• Liu, Yawen (majors: Chinese, Business)

• Jill Barber, John Nguyen, Robert Besaw, Naoko Sato, Isao Shoji, John Schurrer, Kuniko Yasu, Amy Carr, Fred (Bill) Mankins, Sharon Kim, Li-Te Ted Chen, Steven Vandyke, Lee Zeak, Emily Stopa, Pei-chun Tang, Tereasa K. Boose, Annie Wu, Carl Veshka
• Tabitha Hickman (majors: Chinese, International Studies, Au 07)
• Susan Zhang (majors: Chinese, Political Science, Sp 08)
• Lindsey C. Cook (major: Chinese, Sp 09); Alan McKeel (honors: Chinese, Linguistics, Sp 09)
• Phillip Johnson (major: Chinese, Sp 10)

1. Lin, Jennifer. 2006 Senior Honors thesis. (June 2006). "Taiwanese (台語): A study of the language and its cultural, sociological and historical significance." (Project advisor: Marjorie K.M. Chan; project co-advisor: Kirk A. Denton)

• Yasu, Kuniko. 1999. Senior Honors thesis. "A cross-language study of classifying stops in Japanese and Chinese: the difference and its significance for second language acquisition" (Committee chair: Michael Broe, Department of Linguistics)

CURRENT ADVISEES -- Graduate Students:

1. Zheng, Rongbin (Autumn 2007 - ; M.A. (Sp 2009)
   Research interests: Chinese historical phonology, migration and language contact phenomena, dialectology (NE Min (Min-dong))
2. Wiener, Seth (Autumn 2009 - ; admitted to Ph.D. program, Au 2010)
   Research interests: Chinese phonetics and phonology (esp. Taiwanese (S. Min))

3. Tan, Yutian (Autumn 2010 - ; admitted to Ph.D. program, Au 2011)
   Research interests: Chinese phonology, Chinese dialectology (Cantonese and other Yue dialects)

  M.A. Students in Chinese Linguistics in DEALL
  Advisor (and Thesis Committee Chair) to:

4. Chen, Litong (Autumn 2010 - )
   Research interests: Chinese phonology, Chinese dialectology and contact linguistics (Cantonese & Putonghua; Chongqing Mandarin)

  Doctoral Student(s) in Linguistics with Chinese Linguistics Focus
  Co-advising role to:

• Tsui, Tsz-Him (Autumn 2010 - )
  Research interest: Chinese phonetics and phonology, Chinese dialectology (Cantonese, Min)

  New Advisees in Chinese Linguistics in DEALL

• --

1. Yang, Chunsheng (George). 2011 Ph.D. diss. (February 2011). "The Acquisition of Mandarin Prosody by American Learners of Chinese as a Foreign Language (CFL)." (Au 2005 - Wi 2011)
2. Kang, Hana 2010 Ph.D. diss. (December 2010). "Computer-Based Writing and Paper-Based Writing: A Study of Beginning-Level and Intermediate-Level Chinese Learners' Writing." (Au 2002 - Au 2010; Wi 2011 graduation)
3. Yan, Jing. 2008 Ph.D. diss. (August 2008). "Social Variation of Vernacular Written Cantonese in Guangzhou (Canton City), China."
4. Lee, Ok Joo. 2005 Ph.D. diss. (July 2005). "The Prosody of Questions in Beijing Mandarin."
5. Lin, Huey Hannah. 2005 Ph.D. diss. (March 2005). "Contextualizing Linguistic Politeness in Chinese -- A Socio-Pragmatic Approach with Examples from Persuasive Sales Talks in Taiwan Mandarin."

6. Yang, Yan. (Au 2001 - Su 2003, M.A. program; Au 2003 - Sp 2006, Ph.D. program; on leave 2006-2008)
7. Fung, Roxana Suk Yee. 2000 Ph.D. diss. "Final Particles in Standard Cantonese: Semantic Extension and Pragmatic Inference."
8. Jin, Shunde. 1996 Ph.D. diss. "An Acoustic Study of Sentence Stress in Mandarin Chinese."
9. Tang, Jian. 1996 Ph.D. diss. "Prototypes in Lesser Seal Scripts (China, ca. 221 BC - AD 220)."
10. Liao, Rongrong. 1994 Ph.D. diss. "Pitch Contour Formation in Mandarin Chinese: A Study of Tone and Intonation."

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• Dong, Xinran. 2009 Ph.D. diss. (June 2009 defence; Spring 2009 late quarter defence; Summer 2009 graduation) "Requests in Academic Settings in English, Russian and Chinese." (Advisor: Daniel E. Collins, Dept. of Slavic & E. European L&L; Co-Advisor: Marjorie K.M. Chan, DEALL)
• Wong, Wai Yi Peggy. 2006 Ph.D. diss. (March 2006) "Syllable Fusion in Hong Kong Cantonese Spontaneous Speech." (Advisor: Mary E. Beckman, Dept. of Linguistics; Co-Advisor: Marjorie K.M. Chan, DEALL)

FORMER (and CONTINUING*) ADVISEES -- Chinese M.A. Students:

1. Ratté, Alexander Takenobu (Summer 2011) "Contact-Induced Phonological Change in Taiwanese."
2. Zheng, Rongbin.* 2009 M.A. (Autumn 2007 - Spring 2009, non-thesis option)
3. He, Yi. 2008 M.A. (Autumn 2006 - Spring 2008, non-thesis option, Summer 2008)
4. Yang, George Chunsheng (Autumn 2005 - Spring 2006; admission into the Ph.D. program, Autumn 2006; M.A. & Ph.D. Candidacy, Spring 2009)
5. Choi, Ho Jung. (Au 2005 - Sp 2006)
6. Xu, Wang. 2006 M.A. thesis. (August 2006) "A Comparison of Chinese and Taiwan Sign Languages: Towards a New Model for Sign Language Comparison." [ PDF file, 1.1 MB ]

7. Gilliland, Joshua. 2006 M.A. thesis. (August 2006) "Language Attitudes and Ideologies in Shanghai, China." [ PDF file, 750 KB ]
8. Riha, Helena. 2006 M.A. thesis (February 2006) "The Morphology and Semantics of Roman Letter Words in Mandarin Chinese." [ PDF file, 1.1 MB ]
9. Kang, Hana. 2004 M.A. thesis. (July 2004) "Heritage Language Maintenance, Acculturation, and Identity: Chinese and Korean 1.5 Generation Immigrants in New Jersey." [ PDF file, 0.8 MB ]
10. Davis, Junko. 2004 M.A. thesis. (August 2004) "A Prosodic Study of the "Inverted Sentence" in Beijing Mandarin."
11. Choi, Bumyong. 2004 M.A. (non-thesis option, Summer 2004)

12. Yang, Yan. 2003 M.A. thesis. (August 2003) "Ne in the Novel Honglou Meng (Dream of the Red Chamber): Gender, Social Status and a Sentence-Final Particle."
13. Yan, Jing. 2002 M.A. (non-thesis option, Spring 2002)
14. Chan, Thomas A. 2001 M.A. thesis. "Orthographic Change: Yue (Cantonese) Chinese Dialect Characters in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries." [ PDF file, 3.2 MB ]
15. Frerichs, Warren (Au 1999 - Wi 2001)
16. Lee, Ok Joo. 2000 M.A. thesis. "The Pragmatics and Intonation of Ma-Particle Questions in Mandarin." [ PDF file, 11.6 MB ]

17. Peng, Rui. 1999 M.A. (non-thesis option)
18. Seung, Shauna. (Wennerod, Shauna Seung). 1998 M.A. thesis. "Towards Accuracy in Chinese Tonal Production: Seven Case Studies."
19. Shen, Haibing. 1997 M.A. thesis. "Gender and Conversational Interaction in Mandarin Chinese: A Corpus-Based Study of Radio Talk Shows." [ PDF file, 2.3 MB]
20. Cao, Huiyi. 1992 M.A. (non-thesis option)
21. Christensen, Matthew. 1990 M.A. thesis. "The Punctual Aspect in Chinese: A Study of the Perfective and Inchoative Aspect Markers in Mandarin and Cantonese."

Committee Member in Non-Advisees' Theses/Dissertations:

• See Ph.D. Dissertation/M.A. Thesis/Senior Honors Thesis Committee Member.

Other Resources:

• See Chinese Linguistics Theses and Dissertations at The Ohio State University.