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Citizenship
  
Taiwan

Institution
  
Academia Sinica

Fields
  
Linguistics

Name
  
Jackson Sun

Institutions
  
Academia Sinica


Jackson T.-S. Sun (Chinese:孫天心; Pinyin: Sūn Tiān-xīn) is a Taiwanese linguist whose specific research focus is on languages of the vast Sino-Tibetan language family, especially those falling under the Tibetosphere.

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Biography

Jackson T.-S. Sun was born in 1956. He earned his doctorate in Linguistics at the University of California at Berkeley in 1993. Currently, he works as a Research Fellow at the Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, where he served as Deputy Director (August 1, 2005 – July 31, 2006) and Director (June 27, 2008 – June 26, 2011). He also is an Adjunct Professor at the Graduate School of Chinese, National Taiwan Normal University.

Publications - Journal Papers

  • Jonathan P. Evans, Jackson T.-S. Sun, Chenhao Chiu, Michelle Liou. 2015. "Uvular approximation as an articulatory vowel feature". Journal of the International Phonetic Association 45.2.
  • Sun, Jackson T.-S. 2012. "Complementation in Caodeng rGyalrong". Language and Linguistics 13.3:471-498.

    • Publications - Books

  • Jackson T.-S. Sun (ed.). 2014. Phonological Profiles of Little-Studied Tibetic Varieties. Language and Linguistics Monograph Series 55 . Taipei: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica.
  • Jackson T.-S. Sun. 1993. A historical-comparative study of the Tani (Mirish) branch in Tibeto-Burman. PhD dissertation, University of California at Berkeley.
  • Jackson T.-S. Sun. 1986. Aspects of the phonology of Amdo Tibetan: Ndzorge Sháme Xra dialect (Monumenta Serindica No. 16). Tokyo: Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa.

    • References

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