People

Name
Chenzi Xu

Title
Assistant Professor

Research Interests
Phonetics, Tone, Psychoacoustics, Neurolinguistics, Automatic Speech/Speaker Recognition

Email
chenzi dot xu at ntu dot edu dot sg

PhD student

Name
Li-yang (Leon) Tseng

 Research Interests
Morphosyntax, Typology, Language documentation, Austronesian linguistics, Formosan languages (Kavalan, Basay)

Email
Liyang003 at e dot ntu dot edu dot sg

Name
Tan Ying Ying​ (陈 颖芸)

Title
Head, Linguistics and Multilingual Studies

Associate Professor

Research Interests
Sociophonetics, Acoustic phonetics (prosody in particular), Language Planning & Policy, Contact phonology (especially tone)

Email
yytan at ntu dot edu dot sg

Name
Byung-Doh Oh

Title
Assistant Professor

Research Interests
Computational Linguistics; Psycholinguistics; Cognitive Modeling; Natural Language Processing; Large Language Models; Neural Network Interpretability

Email
byungdoh.oh at ntu dot edu dot sg

Name
Lai Yunfan

Title
Nanyang Assistant Professor

Research Interests
Sino-Tibetan Linguistics, Gyalrongic Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Phylogeny, Morphology, Language Documentation

Email
zoexi.chen at ntu dot edu dot sg

Name
Li Haoze

Title
Assistant Professor

Research Interests
Semantics, Pragmatics, Semantics-syntax interface, Pragmatics-syntax interface

Email
haozeli.li at gmail dot com

Name
Li Nguyen

Title
Assistant Professor

Research Interests
Heritage language, Language contact, Language variation and change, Evaluating and developing sociolinguistically informed technologies, particularly for code-switching and non-canonical language production

Email
li.nguyen at ntu dot edu dot sg

Name
Luke Lu​

Title
Assistant Professor

Assistant Chair (Academic)

Research Interests
Interactional sociolinguistics, Ethnography and issues pertaining to transnational migration, ethnicity, language planning and policy, and education

Email
lujiqun at ntu dot edu dot sg

Name
Rachel S. Y. Chen

Title
Assistant Professor

Research Interests
Music & rhythm, Neurodiversity & Disability, Alternative and Augmentative Communication, Learning & Cognition, Gesture Studies, Sensory experiences, Ethnomethodology and Conversation analysis, Design-based research, Inclusive Design

Email
rachelchen at ntu dot edu dot sg

Name
Tamisha Lauren Tan

Title
Assistant Professor

Research Interests
Morphology and Syntax (voice, valency alternations and applicativisation, agreement, case), Historical Linguistics (grammaticalisation, morphologisation, reanalysis), Austronesian Languages (Timoric, Sumba-Flores, Malayic, Balinese)

Email
tamishaltan at ntu dot edu dot sg

Name
Zoe Xi Chen

Title
Assistant Professor

Research Interests
Pragmatics (sociopragmatics; metapragmatics; second language pragmatics), Indexical meanings (form-context-meaning connections), Computational methods in pragmatic and sociolinguistic analysis, AI language analysis, Toxic language analysis

Email
zoexi.chen at ntu dot edu dot sg