Presentations

Oral Presentations

Matthew Sung. "Outliers or Wrong Predictions? Dialect Typicality and Transitional Dialects". 34th Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands (CLIN). August 2024.

Matthew Sung & Jelena Prokić. "Identification of Dialect Typicality and Kernels". 12th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE|12). July 2024.

Matthew Sung, Jelena Prokić & Yiya Chen. "A Dialect Tonometrical Approach to the Tonal Variation of Yue". Workshop on Cantonese (WOC) 24. July 2024. (submitted)

Matthew Sung. "From Feature Extraction to Measuring Dialect Typicality". MODIFED: Morphosyntactic Dialect Feature Detection Workshop. June 2024.

Matthew Sung & Jelena Prokić. "Recent Developments in Quantitative Approaches to Linguistic Micro-Variation". Seminars of the Linguistic Convergence Laboratory. April 2024. (Invited talk)

Matthew Sung, Jelena Prokić & Yiya Chen. "A New Dataset for Tonal and Segmental Dialectometry from the Yue- and Pinghua-Speaking Area". 6th Workshop on Research in Computational Linguistic Typology and Multilingual NLP (SIGTYP). March 2024.

Matthew Sung & Jelena Prokić. "What are Guangfu dialects?". The 27th International Conference on Yue Dialects. December 2023.

Matthew Sung & Jelena Prokić. "Feature Extraction Methods in Dialect Identification". Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands (CLIN) 33. September 2023.

Matthew Sung. "Computational Dialectology". Nacht van Ontdekkingen: Digitale Verhalen: Ontdekkingen in de Geesteswetenschappen. September 2023. [Link]

Matthew Sung & Jelena Prokić. "A comparison of three feature extraction methods". Xth Congress of the International Society for Dialectology and Geolinguistics (SIDG). September 2023.

Jelena Prokić & Matthew Sung. "Dialect Feature Extraction". Re-examination dialect syntax (REEDS) workshop 2023. June 2023.

Matthew Sung. "Is a typologically, genetically different language like European languages?". 73rd Studentische Tagung Sprachwissenschaft (StuTS). May 2023.

Matthew Sung, Priscilla Lam, Yuanhao Yin & Darius Adjong. “Some Phonological Aspects of a Central Algerian Arabic Dialect”. International School in Linguistic Fieldwork 2022. September 2022. [slides]

Matthew Sung, Jelena Prokić & Yiya Chen. “Applying the state–of–the–art tonal distance metrics to large dialectal data”. Methods in Dialectology XVII. August 2022.

Matthew Sung & Man Shan Hui. “存古抑或創新？論粵語方言[ɵ] > [ɐ]的音變 [Retention or Innovation? On the [ɵ] > [ɐ] sound change in Yue dialects]”. Forum on Cantonese Linguistics (FoCaL) 5. June 2022.

Matthew Sung & Man Shan Hui. “Retention or Innovation? On the [ɵ] > [ɐ] sound change in Yue dialects”. 71st Studentische Tagung Sprachwissenschaft (StuTS). May 2022.

Matthew Sung. “The Diatopic variation of the reflexes of Middle Chinese *ɣu- in Guangdong Yue dialects”. 68th Studentische Tagung Sprachwissenschaft (StuTS). November 2020.

Matthew Sung & Chaakming Lau. “大笨象究竟「打完仗」定「打唔贏」？ [Did the elephant ‘win the war’ or ‘lose the war’?”]. Forum on Cantonese Linguistics (FoCaL) 3. June 2020.

Matthew Sung. “San Diu – is it a variety of Cantonese or is it something else?”. 66th Studentische Tagung Sprachwissenschaft (StuTS). November 2019.

Matthew Sung. “Being a dialect detective – how much can the numbers 1 to 10 tell us about where someone is from?”. 66th Studentische Tagung Sprachwissenschaft (StuTS). November 2019.

Matthew Sung. “Is it Cantonese or Hakka? A Historical Phonological Analysis of the Sinitic Words in San Diu”. University of Edinburgh (Undergraduate) Dissertation Conference. April 2019.

Matthew Sung. “Is San Diu a Cantonese variety, or is it something else?”. 9th Undergraduate Linguistic Association of Britain (ULAB) Conference. April 2019.

Matthew Sung. “The lack of distinction between Middle Chinese *dz and *z initials in Modern Gan and Hakka dialects”. 8th Undergraduate Linguistic Association of Britain (ULAB) Conference. April 2018.

Poster Presentations

Matthew Sung. “San Diu – is it a variety of Cantonese or is it something else?”. Edinburgh Symposium on Historical Phonology (ESHP) 4. Dec 2019.

Lauren Hall-Lew, Nina Markl, Brandon Papineau & Matthew Sung. “Regional Variation in Scottish T-glottaling”. UK Language Variation and Change (UKLVC) 12. Sep 2019.

Matthew Sung. “Being a dialect detective – how much can the numbers 1 to 10 tell us about where someone is from?”. 8th Undergraduate Linguistic Association of Britain (ULAB) Conference. Apr 2018.

Publications

Journal articles

Sung, Matthew & Prokić, Jelena (in progress). "Exploring Tonal Variation Using Dialect Tonometry". Languages. Special issue: Dialectal Dynamics.

Sung, Matthew & Prokić, Jelena (2024). "Detecting Dialect Features Using Normalised Pointwise Information". Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands Journal. [Link]

Sung, Matthew. (under revision). "T-glottaling in Scotland: How much can we trace its origin?". Journal of the Undergraduate Linguistics Association of Britain.

Book Chapter

Sung, Matthew & Prokić, Jelena (under review). "Relative Chronology of Dialectal Phonetic Features". In Wandl, F., Olander, T. & List, J.-M. (eds.) Relative chronology in historical linguistics. Language Science Press.

Conference proceedings

Sung, Matthew, Prokić, Jelena & Chen, Yiya. (forthcoming). "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.

Sung, Matthew, Prokić, Jelena & Chen, Yiya (2024). "A New Dataset for Tonal and Segmental Dialectometry from the Yue- and Pinghua-Speaking Area". In Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Research in Computational Linguistic Typology and Multilingual NLP Workshop. [Link]

Sung, Matthew. (2019). “Is San Diu a Cantonese variety or is it something else? A historical phonological analysis of the Sinitic words in San Diu”. In Proceedings of ULAB IX. Presented at the Undergraduate Linguistics Association of Britain (ULAB), Queen Mary University of London. http://doi.org/10.5282/ulab2019.365 [Link]