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Matthew Sung
Matthew Sung
PhD Candidate at Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) & Leiden University Centre for Digital Humanities (LUCDH)
Email:
h.w.m.sung[at]hum.leidenuniv[dot]nlEmail:
Research interests:
Research interests:
General Dialectology;
Dialectometry;
Computational Dialectology;
Segmental and Tonal Variation;
Linguistic Mapping (QGIS);
Dialect Classification;
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:
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
LUCL: https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/humanities/leiden-university-centre-for-linguistics
NEWS
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Latest publications:
Latest publications:
Sung, Matthew. (2025). "On Transitional Dialects and Dialect Typicality". Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands Journal, Vol. 14. [Link]
Sung, Matthew, Prokić, Jelena & Chen, Yiya. (2025). "Applying the state–of–the–art tonal distance metrics to a large dialectal dataset". In S. Wagner, & U. Stange-Hundsdörfer (Eds.), (Dia)lects in the 21st century: Selected papers from Methods in Dialectology XVII (Mainz, 2022) (Language Variation). Language Science Press.
Upcoming talks and workshops:
Upcoming talks and workshops:
Matthew Sung & Jelena Prokić. "Automatic Feature Extraction for Dutch Dialects". Digital Challenges for Small Languages. October 2025.
Matthew Sung. From Dialectology to Dialectometry (2025). September 2025.
Recent workshops:
Recent workshops:
Matthew Sung. Digital Mapping for Linguists with QGIS. University of Edinburgh. October 2024. (Invited Workshop)
Recent talks:
Recent talks:
Matthew Sung. "Computational approaches to diachronic language micro-variation". Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars. September 2025.
Matthew Sung. "Beyond Classifications and Segments: Recent developments in understanding the dialectal variation of tonal languages". Leiden University Centre for Digital Humanities Lunchtime Lectures. September 2025.
Jelena Prokić & Matthew Sung. "A Multi-Modal Approach to Analyzing Facebook Posts Using NLP and Image Processing". 35th Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands (CLIN). September 2025.
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