Matthew Sung
I am a 2nd year PhD student at Leiden University. My research interests are general dialectology, phonological history, and sound change. My...
Previosuly, I explored the relationship between San Diu, a language spoken in Northern Vietnam, and a number of Southern Sinitic languages in my undergraduate dissertation. For my Master's thesis, I studied the geographical variation of a feature in Yue dialects and reconstructed an older dialect landscape of Guangdong.
If you are specialised in dialectology and/or other related areas too, do come and say hi! I would be thrilled to meet someone who works in the same field as me :)
Email:
h.w.m.sung[at]hum.leidenuniv[dot]nl
Sessions
May 27
11:30
30 min
Innovation or Retention? On the [ɵ] > [ɐ] sound change in Yue dialects
Dialect variation offers us huge insights in the history of a language. Through looking at the geographical distribution of dialect variants and comparing inter-dialect group variation, we have...
May 26
11:30
60 min
Creating Dialect Maps (with QGIS)
In this workshop, we will go through: What are… & how do I make…: - Symbol maps - Frequency maps - Isogloss maps - Area maps (we won’t go through this with QGIS due to time)