Research Fellow

    pingping.jia@nju.edu.cn

    Zengxianzi Building 505

    Gulou Campus, Nanjing University

    Jinyin Street 18, 210093 

    Nanjing, China

    Research fields: Second Language acquisition, Linguistics, Phonetics, Phonology, Chinese linguistics

EMPLOYMENT

2024 –             Research Fellow      Department of International Chinese Education, Nanjing University

2022 – 2023    Postdoc                    Interdisciplinary Centre European Languages, Free University of Berlin

EDUCATION

2016 – 2021    Ph.D: Linguistics, Free University of Berlin

2013 – 2016    MA: Chinese Linguistics and Philology, Nanjing University    

2008 – 2012    BA: Chinese Linguistics and Literature, Nanjing University

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE OUTSIDE ACADEMIA

2012 – 2013    Volunteer in Western China

Voluntary teacher, teaching Chinese history at No. 2 Middle School of Longde Town (Guyuan, Ningxia, China)

GRANTS, AWARDS, & SCHOLARSHIPS

10.2023            ISCA Grant (International Speech Communication Association)

02.2023            Societas Linguistica Europaea Research Grants

2016 – 2020     Scholarship from China Scholarship Council (FUB-CSC Ph.D Program)

12.2013            Excellent Educator of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region    

                                 — Award for teachers for excellent performance in teaching during the semesters of 2012/13

TEACHING EXPERIENCES                                                      

· Lecture Course: Introduction to Modern Chinese (现代汉语)    

        2024/25 Autumn Semester. B.A. Program in Teaching Chinese as a Second Language, Nanjing University

· Seminar: Vocabulary and Chinese Culture (词汇与中国文化)

        2024/25 Autumn Semester. B.A. Program in Chinese Language, Nanjing University

· Language Course: Intermediate Chinese Writing (中级汉语写作)

        2024/25 Autumn Semester. B.A. Program in Chinese Language, Nanjing University

· Seminar: Academic Writing (论文研讨课)

2024/25 Autumn Semester. M.A. Program in Teaching Chinese as a Second Language, Nanjing University

· Seminar: Introduction to Creole Languages

        2022/23 Winter Semester. B.A. Program "Romance Philology", Free University of Berlin

· Seminar: Software for linguistic analysis

        2022/23 Winter Semester. B.A. Program. "Language and Society", Free University of Berlin

· Seminar: Introduction to Chinese Linguistics

        2021/22 Summer Semester. Master's program in Linguistics, Free University of Berlin

· Seminar: Empirical methodologies in linguistics (Empirische Methoden der Sprachwissenschaft)

        2021/22 Summer Semester. B.A. Program "Language and Society", Free University of Berlin

OTHER TRAINING

09.2022    Summer School    University of Cologne

    Deep Learning for Language Analysis    

                — Track: Deep Learning with Audio & Speech Data given by Paul Wallbott (Fraunhofer IAIS)

OTHER EXPERIENCES                                                          

07 – 08.2024    Head Teacher & Coordinator        The 18th UN China Study Programme, at Nanjing University

PUBLICATIONS

· 2024. Jia, Pingping. The Interaction of Tonal and Metrical Prominence in the Pingding Variety of Chinese, in: ISCA Proceedings. Singapore.

· 2024 [in press]. Jia, Pingping. Tonal change in Yu Variety of Chinese, in: Dal Corso, Elia & Elisabetta Ragagnin (eds), Eurasiatica: Time in East Asian Endangered Languages – Grammar, History, and Society 22. Venezia: Ca' Foscari.

· 2022 [in press]. Jia, Pingping & Judith Meinschaefer. Reanalysis of Two-tone Sequences as Tone Compounds in the Pingding Dialect of Chinese. In Investigationes Linguisticae. Poznan.

· 2021. Jia, Pingping. A comprehensive corpus of three varieties of Jin Dialects, Chinese (Yu Dialect, Pingding Dialect, Jiaoqu Dialect), Refubium-Forschungsdaten, doi.: http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-31286 .

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS                                                              

· 08.2024. Jia, Pingping, The perceptivity and productivity of tonal change triggered by tone compounds in the Pingding variety of Chinese, 57th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, poster presentation, Helsinki.

· 11.2023. Jia, Pingping, The Interaction of Tonal and Metrical Prominence in the Pingding Variety of Chinese, The Second International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI 2023), Singapore.

· 08.2022. Jia, Pingping & Judith Meinschaefer, Reanalysis of two-tone sequences as ‘tone compounds’, 55th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, poster presentation, Bucharest.

· 06.2022. Jia, Pingping & Judith Meinschaefer, The interaction of tonal markedness and metrical prominence in the Pingding variety of Chinese. International Conference Prominence in Language 2022, Cologne.

· 05.2022. Jia, Pingping, Tonal change in Yu. Second Conference on the Endangered Languages of East Asia, Venice.

· 03.2022. Jia, Pingping & Judith Meinschaefer, Reanalysis of two-tone sequences as ‘tone compounds’, Linguistics and Asian Languages, Poznan.

· 08.2018. Jia, Pingping, The linguistic situation in Xinjiang, the 5th Linguistik Meetup, Potsdam.

PEER REVIEW CONTRIBUTIONS    

· 2023. The Second International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI 2023), Singapore. Five abstracts.