Xuan Wang

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Research projects

• Jun - Dec, 2016   Co-Investigator  NZILBB LVC Collaborative Paper Challenge project "The Articulation of /r/ in New Zealand English", Collaborators: Matthias Heyne; Kieran Dorreen; Dr. Donald Derrick; Dr. Kevin Watson

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• Jun - Dec, 2016  Co-Investigator  NZILBB LVC Collaborative Paper Challenge project "Perception of accentedness in Asian and Caucasian speakers by Asian listeners", Collaborators: Dr. Keyi Sun; Dr. Ksenia Gnevsheva; Dr. Kevin Watson

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• Mar - Dec, 2015   Research Assistant  Marsden fund project "Recency Effects in Spoken New Zealand English" led by Dr. Lynn Clark, NZILBB, University of Canterbury    

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Teaching

• Jul - Nov, 2015   Teaching Assistant/Tutor  LING 102 “From Babies to Adults: How Experience Shapes Your Language”, University of Canterbury

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• Jul - Sep, 2015  College of Arts Tutor Training Course, University of Canterbury certificate 

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Awards and Scholarships

• Jul 30, 2015  First Prize Winner  College of Arts "Thesis in Three" competition, University of Canterbury ($1000 research grant)

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• 2014 - 2016  Postgraduate Research Grant,  School of Language, Social and Political Sciences, University of Canterbury ($1500 research grant for each year) 

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• 2013 - 2016  China Scholarship Council Scholarship 

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Other activities

• Jun, 2017 - Now  Organisor  Language attitude reading/research group, Linguistics Department, University of Canterbury

 

• Aug 22, 2016   Judge   College of Arts "Thesis in Three" competition, University of Canterbury 

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• Feb 2015 - Now  Vice President  UCLing student society, University of Canterbury  UCLing facebook page

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Talks and presentations

• Aug, 2017  "The interplay between explicit awareness and individual speakers’ attitude in dialect contact", conference presentation, Methods in Dialectology XVI, Tachikawa, Japan.

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• Jun, 2017  "Workshop on running Principle Component Analysis in R", language attitude reading/research group, Linguistics Department, University of Canterbury.

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• Dec, 2016  "Quantitative investigation of two linguistic features in Hohhot, China: exploring attitudes-language correlation", conference presentation, ALS 2016, Melbourne, Australia.

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• Dec, 2016  "Seeing a foreign accent: Perception of accentedness in Asian and Caucasian speakers by Asian listeners”, conference presentation, ALS 2016, Melbourne, Australia. (With Dr. Keyi Sun, Dr. Ksenia Gnevsheva, Dr. Kevin Watson)

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• Nov, 2016  "Exploring attitude effects in speech production: is explicit awareness a threshold?", conference presentation, Linguistics Society of New Zealand conference (LSNZ 2016), Wellington, New Zealand.

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• Nov, 2016   "Seeing a foreign accent, accentedness perception in Asian and Caucasian Non-Native English Speakers", conference presentation, Linguistics Society of New Zealand conference (LSNZ 2016), Wellington, New Zealand. (With Dr. Keyi Sun, Dr. Ksenia Gnevsheva, Dr. Kevin Watson)

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• Nov, 2016  "An ultrasound study of /ɹ / in New Zealand English", conference presentation, Linguistics Society of New Zealand conference (LSNZ 2016), Wellington, New Zealand. (With Dr. Matthias Heyne, Kieran Dorreen, Dr. Donald Derrick, Dr. Kevin Watson)

 

• Sep 23, 2016  "How attitudes affect language", UCLing student society series talk - Postgraduate student research talk, University of Canterbury.

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• Sep 6, 2016  Linguistics Department Socio Meeting, Universtiy of Canterbury.

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• April 8, 2016    "Five Fun Facts about Mandarin Chinese", UCLing student society research talk, University of Canterbury.

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• April 22, 2016   "Speaker attitudes in koineisation in Hohhot, China: exploring individual and group patterns", conference presentation, NWAV AP4, Chiayi, Taiwan. (With Dr. Kevin Watson)

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• Mar 7, 2016    "Discussion of statistical results: individual and group patterns", Linguistics Department Socio Meeting, Universtiy of Canterbury. (With Dr. Kevin Watson)

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• Dec 13, 2015   "Are speakers' attitudes and identity important in koineisation? A sociophonetic account of l-words stress pattern in Hohhot, China", conference presentation, LSNZ 2015, Dunedin, New Zealand.

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• Dec 11, 2015  "When migrants meet the locals: investigating the role of speakers' identities and attitudes in koineisation in Hohhot, China", conference presentation, ALS 2015 & AVC-A2, Sydney, Australia.

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• Dec 1, 2015    "The role of speakers' identity and attitudes in new dialect formation in an immigrant city: Hohhot, China", conference presentation, NZAsian 2015, Christchurch, New Zealand.

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• Oct 24, 2015   "The role of speakers’ identities and attitudes in koineisation in Hohhot, China", conference talk, NWAV 44, Toronto, Canada.

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• Sep 22, 2015   "How to measure speaker’s attitudes: Using quantitative methods to measure speakers’ psycho-social orientations", College of Arts Postgraduate Brown Bag presentation, University of Canterbury.

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• Jun, 2015   "Statistical results of l-words stress pattern variation", Linguistics Department Socio Meeting, University of Canterbury.

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• Dec, 2014  "Preliminary fieldwork findings about identity and language attitudes in Hohhot", LSAPS Postgraduate Brown Bag presentation, University of Canterbury.

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• Nov 26, 2014  "'If you speak Jin dialect, don't contact me’: an analysis of qualitative and quantitative data about identity and language attitudes in Hohhot, China", conference presentation, NZ Language and Society Conference 2014, Hamilton, New Zealand.

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• Sep 1, 2014  "A qualitative analysis of online data about identity and language attitudes in Hohhot", conference presentation, The 12th Urban Language Seminar, Hohhot, China.  

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• May, 2014   "A sociophonetic account of l-words in Chinese Jin dialect", Linguistics Department Socio Meeting, Universtiy of Canterbury

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• May, 2014  "Preliminary ideas of a sociolinguistic study", LSAPS Postgraduate Brown Bag presentation, University of Canterbury.

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