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Dr. Matthew Sung
Dr. Matthew Sung
Postdoctoral Researcher at Leiden University Institute for History & Leiden University Centre for Digital Humanities (LUCDH)
Research interests:
Research interests:
General Dialectology;
Computational Dialectology;
Linguistic Mapping (QGIS);
Historical Reconstruction;
Dialect Change;
Yue (粵語) dialectology;
West Germanic dialectology
My University Profile Page:
My University Profile Page:
https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/matthew-sung#tab-1
LinkedIn:
LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ho-wang-matthew-sung-dialectologist-55b18337b/
Research Group/ Department Websites:
Research Group/ Department Websites:
Leiden Human: https://leidenhuman.github.io/
LUCDH: https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/humanities/centre-for-digital-humanities
Nomade Sahel: https://nomadesahel.org/
NEWS
NEWS
I now have a PhD!
In February 2026, I have successfully defended my PhD thesis at Leiden University.
My dissertation is available in Open Access here.
Latest publications:
Latest publications:
Sung, Matthew. (2026). Advancing Exploratory and Tonal Dialectometry. LOT Dissertation Series 709. [Link]
Sung, Matthew. (2025b). "Automatic Dialect Classification of the Southern Dutch Dialects". Nota Bene. [Link]
Sung, Matthew. (2025a). "On Transitional Dialects and Dialect Typicality". Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands Journal, Vol. 14. [Link]
Upcoming talks and workshops:
Upcoming talks and workshops:
Matthew Sung. Characteristics and shared innovations of Western Yue dialects. 32nd Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-32). Young Scholar Award Finalist. (June 2026)
Matthew Sung & Veronique De Tier. "Challenges in finding characteristic dialect features from dialect dictionaries". The 13th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE | 13). (June 2026)
Jelena Prokic, Matthew Sung, Luca Bruls, Bruno Allahissem & Mirjam de Bruijn. "Belonging Beyond Borders: Language, Identity, and Mobility in Fulani Social Media Spaces". The 13th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE | 13). (June 2026)
Recent workshops:
Recent workshops:
Matthew Sung. QGIS for Linguists (2026). Hong Kong University. April 2026. Invited Workshop.
Matthew Sung. Introduction to Digital Mapping (2026). Education University Hong Kong. April 2026. Invited Workshop.
Recent talks:
Recent talks:
Matthew Sung. Dialectometric approaches to diachronic regional language research. Hong Kong University. April 2026. Invited Talk.
Matthew Sung. The Application of Multiple Sequence Alignment in Dialectology. Education University Hong Kong. March 2026. Invited Talk.
Matthew Sung. 150 years of dialect geography - from manual analysis to computational approaches. Hong Kong Polytechnic University (CPCE). March 2026. Invited Talk.
Matthew Sung. 結合漢語方言學和當代方言地理學 － 以粵語為例. Chinese University Hong Kong. March 2026.
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