September 1977 – September 1983; Middle school, Holland
September 1983 – September 1984, Highschool, USA
September 1984 – January 1989, Nijmegen University, Holland (English)
Sept. 1987 to July 1988, University College London (Linguistics)
February 1990 – May 1994, Leiden University, PhD Linguistics
March 1989 – December 1989, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, research assistant
May 1994 – September 2009, Lecturer, Leiden University, Department of Linguistics; Department of English
September 2009 – July 2018, Full Professor, Shanghai International Studies University
July 2018 – current, Distinguished Professor, English linguistics
Projects, awards:
Oriental Scholar, 2009-2013, Shanghai
PI, Project reduplication, SISU
Editorships, etc.:
Editor, Cogenta Arts & Humanities
Editorial Board, Linguistics in the Netherlands
Editorial Board, Acta Linguistica Academica (SSCI)
Publications (recent)
2017 Ed.: Encyclopaedia of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics. Beijing: Peking University Press. Pp. 1568. With Mei Deming (editor-in-chief), Liu Jinfeng, Qi Xiaowen, Li Jian’er, Li Jingna, Li Rui, Wu Liying, Tong Helong, Chen Jie, Jiang Zhanhao and Gao Wencheng.
2019 – Nominalization and relativization in Tujia: A cross-linguistic perspective. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 41.1 (accepted). With Lu Man and Liu Zhengguang.
¬– Két reduplikációs folyamat a szaraiki nyelvben [Two reduplication processes in the Saraiki language]. Általános Nyelvészeti Tanulmányok [Studies in General Linguistics] (accepted). With Firdos Atta.
2018 – A perception-based OT approach to opacity in Mandarin Chinese nasal rhymes. In Martha Young-Scholten, William van der Wurff & Gretchen Guo (eds.), Proceedings of the International Symposium on Chinese Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (ISOCTAL-1). Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars (accepted). With Luo Mingqiong and Marjoleine Sloos.
– * Consonant-vowel interaction in Sichuan Chinese: An element-based analysis. Lingua 212, 1-9. With Chen Shunting.
– * Calculating a pattern’s competitive strength: Competition between /æ/ and /ʌ/ in irregular simple pasts and past participles in English. The Mental Lexicon 13.1, 144-158. With Eric Hoekstra, Anne Merkuur and Marjoleine Sloos.
– Degrees of complexity in phonological segments. In Roger Böhm and Harry van der Hulst (eds.), Substance-Based Grammar: The (Ongoing) Work of John Anderson (Studies in Language Companion Series 204), 391-436. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. With Harry van der Hulst.
– Dependency Phonology. In S. J. Hannahs and Anna R. K. Bosch (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Phonological Theory, 325-359. London: Routledge. With Harry van der Hulst.
2017 – * Emergent phonological constraints: The acquisition of *COMPLEX in English. Acta Linguistica Academica 64.1, 153-165.
– The status of *COMPLEX in Greek. In Thanasis Georgakopoulos et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Greek Linguistics, vol. 2, 1259-74. Berlin: Edition Romiosini & Center for Modern Greece. With Marina Tzakosta.
PhD students (recent):
• Zhang Yuan 张苑: Effects of Speech Rate on the Acoustic Correlates of Speech Rhythm: Evidence from British English, Shanghai Wu and Shanghai-Accented English. Shanghai International Studies University. PhD defence date: May 15, 2018. Shanghai International Studies University.
• Ran Yunyun 冉云云: A Comparative Study on the Intonation of English Produced by Beijing and Guangzhou Learners. Shanghai International Studies University. PhD defence date: May 15, 2018. Shanghai International Studies University.
• Wu Minghui 吴明会: The Role of Linguistic Experience in the Speech Perception of Non-Native Sounds: The Perception of English Speech Contrasts by L3 Learners in Chinese Multilingual Contexts. PhD defence date: May 25, 2016. Shanghai International Studies University.
• Luo Mingqiong 骆明琼: Chinese Syllable Structure: An X-bar Approach. PhD defence date: May 26, 2014. Shanghai International Studies University.
• Marjoleine Sloos: Phonological Grammar and Frequency: An Integrated Approach. Evidence from German, Indonesian and Japanese. PhD defence date: February 28, 2013, University of Groningen (Netherlands).
Courses taught
1. Shenzhen University; MA programme (2018-present)
– The Nature and Nurture of Language (Introduction to Linguistics), MA programme 2018-2019
– Introduction to Linguistics, BA programme 2018-2019
2. Shanghai International Studies University; MA and PhD programme, 2009-2018)
– Introduction to Phonology
– Phonetics
– Morphology
– Psycholinguistics
– Advanced Phonology
– Optimality Theory and Beyond
