Samantha Soon, PhD

I am a Sydney-based Malaysian linguist with a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Sydney.

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I work across phonetics, phonology, multilingualism, language documentation, translation, and language-data evaluation. As a multilingual who has grown up with the exposure of various contact languages, I am interested in contact languages and its' variations. Some of the languages I have investigated are Kwényï, an Oceanic language of New Caledonia, Penang Hokkien and Singapore English. My specific research interests are: tone, contact-induced phonological change, language documentation, socio-phonetics.  ​​

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I am currently building an independent linguist practice offering research support, phonetics/phonology consultation, multilingual language-data review, and selected teaching or workshop projects.