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Yen-ling CHEN

Yen-ling CHEN

Assistant Research Fellow
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Expertise
Historical Linguistics, Kra-Dai, Language Contact, Tone, Minority Languages
Education
Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Address
128 Academia Road, Section 2, Nankang, Taipei 11529, Taiwan
Telephone
02-2652-5048 (by appointment only)
E-mail
yenc@gate.sinica.edu.tw
be.savina@gmail.com
I am a historical linguist. My research focuses primarily on languages of East and Southeast Asia, especially Kra-Dai languages. I wrote my dissertation on Ong-Be, a Kra-Dai branch on the northwestern Hainan island of China. I have also researched and published on language contact.
  • 2021~ Assistant Researcher, Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan.
  • 2013, 2015. Volunteer. The International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation (ICLDC-3&4), Honolulu, U.S.A.
  • Chen, Yen-ling* & Shao-ren Lyu. 2024. A phonology of Yongxing: An Ong-Be variety of northwestern Hainan. In Shu-Chuan Tseng & Elizabeth Zeitoun (ed.), Linguistic diversity, but unity in research: Celebrating the Twentieth Anniversary of the Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, 447-478. Taipei: Academia Sinica.
  • Chen, Yen-ling. Accepted. Thai People and Language in Taiwan. In Hsiao, Hsin-Huang Michael & Elizabeth Zeitoun (ed.), Brill’s Encyclopedia of Taiwan Studies, . Brill.
  • Chen, Yen-ling. 2018. East Asia. In Lyle Campbell & Anna Belew (ed.), Cataloguing the Endangered Languages of the World, 130-137. London & New York: Routledge.
  • Chen, Yen-ling & Lyle Campbell. 2018. Naming conventions and challenges. In Lyle Campbell & Anna Belew (ed.), Cataloguing the Endangered Languages of the World, 15-22. London & New York: Routledge.
  • Chen, Yen-ling. 2018. South Asia. In Lyle Campbell & Anna Belew (ed.), Cataloguing the Endangered Languages of the World, 211-224. London & New York: Routledge.
  • Chen, Yen-ling. 2018. Southeast Asia. In Lyle Campbell & Anna Belew (ed.), Cataloguing the Endangered Languages of the World, 224-243. London & New York: Routledge.
  • Chen, Yen-ling. Accepted. Thai People and Language in Taiwan. In Hsiao, Hsin-Huang Michael & Elizabeth Zeitoun (eds.), Brill’s Encyclopedia of Taiwan Studies. Brill.
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