Publications

Journal articles

Sung, Matthew & Prokić, Jelena (in progress). "Recent Developments in using Multiple Sequence Alignment in Dialectometry". Dialectologia.

Sung, Matthew. (forthcoming b). "Automatic Dialect Classification of the Southern Dutch Dialects". Nota Bene.

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

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

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