Publications

Journal articles

Sung, Ho Wang Matthew (in Progress). “Automatic Detection of Dialect Changes in Yue Dialects”. Bulletin of Chinese Linguistics.

Sung, Ho Wang Matthew (in Progress). “A Computational Real- and Apparent-time study of Yue Dialect Change”. 粵語研究 [Research in Yue].

Sung, Ho Wang Matthew & Prokić, Jelena (under review). "Recent Developments in using Multiple Sequence Alignment in Dialectometry". Dialectologia.

Sung, Ho Wang Matthew. (2025b). "Automatic Dialect Classification of the Southern Dutch Dialects". Nota Bene. [Link]

Sung, Ho Wang Matthew. (2025a). "On Transitional Dialects and Dialect Typicality". Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands Journal, Vol. 14. [Link]

Sung, Ho Wang Matthew & Prokić, Jelena (2024b). "Exploring Tonal Variation Using Dialect Tonometry". Languages. Special issue: Dialectal Dynamics.[Link]

Sung, Ho Wang Matthew & Prokić, Jelena (2024a). "Detecting Dialect Features Using Normalised Pointwise Information". Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands Journal, Vol. 13. [Link]

Book Chapter

Sung, Ho Wang Matthew. (forthcoming). "How can computational methods benefit the study of Yue dialects?". In Lau, Cindy Wan Yee, CHENG, Siu-kei & LAI Yik-po (eds.) Cantonese and Digital Humanities.

Sung, Ho Wang Matthew & Prokić, Jelena (accepted). "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, Ho Wang 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.

Sung, Ho Wang 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, Ho Wang 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]

Unpublished manuscript

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