CV
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The research & teaching sections of my CV are listed on their respective pages on this website and are therefore omitted below.
Education
| Years | Institution | Degree |
|---|---|---|
| 2019-present | University of California, Santa Barbara | PhD in Linguistics Advisor: Marianne Mithun |
| 2017-2019 | National Taiwan University | MA in Linguistics Advisor: Li-May Sung |
| 2014-2015 | University of Miami | AD in Flute Performance |
| 2012-2014 | Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University | MM in Flute Performance |
| 2008-2012 | University of Miami | BM in Flute Performance & Minor in German Summa cum laude |
Publications
| Year | Author(s) & Title | Publication |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Young, Chun-Jan Acoustic correlates of penultimate and final stress in Yami |
Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2024 |
| 2024 (in press) | Young, Chun-Jan Non-core case marking in Batanic languages |
STUF - Language Typology and Universals |
| 2024 (submitted) | Young, Chun-Jan K-pop, bottoms, and muscles: Discourses and ideologies of masculinity in an online community of gay Asian men |
Robert Lawson, (ed.): Digital Masculinities (Title TBA) |
Dissertations & Theses
| Year | Institution | Degree & Title |
|---|---|---|
| In progress (expected 2026) | University of California, Santa Barbara | PhD Dissertation Prosodic prominence in o ciriciring no tao do pongso (Yami/Tao), an Austronesian language of Orchid Island, Taiwan |
| 2019 | National Taiwan University | MA Thesis The am-construction in Yami |
Conference Presentations
| Year | Author(s) & Title | Conference & Location |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Young, Chun-Jan Iconicity as grammar: functions of prosody and reduplication in Yami |
9th Syntax of the World’s Languages (SWL IX) Lima, Peru |
| 2024 | Young, Chun-Jan Acoustic correlates of penultimate and final stress in Yami (poster) |
Speech Prosody 2024 Leiden, Netherlands |
| 2024 | Young, Chun-Jan Lexical stress in Yami: investigating penultimate and final prominence (poster) |
19th Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon 19) Seoul, South Korea |
| 2024 | Young, Chun-Jan Intertwining iconicity: prosodic augmentation and reduplication in Yami |
16th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics (16-ICAL) Manila, Philippines |
| 2024 | Young, Chun-Jan Word stress in Yami |
33rd Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS 33) Taipei, Taiwan |
| 2022 | Cheng, Yi-Yang, and Chun-Jan Young Zero vs. pronoun coding of high-accessibility referents in (some) Western Austronesian Languages |
Seminario: Interaction of Formal Means and Functional Categories in the Coding of Reference Hermosillo, Mexico |
| 2021 | Young, Chun-Jan, and Li-May Sung On the usage of am as a discourse connective in Yami |
5th Usage-Based Linguistics Conference (UBL5) Online (hosted by Tel Aviv University) |
| 2021 | Young, Chun-Jan Syntactic and informational hierarchy in Yami clause linkage (poster) |
13th International Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics Conference (APLL13) Online (hosted by the University of Edinburgh) |
| 2021 | Young, Chun-Jan Constructing a gay Asian male identity in an online discussion board (Panel on Discourse, Diaspora, and Difference in Asian America) |
95th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America Online |
| 2020 | Young, Chun-Jan Definite obliques in Yami |
12th International Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics Conference (APLL12) Online (hosted by the University of Oslo) |
| 2019 | Young, Chun-Jan The topic construction in Yami |
29th Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS 29) Tokyo, Japan |
| 2018 | Young, Chun-Jan Completely relevant: an examination of completive aspect marker anga in Paiwan (poster) |
17th International Conference on the Processing of East Asian Languages & 9th Conference on Language, Discourse, and Cognition (ICPEAL 17 - CLDC 9) Taipei, Taiwan |
Invited Talks
| Date | Title | Venue |
|---|---|---|
| February 6, 2024 | (Re-)examining lexical stress in Yami | UCSB Language Documentation Lab |
| October 7, 2022 | Prosodic structure in Tao (Yami): the case of the Accentual Phrase (a very preliminary methodological proposal) | UCSB Phonetics Circle |
| May 28, 2020 | Oblique marking of definite arguments: an analysis of Yami so in discourse | New Approaches to Indigenous Languages (NAIL), UCSB Department of Linguistics |
| July 17, 2019 | Language, culture, and cognition (co-presented with Thomas Van Hoey) | 17th International Linguistics Olympiad Training Camp for Taiwan & Hong Kong high school representatives |
Grants
| Year | Grant | Organization |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Humanities & Social Sciences Research Grant | UCSB Graduate Division |
| 2024 | Fieldwork Grant | Wallace Chafe & Marianne Mithun Fund for Research on Understudied Languages |
| 2023 | Short-Term Research Grant | UCSB Center for Taiwan Studies |
Research Assistantships
| Year | Project | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Analysis of Electromagnetic Articulography (EMA) data of vowel quantity in spoken Estonian | Argyro Katsika & Matthew Gordon (UCSB) |
| 2023 | Musical transcription of Sapé songs | Jorge Emilio Rosés Labrada (UAlberta) |
| 2021 | kal2eng: Machine translation of Kalaallisut (West Greenlandic) to English | Per Langgård (Oqaasileriffik/Language Secretariat of Greenland) |
| 2018-2019 | Transcription of field data for the NTU Corpus of Formosan Languages; digitization and morphological analysis of original Yami/Tao manuscripts | Li-May Sung (NTU) |
| 2018-2019 | The Construction of Native Taiwanese Language Corpora (Grant from ROC Ministry of Education); Investigating the Mechanisms of National Language Surveys (Grant from ROC Ministry of Culture) | Zhao-Ming Gao (NTU) |
Professional Memberships
| Year | Organization |
|---|---|
| 2024-present | Association for Laboratory Phonology |
| 2024-present | Acoustical Society of America |
| 2024-present | International Phonetic Association |
| 2024-present | Societas Linguistica Europaea |
| 2019-present | Linguistic Society of America |
Service
| Year | Position/Role | Organization |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-2024 | Organizing committee | 26th Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL), UCSB |
| 2023-2024 | Graduate student peer mentor | UCSB Department of Linguistics |
| 2022-2023 | Abstract reviewer | 25th Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL), UCSB |
| 2022-2023 | Tenure-track faculty search committee | UCSB Department of Linguistics |
| 2021-2022 | Graduate student peer mentor | UCSB Department of Linguistics |
| 2021-2022 | Graduate student representative | UCSB Department of Linguistics |
| 2021-2022 | Graduate student peer mentor | UCSB Department of Linguistics |
| 2021-2022 | Undergraduate Studies Council | UCSB Department of Linguistics |
| 2021-2022 | Undergraduate Liaison | UCSB Department of Linguistics |
| 2021-2022 | Abstract reviewer | 24th Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL), UCSB |
| 2020-2021 | Abstract reviewer | 23rd Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL), UCSB |
Fellowships, Scholarships, and Awards
| Year | Award | Organization |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | (Nominated) Excellence in Teaching Award | UCSB Graduate Student Association |
| 2020-2022 | Study Abroad Scholarship | ROC (Taiwan) Ministry of Education |
| 2021 | Department of Linguistics Fellowship (Winter Quarter) | UCSB Department of Linguistics |
| 2019-2024 | Teaching Fellowship | UCSB Department of Linguistics |
Languages
| Level | Languages |
|---|---|
| Native or fluent | English, Mandarin Chinese |
| Intermediate | Dutch, German, Japanese, Spanish |
| Research | Tao/Yami, Northern Paiwan, P’urhépecha |
Examinations and Certifications
| Year | Language | Level | Examination/certification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Japanese | N3 | Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT) |
| 2018 | Tao/Yami | Intermediate | Taiwan Indigenous Language Proficiency Test |