Yiya Chen#
| Membership Number: | 6234 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/yiya-chen#tab-1 |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-0009-5882 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2020 - 2003 Full Professor of Phonetics, Leiden University Center for Linguistics, Leiden University, The Netherlands
- 2015 - 2002 Associate Professor; Leiden University Center for Linguistics, Leiden University, The Netherlands
- 2008 - 2009 Assistant Professor; Leiden University Center for Linguistics, Leiden University, The Netherlands
- 2007 - 2011 Research Fellow, supported by the European Research Council (ERC) & Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), Leiden University
- 2004 - 2011 2007 - 2010 Research Fellow, supported by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), Radboud University Nijmegen
- 2003 - 2002 2004 - 2010 Research Fellow, Linguistics Department, University of Edinburgh
- 2001 - 2008 2001 - 2012 Visiting Instructor in Phonology, Linguistics Department, New York University
- 2001, 01 - 2001, 06 Visiting Assistant Professor in Phonetics, Linguistics Department, Cornell University
Fields of Scholarship
- Dialectology
- Laboratory phonology
- Documentary linguistics
- Experimental phonetics
- Sino-Tibetan languages
- Bilingualism
- Prosodic typology (between Sinitic and West African languages)
- Psycholinguistics
- Descriptive linguistics
Honours and Awards
- 2020 Awarded NWO VICI grant
- 2008 Awarded ERC Starting grant
- 2008 Awarded NWO VIDI grant
- 2004 Awarded NWO VENI grant
