Centre for East Asian Studies
 

Prof. Wang Shi Yuan, William

General Information
Title Research Professor
Telephone (852) 2609 8456
Fax (852) 2603 5558
E-mail wsywang@ee.cuhk.edu.hk
Address Department of Electronic Engineering
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shatin , NT, Hong Kong

Education
1960 Ph.D.in Linguistics, the University of Michigan

Research Interest
Evolution Theory and the Biological Bases of Language
Languages and Peoples of China
Language Engineering

Teaching and Research Experience
Since 2004 Research Professor, Department of Electronic Engineering, Center for East Asian Studies, and Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
2006 Resident Fellowship from the International Institute for Advanced Studies, Kyoto.
1994 Director of the Chao Yuen Ren Center for Chinese Linguistics and Professor of Graduate School, Berkeley.
1992 Elected to the Academia Sinica (Taiwan).
1992 Inaugural President of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics.
1991 Resident Fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation Center for Advanced Studies, Bellagio, Italy.
1983 Resident Fellowship from the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California.
1978 Fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation, New York and concurrent Fulbright Travel Grant to Osmania University, India.
1973 Founded the Journal of Chinese Linguistics.
1971 Senior Fulbright Fellow and National Professor, Sweden.
1969

Resident Fellowship from the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California.

1966 Professor of Linguistics,The University of California, Berkeley.

Selected Works
2009 Wang, Feng, Yaching Tsai & W.S-Y. Wang. 2009. Chinese literacy. Cambridge Handbook on Literacy, ed. by D. Olson & N. Torrance, 386-417: Cambridge University Press.
2008 Wang, W.S-Y. 2008. 宏觀語音學. 中國語音學報 1.1-9.
2007 Wang, W.S-Y. 2007. The language mosaic and its biological bases. Journal of Bio-Education 2.8-16.
2006 王士元, 2006. 演化語言學中的電腦建模 [Computational modeling in evolutionary linguistics.] 北京: 北京大學學報 (哲學社會科學版) 43.17-22.
2006 王士元 & 彭剛. 2006. 語言, 語音與技術. 上海教育出版社. 261 pages.
2006 王士元. 2006. 語言是一個複雜適應系統 [Language is a complex adaptive system.]. 清華大學學報 (哲學社會學版) 21.5-13.
2005 Wang, William S-Y. & J.W. Minett 2005 The Invasion of Language: Emergence, Change, and Death. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 20.5.263-269.
2005 Wang, William S-Y & J.W. Minett 2005 Vertical and Horizontal Transmission in Language Evolution. Transactions of the Philological Society 103.2 .121-146.
2001 Wang, William S-Y. 2001. Human diversity and language diversity. Genetic, Linguistic and Archaeological Perspectives on Human Diversity in Southeast Asia. 17-33. Singapore: World Scientific.
1999 Wang, W.S-Y. 1999. Languages and peoples of China. Symposium Series of the Institute of Linguistic, Academia Sinica. 1-26.
1998 Wang, S-Y.William. 1998. Three windows on the past. The Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Peoples of Eastern Central Asia ed. by V.H. Mair, 508-34: University of Pennsylvania Museum Publications.
1993 Wang, W.S-Y. & C.F. Lien. 1993. Bidirectional diffusion in sound change. Historical Linguistics: Problems and Perspectives, ed. by C. Jones, 345-400.
1991 Wang, W.S-Y. (ed.) 1991a. Languages and Dialects of China. Journal of Chinese Linguistics Monograph No.4.
1986 Cavalli-Sforza, L.L. & W.S-Y. Wang. 1986. Spatial distance and lexical replacement. Language 62.38-55.
1982 Wang, W.S-Y. (ed.) 1982a. Human Communication: Language and Its Psychobiological Bases.: W. H. Freeman and Company.
1979 Wang, W.S-Y. 1979. Language change: a lexical perspective. Annual Review of Anthropology 8.353-71.
1977 Tzeng, O.J.L., D.L. Hung & W.S-Y. Wang. 1977. Speech recoding in reading Chinese characters. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory 3.621-30.
1976 Wang, W.S-Y. 1976. Language change. Annals of the N.Y. Academy of Science 280.61-72.
1973 Wang, W.S-Y. 1973. The Chinese language. Scientific American 228.53-62.
1969 Wang, W.S-Y. 1969. Competing changes as a cause of residue. Language 45.9-25.
1967 Wang, W.S-Y. 1967. Phonological features of tone. International Journal of American Linguistics 33.93-105.
   
 
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