Wang Shiyuan

Wang Shiyuan

Wang Shiyuan, male, from Huaiyuan, Anhui Province, was born in Shanghai in 1933. He is a world famous linguist and academician of Academia Sinica in Taiwan.

Wang Shiyuan is Professor Rong Xiu of the University of California, Berkeley, Professor of research at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, founder and editor in chief of the Journal of Chinese linguistics, and the first president of the international society of Chinese linguistics.

Personal profile

Professor Wang Shiyuan obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1960. From 1963 to 1965, he served as associate professor and head of the newly established Department of linguistics and East Asian language and literature at Ohio State University. From 1966 to 1995, he served as professor of linguistics at Berkeley University of California. From 1996 to 2004, he served as Chair Professor of electronic engineering at City University of Hong Kong. From 2004 to 2015, he served as professor of electronic engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong Professor of research, Department of engineering, Professor of language and cognitive science, Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2015. In 1973, Professor Wang Shiyuan founded the Journal of Chinese linguistics.

Professor Wang Shiyuan once served as the first president of the international Chinese Language Society (1992), and won Honorary Professor of Peking University (2010), Honorary Professor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (2015-2018), lifetime achievement award of Shanghai Society of Anthropology (2017) and other academic honors.

Academic achievements

The theory of lexical diffusion proposed by Professor Wang Shiyuan has a wide influence in the international linguistic field. Wang Shiyuan is well versed in Chinese and Western studies and has a wide range of research interests. He has made great achievements in the fields of language engineering, evolutionary linguistics, computational linguistics, experimental phonetics, cognitive linguistics and neurolinguistics. He has published many academic papers in top international journals such as nature, American scholar, proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences and Scientific American.

From the perspective of academic history, Professor Wang Shiyuan has made great contributions in the following aspects: first, he proposed the lexical diffusion model, which is a classic theoretical model with world influence in historical linguistics; second, he has made pioneering contributions to the study of phonetics and phonology, especially the study of tone.

Professor Wang Shiyuan has always attached great importance to the promotion of backward scholars, especially the cultivation of young scholars in mainland China. Many scholars with high reputation in the domestic linguistic field have been directly or indirectly taught by Professor Wang Shiyuan. Professor Wang Shiyuan has always been committed to promoting and encouraging the research of Chinese linguistics, and to introducing and disseminating the excellent academic achievements in China. In 1973, he founded "Chinese Linguistics" The Journal of Chinese linguistics has great influence in the world. The Oxford Handbook of Chinese linguistics, edited by Professor Wang Shiyuan and Professor Sun Chaofen, has also become an important window for academic circles to understand Chinese linguistics. Professor Wang Shiyuan has a broad research vision and actively advocates interdisciplinary cooperation. Since the 1950s and 1960s, interdisciplinary research with computer, mathematics, genetics and archaeology has been widely carried out. His research on evolutionary linguistics has become an important direction of interdisciplinary linguistics.

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