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Professor, Graduate Institute of Linguistics (2025-Present)
Director, Phonetics and Psycholinguistics Laboratory (2000-Present)
Jointly Appointed Research Fellow, Research Center for Mind, Brain and Learning (2007-Present)
Jointly Appointed Professor, Program in Teaching Chinese as a Second Language (2019-Present)

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National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan

Professor, Graduate Institute of Linguistics, College of Foreign Languages | 2025-Present
Distinguished Professor, Graduate Institute of Linguistics | 2022-2025
Director, Phonetics and Psycholinguistics Laboratory | 2000-Present
Jointly Appointed Research Fellow, Research Center for Mind, Brain and Learning | 2007-Present
Jointly Appointed Professor, Program in Teaching Chinese as a Second Language | 2019-Present
Professor, Graduate Institute of Linguistics, College of Foreign Languages | 2016-2021
Distinguished Professor, Graduate Institute of Linguistics, College of Foreign Languages | 2012-2015
Professor, Graduate Institute of Linguistics, College of Foreign Languages | 2007-2012
Associate Professor, Graduate Institute of Linguistics, College of Foreign Languages | 2003-2007
Chair, Graduate Institute of Linguistics, College of Foreign Languages | 2003-2006
Director, Mandarin Studies Program, Language Center | 2001-2002
Assistant Professor, Graduate Institute of Linguistics, College of Foreign Languages | 2000-2002

National University of Singapore

Visiting Scholar, Department of Psychology (Host Professor: Dr. Cynthia Siew) | 2024

Michigan State University

Visiting Scholar, Department of Languages and Linguistics (Host Professor: Dr. Yen-Hwei Lin) | 2014

Harvard University

Visiting Scholar, Department of Linguistics (Host Professor: Dr. James Huang) | 2006-2007

National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan

National Dong-Hwa University, Hualian, Taiwan

SUNY-Buffalo, New York, U.S.A.

Ph.D. in Linguistics (1999)
State University of New York at Buffalo, U.S.A.
Ph.D. Certificate in Cognitive Science (1999)
State University of New York at Buffalo, U.S.A.

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State University of New York at Buffalo, U.S.A.

Ph.D. in Linguistics (1999)

Ph.D. Certificate in Cognitive Science (1999) | State University of New York at Buffalo, U.S.A.

Dissertation: Mandarin Phonology: Evidence from Speech Errors (Mark Diamond Grant)

Thesis Advisor: Dr. Jeri Jaeger (Advisee of Dr. John Ohala at UC Berkeley)

Thesis Committee:

Dr. Karin Michelson (Ph.D., Harvard University)

Dr. Paul Luce (Department of Psychology)

Dr. Bruce Derwing (University of Alberta, Canada)

M.A. in Linguistics (1996)

Thesis: Tone Errors in Mandarin Chinese

Summer Institute of Linguistics, Linguistics Society of America, Cornell University (Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation Scholarship)

Certificate in Linguistics

Phonetics: Professor Peter Ladefoged (UCLA)

Syllable Structures: Professor Nick Clements (Cornell University)

Optimality Theory: Professor Yen-Hwei Lin (Michigan State University)

National Cheng-kung University, Tainan, Taiwan (1994)

B.A. in Foreign Languages and Literature

Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering
State University of New York at Buffalo, U.S.A.