Robert Stuart Bauer (name in , born 1946) is the honorary
linguistics
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professor at the
University of Hong Kong
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and formerly professor of Chinese linguistics at the
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU or HKPU) is a public research university in Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong. The university is one of the eight government-funded degree-granting tertiary institutions in Hong Kong. Founded in 1937 a ...
. He began his study of
Cantonese
Cantonese is the traditional prestige variety of Yue Chinese, a Sinitic language belonging to the Sino-Tibetan language family. It originated in the city of Guangzhou (formerly known as Canton) and its surrounding Pearl River Delta. While th ...
in
Taiwan
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from the United States in 1974 while he was learning
Mandarin
Mandarin or The Mandarin may refer to:
Language
* Mandarin Chinese, branch of Chinese originally spoken in northern parts of the country
** Standard Chinese or Modern Standard Mandarin, the official language of China
** Taiwanese Mandarin, Stand ...
,
then he continued his studies as an exchange student at the
Chinese University of Hong Kong
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) is a public university, public research university in Sha Tin, New Territories, Hong Kong.
Established in 1963 as a federation of three university college, collegesChung Chi College, New Asia Coll ...
in 1970s.
Bauer later received his Ph.D. degree in linguistics from the
University of California, Berkeley
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in 1982
and has taught linguistics at universities in Australia, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan, and Thailand.
In 1997, he relocated to Hong Kong permanently, just before the
city's handover from British to Chinese sovereignty.
He is also the co-author of a number of Cantonese related linguistic publications, including ''Modern Cantonese Phonology,'' ''The Representation of Cantonese with Chinese Characters,'',"ABC Cantonese-English Comprehensive Dictionary (published in December 31, 2020)"
etc. Apart from his research in Cantonese, he is also interested in other Yue dialects, the Thai language, and contact relationships among Chinese, Thai, Vietnamese, and minority languages of China and Southeast Asia.
See also
*
List of linguists
A linguist in the academic sense is a person who studies natural language (an academic discipline known as linguistics). Ambiguously, the word is sometimes also used to refer to a polyglot (one who knows several languages), a translator/interprete ...
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1946 births
Living people
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UC Berkeley College of Letters and Science alumni
Academic staff of the University of Hong Kong
American expatriates in Hong Kong
Linguists of Sino-Tibetan languages
Hong Kong people of American descent