He Huang, Fudan University (China)
Dr. Huang is a promising scholar. His research involves the computational analyses of dialect data to understand regional variation and its relationship with time, space, and society. He views linguistic variation as a window into the underlying structure of human language and further as a comprehensive measure of human behavior and culture. His work on dialectology has demonstrated his theoretical and applied skills, which he has acquired by studying and researching at universities in China, Japan, Belgium, and Britain. He has published 2 monographs, 1 academic translated work, 27 articles in high-level journals in linguistics, and 1 book chapter. He also participated as a co-editor of a scholarly anthology in linguistics. He has presided over the National Social Science Fund and the Ministry of Education in China and participated as a project member in 2 major national projects. He has given 31 invited talks at more than ten universities in China, Japan, Belgium, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom, and 11 talks in conferences and workshops. He has received 7 academic awards in linguistics, including the Luo-Changpei Linguistics Award from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the First Prize of Ministerial-Level Academic Awards in China. He has organized 1 conference and 16 talks, served as Associate Editor for an interdisciplinary journal, and acted as a peer reviewer for 9 linguistic journals. He is also a member of 6 academic societies. He also has high expertise in teaching, having taught many different courses on Sociolinguistics, Language variation and change, dialectology and geolinguistics, and Modern Chinese grammar. His research stays abroad demonstrate his strong organizational skills and capacity to cooperate with others in a multicultural background. Currently, he is working on a funded interdisciplinary research project on the interaction between linguistic systems and external factors.
EDUCATION
2013 – 2017 Doctor in Linguistics, Department of Chinese Linguistics and Literature, Peking University. China.
2015 – 2016 jointly trained by Kyoto University in Japan, funded by the China Scholarship Council (CSC) and the Peking-Kyoto University exchange program.
2010 – 2013 M. A. in Linguistics, School of Humanities, Shanghai Normal University. China.
2006 – 2010 B. A. in Japanese Linguistics, Tianjin Foreign Studies University. China.
CURRENT POSITION
2020 – 2024 Associate research fellow, Institute of Modern Languages and Linguistics, Fudan University. China
PREVIOUS POSITIONS
2017 – 2020 Research fellow, College of Liberal Arts, Shanghai University. China
2019 Visiting scholar at Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium, funded by Shanghai University visiting program.
FUNDING
FUNDED RESEARCH PROJECTS UNDER LEADERSHIP
2018 – 2022 The research project “A Geolinguistic Study of Yixing Dialects: Qualitative, quantitative and perceptual analysis”, funded by National Social Science Fund of China. Project No. 22FYYB028. 250000RMB.
2018 – 2022 The research project “A Geolinguistic Study of the Language Variation of Piling Wu Dialects”, funded by General Program of Humanities and Social Sciences, Ministry of Education, China. Project No. 18YJC740027. 80000RMB.
2018 – 2020 The research project “Geolinguistic Research on Northern Wu Dialects”, funded by Shanghai Municipal Philosophy and Social Sciences Committee, China. 50000RMB
2015 – 2017 The research project “Interdisciplinary Research on Dialect Geography”, funded by
CAIZHAI Funding for scientific research, Peking University, China. Project No. CZ201501. 100000RMB
2013 – 2016 The research project “The Sound Changes of Yixing Dialects over Two Centuries”, funded by Cultural and Livelihood Engineering Project of Yixing county, China. 100000RMB
2015 GUANGHUA Scholarship, Peking University, China. 3000RMB
AWARDS
2023 The 16th Shanghai Philosophy and Social Science Outstanding Achievement Award, First Prize. China.
2019 Luo Chang-Pei Linguistics Award, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. China.
2019 Innovative Research Award (Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts) of Shanghai University, China.
2014 Academic Innovation Award, Peking University, China.
2014 Beijing Young Linguist Award, Beijing Linguistic Association, China.
ARTICLES
Huang He, Jack Grieve, Lei Jiao, and Zhuo Cai. 2024. Geographic Structure of Chinese Dialects：A Computational Dialectometric Approach. Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2021-0138
Huang, He 2024 The Influence of Historical Borders on the Geolinguistic Variation: A quantitative method of border effect. Linguistic Research (36)
Huang, He 2024 The Evolution of the Changzhou dialect in 140 years: Proofs from the phonetic transliteration in the late-Qing novel <The Biography of the Heroic Youth>. Linguistic Sicence (4)
Huang, He 2024 The Word Substitution Triggered by Sound Change: The Homonymic Collision of "goose" and "I". Dialect (1)
Huang, He. 2022. Structuredness and Multidirectional Gradient: Computational dialectometric study of Yixing Dialects. Studies of the Chinese Languages（3）, Linguistics Institute of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
Huang, He. 2022. Improving the explanatory power of ABA distribution on phonological phenomena by aggregate data analysis. Collected Papers in Honor of Professor Iwata, Ray's Retirement (Volume II). ISSN 2436-6471, Geolinguistic Society of Japan.
Huang, He 2022 The History and Basic Methods of Geolinguistics. Chinese Linguistics (3)
Huang, He. 2022. The Enlightenment of Structural Dialectology on the Dialect Geography: Lexical Classification Based on the Synchronic Structure of Dialects. Essays on Linguistics (65)
Huang, He 2022 The Hysteresis Effect of External Factors: A case study of the Gravity Model on Chinese dialect. Comtemporary Linguistics (6)
Huang, He 2022 Testing the Stability of Dialectometric Methods. Macao Journal of Linguistics
Huang, He 2022 Is the Geographic Distribution of Words Undertook Irregular Sound Changes Close to Lexis or Phonology? In Tao Huan, Yimin Sheng, and He Huang (eds.) Comparative Dialectology and the Historical Linguistic Studies of Wu Dialects. Shanghai: Zhongxi Press.
Huang, He 2022 Dialect Geographer Willem A. Grootaers and Dialect Geography. Journal of Changshu Institute of Technology. 36(04)
Huang, He. 2021. An etymological note of the interrogative word equivalent to WHAT in the northwestern Wu dialects. Dialectology (2)
Huang, He. 2021. A geolinguistic approach to competing for Literary and Colloquial readings. Papers on Geolinguistic Studies of the Languages in China, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.
Tan, Qiuju and He Huang. 2021. Perceptual Dialectology: A quantitative study of the perceptual space of native speakers. Journal of Changshu Institute of Technology (Philosophy & Social Sciences). No. 3
Huang, He. 2019. A geolinguistic approach to toponymy: A case study on the suffix and variant pronunciations of the toponyms of Yixing, Korean Journal of Chinese Linguistics (81)
Huang, He. 2019. The cognitive map of dialects and perceptual dialectology: A study on the Yixing dialects. Korean Journal of Chinese Language and Literature. Vol.76.
Huang, He & Yimin Sheng. 2019. Semantic hierarchy and syntactic functions of the demonstratives of Zhangzhu dialect in Yixing city, Jiangsu Province. Bulletin of Language Studies. Vol. 24
Huang, He. 2019. Detecting diffusion patterns of linguistic innovations: A dialectometric analysis on The Atlas of Suzhou Dialects. Collected Papers on Eastern Asian Geolinguistics, Studies in Asian Geolinguistics, Monograph Series No. 6
Huang, He. 2018. A review on the Chinese linguistic study of language contact. EASTLING（17）
Huang, He. 2018. The geographical and historical study of the Chinese word Peng(碰“collide”). Studies in Chinese Wu Dialects. Vol.9, Association of Chinese Wu Dialects.
Huang, He. 2018. Multidimensional contact and language diffusion models: A glottogram analysis of the direct address of “grandfather” in the Yixing dialect, Studies of the Chinese Languages, 2018 (3), Linguistics Institute of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
Huang, He. 2017. Lexical contact triggered by the geographical pattern of homonymic collision: A case study of two kinds of melons in Yixing dialect. Essays on Linguistics (56).
Sheng, Yimin and He Huang. 2016. The affrication of the Duan(端) group in Chinese dialects from the typological perspective. Studies in Language and Linguistics (1).
Huang, He. 2017. The influence of physical geography on language distribution: A case study on the geographical distribution of “shou” (hands) and “jiao” (feet) in Chinese. Linguistic Sciences Vol. 16 (2).
Huang, He. 2017. A Geolinguistic Study of Yixing Dialects: Qualitative, quantitative and perceptual analysis. Peking University Dissertation.
Shi, Menghui and He Huang. 2016. Motivations for the de-palatalization in Chinese dialects: Internal and external factors. Sinology Research. Vol.34 (2).
Huang, He. 2015. The rhyming book of Yixing dialect in 1822: A philological study of Jingyinyunhui (荆音韵汇). Chinese Classics and Culture (2).
MONOGRAPH
Huang, He 2016 The Rhythm Book Jingyinyunhui (荆音韵汇) in 1822：the Fossil of the Historical Phonology of Yixing Dialect, Shanghai: Zhongxi Press.
Huang, He 2024 (forthcoming) A Computational Dialectometric Study of Yixing Dialects. Shanghai: Shanghai Education Press.
Tao, Huan, Yimin Sheng, and He Huang 2022 Comparative Dialectology and the Historical Linguistic Studies of Wu Dialects. Shanghai: Zhongxi Press.
TRANSLATION
Imai, Mutsumi 2013 Unraveling the Mystery of Child Language Development. Tokyo: Tikumashoten Press. Translated into Chinese version by Huang He published by Shanghai Education Press in 2024.
BOOK CHAPTER
Huang, He (forthcoming) Linguistic Geography. In Yang, Bei (eds.) Introduction to Linguitics. Guangzhou: Sun Yat-sen University Press.
INVITED PRESENTATIONS
19/07/2024 “The Theories and Methods of Computational Dialectometry”. Invited by Prof. Wen, Shaoqin at Forum on Frontier Exploration of National Development and Smart Governance. China.
14/05/2024 “The Primary Dimensions of Chinese Dialectal Variation”. Invited by Prof. Chen, Lang at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies. China.
05/01/2024 “A Computational Dialectometric Study on Chinese Dialects”. Invited by Prof. Xing, Xiangdong at Shanxi Normal University. China.
28/11/2023 “Geographic Structure of Chinese Dialects: A computational dialectometric approach”. Invited by Prof. Grieve, Jack at University of Birmingham. United Kingdom.
11/11/2023 “What Linguistic Cues Determine the Perception of Dialectal Distance?”, Invited by Prof. Liu, Xiangbai at Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. China.
23/09/2023 “Bridging Dialectometry with Spatial Statistics: Application and limitation”. Invited by Prof. Kikuzawa, Ritsuko at National Museum of Ethnology, Japan / Graduate University for Advanced Studies. Japan.
07/09/2023 “Linguistics and Digital Humanities: Observations from Dialectometric approach”. Invited by Digital Humanities Research Institute, Renmin University. China.
18/072023 “The Distribution and Diffusion of Languages”. Invited by DENGFENG Project as a Public Science Outreach Lecture for Shanghai High School Students. China.
10/07/2023 “Introduction to the Methods of Geolinguistics”. Invited by Prof. Ye, Yuying at Xiamen University. China.
01/07/2023 “Where does Chinese Standard Mandarin Come from?”. Invited by Prof. Fang, Yixin at Zhejiang University. China.
09/06/2023 “Introduction to the Mapping Methods of Geolinguistics”. Invited by Prof. Yang, Bei at Zhuhai Campus of Sun Yat-sen University. China.
05/05/2023 “The Border Effect of Historical Boundaries on Dialect Distribution: A quantitative approach by applying the spatial autoregressive model”. Invited by Prof. Endo, Mitsuaki at Aoyama Gakuin University. Japan.
26/04/2023 “The Word Substitution Triggered by Sound Change: the Homonymic Collision of "goose" and "I" in North Wu Dialects”. Invited by Prof. Ye, Yuying at Xiamen University. China.
22/04/2023 “The Border Effect of Historical Politic Areas on Linguistic Variations: A dialectometric study applying Spatial Autoregression”. Invited by Prof. Li, Zihe at Peking University. China.
28/04/2022 “A review of the paper ‘Variation and Evolution: The voicing harmony phenomenon in Shuangfeng dialect of Xiang Chinese’". Invited by Prof. Li, Zihe at Peking University. China.
11/11/2021 “The Evolution of the Changzhou Dialect in 140 Years: Proofs from the phonetic transliteration in the late-Qing novel <The Biography of the Heroic Youth>”. Invited by Prof. Liu, Xiangbai at Editorial Board of Journal Chinese Language and Literature. China.
11/10/2021 “The Geographic Structure of Chinese Dialect: A Dialectometric approach”. Invited by Dr. Hu, Ping at Hubei University. China.
28/06/2021 “Introduction to Geolinguistics”. Summer school talks invited by Dr. Xu, Binbin at Xiamen University. China.
03/06/2021 “Identifying Dialect Continuum and Dialect Areas from A Quantitative Approach”. Invited by Prof. Ling, Feng at Shanghai University. China.
27/05/2021 “Observing Forests and Trees: Bridging Dialectometry and word geography”. Invited by Prof. Ling, Feng at Shanghai University. China.
20/05/2021 “A Quantitative Study of Chinese Dialects”. Invited by Prof. Ling, Feng at Shanghai University. China.
14/04/2021 “ The Geographic Structure of Chinese Dialects”. Invited by Prof. Gerner, Matthias at Jiaotong University. China.
19/03/2021 “The Basic Methods of Linguistic Geography”. Invited by Prof. Yuan, Dan at East China Normal University. China.
06/12/2020 “Grammaticalization Areas and Micro-geographical Typology Analysis: A case study of demonstratives in Yixing dialects’. Invited by Prof. Endo, Mitsuaki at Aoyama Gakuin University. Japan.
05/11/2020 “The Primary Geographic Distribution of Chinese Dialects”. Invited by Prof. Bian, Tiangang at Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics. China.
07/07/2020 “Introduction to Geolinguistics”. Summer school talks invited by Dr. Xu, Binbin at Xiamen University. China.
28/10/2019 “Structuredness and Geographic Diffusion”. Invited by Prof. Fang, Mei at Editorial Board of Journal Chinese Language and Literature. China.
20/06/2019 “Modelling the Areal Diffusion of Chinese Dialects: A case study of Suzhou Wu Chinese and its sub-varieties”. Invited by Prof. Chen, Yiya at Leiden University. Netherland.
19/06/2019 “Modelling the Areal Diffusion of Chinese Dialects: A case study of Suzhou Wu Chinese and its sub-varieties”. Invited by Prof. Geeraerts, Dirk at KULeuven. Belgium.
02/12/2018 “Geographic Diffusion Model of Language: A Case Study of Suzhou Dialect”. Invited by Prof. Shen, Ming at Editorial Board of Journal Dialectology. China.
22/09/2018 “A Dialectometric Study of Suzhou Dialects”, Invited by Prof. Xue. Caide at Shanghai University. China.
ORGANIZATION OF CONFERENCES AND TALKS
CONFERENCES
09/03/2019 The First Workshop on “Language Variation and Change” organized by Dr. He Huang at Shanghai University. China.
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
2017/2018 Modern Chinese Grammar. Shanghai University. 36 hours/term for undergraduate.
2018/2019 The Languages in the World. Shanghai University 36 hours/term for undergraduate.
2018/2019 Introduction to Linguistics. Shanghai University. 36 hours/term for undergraduate.
2018/2019 Literature, Linguistics and Life. Shanghai University. 4 hours/term for undergraduate.
2020/2021 Language and Culture. Fudan University. 4 hours/term for undergraduate.
2021 – now Introduction to Geolinguistics. Fudan University. 32 hours/term for undergraduate.
2021 – now Multidimensional Variation and Computational Analysis of Language. Fudan University. 32 hours/term for graduate.
2021 – now Methodology for Linguistic Studies. Fudan University. 4 hours/term for graduate.
2024 – now AI for Language Variation Analysis. Fudan University. 32 hours/term for graduate.
