Pronouns:
She/Her/Hers
Cohort Year:
2022
Research Interests:
Phonetics, Phonology, Language contact and change, Morphology
Xiaobei Chen is a second-year PhD student in linguistics with a focus on sociophonetics and the phonology-syntax interface. Her research interests primarily lie in cue-weighting in sound changes, perception-production misalignment, and reduplication. She conducts fieldwork on various minority languages in China, including Dai (Kam-Tai) and Hani (Tibeto-Burman), exploring their contact with southwestern Chinese dialects and Mandarin. Xiaobei holds a B.A. and M.A. inlinguistics from Peking University.