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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)
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
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. QGIS for Linguists (2026). Hong Kong University. April 2026. Invited Workshop.
Matthew Sung. Dialectometric approaches to diachronic regional language research. Hong Kong University. April 2026. Invited Talk.
Matthew Sung. Introduction to Digital Mapping (2026). Education University Hong Kong. April 2026. Invited Workshop.
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.
Recent workshops:
Recent workshops:
Matthew Sung. From Dialectology to Dialectometry (2025). September 2025.
Recent talks:
Recent talks:
Matthew Sung & Jelena Prokić. "Automatic Feature Extraction for Dutch Dialects". Digital Challenges for Small Languages. October 2025.
Matthew Sung. "Computational approaches to diachronic language micro-variation". Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars. September 2025.
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