Meiyun was the founding manager for the CCMS during its set-up phase (2003 - 2005) with responsibilities for Development, Marketing and Personnel.

Present Occupation:

      Visiting Fellow, School of Language Studies, Australian National University. (May 2005 to present).

Professional Qualifications:

• PhD in Linguistics, The Australian National University, 2005.

• Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics, The University of Queensland, 1996.

• Bachelor of Arts in Chinese Language and Literature, Tamkang University, Taipei, Taiwan.

Award and Scholarships:

1997- 2000      PhD Scholarship, Australian National University.

1998              Postgraduate Fieldwork Grant, Australian National University. Awarded competitively by the Postgraduate Studies Committee in support of a proposal to carry out linguistic data collection in Taipei, Taiwan, Sept 1998 – Feb 1999.

Academic Work Experience:

• Visiting Scholar, Collaborative Research Centre on Multilingualism (SFB 538 Mehrsprachigkeit), Hamburg University, Germany (April 2007 to January 2008).

• Tutor (Linguistics and Chinese) at Fenner Hall, Australian National University, Canberra, February 1999 to July 1999.

• Junior Visiting Scholar, Institute of Linguistics of the Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan. Sept 1998 - Feb 1999. Host: Professor Chu-ren Huang.

• Research Assistant (Applied Linguistics) for Dr. Kit-Ken Loke, at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia, August 1996 to December 1996.

Publications:

Refereed Journal Papers:

1.    Chang-Smith, Meiyun (2000). “Empirical evidence for prototypes in linguistic categorization revealed in Mandarin numeral classifiers”. Journal of Chinese Language Teachers Association 35:2, 19-52.

2.    Chang-Smith, Meiyun and Jürgen Meisel. “L1 acquisition of functional categories in Mandarin nominal expressions”.  Journal of Child Language (submitted 2006, under revision).

3.    Chang-Smith, Meiyun. Underspecified functional categories in nominal expressions in early child Mandarin. Journal of East Asian Linguistics (submitted, 2006, under revision).

4.    Chang-Smith, Meiyun. “L1 acquisition of Mandarin DP: Monolingual Mandarin and Simultaneous Bilingual Mandarin-English Children”. Journal of Bilingualism: Language and Cognition (submitted Dec 2007).

 

Conference Presentation (selected by blind peer reviews) :

Oct 2008       Poster at the International Conference on Models of Interaction in Bilinguals,Bangor University, U.K., “Code-mixing and switching within DP’s in Mandarin-English Bilingual First Language Acquisition: Empirical Data and Implications for Models”, accepted.

Aug 2008      Poster at the 11th International Congress for the Study of Child Language, University of Edinburgh, U.K., “Simpler is not always easier: L1 acquisition of Determiner Phrase by a simultaneous Mandarin-English bilingual”, accepted.

July 2007       Poster at the Child Language Seminar, The University of Reading, UK. “L1 acquisition of Mandarin DP: Monolingual Mandarin and Simultaneous Bilingual Mandarin-English Children”.

June 2007     Invited Oral at the 6th International Symposium on Bilingualism (Colloquium on Bilingual and Multilingual Acquisition of Chinese Children), Hamburg University, Germany. Title: “L1 acquisition of functional categories in nominal expressions: comparisons between monolingual Mandarin and bilingual Mandarin-English children”.

Contact Details:
Meiyun Crystal Chang-Smith

e-mail: m.changsmith@uq.edu.au