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. In Investigationes 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.

·        2023 Peer 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