Shufang XU
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Academic Qualifications
BA in Business English (Guangdong University of Business Studies)
MA in Education (Beijing Language and Culture University)
PhD in Applied Linguistics (UBD) 2016
Research Areas
- acoustic description of Chinese
- the pronunciation of Brunei Chinese
- code mixing in Brunei
PhD Research
- Acoustic Investigation of Brunei Mandarin (supervisor: Dr David Deterding)
Teaching
Tutor on:
- AE-1201 : Introduction to English Language and Linguistics I
- AE-4301 : Translation – Theory and Practice
Publications
Xu, S. (2016). A comparison of the vowels of Brunei Mandarin and Beijing Mandarin. In Noor Azam Haji-Othman, J. McLellan & D. Deterding (Eds.), The use and status of language in Brunei Darussalam: A kingdom of unexpected linguistic diversity (pp. 57–74). Singapore: Springer. (Pubisher's Link).
Xu, S. (2016). Alveolar and Post-alveolar Mergers in Brunei Mandarin, South East Asia: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 16, 89–102. (PDF version).
Xu, S., & Deterding, D. (2015). An acoustic study of monophthongs in Brunei Mandarin. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS-18), Glasgow, 10–14 August 2015. (PDF Version).
Deterding, D., & Xu, S. (2015). Acoustic investigation of neutral tone in Brunei Mandarin. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS-18), Glasgow, 10–14 August 2015. (PDF Version).
XU, Shufang (2014). Conversational code-switching among Mandarin-English bilinguals in Brunei. In Proceedings of the Malaysia-Brunei Forum: Expanding Horizons Together, Kuala Lumpur, 20–21 May 2014, pp. 176–186. (PDF version).
XU, Shufang (2014). Acoustic investigatiion of /tʰ/ lenition in Brunei Mandrin. In Proceedings of Interspeech, 15th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Singapore, 14–18 September 2014, pp. 1974–1977. (PDF version).