Chen, Alvin Cheng-Hsien

Alvin Cheng-Hsien Chen is Associate Professor at the Department of English, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan. He received his Ph.D. in Linguistics in 2012, from National Taiwan University. His research interests revolve around quantitative corpus-linguistic analyses on the inter-relationship between language, interaction and cognition. In particular, his research is mainly concerned with the use of corpora for quantitative studies of issues in theoretical linguistics as well as language learning. His recent interests include: (1) an interdisciplinary study on language and ideology, (2) tonal preplanning in spontaneous speech production, (3) space particles and conceptual metaphors, and (4) phraseology.

He has been offering graduate-level courses on applied linguistics on a regular basis, including Introduction to Programming Languages for Linguistic Analysis (ENC2055), Corpus Linguistics (ENC2036), Computational Linguistics (ENC2045), and Topics on Quantitative Corpus Linguistics (ENC2056).

Educational Background

PhD in Linguistics, National Taiwan University

國立臺灣大學語言學博士

Dissertation Title

Prosodic Phrasing in Mandarin Spontaneous Speech: A Computational-Acoustic Perspective

Research Expertise

Cognitive Linguistics (認知語言學)

Corpus Linguistics (語料庫語言學)

Computational Linguistics (計算語言學)

Semantics (語意學)

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