Education
2012-2016 Ph.D., Linguistics, Division of Humanities, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Dissertation: Tonal Variation: A Quantitative Study of Jianyang Min Chinese
2010-2012 M.Phil., Linguistics, Division of Humanities, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
2002-2006 B.A., Chinese Linguistics, Faculty of Chinese, Fudan University
Academic Awards
2012-2016 Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme Awardee, HKUST
2013 LSHK Award for Outstanding Student Paper on Cantonese Linguistics
CL2102 Chinese Phonetics 汉语语音学
CL2291 Chinese Anthropolinguistics (in English) 汉语人类语言学
CL3215 Chinese Language and Culture 语言与文化
CH4201 Chinese Phonology 汉语音韵学
CH4203 Chinese Dialectology 汉语方言学
CH5212/R Theories in Phonology (in English) 音系学理论
Modelling tonal variation and change 声调变异与演变的模型
Phonetic description of Min Chinese 闽语的语音描写
Linguistic history of Min 闽语的语言历史
Evolutionary Linguistics/Historical Linguistics 演化/历史语言学
Phonetics and Phonology 语音学、音系学
Language Documentation/Language Typology 语言描写/语言类型学
Chinese dialects 汉语方言
Tone 声调
ARTICLES IN JOURNALS
Shen R. Q. 2019. Huangkeng and Early Northern Min [Huangkenghua Yu Zaoqiminbeiyu]. Bulletin of Chinese Linguistic, 12(1), 52-73. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/2405478X-01201005.
Shen R. Q. 2019. The monosyllabicization of Old Chinese and the birth of Chinese Writing: A hypothesis on the co-evolution of the Chinese language and its writing system. Journal of Language Relationship No.17/1-2:44-54. (http://www.jolr.ru/index.php?article=261)
Yuan Dan, Ling Feng, Shen Ruiqing & Shi Menghui. 2019. Bilabial Trill Induced by Fricative High Rounded Vowel: The Emerging of Tʙ- in the Wu Dialect of Su-Wan Boundary. Journal of Chinese Linguistics 47.1: 172-192.
Shen R. Q. 2018. Tonal development of sonorants in Early Shaojiang: Jerry Norman’s “Shaowu hypothesis” revisited [Zaoqi Shaojiang Fangyan Xiangyin Shengmu De Shengdiao Yanbian——Chongfang Luojierui Xiansheng De “Shaowu Jiashuo”]. Bulletin of Linguistic Studies [Yuyan Yanjiu Jikan] 21: 140-167.
Shen R. Q., Hong Y., Lam M. F. & Zhu, X.N. 2016. The Five Falling Contours in Jianyang Min: Typological Significances [Jianyang Minyu De Shengdiao Moshi: Jianlun Wutiao Jianggong De Leixingxue Yiyi]. Bulletin of Chinese Linguistics 9: 250-263.
Shen R. Q. 2014. The Phonetic of Voicing Contrast in Shibei Northern Min Chinese: With Further Comments on Tonal Representation of Shibei Min [Minbei Shibei Fangyan De Qingzhuo Duili], Fang Yan 4.
Shen R. Q. 2012. A rearrangement of (Jerry Norman 1995) A Glossary of Herpyng Dialect [Shaowu Heping Fangyan Tongyin Zihui], Journal of East Linguistics 11.
Shen R. Q. 2010. Review of Studies on Menggu Ziyun [Menggu Ziyun Shuping], Journal of East Linguistics 8.
BOOKS/MONOGRAPHS AUTHORED
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
Shen R. Q. (to appear). Rank, and Division [Deng and Dengyun]. The Handbook of Chinese Historical Phonolog [Hanyu lishi yinyunxue shouce].
Shen R. Q. 2021. Interaction Between Min and Other Sinitic Languages: Genetic Inheritance and Areal Patterns. In: Ye Z. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Chinese Language Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6844-8_33-1
Shen R. Q. 2017. On the Old Chinese origin of Middle Chinese *j-: Writing evidence from excavated texts [Cong Chutu Xianqin Wenzi Ziliao Kan "Yu Si" De Shanggu Fenlei Wenti]. Old Chinese Writing and Comparative Historical Linguistics. Shanghai: Fudan Press.
Shen R. Q. 2016. Děng (Rank, Grade, Division), in Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics. Brill.
Shen R. Q. 2016. Semantic Restriction and Phonetic Bias of Literary-Colloquial variations in Shanghai Wu: An Emergent Phonology Perspective [Shanghaihua Yidu De Yuyi Xianzhi Yu Yuyin Pianhao: Yongxian Yinxixue De Shijiao]. In Zheng Wei (ed.). Essays on the Phonetic and Phonological Change of Dialects Across Boundary. Shanghai: Shanghai Education Press.
Shen R. Q. 2015. From short-long to high-low: The evolution of Cantonese stopped tones [Cong Duanchang Dao Gaodi: Guangfupian Yueyu Rusheng De Yanhua]. Papers on the 18th International Conference on Yue Dialects. Guangzhou: Jinan University Press.
Shen R. Q. 2014. On Chi ‘Wing’ in Chinese [Hanyu Li De Chibang]. Gaoshan Liushui: Festschrift in Honor of Zhengzhang Shangfang on His 80th Birthday. Shanghai: Shanghai Education Press.