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Chinese 782
   
AUTUMN QUARTER 2004


CHINESE 782
Chinese Phonology

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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CREDITS: 3 credits.   U G
PREREQUISITES: Chinese 680 or 681, or permission of instructor
CALL NUMBER: 04792-5
TIME & PLACE: F     1:30 - 4:18 p.m.
340 Central Classroom Building
(multimedia classroom with internet connection)
OFFICE HOURS: R   3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m., or by appointment
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TEXTBOOKS
  1. Duanmu, San. 2002. The Phonology of Standard Chinese. Oxford U. Press. (ISBN: 0-19-925831 [pbk.])
    . Required. Available from SBX (1806 N. High Street, (Tel) 291.9528).
    (Note: The hardback was published in 2000; the paperback, published in 2002, corrects some errors and includes a short, new chapter.)

  2. Additional Readings (will be made available during the quarter).

Main Library Reserve:
Reference books have been placed on Reserve in Main Library; more will be added as needed. Check OSU Libraries' Course Reserves (by Prof/TA or Course) for an online list of books placed on Reserve for Chinese 680. (Note: Reserved materials for a given course are listed online for the current quarter only. Also, search for OSU's online e-journal articles at Journals (Online).)


Top COURSE DESCRIPTION
Chinese 782 investigates the phonological structure of modern (Mandarin) Chinese. Other Chinese dialects may also be included for comparative purposes.

Top COURSE OJECTIVES
This course serves as a further study of modern (Mandarin) Chinese phonology beyond the introductory level (Chinese 680, 681). The course is divided into two parts. Part I covers general aspects of synchronic Chinese phonetics/phonology, including both segmental and prosodic phonology. Readings and class discussions will be supplemented by acoustic analyses of speech sounds, including comparisons with other Chinese dialects. Part II explores some issues in Chinese phonetics and phonology from a cognitive and/or functional approach. The course aims to provide students with some cognitive, functional, and theoretical perspectives for further linguistic research.

Top COURSE CONTENT
The course will be conducted through lectures combined with class discussions of assigned readings. Course work includes students' presentation of one of the readings, and submission of 2 homework assignments and one research paper.

Top STUDENT RESPONSIBILITIES
Students are expected to:
  1. Attend class regularly and participate actively in class discussions and other class activities, including presenting and reporting on homework assignments.
    . A mailing list for the class will also be used for dissemination of information and student-initiated discussions concerning topics brought up in class.

  2. Lead the discussion on one of the assigned readings.

  3. Submit 2 short homework assignments (about 2-3 double-spaced pages, plus references and accompanying sound files or other data as needed).
    . Students who do not have their own web account may submit their assignments via email as attachment, for the instructor to upload for class-viewing.

  4. Obtain from the instructor approval for the research paper topic no later than Week 7.

  5. Present an oral version of the research paper in Week 11 and submit the final version (about 10 double-spaced pages in Week 12.

(Note: For students enrolling for an extra 2 credits under Chinese 693, submit a lengthier research paper or a third homework assignment (designed by the student with approval from the instructor).)


Top GRADING
Class discussions/participation 30%
Article/Reading presentation (1) 10%
Homework assignments (2) 20%
Research project (all phases) 40%
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100%

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SCHEDULE

This class meets every Friday afternoon during the quarter.
Readings may be subject to change after the first week of classes.



WEEK 1 Next Schedule Introduction and Background
September 24 Review: Articulatory and Acoustic Phonetics

  • International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)
  • Studying Phonetics on the Web
  • Speech Analysis Tutorial - Spectrogram Reading - Speech Analysis
  • Sound editors and speech analysis software
  • Praat: Doing Phonetics by Computer

  • (Read ahead for next week.)

        Tuesday, 28 September 2004: Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!


  • PART I:   CHINESE PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY

    WEEK 2 Next Prev Sound Inventory and Sound Combinations
    October 1 Readings:
  • Duanmu (2002), Ch. 2 & 3

  • WEEK 3 Next Prev Acoustic Studies of Consonants and Vowels
    October 8 Readings:
  • Ladefoged and Wu (1984)
  • Chen (2000)

  • WEEK 4 Next Prev Syllable Structure and R-Suffixation
    October 15 Readings:
  • Duanmu (2002), Ch. 4 & 9

      Due: Homework 1


  • WEEK 5 Next Prev Linguistic Stress and Disyllabicity
    October 22 Readings:
  • Duanmu (2002), Ch. 6 & 7

  • WEEK 6 Next Prev Tone, Tone Sandhi, and Other Connected Speech Phenomena
    October 29 Readings:
  • Duanmu (2002), Ch. 10, 11, & 12.2
  • Xu and Xu (2003)

  • PART II:   ISSUES IN CHINESE PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY

    WEEK 7 Next Prev Putonghua, Beijinghua, and Other Mandarin Varieties
    November 5 Readings:
  • Hu (1987, 1991)
  • Peng et al. (in press)

      Due: Homework 2


  • WEEK 8 Next Prev Intonation and Prosody of "Inverted Sentences" and Yes-No Questions
    November 12 Readings:
  • Shen (1990), Ch. 1 - 2
  • Kratochvil (1998)
    Supplementary Reading:
  • Chan (1993) (review of Shen 1990)

    Presentations:

  • Davis (2004) -- Presenter: J. Davis
  • Lee (2004) -- Presenter: O. Lee (guest)

  • WEEK 9 Next Prev Relative Prominence and Metrical Stress
    November 19 Readings:
  • Wang (2004), Ch. 3 & 4

  • WEEK 10 Next Prev  
    November 26   Columbus Day observed (Thanksgiving) -- no class.


    WEEK 11 Next Prev Phonology, Orthography, and Semantic Activation
    December 3 Readings:
  • Xu, Pollatsek, and Potter (1999)
  • Zhou and Marslen-Wilson (1999)

      Student Presentations


  • WEEK 12 Prev Examination Week
    December 7 Turn in Term Paper.

    Due: Tuesday, 7 December 2004, 12:00 noon



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    READINGS


    Readings may be subject to change after the course begins. Library call numbers are included for sources for which I happen to have the call numbers handy. An asterisk (*) marks web e-journal articles available at Journals (Online) (OSU users only).
    1. *Chen, Marilyn Y. 2000. "Acoustic analysis of simple vowels preceding a nasal in Standard Chinese." Journal of Phonetics 28: 43-67.

    2. Duanmu, San. 2002. The Phonology of Standard Chinese. Oxford U. Press. [PL1201 .D8 2000]

    3. Davis, Junko. 2004. A Prosodic Study of the "Inverted Sentence" in Beijing Mandarin. M.A. thesis, The Ohio State University.

    4. Hu, Mingyang (胡明扬). 1987. "Putonghua he Beijinghua" (普通话和北京话) (Putonghua and Beijinghua). Part II. In: Beijinghua Chu Tan (北京话初探)
      (The online article is a GB-encoded TEXT file at Hu Wenze's Chinese Dialectology webpage that is part of Hu Wenze and Tao Hongyin's Chinese Linguistics Page.)

    5. Hu, Mingyang (胡明扬). 1991. "Beijinghua shengmu W de yinzhi" (北京话声母W音值) (Phonetic value of W initial in Beijing speech). In: Yuyanxue Lunwen Xuan (语言论文选) (Selected Writings in Linguistics). Beijing: Zhongguo Renmin Daxue Chubanshe. Pp. 244-245.
      (This online article is a UTF8-encoded webpage (converted from an earlier GB-encoded webpage that was based on Hu Wenze's original MS Word 6 DOC file housed at the Chinese Linguistics website.)

    6. Kratochvil, Paul. 1998. "Intonation in Beijing Chinese." In: Daniel Hirst and Albert Di Cristo (eds.), Intonation Systems: A Survey of Twenty Languages. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge U. Press. Pages 417-431.

    7. Ladefoged, Peter and Zongji Wu. 1984. "Places of articulation: an investigation of Pekingese fricatives and affricates." Journal of Phonetics 12:267-278.

    8. Lee, Ok Joo. 2004. "How do we ask questions in Mandarin? - An acoustic study of yes-no questions in the Beijing variety of Mandarin." Paper presented at the Sixteenth North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics, held on 21-23 May 2004, at the University of Iowa. (To be published in the Proceedings of the Sixteenth North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics.)

    9. Peng, Shu-hui, Marjorie K.M. Chan, Chiu-yu Tseng, Tsan Huang, Ok Joo Lee, and Mary E. Beckman. (in press). "Towards a Pan-Mandarin system for prosodic transcription." In: Sun-Ah Jun (editor), Prosodic Typology: An Approach Through Intonational Phonology and Transcription. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

    10. Shen, Xiao-nan. 1990. The Prosody of Mandarin Chinese. Berkeley: U. of California Pr. [P25 .C15 v.118] (Excerpts: Chapter 1, "Introduction"; Chapter 2, "Basic intonation patterns of Mandarin Chinese".)

    11. Wang, Jing. 2004. Rhythmic Grouping, Tone Sandhi and Stress in Beijing Mandarin. Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. [Excerpts: Chapter 3, "Relative prominence"; Chapter 4, "Metrical Stress".)

    12. *Xu, Ching X. and Yi Xu. 2003. "Effects of consonant aspiration on Mandarin tones." Journal of the International Phonetic Association 33.2: 165-181.

    13. *Xu, Yaoda, Alexander Pollatsek and Mary C. Potter. 1999. "The activation of phonology during silent Chinese word reading." Journal of Experimental Psychology 25.4: 838-857.

    14. *Zhou, Xiaoli and William Marslen-Wilson. 1999. "Phonology, orthography, and semantic activation in reading Chinese." Journal of Memory and Language 41.4: 579-606.


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    SUPPLEMENTARY READINGS


    1. Chan, Marjorie K.M. 1989. "On the status of 'basic' tones." Acta Linguistica Hafniensia 21.2: 5-34.

    2. Chan, Marjorie K.M. 1993. Review of: Xiao-nan Susan Shen (1990). The Prosody of Mandarin Chinese. Berkeley: University of California Press. Journal of Phonetics (1993) 21.3:343-347.

    3. Chan, Marjorie K.M. 1996a. "Sound symbolism and the Chinese language." Proceedings of the 7th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL) and the 4th International Conference on Chinese Linguistics (ICCL). Two volumes, edited by Tsai Fa Cheng, Yafei Li and Hongming Zhang. 1996. Los Angeles, CA: GSIL Publications, University of Southern California. Volume 2, pp.17-34. [ See PDF file (210 KB) ]

    4. Chan, Marjorie K.M. 1996b. "Some thoughts on the typology of sound symbolism and the Chinese language." Proceedings of the 8th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-8). Two volumes, edited by Chin-chuan Cheng, Jerome Packard, James Yoon, and Yu-ling You. 1996. Los Angeles, CA: GSIL Publications, University of Southern California. Volume 2, pp. 1-15. [ See PDF file (210 KB) ]

    5. Chao, Yuen-Ren. 1948. "The voiced velar fricative as an initial in Mandarin." Le Maitre Phonetique 89:2-3.

    6. Chao, Yuen Ren. 1968. A Grammar of Spoken Chinese. Berkeley: University of California Press. [PL1137.S6 C5 1968] (Excerpt: Chapter 1.3, "Phonology".)

    7. *Chen, Jenn-Yeu. 1999. "The representation and processing of tone in Mandarin Chinese: Evidence from slips of the tongue." Applied Psycholinguistics 20: 289-301.

    8. Chen, Matthew Y. 2000. Tone Sandhi: Patterns Across Chinese Dialects. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. [PL1213 .C445 2000] (Excerpt: Chapter 9: "Minimal rhythmic unit as obligatory sandhi domain.")

    9. Cheng, Chin-chuan. 1973. A Synchronic Phonology of Mandarin Chinese. The Hague: Mouton. [PL1201 .C4205] (Excerpts: Chapter 1, "Introduction"; Chapter 2, "Finals"; Chapter 5, "Initials"; Chapter 6, "Tones".)

    10. Fromkin, Victoria A. 1973. "Slips of the tongue." Scientific American 229.6.110-117.

    11. Hinton, Leanne, Johanna Nichols, and John J. Ohala. 1994. "Introduction." In: Sound Symbolism, edited by Leanne Hinton, Johanna Nichols, and John J. Ohala. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 1-12.

    12. Hu, Mingyang. 1991. "Feminine accent in the Beijing vernacular: a sociolinguistic investigation." Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association XXVI.1:49-54. (Available online at the Chinese Linguistics Page (under "Sociolinguistics").) (Chinese version in: Hu Mingyang. 1991. "北京话 '女国音'" In: Yuyanxue Lunwen Xuan (语言论文选) (Selected Writings in Linguistics). Beijing: Zhongguo Renmin Daxue Chubanshe. Pp. 230-243.)

    13. Jakobson, Roman. 1971. "Quest for the essence of language." In: Selected Writings II. The Hague: Mouton. Pp.345-359.

    14. Jin, Shunde. 1996. An Acoustic Study of Sentence Stress in Mandarin Chinese. Ph.D. dissertation, Ohio State University. (Excerpt: Chapter 2, "Mandarin stress," and the "Bibliography.")
      (See also "Abstract," Chapter 1 "Introduction," Chapter 3 "Focus and stress," and Chapter 4 "The F0 Parameter.") [Main (Theses): THE:EAL1996PHDJ56]

    15. *Jones, Jeffrey A. and K.G. Munhall. 2002. "The role of auditory feedback during phonation: Studies of Mandarin tone production." Journal of Phonetics 30: 303-320.

    16. Kratochvil, Paul. 1968. The Chinese Language Today. London: Hutchinson University Library. [PL1087 .K7] (Excerpt: Chapter 2, "Phonemics".)

    17. LaPolla, Randy. 1994. "An experimental investigation into phonetic symbolism as it relates to Mandarin Chinese." In: Sound Symbolism, edited by Leanne Hinton, Johanna Nichols, and John J. Ohala. Cambridge: Cambridge U. Press. Pp.130-147.

    18. Lee, Ok Joo. 2000. The Pragmatics and Intonation of Ma-Particle Questions in Mandarin. M.A. thesis, The Ohio State University.

    19. Lin, Hua. 1996. Mandarin Tonology. Taipei: Pyramid Press. (Excerpt: Chapter 2, "Previous works on Chinese tones", esp. pp.14-39.)

    20. Ohala, John J. 1994. "The frequency code underlies the sound-symbolic use of voice pitch" In: Sound Symbolism, edited by Leanne Hinton, Johanna Nichols, and John J. Ohala. Cambridge, England: Cambridge. University Press. Pp.325-347.

    21. Sapir, Edward. 1929. "A study in phonetic symbolism." Journal of Experimental Psychology 12:225-239. (Reprinted in: Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality, edited by David G. Mandelbaum. 1949. Berkeley: U. of California Press. Pp. 61-72.

    22. Shen, Xiao-nan. 1989. "Interplay of the four citation tones and intonation in Mandarin Chinese." Journal of Chinese Linguistics 17.1:61-74.

    23. *Tan, Li Hai and Charles A. Perfetti. 1997. "Visual Chinese character recognition: Does phonological information mediate access to meaning?" Journal of Memory and Language 37.1:41-57.

    24. Taylor, John R. 1995. Linguistic Categorization: Prototypes in Linguistic Theory. Second edition. New York: Oxford University Press. (Excerpts: Chapters 1-4, pp.1-80 (for background); Chapter 12, "Prototype categories in phonology", pp.222-238.) (Note: The 1995 second edition is identical in pagination to the first edition except for the adding of one more chapter at the end of the 1989 edition, to incorporate new developments since 1989, especially with respect to the treatment of lexical semantics.)

    25. Saussure, Ferdinand de. 1959. Course in General Linguistics, edited by Charles Bally and Albert Sechehaye. Translated by Wade Baskin. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co. (Excerpts: Chapter 1, "Nature of the linguistic sign", and Chapter 2, "Immutability and mutability of the sign".)

    26. Shen, Jiaxuan. 1993. "Slips of the tongue and the syllable structure." In: Essays on the Chinese Language by Contemporary Chinese Scholars, edited by Shun-chiu Yau. Paris: Centre de Recherches Linguistiques Sur L'Asie Orientale, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. Pp.139-162.

    27. *Wan, I-Ping and Jeri Jaeger. 1998. "Speech errors and the representation of tone in Mandarin Chinese." Phonology 15:417-461.

    28. *Wang, Yue, Dawn M. Behne, Allard Jongman, and Joan A. Sereno. 2004. "The role of linguistic experience in the hemispheric processing of lexical tone." Applied Psycholinguistics 25: 449-466.

    29. Wennerstrom, Ann K. 2001. The Music of Everyday Speech: Prosody and Discourse Analysis. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.

    30. Xue, De Bao (ed.). 2001. Chinese Phonology in Generative Grammar. San Diego: Academic Press.

    31. Xu, Yi. 1999. "Effects of tone and focus on the formation and alignment of fo contours." Journal of Phonetics 27:55-105.

    32. Yip, Moira. 2002. Tone. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press.

    33. *Yip, Moira. 2003. "Casting doubt on the Onset-Rime distinction." Lingua 113: 779-816.


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    SUPPLEMENTARY REFERENCES


    1. Chen, Gwang-tsai. 1972. "The pitch range of English and Chinese speakers." Journal of Chinese Linguistics 2.2:159-171.

    2. Chen, Gwang Tsai. 1972. A Comparative Study of Pitch Range of Native Speakers of Midwestern English and Mandarin Chinese: An Acoustic Study. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Wisconsin.

    3. Cheng, Chin-Chuan. 1968. "English stresses and Chinese tones in Chinese sentences." Phonetica 18:77-88.

    4. Goh, Yeng-Seng. 1997. The Segmental Phonology of Beijing Mandarin. Taipei: Crane Publishing Co., Ltd.

    5. Gussenhoven, Carlos and Haike Jacobs. 1998. Understanding Phonology. New York: Arnold.

    6. Howie, John Marshall. 1976. Acoustical Studies of Mandarin Vowels and Tones. Cambridge: Cambridge U. Press.

    7. Johnson, Keith. 1997. Acoustic and Auditory Phonetics. Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers.

    8. Ladefoged, Peter. 1993. A Course in Phonetics. Third edition. New York: Harcourt Brace College Publishers.

    9. Ladefoged, Peter. 2005. Vowels and Consonants: An Introduction to the Sounds of Languages. Second edition. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing.

    10. Lee, Ok Joo. 2005. The Prosody of Questions in Beijing Mandarin. Ph.D. dissertation, Ohio State University.

    11. Liao, Rongrong. 1994. Pitch Contour Formation in Mandarin Chinese: A Study of Tone and Intonation. Ph.D. dissertation, Ohio State University.

    12. Maddieson, Ian. 1984. Patterns of Sounds. Cambridge: Cambridge U. Press.

    13. Peng, Shu-Hui. 1996. Phonetic Implementation and Perception of Place Coarticulation and Tone Sandhi. Ph.D. dissertation, Ohio State University. (Mandarin Third Tone sandhi and place "assimilation" between Taiwanese coda and onset stops are examined. See abstract, part of OSDL.)

    14. Huang, Tsan. 2004. Language-Specificity in Auditory Perception of Chinese Tones. Ph.D. dissertation, Ohio State University.

    15. Wang, H. Samuel. 1995. Experimental Studies in Taiwanese Phonology. Taipei: Crane Publishing Co. Ltd. (It includes a discussion of segmentation of the syllable into phoneme-sized units and speech errors ('slips of the tongue'). Also addressed is the issue of the psychological reality of tone sandhi rules and related issues.)

    16. Wu, Zongji (吳宗済). 1986. Hanyu Putonghua Danyinjie Yutu Ce (汉语普通话单音节语图册) (= The Spectrographic Album of Mono-syllables of Standard Chinese). Beijing: Zhongguo Shehui Kexue Chubanshe.

    17. Zhang, Zheng-sheng. 1988. Tone and Tone Sandhi in Chinese. Ph.D. dissertation, Ohio State University.

    18. Zhou, Xiaolin and William Marslen-Wilson. 1997. "The abstractness of phonological representation in the Chinese mental lexicon." In Cognitive Processing of Chinese and Related Asian Languages, edited by Husan-Chih Chen. Hong Kong: Chinese U. of Hong Kong. (On Third Tone sandhi.)


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