Yibing Shi
Newnham College
- PhD student
Contact
About
Supervisor: Professor Brechtje Post and Professor Francis Nolan
Research Topic: Tone sandhi and focus in Chinese Wu dialects
Yibing is currently a second-year PhD student in the Phonetics Lab. Her research interests are primarily in tones and tone sandhi processes, particularly those in Chinese languages.
Research
Yibing’s PhD project focuses on the tone sandhi processes in Chinese Wu dialects, with an aim to not only capture the systematic rules/constraints in sandhi processes, but also to explore their correlations with morphosyntactic structures, as well as contrastive focus.
Teaching and supervision
Li6 Phonetics supervisor
Other activities and roles
Tone and Intonation reading group organizer