About the Author

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Caiyu Wang received her Ph.D. in linguistics from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2015, and now, she is an associate professor of the School of Foreign Languages at the Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, China. She was a graduate researcher at the UCLA Phonetics Lab in 2013 and a visiting scholar at Penn Phonetics Laboratory in 2018. Her main research interests are of the studies of tones and tone evolution. She is the principal investigator of the Humanities and Social Science Project of the Ministry of Education of China (16YJC740066), Four to Ten Tones: The Tones and Their Evolution in Southern Hubei. Her work on the uni-phonational tone systems of modal-voice tones and the multi-phonational systems of modal and non-modal (falsetto and breathy) tones shows the panorama of complex lexical tones and is a start to explore tone evolution through the contemporary tones in a connected area.