Holman Tse

2nd-year PhD student
Department of Linguistics

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About Me

My CV (PDF) - Last Updated Dec. 2012

I am a second year PhD student in the Linguistics Department at Pitt. Broadly speaking, my research interests include sociolinguistics, phonetics/phonology, and contact linguistics. Specific languages I am currently working on include Cantonese and Kizigua, a Bantu language from East Africa spoken by a local refugee community in Pittsburgh. I've also dabbled in American English dialectology and for this reason am quite fortunate to be in a city in which people like to talk about something called Pittsburghese. (If you've never heard of Pittsburghese before, you should listen to this song.) Spanish dialectology is also something I've dabbled in, but up to this point that has primarily been a hobby rather than a serious research interest. Over the years, I have been collecting an archive of photos documenting variation in the Spanish-speaking world. I hope to post some of these pictures soon. I am also an avid world traveler. Somehow that seems to relate to my academic interests in language variation, dialectology, anthropology, and geography.

Education

PhD (in progress), University of Pittsburgh (Linguistics), 2011-present
MA, University of Chicago (Linguistics), 2004-2005
BA, University of California - Santa Cruz (Anthropology with highest honors, minor in Linguistics, Phi Beta Kappa), 1999-2003

Certificate in TESL, University of California - Berkeley (Extension), 2010

Research Interests

Sociolinguistics, phonetics-phonology interface, language variation and change, dialectology, language contact, sociophonetics, language and race/ethnicity, language ideology, L2 phonological acquisition, Cantonese, Kizigua

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Presentations

"The Diachronic Emergence of Post-Nasal Retroflexion in Somali Bantu Kizigua: Internal Motivation or Contact-Induced Change?", Joint Meeting of the Georgetown University Roundtable on Languages and Linguistics (GURT) and the Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL), Georgetown University, Washington, DC

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"Kizigua Language Research", Invited Talk for the Pittsburgh Somali Bantu Cultural Celebration, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA (Oct. 21, 2012)

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"Consonant and Tone Interaction in Cantonese", Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences Grad Expo, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA (Mar. 22, 2012)
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- Awarded Outstanding Presentation Award
"Lexical Tone Effects on Voice Onset Time in Cantonese", Workshop on Innovations in Cantonese Linguistics (WICL), The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH (Mar. 16, 2012)
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"Lexical Tone Vs. F0 Effects on VOT in Cantonese", Department of Linguistics Colloquium, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA (Feb. 10, 2012)

Teaching Experience (at Pitt)

As Instructor of Record
Fall 2012: Phonetics and Phonemics (LING 1578)
Spring 2012: Introduction to Linguistics (LING 1000)

As Teaching Assistant
Spring 2013: Phonology (LING 1579) - 2 sections, Instructors: David Mortensen and Marta Ortega-Llebaria
Fall 2011: Phonetics and Phonemics (LING 1578), Course Instructor: David Mortensen, Assistant Professor of Linguistics

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Contact Information

Holman Tse
University of Pittsburgh
Department of Linguistics
2816 Cathedral of Learning
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
USA

email: hbt3 AT pitt DOT edu
website: http://www.pitt.edu/~hbt3