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CHINESE 680 Introduction to Chinese Linguistics Professor Marjorie K.M. Chan Dept. of E. Asian Lang. & Lit. The Ohio State University Columbus, OH 43210 U.S.A. |
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CHINESE 680 Introduction to Chinese Linguistics Professor Marjorie K.M. Chan Dept. of E. Asian Lang. & Lit. The Ohio State University Columbus, OH 43210 U.S.A. |
This course page was updated periodically during the quarter.
| CREDITS: | 5 credits. U G |
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| PREREQUISITES: | Chinese 103 or equivalent, or permission of instructor |
| CALL NUMBER: | 04336-6 |
| TIME: | T R 3:30-5:18 p.m. |
| PLACE: | 254 Central Classroom Building (2009 Millikin Road) (multimedia classroom with internet connection) |
| OFFICE HOURS: | T 10:00 - 12:00 noon, or by appointment (tentative) Office: 366 Cunz Hall (1841 Millikin Road) Tel: 292-3619 (292-5816 for messages, 292-3225 for faxes) E-mail: chan.9 @osu.edu (close the gap) |
| C680 COURSE PAGE: | http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/chan9/c680.htm |
| MC's Home Page: MC's ChinaLinks: |
http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/chan9 ChinaLinks.osu.edu |
Main Library Reserve:
Reference books will be placed on Reserve in Main Library as needed. Check OSU Libraries' Course Reserves (by Prof/TA or Course) for an online list of books placed on Reserve for Chinese 681. (Note: Reserved materials for a given course are listed online for the current quarter only. Also, search for OSU's web e-journal articles at OSU OSCAR Web E-Journals.)
[2] Prepare hardcopy handouts or transparencies, or prepare a digital file in PPT format (for a
PowerPoint presentation), or in some other digital file format (DOC, PDF, NJX, etc.).
[3] A hardcopy is optional, but practical if appendices are included
that would otherwise require scanning of each page of the appendix.)
All homework assignments and term papers are to be placed online and internally-linked for class use.
Classes are held on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
COURSE DESCRIPTION
COURSE OJECTIVES
COURSE CONTENT
STUDENT RESPONSIBILITIES
[1] These may be a combination of short reactions papers and written responses to specific questions
from the instructor based on the readings.
The assignments should be submitted in digital format (DOC, RTF, NJX, PDF, HTML, or some other format) that will
be internally-linked for class use. A hardcopy is optional, except in cases where handwritten material is
submitted. Files are to be uploaded by the students to their personal web subdirectory if they have one;
otherwise submitted to the instructor for uploading.
Code of Student Conduct: Academic Misconduct.
Please also note that students need to adhere to The Ohio State University's
Code of Student Conduct,
with particular reference here to "Academic misconduct,"
defined as "[a]ny activity that tends to compromise the academic integrity of the university,
or subvert the educational process." (For examples, see section 3335-23-04 Prohibited conduct.)
GRADING
Class discussions/participation
30%
Homework assignments (3)
30%
Research project (all phases)
40%
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100%
This is a preliminary schedule. Activities and reading selections may be modified when the quarter begins.
WEEK 1
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| 9/26 | Orientation and Introduction . Setting up individual web user accounts, passwords, research tools, etc.
Guest lecturer:
(Discussion of reading selections begins on 10/3. In the meantime, read ahead if you have purchased your textbooks.) |
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WEEK 2 |
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| 10/1 | Articulatory Phonetics: Place and Manner of Articulation . International Phonetic Association and downloadable audio files (wav files) accompanying the languages illustrated in the Handbook of the IPA. Reading (none): |
10/3 | The Chinese Language and Its Dialects Readings:
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| 10/8 | Phonetics, Phonology and Romanization: Initials and Finals (IPA, Pinyin, Wade-Giles) Reading:
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10/10 | Tone, Stress, and Intonation
Readings:
Syllable ma in: Tone 1 to Tone 4 Due: Homework Assignment 1. |
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WEEK 4 |
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| 10/15 | In-Class Recording & Speech Analysis
Comparison of utterances: |
10/17 | Typological Description and Grammar Readings: |
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WEEK 5 |
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| 10/22 | Language and Metaphor: The Case of 'Finger' and 'Palm' Reading:
Due: Homework Assignment 2. |
10/24 | Word Structure Reading:
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| 10/29 | Simple Declarative Sentences Readings: |
10/31 | Temporal Reference and the Two Le's Readings: Due: One-page project proposal and select references. |
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| 11/5 | Negation and Verb Copying Readings: |
11/7 | Ba and Bei Constructions Readings: |
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WEEK 8 |
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| 11/12 | Imperatives, Questions, and S-F Particles Readings:
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11/14 | Language Use in Context: Refusal Reading: Due: Homework Assignment 3. |
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| 11/19 | The Chinese Script Readings: |
11/21 | Language Reform Reading: Guest lecturer:
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WEEK 10 |
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| 11/26 | Language and Gender Reading:
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11/28 | No class - Thanksgiving Day.
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WEEK 11 |
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| 12/3 | Student Presentations |
12/5 | Student Presentations
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WEEK 12: EXAM WEEK |
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Term paper due: Tuesday, 10 December 2002, 12:00 noon (Note: Request for extension must be made by the end of Week 11.) |
(For reference: Charts, figures, tables.)
(Or click here to cite this particular web page using "copy-and-paste." Hit 'BACK' on your web browser to return to this part of the web page.)
Suggestion for help with selecting a topic for your term paper project: Start by searching under 'SUBJECT' in OSU's OSCAR for Chinese language -- bibliography.
Our Main Library has several Chinese linguistics bibliographies (e.g., by Paul Fu-Mien Yang, Alain Lucas, Winston Yang et al., T. W. Kim and A. Wawrzyszko, Maurice Tseng, etc., including
those in Chinese) that are useful for term paper topic selection and finding references.
One bibliography that got overlooked in the cataloging under "Chinese language -- bibliography" is William S-Y Wang and Anatole Lyovin's 1970, database-generated CLIBOC:
Chinese Linguistics Bibliography On Computer. (Cambridge: Cambridge U. Press).
Such bibliographies (albeit some more dated than others) also provide valuable information on which journals you might check out for more recent articles relevant for your research topic.
In other cases, you may be interested in using some dictionaries as your source of data. One place to start is to
search under 'SUBJECT' for Chinese language -- dictionaries, which will give you over 300 titles,
including a few bibliographies of Chinese language dictionaries (some of which are two-way, Chinese-English/English-Chinese dictionaries).
Main Library's collection includes specialized Chinese dictionaries of all kinds, such as dictionaries on classifers, verbs, or adjectives (or stative verbs),
reverse dictionaries (hint: search under 'SUBJECT' for Chinese language -- reverse indexes for dictionaries
organized based on the second morpheme in a compound; e.g., Hanyu Daopai Cidian (Han yu tao p'ai tz'u tien, MAIN/EAS Reading Room: PL1420 .H2985 1987),
Han-Ying Niyin Cidian (Han Ying ni yin tz'u tien [A Reverse Chinese-English dictionary], MAIN Stacks: PL1455 .H335 1985),
Daoxu Xiandai Hanyu Cidian (Tao hsu hsien tai Han yu tz'u tien, MAIN Stacks: PL1498 .T36 1987),
and the reverse Chinese dictionary of verbal compounds, Dongci Nixu Cidian (Tung tz'u ni hsu tz'u tien, MAIN/EAS Reading Room: PL1235 .C46 1986),
synonym (tongyi 'same meaning') dictionaries, antonym (fanyi 'opposite meaning') dictionaries, dialect (and bi-dialect) dictionaries and vocabulary compilations, loanword dictionaries,
word frequency lists, etc.
To assist you in your linguistic research, there are also various dictionaries amd glossaries of linguistic terminology. The OSU Libraries' collection includes:
Additional references (in Wade-Giles romanization) provided by Guoqing Li, OSU Chinese Studies Librarian (9/19/01 guest lecture in C680):
There are also word lists, glossaries, and dictionaries in digital form that is web-accessible, and some of them
are searchable online, as given in my
Word Lists and Online Glossaries/Dictionaries for Chinese (and Japanese).
Other online resources include Chinese character frequency lists that are part of Jun Da's Chinese Text Computing Project website.
Besides conducting online searches for sources, do take time to browse through the stacks
in sections of the library with books and journals on Chinese language and linguistics. Needless to say, references in recent publications are useful for additional sources.
(Hence, you might also want to check out our recent graduates'
Chinese M.A. theses and
Chinese Ph.D. dissertations
for references. If those webpages have not been updated,
also check out my webpage containing a current list of my
advisees'
theses and dissertations.)
An important part of the purpose of writing a term paper is learning how to find sources in conducting your research
and then how to fine-tune your research topic to something manageable for a term paper.
To retrieve articles from these e-journals, go to:
Some sources of e-journals:
The photo used as the logo was originally from the website of the
Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden.
This garden, which is located
in Vancouver Chinatown, Canada, and just half a block from my mother's dwelling, is the only full-sized classical Chinese garden
outside China. Although built in the 1980's, it used the ancient techniques of the originals that were built in the Ming dynasty (1368-1644).
(A condensed version, which first appeared in 1937 in the Chinese Year Book, Shanghai,
was the first scientific classification of the Chinese language into dialect groups, together with other language families spoken in China.)
(See also some general observations on gender differences in education and opportunities in the
concluding remarks in my 1998
article, "Sentence particles je and jek in Cantonese and their distribution across gender and sentence types."
In: Engendering Communication: Proceedings of the Fifth Berkeley Women and Language Conference.
April 24-26, 1998, Berkeley, California. Edited by Suzanne Wertheim, Ashlee Bailey, and Monica Corston-Oliver. 1998.
Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Women and Language Group.
Pages 117-128.)
. 1987.
"Putonghua he Beijinghua"
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(Putonghua and Beijinghua).
Part II.
In: Beijinghua Chu Tan (
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(This is a GB-encoded TEXT file at Hu Wenze's Chinese
Dialectology webpage, which is part of Hu Wenze and Tao Hongyin's
Chinese Linguistics Page.)
. 1991.
"Beijinghua shengmu W de yinzhi" (
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(Phonetic value of W initial in Beijing speech). In: Yuyanxue Lunwen Xuan (
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(Selected Writings in Linguistics) Beijing: Zhongguo Renmin Daxue Chubanshe. Pp. 244-245.
(GB-encoded HTML file, based on Hu Wenze's original MS Word 6 DOC file
at the Chinese Linguistics website.)
Excellent resources, "handouts", and links to tutorials, etc., to assist undergraduate students -- and
those for whom English is a second (or third) foreign language -- in their research and writing.
NOTE: How to cite a webpage -- include three pieces of information: title, URL, and date of access - for example:
Marjorie Chan's Chinese 680: Introduction to Chinese Linguistics
<http://deall.ohio-state.edu/chan.9/c680.htm>
(Autumn 2002)
[Accessed 18 August 2002].
Some working knowledge of Wade-Giles romanization is indispensable for conducting online library searches.
If you are accessing the library with Big5-encoding and decoding capabilities, you can also telnet and select the VT100 version of OSCAR (login as library)
to conduct searches in Chinese. Please also keep in mind that Main Library houses its East Asian collections in
three locations: (1) "use in library" references are in the East Asian Studies (EAS) Reading Room;
(2) publications in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean are in the East Asian Studies (EAS) collection on the 9th floor; and
(3) publications in English (and other Western languages) are elsewhere in the Main Stacks.
If you have a specific e-journal or article in mind, go directly to
OSU OSCAR Web E-Journals.
Search engines (including the DEALL Search Engine for
searching well over 1,000 webpages within our department's web subdirectory), publishers, Asian studies associations and journals (with indices),
traditional Chinese culture, Chinese e-texts, etc.
Downloadable CJK fonts and decoders, IPA and Pinyin fonts, etc.
Chinese dialectology, Chinese linguistics associations and journals (with tables of content/indices), conferences, as well as
such websites as the Bibliography of Synchronic Phonology of Chinese Dialects,
Chinese Linguistics Page (with online Chinese linguistics articles), Virtual Tutorials in Phonology (VTP) site,
links to website with Chinese Romanization Comparative Charts (for
Hanyu Pinyin, Wade-Giles, Gwoyeu Romatzyh, Zhuyin Fuhao, Tongyong (adopted in July 2002 by the Taiwan
government)), as well as links concerning Unicode and Chinee Character Sets and
Internal Codes, etc.
Links to linguistics associations and journals (with tables of contents and indices, etc.) --
including a link to the International Digital Electronic Access Library's website,
which houses such publications as the Journal of Phonetics,
with downloadable abstracts and recently-published, full articles (in PDF format) for OSU and other subscribing institutions (guest logins are also available);
general references (including a link to the searchable, on-line Oxford English Dictionary and other dictionaries and references),
other internet resources, transcription tools and (commercial and freely-downloadable) software for speech analysis; tutorials for acoustic phonetics, including
G. Dillon's Resources for Studying Human Speech and
CSLU - Center for Spoken Language Understanding's website for Spectrogram Reading;
web-authoring tutorials and tools, etc.
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Originally created on 6 June 1996; revised since for each course offering, with the most recent major revision
for Autumn 2002.
Last update: 14 September 2003 (for archiving).
Copyright © 1996-200x Marjorie K.M. Chan. All rights reserved on course syllabus and on-line materials developed for the course.
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