CV

Author

Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智

Published

May 1, 2025

Keywords

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Research interests

Ideophones, onomatopoeia, mimetics; Cognitive Linguistics; lexical semantics; Chinese (in all its variants); variation; optionality; alternations

Employment

Senior postdoctoral fellow FWO & KU Leuven 2024-2027
Postdoctoral assistant KU Leuven 2023-2024
Postdoctoral fellow The University of Hong Kong 2021-2022

Education

PhD Linguistics (A+) National Taiwan University 2015-2020 MA Linguistics (magna cum laude) KU Leuven 2014-2015 MA Sinology (magna cum laude) KU Leuven 2013-2014
Mandarin Chinese exchange programme Suzhou University 2012-2013 BA Sinology (cum laude) KU Leuven 2009-2012

Additional training and education

Summer school: Chinese Digital Humanities Leiden University 2016
Summer school: Translating Chinese (Summer +10). National Taiwan University 2014

Honours and awards

  • - Editor’s choice for Thompson, Van Hoey & Do. Cognitive Linguistics. (free open access) 2021
  • - Financial Assistance Grant for International Students 2019-2020
  • - Financial Assistance Grant for International Students 2018-2019
  • - Research Fellowship for Outstanding International Doctoral Students 2015-2018
  • - Scholarship from the Hanban 汉办, for long-term study of Chinese 2012-2013

Research

Projects

PI

  • - “Borrowing Iconic Words: Loss, Transfer, and Reinvention of Depiction” for FWO at KU Leuven (FWO K1AFE24N)

Co-I

  • - “Breaking down and rebuilding iconicity: machine learning verified by human learning” (PI Youngah Do, Co-I Harald Baayen, Co-I Christophe Coupé, Co-I Thomas Van Hoey) at HKU (GRF 17602723)

Executing/ed

  • - “Relatively complex or relatively simple? Toward new ways of analyzing language variation” (PI Benedikt Szmrecsanyi) at KU Leuven (BOF C1 C14/22/045)

  • - “Exploring the learnability of ideophones through articulatory and manual gestures” (PI Youngah Do, Co-I Mark Dingemanse, Co-I Arthur Thompson) at HKU (GRF 17603120)

Refereed articles

  1. Van Hoey, Thomas, Benedikt Szmrecsanyi, Matt Hunt Gardner. Choice and complexity: Debunking the myth that absolute complexity invariably leads to relative complexity. accepted. Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads - special issue

  2. Van Hoey, Thomas*, Arthur Lewis Thompson*, Aaron Wing Cheung Chik & Youngah Do. 2025 (online). Iconic hand gestures from ideophones exhibit stability and emergent phonological properties: An iterated learning study. Cognitive Linguistics
    * co-first authors

  3. Ma, Ruiming, Thomas Van Hoey & Benedikt Szmrecsanyi. 2025 (online). Isomorphism-inspired theorising about optionality and variation is unsupported by data from English grammar. English Language and Linguistics. 1-21. doi:10.1017/S1360674325000097.

  4. Van Hoey, Thomas. 2025 (online). Waddling, wandering and waving: Literary Chinese ideophones and the Motion Semantic Grid. Cognitive Semantics (special issue on Talmyan motion semantics). 1-29. doi:10.1163/23526416-bja10075.

  5. Sze, Samuel Sui Lung, Xiaoyu Yu, Thomas Van Hoey, Bingzi Yu & Youngah Do. 2025 (online). Bilinguals’ advantages in executive function: Learning phonotactics and alternation. Second Language Research. 1-30. doi: 10.1177/02676583251327097

  1. Yu, Xiaoyu, Thomas Van Hoey, Frank Lihui Tan, Baichen Du & Youngah Do. 2024. Tracking phonological regularities: Exploring the influence of learning mode and regularity locus in adult phonological learning. Linguistics Vanguard 10(1). 93-104. doi: 10.1515/lingvan-2023-0050

  2. Thomas Van Hoey, Xiaoyu Yu, Tungle Pan & Youngah Do. 2024. What ratings and corpus data reveal about the vividness of Mandarin ABB words. Language and Cognition 16(4). 1674-1696. doi: 10.1017/langcog.2024.22

  3. Van Hoey, Thomas, Arthur Lewis Thompson, Youngah Do & Mark Dingemanse. 2023. Iconicity in ideophones: Guessing, memorizing, and reassessing. Cognitive Science e13268. 1-27. doi: 10.1111/cogs.13268

  4. Van Hoey, Thomas. 2023. ABB, a salient prototype of collocate-ideophone constructions in Mandarin Chinese. Cognitive Linguistics 34(1). 133-163. doi: 10.1515/cog-2022-0031

  5. Van Hoey, Thomas. 2022. The blending of bending: How we engage with the World of Avatar: The Last Airbender through memes. Metaphor and Symbol 37(3). 185–207. doi: 10.1080/10926488.2021.1973868

  6. Thompson, Arthur Lewis, Thomas Van Hoey & Youngah Do. 2021. Articulatory features of phonemes pattern to iconic meanings: Evidence from cross-linguistic ideophones. Cognitive Linguistics 32(4). 563-608. * doi: 10.1515/cog-2020-0055 *Editor’s choice for this issue

  7. Van Hoey, Thomas & Arthur Lewis Thompson. 2020. The Chinese Ideophone Database (CHIDEOD). Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale 49(2). 136–167. doi: 10.1163/19606028-bja10006

  8. Van Hoey, Thomas. 2018. Does the thunder roll? Mandarin Chinese meteorological expressions and their iconicity. Cognitive Semantics 4(2). 230-259. doi: 10.1163/23526416-00402003

Book chapters

  1. Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt, Matt Hunt Gardner, Ruiming Ma & Thomas Van Hoey. accepted. Empirical accountability meets theorizing about language variation. in Cukor-Avila, Patrica, Sali A. Tagliamonte & Guy Bailey (eds.) Empirical accountability in variation linguistics: Taking the next step. Cambridge University Press.

  2. Van Hoey, Thomas. 2024. Onomatopoeia in Mandarin Chinese. In Lívia Körtvélyessy & Pavol Štekauer (eds.), Onomatopoeia in the world’s languages: A comparative handbook (Comparative Handbooks of Linguistics 10), 563–575. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. doi:10.1515/9783111053226-047.

  3. Van Hoey, Thomas. 2024. A semantic map for ideophones. In Thomas Fuyin Li (ed.), Handbook of Cognitive Semantics: Vol 2, 129–175. Leiden: Brill. preprint doi: 10.31219/osf.io/muhpd)

  4. Van Hoey, Thomas & Chiarung Lu. 2019. Lexical variation of ideophones in Chinese classics: Their implications in embodiment and migration. In Janice Fon (ed.), Dimensions of diffusion and diversity, 195–226. (Cognitive Linguistics Research 63). Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter Mouton. doi: 10.1515/9783110610895

Publications under review

  1. Yu, Xiaoyu, Bingzi Yu, Thomas Van Hoey, Samuel Sui Lung Sze, Frank Lihui Tan, Tak Wang Li & Youngah Do. Phonetic substance reshapes phonological variation in language acquisition and language contact.

  2. Van Hoey, Thomas, Matt. H. Gardner, Ruiming Ma & Benedikt Szmrecsanyi. Grammatical variation does not trigger production difficulties, regardless of predicted probabilities.

  3. Van Hoey, Thomas. Dynamic extensions of iconic form-meaning mappings in visual media, viewed through a prismatic lens.

  4. Van Hoey, Thomas. Sound and lexical semantics. Cambridge handbook of lexical semantics (eds. Dirk Geeraerts & Dylan Glynn)

Publications in preparation

  1. Van Hoey, Thomas, Dan Dewey, Youngah Do. fNIR study on ideophone usage in Mandarin speakers.

Theses

  1. PhD thesis Linguistics (grade: A+) 2020 Prototypicality and salience of Chinese ideophones: A cognitive and corpus linguistics approach 漢語擬聲(態)詞的原型與顯著特徵：以認知與語料庫語言學方法探討

  2. MA thesis Linguistics (grade: 17.4/20)2015 Ideophones in Middle Chinese: A typological study of a Tang dynasty poetic corpus

  1. MA thesis Sinology (grade: 18.6/20)2014 The Guwen yundong 古文运动 (Classical Prose Movement) during Tang and Song: Ideological as well as Stylistic Innovation?

Resources and data sets

  1. Van Hoey, Thomas & Arthur Lewis Thompson. 2019. The Chinese ideophone database (CHIDEOD). CHIDEOD is accessible in .xlsx, .csv, .rds formats (doi: 10.17605/OSF.IO/KPWGF), as well as through a Shiny app interface.

Conferences

Invited talks

  1. Van Hoey, Thomas. Measuring the meaning and structure of ideophones: Lessons from Chinese. 2024. Workshop on Manifestations of sound symbolism in language: phonaesthemes, ideophones and onomatopoeia. Held at the first Biennial of Czech Linguistics. Prague: Charles University. 18 September 2024.

  2. Van Hoey, Thomas. 2022. Articulatory features of phonemes pattern to iconic meanings: Evidence from cross-linguistic ideophones. IcoSem 10. 9 February 2022. Published as Thompson, Van Hoey & Do in Cognitive Linguistics (2021). https://youtu.be/UlJpI9FhUmE

  3. Van Hoey, Thomas. 2019. Defining Chinese ideophones: A family of constructions. International Workshop on Mimetics (Ideophones, Expressives) III: Crucibles of Mimetics. Nagoya: Nanzan University. 3 August 2019. doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.12651896

  4. Van Hoey, Thomas. 2017. Chinese ideophones in historical corpora: A case study of mental space markers. Workshop on Mimetics II: New approaches to old questions. Nagoya: Nanzan University. 11 November 2017. Funding: MOST-106-2922-I-002-596. doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.5830341

Invited summer school courses

  1. Van Hoey, Thomas. Exploratory data analysis: From start to report. 2024. LOT summer school. Amersterdam: University of Amsterdam. (5 times 2 hours).

Conference presentations (oral)

  1. Van Hoey, Thomas & Benedikt Szmrecsanyi. 2024. Alternation constrainedness does not affect relative complexity. CogLing Days 2024. Antwerp: University of Antwerp. 12-13 December 2024.

  2. Van Hoey, Thomas. 2024. Waddling, wandering and waving: Literary Chinese ideophones and the motion semantic grid. ICL 21 [21st International Congress of Linguists]. Poznań: Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań. 12 September 2024.

  3. Van Hoey, Thomas. 2024. A semantic map for ideophones and its application to Middle Chinese poetry. SLE 57 [57th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea]. Helsinki: University of Helsinki. 22 August 2024. (Funding: FWO K1AFE24N).

  4. Yu, Xiaoyu, Samuel Sui Lung Sze, Thomas Van Hoey, Bingzi Yu, Frank Lihui Tan, Stephen Tsz To Ho, Wayne Tak Wang Li, Youngah Do. 2024. The acquisition, contact, and transmission of phonological variation. LabPhon 19 [Conference on Laboratory Phonology]. 27-29 June 2024.

  5. Van Hoey, Thomas, Xiaoyu Yu, Tungle Pan & Youngah Do. 2023. What ratings and corpus data reveal about the vividness of Mandarin ABB words. IcoSem 2023 [Iconicity Seminar]. online conference. 25 November 2023.

  6. Van Hoey, Thomas & Benedikt Szmrecsanyi. 2023. Language users don’t mind optionality, and absolute complexity is not proportional to relative complexity. BAAHE 2023 [Belgian Association of Anglicists in Higher Education]. Leuven: KU Leuven. 17 November 2023.

  7. Van Hoey, Thomas. 2023. Iconicity in the streets, multimodal metaphor in the sheets: Chinese ideophones on social media. SLE 56 [56th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea]. Athens: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. 29 August - 1 September 2023.

  8. Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt, Matt Hunt Gardner & Thomas Van Hoey. 2023. Grammatical variation is not suboptimal. SLE 56 [56th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea]. Athens: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. 29 August - 1 September 2023.

  9. Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt, Matt Hunt Gardner & Thomas Van Hoey. 2023. Competing grammatical constructions: questioning No Synonymy. ICLC 16 [16th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference]. Düsseldorf: Heinrich Heine University. https://iclc16.phil.hhu.de/. 7-11 August 2023.

  10. Van Hoey, Thomas, Xiaoyu Yu, Tungle Pan & Youngah Do. 2023. Bridging corpus and norm: Mandarin sensory adjectival phrases. ICLC 16 [16th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference]. Düsseldorf: Heinrich Heine University. https://iclc16.phil.hhu.de/. 7-11 August 2023.

  11. Van Hoey, Thomas, Matt Hunt Gardner & Benedikt Szmrecsanyi. 2023. Grammatical variation in English is not so difficult. ISLE7 [7th Meeting of the International Society for the Linguistics of English], Brisbane: University of Queensland. 19-23 June 2023.

  12. Van Hoey, Thomas, Matt Hunt Gardner & Benedikt Szmrecsanyi. 2023. Speaking of variation and, uhm, complexity in a corpus of spoken dialogues. ICAME 44 [44th International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English]. Vanderbijlpark: North-West University. 18-21 May 2023.

  13. Van Hoey, Thomas,* Arthur Lewis Thompson,* Youngah Do & Mark Dingemanse. 2023. Iconicity in ideophones: Guessing, memorizing, and reassessing. DGfS 2023 [45th Annual Meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft]. Köln: University of Cologne. 8-9 March 2023. (*Co-first authors)

  14. Van Hoey, Thomas. 2022. ABB, a salient prototype of collocate-ideophone constructions in Mandarin Chinese. WTI [Workshop on Typology of Ideophones], Toronto: York University & Nagoya: Nagoya University. 24-25 June 2022. Youtube presentation

  15. Do, Youngah, Arthur Lewis Thompson, Thomas Van Hoey, Aaron Wing Cheung Chik & Mark Dingemanse. 2022. Teasing apart the interplay between gesture, sound and meaning of ideophones through transmission and iterated learning. ILL 13 [International Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature], Paris: Sorbonne University. 31 May- 21 June 2022. Funding: GRF 17603120.

  16. Van Hoey, Thomas & Iju Hsu. 2020. Chinese ideophones in advertisements and social media: Motivated by multimodal metaphors. RaAM 13 [Association for Researching and Applying Metaphor] Virtual. Hamar: Inland Norway University. 18-21 June 2020. doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.12651890

  17. Van Hoey, Thomas & Chiarung Lu. 2020. From ideational to interpersonal: A behavioral profile analysis of qǐlái 起來 in Modern Mandarin. CLDC 10 [Conference on Language, Discourse, and Cognition]. Taipei: National Taiwan University. 1-2 May 2020. https://sites.google.com/view/cldc10 (cancelled due to corona virus)

  18. Van Hoey, Thomas & Chiarung Lu. 2019. Reduplication as a trigger of intersubjectivity: Mandarin Chinese ideophones and reduplication in the CHILDES corpora. ICLC 15 [International Cognitive Linguistics Conference], Nishinomiya: Kwansei Gakuin University. 6-11 August 2019. doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.12651902

  19. Van Hoey, Thomas. 2019. Radiant suns, burning fires and brilliant flowers: The onomasiology and radical support of Chinese literary LIGHT ideophones. ICLC 15 [International Cognitive Linguistics Conference], Nishinomiya: Kwansei Gakuin University. 6-11 August 2019. Funding: NTU, College of Liberal Arts. doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.12652445

  20. Van Hoey, Thomas & Arthur Lewis Thompson. 2019. Bridging phonology, meaning, and written form across time: Introducing a database of Chinese literary ideophones — CHIDEOD. ILL 12 [International Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature], Lund: Lund University. 3-5 May 2019. Funding: MOST-108-2922-I-002-198. doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.12651899

  21. Van Hoey, Thomas & Chiarung Lu. 2018. All that glitters is not gold: Prototypical semantic change in shiny Literary Chinese ideophones. ICPEAL 17 [International Conference on the Processing of East Asian Languages]-CLDC 9 [Conference on Language, Discourse, and Cognition]. Taipei: National Taiwan University. 19-21 October 2018. doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.12652544

  22. Van Hoey, Thomas. 2016. Ideophones in Old Chinese: The case of the Shijing 詩經. ISACG [International Symposium on Ancient Chinese Grammar] 9. Berlin: Humboldt University. 29-30 July 2016. doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.12651875

  23. Van Hoey, Thomas. 2016. A diachronic analysis of ideophones in Chinese. Summer school in Chinese Digital Humanities. Leiden: Leiden University. 6-9 July 2016. doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.12652508

  24. Van Hoey, Thomas & Chiarung Lu. 2016. The distribution of ideophones in Tang poems: A variationist perspective. CLDC [Conference on Language, Discourse, and Cognition] 8. Taipei: National Taiwan University.13-14 May 2016. doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.12651824

Conference presentations (posters)

  1. Yu, Xiaoyu, Samuel Sui Lung Sze, Thomas Van Hoey, Bingzi Yu, Frank Lihui Tan, Stephen Tsz To Ho, Wayne Tak Wang Li, Youngah Do. 2024. The acquisition, contact, and transmission of phonological variation. LabPhon [Laboratory Phonology] 19. Seoul: Hanyang University. 27-29 June 2024.

  2. Van Hoey, Thomas. 2018. The blending of bending: Worldbuilding in Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra. RaAM [Association for Researching and Applying Metaphor] 12. Hong Kong: Hong Kong Polytechnic University. 27-30 June 2018. Funding: MOST-107-2922-I-002-237. doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.12652460

  3. Van Hoey, Thomas. 2017. The thunder rolls: Iconicity and ideophones in Chinese meteorological expressions. CLS-MPI Iconicity Focus Group Workshop: Types of Iconicity in Language Use, Development and Processing. Nijmegen: Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. 6-7 July 2017. Funding: NTU, College of Liberal Arts. doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.12652526

  4. Van Hoey, Thomas. 2016. Ideophones in Premodern Chinese: Revisiting Dingemanse’s implicational hierarchy (poster). Mimetics in Japanese and other languages in the world (日本語と世界諸言語のオノマトペ). Tachikawa: NINJAL. 17-18 December 2016. Funding: MOST-105-2922-I-002-682. doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.12652514

Theme sessions

  1. Dingemanse, Mark, Arie Verhagen, Jonas Nölle & Thomas Van Hoey. 2019. Integrating iconicity: Recent work and future directions. ICLC 15 [International Cognitive Linguistics Conference], Nishinomiya: Kwansei Gakuin University. 6-11 August 2019. https://iclc2019.site/.

Departmental lectures

  1. Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt & Thomas Van Hoey. 2023. Relatively complex or relatively simple? Toward new ways of analyzing language variation. QLVL Colloquium. Leuven: KU Leuven. 17 February 2023.

  2. Van Hoey, Thomas. 2021. Tuples and prototypes of collocate-ideophone constructions like ABB in Manarin Chinese. VLT talks. Hong Kong: University of Hong Kong. 29 June 2021.

  3. Van Hoey, Thomas. 2017. A semantic map for ideophones: From an implicational hierarchy to the spinning top model. Brown Bag Lectures. Taipei: National Taiwan University. 26 April 2017.

Contributions

  1. Van de Velde, Freek & Dirk Pijpops, in collaboration with Mathias De Backer, Wendy Feytons, Alek Keersmaekers, Veerle Monserez, Thomas Van Hoey, and Marie Vanwingh. 2016. Addressees use Zipf’s law as a cue for semantics. In Seán G. Roberts, Christine Cuskley, Luke McCrohon, Lluís Barceló-Coblijn, Olga Fehér & Tessa Verhoef (eds.), The evolution of language: Proceedings of the 11th international conference (EVOLANGX11). Online at http://evolang.org/neworleans/papers/117.html.

Tutorials

  1. Van Hoey, Thomas. 2022. R Tutorial for cleaning PsychoPy data. The University of Hong Kong. Delivered for “Laboratory Linguistics” (LING 3006). youtube

  2. Van Hoey, Thomas. 2021. R Tutorial for Linguistics Pioneering Initiative. National Taiwan University. 6 lectures during November 2021. (soon to be released on YouTube)

  3. Van Hoey, Thomas. 2019. R bootcamp for lexical semanticists. Introduction to wrangling raw data to formats useable for further analysis using R. Seminar on Language and Culture 語言與文化專題研究.Taipei: National Taiwan University. 5 lectures during November 2019. blogpost

Broader audiences

  1. Van Hoey, Thomas & CJ Young. 2019. Language, culture, and cognition. Summer training camp for Taiwanese and Hong Kong high school representatives in the International Linguistics Olympiad. Taipei: Academia Sinica. 17 July 2019.

  2. Van Hoey, Thomas. 2018. Austronesian languages. Summer training camp for Taiwanese high school representatives in the International Linguistics Olympiad. Chiayi: National Chungcheng University. 19 July 2018.

Funding

Fellowships

Travel grants

Teaching

PhD Thesis supervision (co-supervisor)

year name title university
2023-... Ma, Ruiming Does grammatical optionality complicate speech production and comprehension? The case of Mandarin Chinese (3H240027) KU Leuven

PhD Thesis committee

year name title university
2022-2026 Guan, Sumin A multifactorial analysis of Chinese analytic passive constructions (3H220465) KU Leuven
2020-2024 Liu, Meili The Mandarin Chinese \textit{bǎ}-construction: Diachronic, synchronic and constructional perspectives (3H200667) KU Leuven
2020-2024 Tian, Xiaoyu Variation in Chinese analytic causative constructions across time and varieties (3H200468) KU Leuven
2022-2026 Zhang, Jiayin A dynamic perspective on the relationship between motivation and identity negotiation in heritage language contexts: The case of Chinese Heritage Learners in Belgium? (3H220534) KU Leuven
2019-2023 Li, Yi A probabilistic grammar analysis of the theme-recipient alternation in Mandarin, and of its sensitivity to lectal factors (3H190459) KU Leuven

MA Thesis supervision

year name title university
2024 Liu, Yixi Do variation contexts attract disfluencies? The case of discourse markers KU Leuven
2024 Gerets, Nan Exploring language and identity in the Chinese lesbian and non-binary digital sphere KU Leuven
2024 Han, Zhen A corpus-based study on two near-synonymous verbs in academic journals: \textit{Explore} and \textit{investigate} HKU
2024 Hong, Yingqi Relationship between personality type (MBTI) and second language acquisition HKU
2024 Wu, Yueya The multimodal analysis of Hong Kong advertisements: A case study of IKEA HK on instagram HKU
2024 Xi, Zimo Profiling near-synonyms with frame semantic features: A corpus-based Behavioral Profile study of the durational adjectives \textit{perpetual}, \textit{enduring}, and \textit{persistent} HKU
2023 Liang, Suya Are Mongolian speakers sensitive to iconicity? HKU
2023 Liao, Pinghui Synesthetic metaphor under embodied cognition: A corpus-based study on the gustatory lexeme 'sour' in Chinese and English HKU
2023 Zhang, Huchao Can the soul be cured through our senses? What dialogues and internal speeches reveal about New Hedonism in \textit{The Picture of Dorian Gray} HKU
2023 Zhang, Weixi The metaphorical usage of the prepositions \textsc{in}, \textsc{at}, and \textsc{on} in \textit{Pride and Prejudice} HKU
2023 Zhu, Yiran Conceptual metaphors in Chinese and American English news reports about ChatGPT HKU
2022 Feng, Yuanping Analysis of tendency towards usage of different SFPs in Mandarin Chinese HKU
2022 Liang, Yifan Gender terms in Mandarin Chinese: A corpus-based study HKU

Service

Institutional responsibilities

  • Member of the Faculty Research Council (FCO) KU Leuven, 2023-ongoing
  • Member of the Faculty Council for Internationalization (FCIB) KU Leuven, 2023-ongoing
  • Member of the general Faculty Council KU Leuven, 2023-ongoing
  • Convener of the QLVL Colloquium KU Leuven, 2023-ongoing
  • Convener of the VLT talks HKU, 2021-2022

Alumni

  • Sinalumni (alumni association of Sinology students) 2015-ongoing management of membership database and coordinating KU Leuven Connect president (since 2023)

Reviewing for journals

  • Behavior Research Methods
  • British Journal of Psychology
  • Canadian Journal of Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique
  • Cognitive Science
  • Cognitive Semantics
  • Cognitive Linguistics
  • Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory
  • East Asian Journal of Popular Culture
  • Folia Linguistica
  • Frontiers
  • Glossa
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
  • Handbook of Cognitive Semantics
  • Language and Cognition
  • Language and Speech
  • Language Learning
  • Language Sciences
  • Linguistics Vanguard
  • Mapping China Journal
  • PLoS
  • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
  • Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
  • Review of Cognitive Linguistics
  • Studies in Language
  • Typology at the Crossroads

Reviewing for conferences

  • SLE 58 (Societas Linguistica Europaea) 2025
  • IcoSem (Iconicity Seminar) 2025
  • 1st Biennial of Czech Linguistics 2024
  • CLDC 11 (Conference on Language, Discourse, and Cognition) 2024
  • SLE 57 (Societas Linguistica Europaea) 2024
  • SLE 56 (Societas Linguistica Europaea) 2023

Conference organisation

ICPEAL 17 - CLDC 9 2018
International Conference for the Processing of East Asian Languages and Conference on Language, Discourse, and Cognition http://homepage.ntu.edu.tw/~gilntu/icpeal2018cldc/ Role: coordinator of the student committee responsible for organizing the joint conference

Membership of scientific societies

  • Belgium Netherlands Cognitive Linguistics Association (BeNeCLA) 2024-…
  • Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE) 2023-…
  • Koninklijke Zuid-Nederlandse Maatschappij voor Taal- en Letterkunde en Geschiedenis (KZM) 2024-…
  • International Cognitive Linguistics Association (ICLA) 2015-…
  • European Association of Chinese Studies (AECS) 2015-…
  • International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME) 2023-…
  • International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE) 2023-…
  • Researching And Applying Metaphors (RaAM) 2016-…
  • Linguistics Society of Taiwan (LST) 2016-…

Consultancies

Premodern Japanese grammar for Sterk, Darryl. 2020. Indigenous cultural translation: A thick description of Seediq Bale. New York: Routledge.

Previous employment

Research and Teaching Assistant, National Taiwan University 2019-2020 Contemporary online language variation: A case study of Internet public opinion analysis, research assistent, PI Chiarung Lu (MOST 108-2410-H-002-059)

Research Assistant, National Taiwan Normal University 2019-2020
Assisting in Formosa-related newspaper project, PI Ann Heylen

Research and Teaching Assistant, National Taiwan University 2016-2019
Assisting in courses and research, for Chiarung Lu

Teaching Assistant, English summer camp at Wesley Girls’ High School (Taipei), 2018
organized by the Language Training & Testing Center at National Taiwan University

Research Assistant for the Formosan Spoken Corpus, National Taiwan University 2017-2018
Transcribing Isbukun Bunun, PI Li-May Sung

Dutch translator of Chinese short stories, babel101.com 2014-2016

Freelance Chinese-Dutch translator and interpreter, Judicial Court of Leuven 2014-2016

Assistant, East-Asian Library (University of Leuven) 2014-2015

Freelance translator Dutch-Chinese, Expat Insurances 2012-2013

Languages

Active: Dutch, English, Chinese, French

Passive: Japanese, German, Pre-Modern Chinese (Classical Chinese)

Basic knowledge: Isbukun Bunun (Austronesian)

Technological knowledge

  • Blackboard (Ultra), Moodle
  • Microsoft office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access) and open source variants
  • (typesetting)
  • Database construction and management
  • Application deployment with Shiny
  • R, Python (statistical research)
  • Psychopy3 and Pavlovia
  • Experimental design and corpus research
  • Regression analysis, cluster analysis, principal components analysis, dendrograms

Professional development

  • Antiphishing training KU Leuven, 2024
  • Supervising a Master thesis KU Leuven, 2023
  • Start to teach KU Leuven, 2023
  • GDPR GoodHabitz, 2023

Other awards and certificates

  • English proficiency (C1 + level), KU Leuven 2023
  • Intermediate level, Isbukun Bunun Proficiency Test 2018
  • 1st place at Hackathon Taiwanese Linguistics Olympiad 2017
  • HSK 6 (Chinese Proficiency Test, level 6) 2013
  • HSK 5 (Chinese Proficiency Test, level 5) 2013
  • 3rd place, Chinese calligraphy competition with hard pen for Belgian university students 2011
  • HSK 3 (Chinese Proficiency Test, level 3) 2010
  • Finalist, HUB (Brussels) Language Competition, French 2009
  • Finalist, Olyfran (French language competition) 2007