Studies in Prosodic Grammar, Taiwan Journal of Linguistics, The Linguistic Review, Studia Linguistica, 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-Present)
  • 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)

  • Articulatory correlates of prosodic prominence in Taiwanese Mandarin, 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), 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