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Graduate student Jessica Luo is the 2024-2025 recipient of the Arienne Dwyer Language Documentation Award, made possible by a fund generously established in 2022 by UW Linguistics affiliate faculty member, Arienne Dwyer.
Luo will receive from the fund to assist with dissertation research expenses. Luo’s dissertation, supervised by Myriam Lapierre, is focused on Wu dialects. She plans to spend most of 2025-2026 documenting two under-studied Sanmen dialect and Xinchang dialect of Wu Chinese (wuu), which are spoken in Zhejiang, People’s Republic of China. Luo's dissertation, supervised by Myriam Lapierre, is planned to include chapters on the phonetic structures, tonal system as well as a typological description of tone sandhi in Wu.