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 Linguistics (语言学概论)

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

·Language Course:Intermediate Chinese Writing II (中级汉语写作（二）)

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

·Workshop: Academic Writing in Chinese (学术汉语写作)

Open to all International Students at Nanjing University, Spring 2024/25

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

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

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

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

·Language Course: Intermediate Chinese Writing I (中级汉语写作（一）)

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

·Seminar: Academic Writing (论文研讨课)

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

·Seminar: Introduction to Creole Languages

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

·Seminar: Software for Linguistic Analysis

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

·Seminar: Introduction to Chinese Linguistics

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

·Seminar: Empirical Methodologies in Linguistics (Empirische Methoden der Sprachwissenschaft)

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

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

·2025. Jia, Pingping. Tonal Change in Yu. In: Dal Corso, Elia & Elisabetta Ragagnin (eds),Time in East Asian Endangered Languages. doi: http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-913-9/009 [open access]

·2024. Jia, Pingping. The Interaction of Tonal and Metrical Prominence in the Pingding Variety of Chinese.Proc. The Second International Conference on Tone and Intonation, 24-28, doi: 10.21437/TAI.2023-6. [open access]

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

·08.2021. 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

·05.2025. Jia, Pingping, The Interaction of Tonal and Metrical Prominence in the Pingding Variety of Chinese,The Forum for Young Scholars in Linguistics at Nanjing University (6th session)（南京大学语言学青年学者论坛 (第六期)）,Nanjing.

·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.

EDITORIAL&PEER REVIEW CONTRIBUTIONS

·2024 – present Editorial Board Member,Frontiers in International Chinese Education (《国际中文教育前沿》)

Provided editorial oversight and coordinated peer review for submissions in the field of international Chinese language education.

·2023Peer Reviewer

The Second International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI 2023),Singapore.Reviewed five submitted abstracts.

RESEARCH PROJECTS

·07.2024 – 12.2025 (ongoing) Team Leader Funded by Nanjing University

-Classroom Teaching Exploration Based on Large Language Models for Pronunciation Correction of Second Language Chinese Learners (基于面向中文二语学习者语音纠正的大语言模型的课堂教学探索)

-Interdisciplinary Teaching Research and Practice Project (教师跨学科教学研究与实践项目)

·01.2023 – 02.2024 Sole Researcher Funded by Societas Linguistica Europaea

-The perceptivity and productivity of tonal change triggered by tone compounds in the Pingding variety of Chinese

SLE Research Grant