Doctoral Candidate in Chinese
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B.A. Linguistics, B.A. East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of California Berkeley, 2015
John Carlyle attended the University of California, Berkeley where he received his B.A. in Linguistics and East Asian Languages and Cultures. His main research interests are Chinese dialectology and the historical phonology. He hopes to improve the current understanding of the evolution of Sinitic languages by investigating the older, colloquial lexical strata of various dialects and the contact that occurred between them.