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I am a Professor at the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, University of Malaya (UM). My main areas of research interest are the acoustic features of spoken languages, particularly Malaysian English and Malacca Portuguese. I also work on language documentation and revitalisation. I have published in these areas, and among my most recent publication is the IPA system for Malacca Portuguese in the Journal of the International Phonetic Association, and an invited article on language endangerment in Southeast Asia for ASEANFocus (https://www.iseas.edu.sg/images/pdf/ASEANFocus%20-%20April%202019.pdf). I have also been working on capacity building for language documentation with Professor Peter K. Austin of SOAS, UK under a Newton Ungku-Omar Advanced Researcher Fellowship. I strongly believe that there needs to be a move away from a Grab-and-Go type of research to one that engages communities, and thus, I have been working with representatives of the Malacca Portuguese community on language documentation and revitalisation efforts. My initial work on Malacca Portuguese is archived at the Endangered Languages Archive (http://elar.soas.ac.uk/deposit/0123). More recently I developed a mobile application, BibePortMal, a Malacca Portuguese dictionary, in collaboration with several Malacca Portuguese speakers (https://bibeportmal.um.edu.my). For a glimpse of my research on Malacca Portuguese see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2iJDB__x7w&feature=youtu.be.