about
about leslie
Leslie is a graduate student at the Department of Linguistics, UCSD. Not too long before coming to UCSD, he was born in Singapore, where he earned his BA (First Class Honours) at the National University of Singapore (NUS). Leslie grew up speaking Cantonese to his grandparents and English to his parents and brother. He took ten years of Mandarin classes in school, and spent three years learning Thai when he was in NUS.
In 2007, he received the NUS Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award for his honours thesis on Thai passives, supervised by Tara Mohanan. He was one of four finalists for the Young Scholar Award at the 18th meeting of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL18), where he received the POLA award for his paper on Singapore Mandarin tone. He was also recipient of the TA Excellence Award in 2010.
Leslie was the resident supervisor for the directed language study courses LIDS 19, LIFR 11, and LIGM 11 from 2007-2011.