Publications

Journals (in English)

1. Liao, Hanbo & Ryan Gehrmann. 2025. Kra-Dai Tonogenesis in Austro-Tai Perspective. Diachronica. https://doi.org/10.1075/dia.24028.lia (SSCI; A&HCI)

2. Mai, Ziyin, Patrick C.M. Wong; Stephen Matthews; Virginia Yip; Hanbo Liao; Jiaqi Nie; & Yue Chen. 2025. Zhuang-Mandarin bilingual children in rural China and the role of grandparental input in early bilingualism. PLOS ONE, 20(6), e0326671. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0326671

3. Liao, Hanbo. 2023. An Integrated Tone Box Scheme for Determining Tones in Tai Varieties beyond Southwestern Tai: Diachronic and Synchronic Concerns. Folia Linguistica, 57 (s44-s1), 199-244. https://doi.org/10.1515/flin-2022-2048 (SSCI; A&HCI)

4. Liao, Hanbo. 2023. Tonal behavior as of areal and typological concerns: Centering on the Sinitic and Kam-Tai languages in Lingnan. Languages 8(2), 148. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages8020148  

5. Liao, Hanbo. 2017. Proto‑Tai reconstruction of ‘maternal grandmother’ revisited: *na:jA, *ta:jA or *ta:jB? Language and Linguistics 18(1). 116-140.  https://doi.org/10.1075/lali.18.1.04lia (SSCI; A&HCI)

6. Liao, Hanbo. 2016. Diachronic Hierarchies of Tai Tonal Development. Payap University Journal 26(2). 75-92.  https://doi.org/10.14456/pyuj.2016.16 

Journals (in Chinese)

1. Liao, Hanbo (廖汉波) & Tai Chung-pui (戴忠沛). 2019a. Guǎngxī Débǎo Xiàn Zhuàngzú duìgē chuántǒng "yínshī" de yīnyùn gélǜ jí gēlù jǔyào: Yǐ "Débǎo géxū shāngē" wéi lì (广西德保县壮族对歌传统“吟诗”的音韵格律及歌路举要——以〈德保歌圩山歌〉为例) [Phonological rules, poetic form and dialogue pattern of the traditional Zhuang antiphonal singing ‘ngyam sley’（吟诗）in Debao, Guangxi: illustration from 'Folksong of Debao Song Fair' (德保歌圩山)]. Mínzú Wénxué Yánjīu (民族文学研究) [Studies of Ethnic Literature (Beijing: Institute of Ethnic Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences] 2019(4). 15-36. (CSSCI) 

2. Liao, Hanbo (廖汉波) & Tai Chung-pui (戴忠沛).  2019b. "Yí huā jiē mù": Zhuàngzú "yínshī" cíyuán yǔ gélǜ yuánlíu kǎo (“移花接木”——壮族“吟诗”词源与格律源流考) [To graft and transplant: the etymology of Zhuang ‘ngyam sley’ and the origin of its poetic form]. Mínzú Yìshù (民族艺术) [National Arts Bimonthly (Nanning: Guangxi Academy of Ethnic Culture and Arts)] 2019(2). 51-61. (CSSCI)

3. Lu, Xiaoqin (陆晓芹) & Liao, Hanbo (廖汉波). 2017. Cóng yìshù, zōngjiào dào lìshǐ: Zhuàngzú "mòlún" yǔ Lǎozú "Mōlán" yìshù bǐjiào yánjīu lùjìng de sīkǎo (从艺术、宗教到历史———壮族“末伦”与佬族“麽蓝”艺术比较研究路径的思考)  [From art, religions to history: a thought of comparative research path between moed laenz of the Zhuang and molam of the Laotian]. Mínzú Yìshù (民族艺术) [National Arts Bimonthly (Nanning: Guangxi Academy of Ethnic Culture and Arts)]  2017(3). 122-128. (CSSCI) 

4. Liao Hanbo (廖汉波). 2010. Lìyòng wǎngjù lìliàng wéihù hé cùjìn Guǎngxī mínzú tuánjié (利用网聚力量维护和促进广西民族团结) [Safeguarding and promoting ethnic unity in Guangxi through internet power].  Guǎngxī Mínzú Yánjīu (广西民族研究) [Study of Ethnics in Guangxi] 2010 (4). 32-33. (CSSCI)

Book Chapters (in English)

1. Pittayaporn, Pittayawat & Hanbo Liao . 2025. Contact-induced changes in Tai languages. In Jeroen Darquennes, Joseph C. Salmons, & Wim Vandenbussche (eds.), Language Contact: An International Handbook, Volume 2, 127-142. Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter Mouton. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110443011-008    

2. Chaisingkananont, Somrak & Liao, Hanbo. 2017. Zhuang. In Ken Taylor and Victoria Williams (eds.), Etiquette and Taboos around the World: A Geographic Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Customs, 331-335. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO/Greenwood Publishing Group.

Book Chapters (in Chinese)

1. Liao, Hanbo (廖汉波). 2022. Táiyǔ lìshǐ bǐjiào de tūpò: Zhāng Gāofēng (Pittayawat Pittayaporn) de "Yuánshǐ Táiyǔ yīnxì" (台语历史比较的突破：张高峰（Pittayawat Pittayaporn）的《原始台语音系》) [A breakthrough in the historical comparison of Tai languages: The Phonology of Proto-Tai by Pittayawat Pittayaporn]. In Chen Baoya (陈保亚), Wang Feng (汪锋) & Li Zihe (李子鹤) (eds.), Lìshǐ yǔyánxué yǔ Hànzàngyǔ fāngfǎlùn (历史语言学与汉藏语方法论) [Historical linguistics and Sino-Tibetan linguistics methodology], 200-232. (Běijīng Dàxué Zhōngwénxì yǔyán yǔ rénlèi fùzá xìtǒng yánjīu píngtái, lǐlùn yǔyánxué yánjīu cóngshū dìyījí (北京大学中文系语言与人类复杂系统研究平台·理论语言学研究丛书第一辑) [Research Platform on language and human complex systems, Department of Chinese, Peking University; Theoretical linguistics research series, collection 1]). Beijing: Peking University Press.

2. Liao, Hanbo (廖汉波). 2010. Táiyǔzhī zhōngbùzǔ Yāngnóngyǔ (Déjìng Tǔyǔ) yīnxì gàikuàng jíqí pīnyīn fāng’àn xiángjiě (台语支中部组佒侬语（德靖土语）音系概况及其拼音方案详解) [An overview of the sound system of the Central Taic language Yang-Nong (Dejing vernacular) and description of a phonetic spelling system]. In Li Fuqiang (李富强) and Kao Ya-ning (高雅寧) (eds.), “Zhōngguó Zhuàngxué” dìsìjí (《中国壮学》第四辑) [Chinese Zhuang Studies] vol. 4, 70-192. Beijing: Nationalities Publishing House (民族出版社). 

Peer Reviewer (in English)

1. Languages. 2025. 1 manuscript. 

2. Language and Linguistics (L & L). 2025. 1 manuscript. (SSCI, and A&HCI)

3. Language and Linguistics (L & L). 2024. 1 manuscript. (SSCI, and A&HCI)

4. Languages. 2024. 1 manuscript. 

5. Journal of the International Phonetic Association (JIPA). 2024. 1 manuscript. (SSCI, and A&HCI)

6. Asian-European Music Research Journal (AEMR). 2024. 1 manuscript. 

7. Journal of Language and Culture. 2023. 1 manuscript.  

8. A book chapter of the edited volume “(Dia)lects in the 21st century: Selected papers from Methods in Dialectology XVII (Mainz, 2022)”. 2023. 1 publication.

9. Current Research in Chinese Linguistics (CrCL). 2022. 1 publication.

Peer Reviewer (in Chinese)

10.  Mínzú Yìshù (民族艺术) [National Arts Bimonthly (Nanning: Guangxi Academy of Ethnic Culture and Arts)]​。 2019. 1 publication. (CSSCI)

11. Mínzú Wénxué Yánjīu (民族文学研究) [Studies of Ethnic Literature (Beijing: Institute of Ethnic Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)] 2022. 1 publication. (CSSCI)