SUN Linkai majored in French language during his bachelor’s studies at East China Normal University in Shanghai from 2020 to 2024. He then went on to study sociolinguistics at Université Paris Cité in Paris, where he finished the studies of MSc “Sociolinguistique et analyse du discours” in summer of 2026. He has been enrolled in Universität Bern to pursue his PhD under the supervision of Prof. David Britain by September of 26.
Reseach interests
- Wu language and its variants
- Dialect contact, dialect accommodation and new dialect formation
- Dialectological consequences of human mobility (in urban settings)
