A congratulatory message from the co-editors

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A congratulatory message from the co-editors Shengli Feng, Zhongwei Shen, SHI Feng, and Virginia Yip We warmly congratulate Prof. William S.Y-Wang, the Founding Editor of the Journal of Chinese Linguistics, on his recent conferment of an honorary degree from the University of Chicago, which has long been an incubator of great minds and pioneering linguists including Edward Sapir, Leonard Bloomfield and Fang-Kuei Li. UChicago News on May 29, 2018 announced, "The University of Chicago will present honorary degrees to five distinguished scholars during the 531st Convocation on June 9." Prof. Wang is one of the five being cited: William S-Y. Wang, a pioneer in the study of language evolution and the emergence of new languages, will receive the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Humane Letters. Wang is an internationally renowned linguist whose scholarship and academic impact have spanned two continents across the Pacific Ocean. He has performed multidisciplinary research on the biological and evolutionary basis of language, as well as computational linguistics with a focus on the production and processing of language, the brain and computer interface, machine translation, and speech synthesis and recognition. He was one of the first to apply a combination of linguistics and acoustics to the problem of machine recognition of speech. Wang is the founder and lead editor of the Journal of Chinese Linguistics, which is the top publication in this field. He has had full professorial careers at the University of California, Berkeley; at the City University of Hong Kong; and at National Taiwan Normal University. His wide-ranging scholarship has been written in or translated into Chinese, English, French, German, Italian and Japanese. https://news.uchicago.edu/article/2018/05/29/university-bestow-five-honorary-degrees-convocation [End Page 495] Prof. Wang is the recipient of many distinctions and has been honored by top-notch academic institutions in the regional and international community. He is one of the few internationally renowned linguists whose scholarship and academic impact have spanned six decades and two continents across the Pacific Ocean. A legendary figure and revered authority in Chinese linguistics, Prof. Wang is a visionary and champion dedicated to promoting interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research and academic exchange between East and West among the three regions of Greater China, namely, Mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan. The new honor complements his long list of accolades and awards in recognition of his eminent scholarship and extraordinary contributions to the field. We are incredibly proud of his achievements and honored to share the joy with him on this special occasion. Shengli Feng Zhongwei Shen SHI Feng Virginia Yip [End Page 496] Copyright © 2018 The Journal of Chinese Linguistics