Assistant Prof. Te-Hsin Liu

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Liu Te-Hsin
Assistant Prof.
Research Interests
Theoretical phonology
Sound change
Tone sandhi in Chinese dialects
Sociolinguistics
Contact Information

E-mail :tehsinliu@ntu.edu.tw
Phone:3366-1549
Fax :3366-1530
Personal website :https://sites.google.com/site/tehsinphono/

  • Education
    PhD in Linguistics, Paris 8 University
  • Courses offered
    Phonology
    Chinese Phonology
    Chinese Syntax
    Chinese Linguistics
    Sociolinguistics
    Second Language Acquisition
  • Professional Experiences
    Assistant Professor, Graduate Program of Teaching Chinese as the Second Language, National Taiwan University (From Feb 2012 )
    Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Chinese language and Literature, National Taiwan Normal University (2010.2-2011.7)
    Visiting Scholar, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley (2009.1-2009.12)
    Lecture, Paris 8 University (2006.2-2008.6)
  • Awards
    French Ministry of higher education and research (2005-2008)
    Post-doctoral Fellowship, Fyssen Foundation, France (2009)
  • Publications

    Books


    Te-hsin Liu (2010) Marque, registre et contour dans les systèmes tonals en chinois - une nouvelle perspective (Markedness, Register and Contour in Chinese Tonal Systems - A New Perspective). ISBN: 978-613-1-50310-8. Éditions Universitaires Européenes, Sarrebruck.

    Journal papers

    Te-hsin Liu (2012) The Phonology of Incomplete Tone Merger in Dalian. Journal of Chinese Linguistics v40.2:362-396..
    Also in UC Berkeley Phonology Lab Annual Report, p.435-461.



    Conference Proceedings

    Te-hsin Liu (2009) Compensatory Lengthening is not Specific to Syllabic Positions, In Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Linguists. John Benjamins.
    Te-hsin Liu (2008) A Fresh Look at the Paradoxical Nature of Chinese Contour Tones, In Blaho, Vicente & Schoorlemmer (eds.). Proceedings of Console XV.

    Conference papers

    Te-hsin Liu, Chun-fang Lin and Kuan-ting Wang (2013) On the Interaction between L1 Transfer and Universal Constraints - Evidence from the Acquisition of Mandarin Tones, paper to be presented at the 25th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-25), June 21-23, University of Michigan, USA.

    Te-hsin Liu (2013) On the Temporal Basis of Tone in Sino-Tibetan - Evidence from Cantonese, Daye and Dzongkha, paper to be presented at the 21st Annual Meeting of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL 21), June 7-9, Taipei, Taiwan.

    Te-hsin Liu (2012) On the Nature of Changed Tones in Cantonese, paper presented at the Forum on "Y. R. Chao and Linguistics", August 28, Hong Kong.
    Te-hsin Liu (2010) Incomplete Tone Merger as Evidence for Lexical Diffusion in Dalian, paper presented at the 18th Annual Meeting of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics, May 20-22, Harvard University, USA.
    Te-hsin Liu & Joaquim Brandão de Carvalho (2009) Tone Sandhi Directionality and Relative Markedness Constraints, paper presented at the Seventeenth Manchester Phonology Meeting, May 28-30, Manchester, England.
    Te-hsin Liu (2008) Compensatory Lengthening is not Specific to Segments, paper presented at the 18th International Congress of Linguists (CIL18), July 21-26 , Seoul, South Korea.
    Te-hsin Liu (2008) Directionality and Least Effort Principle in Tianjin, paper presented at the Vingt-deuxièmes Journées de Linguistique de l'Asie Orientale (22nd Paris meeting on East Asian Linguistics), June 9-10, EHESS, Paris, France.
    Te-hsin Liu (2008) What can a Tonal Template do for Phonetics? paper presented at the Workshop on Templates, May , Paris, France.
    Te-hsin Liu (2007) On the Tonal Asymmetry in the Dialects of the Group Wu: an Input-based View, paper presented at “Problems with surface-based generalizations” workshop. October 8-9, Paris, France.
    Te-hsin Liu (2007) Reduplication as Evidence for the Skeletal Nature of Tones, paper presented at the 5th conference of the European Association of Chinese Linguistics (EACL-5), September 5-7, Leipzig, Germany.
    Te-hsin Liu (2007) A Fresh Look at the Paradoxical Nature of Chinese Contour Tones, paper presented at the Fifteenth Conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe (ConSOLE), January 11-13, Brussuls, Belgium.
    Te-hsin Liu (2006) Aspect and Telicity in Mandarin Chinese, paper presented at the Workshop on Formal Syntax and Semantics 4,September 12-14, Université Paris 8, Paris, France.

    Technical reports

    Te-hsin Liu (2011) Tone Merger in Progress and Consequences in Tone Sandhi. In Annales de la Fondation Fyssen 25 :24-45.
    Te-hsin Liu (2009) The Phonology of Incomplete Tone Merger in Dalian. In UC Berkeley Phonology Lab Annual Report, p. 435-461.
    Te-hsin Liu (2009) Why should Markedness Constraints be Relative? - Four Case Studies in Tone Sandhi Directionality, In UC Berkeley Phonology Lab Annual Report, p. 81-107.

    Miscellaneous

    Te-hsin Liu (2009) The Phonology of Incomplete Tone Merger in Dalian, talk given at Berkeley Phonetics & Phonology Forum, UC Berkeley, October 12.
    Te-hsin Liu (2009) On the Status of Tone in Compensatory Lengthening, talk given at Berkeley Phonetics & Phonology Forum, UC Berkeley, April 13.