buckeye Marjorie K.M. Chan

Advisees -- Current and Former
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CURRENT ADVISEES - Chinese Majors/Honors: FORMER ADVISEES -- Chinese Majors (Su '96-  ) commencement-au-2007
  • Susan Zhang (majors: Chinese, Political Science)
  • Alan McKeel (honors: Chinese, Linguistics)
  • Pei-chun Tang (majors: Chinese, Industrial Design)
  • Tereasa K. Boose (majors: Chinese, Korean)
  • Lindsey C. Cook (major: Chinese)
  • 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.
  • Tabitha Hickman (majors: Chinese, International Studies, Au '07)
FORMER ADVISEES - Chinese Honors:
  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)
  graduation - June 2006

CURRENT ADVISEES -- Graduate Students:

  Ph.D. Students in Chinese Linguistics in DEALL
  Advisor and Dissertation Committee Chair to:
  1. Yan, Jing (Autumn 2000 - ; Ph.D. Candidate, Autumn 2004)
    Dissertation topic: (on sociolinguistic issues in written vernacular Cantonese)
  2. Kang, Hana (Autumn 2002 - ; M.A. thesis (Su 2004), Ph.D. Candidate, Spring 2007)
    Dissertation topic: (on learner identity and heritage language learning and language maintenance)
  3. Yang, Yan (Autumn 2001 - ; M.A. thesis (Su 2003); on leave 2006-07 and 2007-08 a.y.)
  4. Yang, George Chunsheng (Autumn 2005 - ; Ph.D. program, Autumn 2006)

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

  1. He, Yi (Autumn 2006 - )
  2. Zheng, Rongbin (Autumn 2007 - )

  Ph.D. Students in Other Departments
  Co-Advisor to:

  1. Dong, Xinran (Ph.D. Candidate, Wi 2007)
    (Advisor: Daniel E. Collins, Dept. of Slavic & E. European L&L)
    Dissertation topic: (on the pragmatics of requests in Russian and Chinese)

  New M.A. Advisee in Chinese Linguistics in DEALL

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advisees 11-2007 advisees etc 11-2007
(Above: with former DEALLers and OSU alumni at CLTA, 11 November 2007)

advisees etc 03-2006 advisees etc 03-2006
(Above: with classmates and guests, 10 March 2006)

advisees etc 05-2006 advisees etc 05-2005
(Above: 24 May 2006) (Above: with classmates,
27 May 2005)

FORMER ADVISEES -- Chinese Ph.D. Students:

Note: Some newer Ph.D. dissertations are available in digital (PDF) format from the the OSU Libraries and/or from the OhioLINK - Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) Center. Recently, Ohio State patrons also have free access to full texts (PDF format) of doctoral dissertations dated from 1997 onwards at ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.

    commencement - aug05 Monterey, June 2005
  1. Lee, Ok Joo. 2005 Ph.D. diss. (July 2005). "The Prosody of Questions in Beijing Mandarin."
  2. 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." [Now teaching at West Virginia University, see two WVU press releases (Sept '07) concerning her and her study abroad activities with her students: Press release 01 - Press release 02]
  3. Fung, Roxana Suk Yee. 2000 Ph.D. diss. "Final Particles in Standard Cantonese: Semantic Extension and Pragmatic Inference."
  4. Jin, Shunde. 1996 Ph.D. diss. "An Acoustic Study of Sentence Stress in Mandarin Chinese." [ zipped MS DOC files, 395 KB ]
  5. Tang, Jian. 1996 Ph.D. diss. "Prototypes in Lesser Seal Scripts (China, ca. 221 BC - AD 220)."
  6. Liao, Rongrong. 1994 Ph.D. diss. "Pitch Contour Formation in Mandarin Chinese: A Study of Tone and Intonation."

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

Note: Some of the more recent M.A. theses are available in digital (PDF) format from the the OSU Libraries and/or from the OhioLINK - Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) Center.

  1. Choi, Ho Jung (Au 2005 - Sp 2006)
  2. 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 ]
  3. Gilliland, Joshua. 2006 M.A. thesis. (August 2006) "Language Attitudes and Ideologies in Shanghai, China." [ PDF file, 750 KB ]
  4. Riha, Helena. 2006 M.A. thesis (February 2006) "Typology and Structure of Roman Letter Words in Mandarin Chinese."
  5. Kang, Hana.* 2004 M.A. thesis. (July 2004) "Heritage Language Maintenance, Acculturation, and Identity: Chinese and Korean 1.5 Generation Immigrants in New Jersey."
  6. Davis, Junko. 2004 M.A. thesis. (August 2004) "A Prosodic Study of the "Inverted Sentence" in Beijing Mandarin."
  7. Choi, Bumyong. 2004 M.A. (non-thesis option, Summer 2004)
  8. 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."
  9. Yan, Jing*. 2002 M.A. (non-thesis option, Spring 2002)
  10. 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 ]

  11. Frerichs, Warren (Au 1999 - Wi 2001)
  12. Lee, Ok Joo. 2000 M.A. thesis. "The Pragmatics and Intonation of Ma-Particle Questions in Mandarin." [ PDF file, 11.6 MB ]
  13. Peng, Rui. 1999 M.A. (non-thesis option)
  14. Seung, Shauna. 1998 M.A. thesis. "Towards Accuracy in Chinese Tonal Production: Seven Case Studies."
  15. 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]
  16. Cao, Huiyi. 1992 M.A. (non-thesis option)
  17. Christensen, Matthew. 1990 M.A. thesis. "The Punctual Aspect in Chinese: A Study of the Perfective and Inchoative Aspect Markers in Mandarin and Cantonese."

(Above: May 2003)

(Above: with classmates
& guests, May 2003)
NACCL-17 - Jun06
June 2005

Committee Member in Non-Advisees' Theses/Dissertations:

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