AUTUMN QUARTER 1999 CHINESE 889 Seminar in Chinese Linguistics: Intonation and Sentence-Final Particles Professor Marjorie K.M. Chan Dept. of E. Asian Lang. & Lit. The Ohio State University Columbus, OH 43210 U.S.A.

1. Readings Packet (a subset of the required readings). Available from Tuttle Copez (2055 Millikin Road, 292-2219 or 292-2000). This is a new facility just past the University Bookstore. Hours: 7:30 a.m. - 9:30 p.m. (Mon.-Fri.), and 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. (Sat. & Sun.).

2. Other required readings are available via the web and/or on Reserve in Main Library.
   Check OSU Libraries' Course Reserves (by Prof/TA or Course) for an online list of books and journals placed on Reserve for Chinese 889. There may be an occasional cross-listing of books for Chinese 680. (C889 reserved materials are listed online for the current quarter only.)

3. Audiocassette tapes (60-min. tapes) will be made available during the quarter in the Language Lab, 108 Cunz Hall (Inform the staff/student helpers that the tapes are for "C889," and that these tapes are placed on their "Temporary Shelf" near the counter.)
   Available: "Dongguo Xiangsheng he Lang," Bolinger's 1982 talk, Christensen's 1994 Pear Film recordings, Cruttenden's 1997 recordings, "Saving On Cars" episode, Mary Erbaugh's "Pear Stories" recordings (portions).

4. Videotape: "Pear Film" (6-min. duration). Available from the Language Lab, 108 Cunz Hall (Inform the staff/student helpers that the tape is for "C889," and that it is placed on their "Temporary Shelf" near the counter.)

There has been very limited research on the study of intonation in modern (Mandarin) Chinese, and much of that has focussed on the interaction between tone and intonation. As to the study of sentence-final particles, they never play a prominent role in sentence-based, formal grammar, and those that appear typically serve grammatical functions, such as sentence-final ma occurring at the end of yes-no questions. They also appear in semantic analyses of aspect markers, including sentence-final particles (e.g., inchoative le). Publications on the semantics and pragmatics of those sentence-final particles that are "optional" (i.e., they are not obligtatory for grammatical function) do exist, but they remain relatively rare. In any case, typically, such grammatical studies do not dwell on the intonational structure of sentences containing these sentence-final particles. Rarer still, then, are descriptive and acoustic studies on the interaction between intonation and sentence-final particles in general, and with respect to affective functions of sentence-final particles in particular. That is, there are very few studies on the use of intonation and its interplay with sentence-final particles in Chinese to convey a speaker's attitude or emotional state. Of research interest for this seminar is the question of what is the division of labor in Chinese with respect to the use of intonation alone, and the addition of those "optional" sentence-final particles that are ubiquitous in casual, conversational speech. We will also investigate the types of intonational contours that co-occur with the various sentence-final particles and how these intonational contours are interpreted. This course takes a broad functional approach to explore intonational meaning, pragmatics of sentence-final particles, and the semantics and pragmatics of the interaction between intonation and sentence-final particles (also referred to as "utterance particles," "discourse particles," etc., in various discourse- and corpus-based studies). Acoustic investigations are combined with discourse-based analyses in the seminar.

The course aims to provide students with opportunities to explore and examine the pragmatics of the interplay between intonation and sentence-final particles in the Chinese language (including its dialects). This will be accomplished through assigned readings, acoustic and textual analyses of speech data, surveys, and other relevant activities.

Classes consist of lectures combined with class discussions of assigned readings. Students are expected to do their assigned reading(s) before class, and to participate actively in class activities, including presenting and leading discussions on some of the readings. Students are also encouraged to provide digital or audiotaped recordings, textual data, and other resources for class discussion and extensions of the readings.

Each student is expected to prepare and share with classmates their on-going, online journal. The online journals record the students' observations of use of intonation and sentence-final particles during the course of the quarter, and reactions to topics or problems discussed in class, the readings, others' online journals, etc. Students taking the course for 5 credits will submit an additional small project. This may be: (1) a squib (circa 3-5 double-spaced pages) based on a topic or issue raised in class, the readings, or their own/others' online journal entries; (2) an audiotaped (or digitized) recording of read speech or text (e.g., written narrative) or short conversation (or segment of a tv/radio program) and analysis of the data; (3) a small pilot, acoustic study on intonation; or (4) a small corpus or survey, and analysis of the findings. Other topics may be proposed for instructor's approval.

The squib, or some other project, may be submitted in one of the following formats: (a) as a hardcopy, together with a digitized copy on disk, in the instructor's mailbox in DEALL, 204 Cunz Hall, (b) as an HTML file placed online, or (c) as a .doc file via email as attachment. Include audiotaped recordings, sound files, and/or transcripts as needed.

	3 Credits:				5 Credits:
	Class participation/discussion	50%			Class participation/discussion	30%
	Online journal	50%			Online journal	35%
	------				Squib/project	35%
	100%				------
					100%

SCHEDULE

This class meets every Tuesday afternoon during the quarter beginning in Week 2.
The readings below are tentative; final course reading selection will be decided after the course begins.

WEEK 1
	(Autumn Quarter 1999 begins on Wednesday, September 22.)

WEEK 2	Introduction
Sept. 28	Background on topic, scope, and foci of seminar If time permits: Listening and discussion of Bolinger (1982) Supplementary/Background Readings: Bolinger (1982) - hardcopy (distribute in class) and audiotaped recording Cruttenden (1997), Ch.5 - comparative intonation (cross-linguistic comparison) Erbaugh (1985) - SFPs as an Asian areal feature Pierrehumbert (1980), Ch.1.1 and 1.6

WEEK 3	Basic Intonation Types and other Prosodic Phenomena
Oct. 5	Readings: Chao (1968), Ch.1.3.7 - 13 main types of intonation     (M.Chan/L.Qu's presentation of L. Qu's Spring 1999 digitized recordings) Chao (1968), Ch.2 (skim for observations on prosody) Ho (1976) Supplementary Readings: Chao (1933) Lyovin (1978)

WEEK 4	Basic Intonation Types: Acoustic Studies
Oct. 12	Readings: Liu and Shi (1988) Shen (1990), Ch.1-2 Shen 1989 Supplementary Readings: Ho (1977) [Added 10/14/99] Shi (1980) [Added 10/14/99] Chan (1993) Yang (1995) [Added 10/05/99] Ladd (1996), Ch.4.4.1-4.4.2 Ward and Hirschberg (1985)

WEEK 5	Intonation, Focus, and Stress
Oct. 19	Intro to Mandarin ToBI for transcribing Mandarin prosody (postponed from Week 3) (Presentation by Ok Joo Lee; M-ToBI System - work-in-progress) Reading: Jin (1996), Ch. 4 Review: Chao (1968), Ch.2 Supplementary Readings: Pierrehumbert (1999) Yin (1984) Jin (1996), Ch. 1-3 Liao (1990), Ch.7.2-7.3 Meng (1982) Li, Thompson, and Zhang (1998) Brown (1983)

WEEK 6	Intonation and Sentence-Final Particles
Oct. 26	Readings: Chao (1968), Ch.8.5 - set of 28 particles Li and Thompson (1981), Ch. 7.2-7.6 - ne, ba, ou, a/ya Supplementary Readings: Hu (1981, 1991) - SFPs Liu et al. (1983) - SFPs and intonation Ding (1985) - SFPs in sequence

WEEK 7

Discourse Analysis of Sentence-Final Particles I

Nov. 2

Readings (for Weeks 7 & 8): Chu (1998), Ch.4.1-4.2 - ma, a/ya, ba, ne, (le), me McGinnis (1990), Ch.2 - ma Wang (1982) - a Han (1995) - ba Chappell - me Reflect on the interaction of intonation and SFPs Supplementary Readings: McGinnis (1990), Ch.1 Chu CZ (1994) - a Shao (1989) - ne (interrogative (vs. declarative) use) Alleton (1988) - on rhetorical Qs Zhang (1997) - on A-not-A Qs mainly, yes-no Qs, etc. Ladd (1981)

WEEK 8	Discourse Analysis of Sentence-Final Particles II
Nov. 9	Readings (continued from Week 7)

WEEK 9	Discourse Analysis of Sentence-Final Particles III
Nov. 16	Readings: Chu (1998), Ch.4.3-4.4 - le, ne, me Alleton (1981) - ne Summary and discussion: intonation-SFP interaction

WEEK 10

Exploration of Intonation-SFP Interaction: The Pear/Guava Stories

Nov. 23

Study in class – film, audiotapes, transcripts Date sources*: Mary Erbaugh’s audiotaped recordings and transcripts Matt Christensen’s audiotaped recordings and transcripts in Christensen (1994) Readings (for background to the data): Erbaugh (1990) Christensen (1994), Ch.1-2 *Sincere thanks to Prof. Matt Christensen (Brigham Young U.) for giving permission to use his audiotaped recordings for the class, and to Prof. Mary Erbaugh (Chinese U. of Hong Kong) for generously sending her audiotaped recordings and transcripts.

WEEK 11	Special Activities for Last Week of Class
Nov. 30	Student Presentation of Squib (those taking 5 credits) M. Chan, short presentation on some pragmatic and gender-linked issues involving intonation and SFPs

WEEK 12	Examination Week
Dec. 6	Turn in Squib. Due by Monday, December 6, 5:00 p.m. Put a hardcopy plus disk copy in instructor's mailbox in DEALL, 204 Cunz Hall, or place on the Web as an online HTML file, or email as an attachment. (Note: Request for extension must be made by the end of Week 11.)

READINGS

1. Alleton, Viviane. 1981. "Final particles and expression of modality in modern Chinese." Journal of Chinese Linguistics 9.1:91-115. [Main: PL1001 .J68]

2. Chao, Yuen Ren. 1968. A Grammar of Spoken Chinese. Berkeley: University of California Press. (Excerpts: Chapter 1.3.7 "Intonation," Chapter 2 "The Sentence," and Chapter 8.5 "Particles".) [PL1137.S6 C5 1968]

3. Chappell, Hilary. 1991. "Strategies for the assertion of obviousness and disagreement in Mandarin: a semantic study of the modal particle me. Santa Barbara Papers in Linguistics 3:9-32. (Includes semantic and pragmatic issues.)

4. Christensen, Matthew Bruce. 1994. Variation in Spoken and Written Mandarin Narrative Discourse. Ph.D. dissertation, The Ohio State University. [zipped MS DOC & PDF files]) [Main (Theses): THE:EAL1994PHDC57]

5. Chu, Chauncey C. 1998. A Discourse Grammar of Mandarin Chinese. New York: Peter Lang Publishing. (Excerpt: Chapter 4 "Sentence-Final Particles.") [Main: (on order)]

6. Erbaugh, Mary S. 1990. "Mandarin oral narratives compared with English: The pear/guava stories." Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association 25.2:21-42. [Main: PL1001A4C5]

7. Han, Yang Saxena. 1995. "A pragmatic analysis of the ba particle." Journal of Chinese Linguistics 23.2:99-128. [Main: PL1001 .J68]

8. Ho, Aichen Ting. 1976. "Mandarin tones in relation to sentence intonation and grammatical structure." Journal of Chinese Linguistics 4.1:1-13. [Main: PL1001 .J68]

9. Jin, Shunde. 1996. An Acoustic Study of Sentence Stress in Mandarin Chinese. Ph.D. dissertation, Ohio State University. [zipped MS DOC files] [Main (Theses): THE:EAL1996PHDJ56]

10. Li, Charles N. and Sandra A. Thompson. 1981. Mandarin Chinese: A Functional Reference Grammar. Berkeley: University of California Press. (Excerpt: Chapter 7.2-7.6) [Main: PL1107 .L5 1981]

11. Liu, Guanghui and Peiwen Shi. 1988. Hanyu Shijian Yuyin [A Practical Course in Chinese Phonetics]. Beijing: Beijing Yuyan Xueyuan Liuxuesheng Yixi. (Excerpts: Lessons 7-10.) [Main: PL1205 .L58 1988]

12. McGinnis, Scott G. 1990. A Pragmatic Analysis of Mandarin Interrogatives: Data from Modern Taiwan Drama. Ph.D. dissertation, The Ohio State University. (Excerpts: Chapter 1 "Introduction", Chapter 2 "Review of the literature on ma-Particle Interrogatives", and the Bibliography.) [zipped WordPerfect files] [Main (Theses): THE:EAL1990PHDM43]

13. Shen, Xiao-nan. 1989. "Interplay of the four citation tones and intonation in Mandarin Chinese." Journal of Chinese Linguistics 17.1:61-74. [Main: PL1001 .J68]

14. Shen, Xiao-nan. 1990. The Prosody of Mandarin Chinese. Berkeley: U. of California Pr. (Excerpts: Chapter 1 "Introduction" and Chapter 2 "Basic intonation patterns of Mandarin Chinese") [Main: P25 .C15 V118]

15. Wang, Stephen S. 1982. "The particle -a in Standard Chinese: some pragmatic probes." Paper presented at the XVth International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics, Beijing, China.

SUPPLEMENTARY READINGS

1. Alleton, Viviane. 1988. "The so-called 'rhetorical interrogation' in Mandarin Chinese." Journal of Chinese Linguistics 16.2:278-297. [Main: PL1001 .J68]

2. Bolinger, Dwight. 1982. "Nondeclaratives from an intonational standpoint." In: Papers from the Parasession on Nondeclaratives, April 17, 1982 / Chicago Linguistic Society. Edited by Robinson Schneider, Kevin Tuite, and Robert Chametzky. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society. Pages 1-22. [Main: P281 .P38 1982]

3. Brown, Gillian. 1983. "Prosodic structure and the given/new distinction." In: Prosody: Models and Measurements. Edited by A. Cutler and D.R. Ladd. Berlin, New York: Springer-Verlag. Pages 67-78. [Main: P224 .P76 1983]

4. 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. [Main: P215J6]

5. Chao, Yuen Ren. 1933. "Tone and intonation in Chinese." Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology 4.2121-2134. [Main: DS701.C65]

6. Chu, Chengzhi. 1994. "Yuqici yuqi yiyide fenxi wenti - yi 'a' wei li" [On the analysis of the significance of modal particles in Chinese – with special reference to particle 'a']. Yuyan Jiaoxue Yu Yanjiu [Language Teaching and Linguistic Studies] (1994) 4:39-51. [Main (EAS): PL1004 .Y827]

7. Cruttenden, Alan. 1997. Intonation. Second edition. New York: Cambridge University Press. (Except: Chapter 5, "Comparative Intonation"). [Main: P222 .C78 1997]

8. Ding, Hengshun. 1985. "Yuqi cide lian yong" [Use of modal particles in sequence] Yuyan Jiaoxue Yu Yanjiu [Language Teaching and Linguistic Studies] (1985) 3:34-40. [Main (EAS): PL1004 .Y827]

9. Erbaugh, Mary S. 1985. "Sentence final particles as an Asian areal feature." In: Proceedings of the First Annual Meeting of the Pacific Linguistics Conference. October 1985, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon. Edited by Scott DeLancey and Russell S. Tomlin. Pages 84-96.

10. Fung, Roxana Suk Yee. 2000. Final Particles in Standard Cantonese: Semantic Extension and Pragmatic Inference. Ph.D. dissertation, Ohio State University.

11. Ho, Aichen T. 1977. "Intonation variations in a Mandarin sentence for three expressions: interrogative, exclamatory, and declarative." Phonetica 34:446-456. [Main: P215 .P57]

12. Hu, Mingyang. 1981. "Beijinghuade yuqi zhuci he tanci." [Modal particles and interjections in the Beijing dialect]. Zhongguo Yuwen (1981) 5/6:347-350, 416-423. [Main (EAS): PL1004 .C44]
    [A revised version with the same title is published in: Yuyanxue Lunwen Xuan [Selected Writings in Linguistics]. By Hu, Mingyang. 1991. Beijing: Zhongguo Renmin Daxue Chubanshe. Pp. 51-80.]

13. Hu, Mingyang. 1991. "Yuqi zhucide yuqi yiyi." [Modal meaning of modal particles]. In: Yuyanxue Lunwen Xuan [Selected Writings in Linguistics. By Hu, Mingyang. Beijing: Zhongguo Renmin Daxue Chubanshe. Pp. 31-37.

14. Ladd, D. Robert. 1981. "A first look at the semantics and pragmatics of negative questions and tag questions?" Papers from the Seventeenth Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, April 30-May 1, 1981. Pages 164-171.

15. Ladd, D. Robert. 1996. Intonational Phonology. Cambridge, Eng.; New York: Cambridge University Press. (Excerpt: Chapter 4 "Cross-language comparison of intonation," includes a section (Chapter 4.4 "Melodic universals") on tone and pitch-accent languages, and discusses Shen (1990).) [Main: P222 .L33 1996]

16. Liao, Rongrong. 1994. Pitch Contour Formation in Mandarin Chinese: A Study of Tone and Intonation. Ph.D. dissertation, The Ohio State University. (Excerpts: Chapter 7.2 "Effect of strong emphasis," and 7.3 "Effect of speaking style." See also Chapter 1 "Introduction," Chapter 2 "Literature Review," Chapter 3 "Methodology," and the Bibliography.) [Downloadable zipped WordPerfect files.] [Main (Theses): THE:EAL1994PHDL52]

17. Liu, Yuehua, Wenyu Pan, and Wei Gu. 1983. Shiyong Xiandai Hanyu Yufa [A Practical Modern Chinese Grammar]. Beijing: Waiyu Jiaoxue Yu Yanjiu Chubanshe. (Excerpt: Part 2, Chapter 9, Section 3 "Modal particles.")

18. Lyovin, Anatole V. 1978. Review of: Mixail Kuz’mic Rumjancev (1972). Ton i intonaciaja v sovremennom kitajskom jazyke [Tone and Intonation in Modern Chinese]. (Moscow: Izdatel’stvo Moskovskogo Universitets.) Journal of Chinese Linguistics 6.1:120-168. (Pages 140-166 deal with intonation, part two of Rumjancev's book.) [Main: PL1001 .J68]

19. Meng, Zong. 1982. "Yixie yu yufa youguande Beijinghua qing-zhongyin xianxiang" [Some phenomena of stress related to grammar in Beijing dialect]. In: Beijing Daxue Zhongwen-xi Weiyuanhui (ed.), Yuyanxue Luncong 9. Beijing: Shangwu Yinshugran. Pages 25-59. [Main (EAS): PL1071 .P47]

20. Pierrehumbert, Janet. 1980. The Phonology and Phonetics of English Intonation. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Linguistics Club. (Excerpts: Chapter 1.1 "Introduction," and 1.6 "Intonational Meaning.")

21. Pierrehumbert, Janet. 1999. "Tonal elements and their alignment." In press in: Prosody: Theory and Experiment. Studies Presented to Gosta Bruce, edited by M. Horne.

22. Shao, Jingmin. 1989. "Yuqici 'ne' zai yiwen juzhongde zuoyong" [The function of the modal particle 'ne' in interrogative sentences]. Zhongguo Yuwen (1989) 3:170-175. [Main (EAS): PL1004C44]

23. Shi, Peiwen. 1980. "Sizhong juzi de yudiao bianhua" [Changes in intonation of four kinds of sentences.] Yuyan Jiaoxue yu Yanjiu 1980.2:71-81. [Main (EAS): PL1004 .Y827]

24. Ward, Gregory and Julia Hirschberg. 1985. "Implicating uncertainty: the pragmatics of fall-rise intonation." Language 61.4:747-776. [Main: P1L28]

25. Yang, Li-chiung. 1995. Intonational Structures of Mandarin Discourse. Ph.D. dissertation, Georgetown University. (Excerpts: Chapter 1 "Introduction" and 2 "Early Approaches to Tone and Intonation.") [Main: (on order)]

26. Yin, Huanxian. 1984. Zidiao he Yudiao [Tone and Intonation]. Shanghai: Shanghai Jiaoyu Chubanshe. (This is a small booklet on Mandarin Chinese with four chapters: chapter 1 on lexical tones, chapter 2 on neutral tone, chapter three on tone changes, and chapter 4 on intonation.) [PL1201 .Y5 1984]

27. Zhang, Zheng-sheng. 1997. "Focus, presupposition and the formation of A-not-A questions in Chinese." Journal of Chinese Linguistics 25.2:227-257. [Main: PL1001 .J68]

SUPPLEMENTARY REFERENCES

INTONATION AND SENTENCE-FINAL PARTICLES - CHINESE (MANDARIN PRIMARILY)
1. Chan, Marjorie K.M. 1980. "Temporal reference in Mandarin Chinese: an analytical-semantic approach to the study of the morphemes le, zai, zhe, and ne." Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association 15.3:33-79. [Main: PL1001A4C5]
   (For my web-accessible articles on Cantonese sentence-final particles je and jek, etc., see my publications webpage. Some earlier references on tone and linguistic stress phenomena in (Mandarin) Chinese and general linguistics, though not on intonation or SFPs per se, are available in the online bibliography from my 1985 dissertation on Fuzhou phonology.)

   My work-in-progress include: a preliminary, conference paper on intonation-SFP interaction (for the 32nd International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics, 28-31 October 1999, U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) [see the presentation outline of "Intonation and Sentence-Final Particle in Chinese: A Preliminary Investigation (link added 02/09/200)], a paper on gender-linked differences in the use of Cantonese SFPs, a co-authored paper on a Mandarin ToBI system for transcribing the prosody of varieties of Mandarin Chinese, and a co-authored paper on a Cantonese ToBI system. (More specific details will be provided soon.)

   Development of a Mandarin ("pan-Mandarin") ToBI system and a corresponding one for Cantonese is part of the research supported by an OSU Office of Research interdisciplinary seed grant program, Spoken Language Understanding and Generation (SLUG), which funded the project, "Establishing a Repository of Linguistically Varied, Prosodically Transcribed Spoken Language Data" (nicknamed "Speech Warehouse"). Working on varieties of Chinese on the grant include: faculty Co-Principal Investigators Mary Beckman (Linguistics) and Marjorie Chan (DEALL), post-doc researcher (now at Chi Nan U., Taiwan) Shu-hui Peng, and research assistant Peggy Wong (Linguistics). The Mandarin ToBI system under development in Summer 1999 also benefited from input from two graduate students, Tsan Huang (Linguistics) and Ok Joo Lee (DEALL). [Note: ToBI is an acronym standing for "Tone and Break Indices," and is a standard originally developed by an international group of researchers for transcribing English intonation and has since been applied to other languages, including our current project on Chinese (i.e., Mandarin, Cantonese, and Taiwanese (the last not yet underway)). For transcribing English intonation, see the "Guidelines for ToBI Labelling" developed at OSU's Department of Linguistics under Prof. Mary Beckman. As noted in Pierrehumbert (1999 -- reference in this section below), "the purpose of the standard is to further scientific study of intonation and technological development by permitting researchers at different laboratories to interpret each other's data and to pool resources in developing on-line databases of prosodically transcribed speech."] (Back to Week 5 schedule.)

2. He, Yang and Song Jin. 1992. "Beijinghua yudiaode shiyan tansuo" [Beijing dialect intonation: an experimental exploration] Yuyan Jiaoxue yu Yanjiu 1992.2:71-96. [Main: PL1004Y827]

3. Hoa, Monique. 1983. L'Accentuation en Pekinois. Paris: Centre de Recherches Linguistiques sur l’Asie Orientale. [Main: PL1107 .H63 1983]

4. Hua'nan Shifan Xueyuan. 1981. Xiandai Hanyu Xuci [Function Words in Modern Chinese]. [No place]: Guangdong Renmin Chubanshe. [Main: PL1237 .H53]

5. Kratochvíl, Paul. 1968. The Chinese Language Today: Features of an Emerging Standard. London: Hutchinson. [Main: PL1087 .K7]

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. (East Asian tone languages included are: Chinese (Beijing Mandarin), Thai, and Vietnamese.) [Main: (on order)]

7. Lee, Maureen B. 1998. Downdrift, Catathesis, and Focus in Teochew Chinese Intonation. Ph.D. dissertation, Indiana University. (Chaozhou (Southern Min) Chinese)

8. Li, Charles N. and Sandra A. Thompson. 1979. "The pragmatics of two types of yes-no questions in Mandarin and its universal implications." In: Papers from the Fifteenth Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. Pages 197-206. (Cited in (i.e., I don't have a copy): Joe J. Ree’s (1981), "The problems of the pragmatics and universality of a disjunctive type of yes-no question." In: Papers from the Seventeenth Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. Edited by Roberta A. Hendrick, Carrie S. Masek, and Mary Frances Miller. Pages 311-317.)

9. Li, Charles, Sandra A. Thompson, and Bojiang Zhang. 1998. "Cong huayu jiaodu lunzheng yuqici 'de'" [The particle 'de' as evidential marker in Chinese]. Zhongguo Yuwen (1998) 2:93-104. [Main (EAS): PL1004C44]

10. Light, Timothy. 1982. "On 'de-ing'." Computational Analyses of Asian and African Languages (CAAAL) 19:21-49. (Gender-related study, mostly Cantonese, some Mandarin SFPs)

11. Shen, Jiong. 1985. "Beijinghua shengdiaode yinyu he yudiao" [Pitch range of tone and intonation in Beijing dialect]. In: Beijing Yuyin Shiyan Lu [Working Papers in Experimental Phonetics]. Beijing: Beijing Daxue Chubanshe. Pages 73-130.

    
    INTONATION - GENERAL

12. Beckman, Mary E. and Janet B. Pierrehumbert. 1986. "Intonational structure in Japanese and English." Phonology (Yearbook) 3.255-309. [Main: P215P663]

13. Bolinger, Dwight. 1978. "Intonation across languages." In: Universals of Human Language. Volume 2. Phonology. Edited by Joseph H. Greenberg. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. Pages 471-524. [Main: P204 .U53 V2]

14. Bolinger, Dwight. 1985. "The inherent iconism of intonation." In: Iconicity in Syntax. Edited by John Haiman. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Pages 97-108. [Main: P151 .S98 1983]

15. Brend, Ruth M. 1975. "Male-female intonation patterns in American English." In: Language and Sex: Difference and Dominance." Edited by Barrie Thorne and Nancy Henley. Rowley, MA: Newbury House. Pages 84-87. [Main, EHS, MWN: BF692 .T46]

16. Edelsky, Carole. 1979. "Question intonation and sex roles." Language in Society 8.15-32. [Main: P41 .L34]

17. Ford, Cecilia E. and Sandra A. Thompson. 1996. "Interactional units in conversation: syntax, intonational, and pragmatic resources for the management of turns." In: Interaction and Grammar. Edited by Elinor Ochs, Emanuel A. Schegloff and Sandra A. Thompson. Pages 134-184. (Includes waveforms and F0 traces.) [Main: P40 .I53 1996]

18. Gibbon, Dafydd and Helmut Richter. 1984. Intonation, Accent and Rhythm: Studies in Discourse Phonology. Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter. (Includes such articles as: Janet Bing, "A discourse domain identified by intonation;" David Brazil, "The intonation of sentences read aloud;" Antony Fox, "Subordinating and co-ordinating intonation structures in articulation of discourse;" and J. 't Hart, "A phonetic approach to intonation: from pitch contours to intonation patterns.") [Main: P224 .I57 1984]

19. Ladd, D Robert. 1980. The Structure of Intonational Meaning: Evidence from English. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. [Main: PE1139.5 .L3 1980]

20. Liberman, Mark and Janet Pierrehumbert. 1984. "Intonational invariance under changes in pitch range and length." In: Mark Aronoff and Richard T. Oehrle (eds.), Language Sound Structure. Cambridge: MIT Press. pp. 157-233. [Main: P217 .L33 1984]

21. McConnell-Ginet, Sally. 1983. "Intonation in a man’s world." In: Language, Gender and Society. Edited by Barrie Thorne, Cheris Kramerae and Nancy Henley. Boston: Heinle & Heinle Publishers. Pages 69-88. (This volume contains a very useful, 180-page, annotated bibliography.) [Main, EHS, WMN: P120.S48 L34 1983]

    
    SEMANTICS, PRAGMATICS, DISCOURSE ANALYSIS, ETC.

22. Brown, Gillian and George Yule. 1983. Discourse Analysis. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. (Includes: Chapter 2 "The role of context in interpretation" (pragmatics and discourse context (reference, presupposition, implicatures, inference...), and Chapter 5 "Information structure.") [Main: P302 .B76 1983]

23. Fang, Mei. 1994. "Beijinghua juzhong yuqicide gongneng yanjiu" [A functional study of the particles used as a thematic marker in Mandarin]. Zhongguo Yuwen (1994)2:129-138. [Main (EAS): PL1004C44]

24. Ho, Yong. 1993. Aspects of Discourse in Mandarin Chinese. Lewiston: Mellen University Press.

25. Kasper, Gabriele (ed.) 1995. Pragmatics of Chinese as Native and Target Language. Honolulu: Second Language Teaching and Curriculum Center. (Includes topics on requesting, indirectness in requesting, refusing, complaining, giving bad news, disagreeing, and complimenting.) [Main: PL1291 .P73 1995]

26. Lakoff, Robin. 1972. "Language in context." Language 48.4:907-927. [Main: P1L28]

27. Lakoff, Robin. 1973. "The logic of politeness; or, minding your p’s and q’s." In: Papers from the Ninth Regional Meeting, Chicago Linguistic Society. April 13-15, 1973. Edited by Claudia Corum, T. Cedric Smith-Stark, and Ann Weiser. Pages 292-305.

28. Levinson, Stephen C. 1983. Pragmatics. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. (Includes: Chapter 1 "The scope of pragmatics," Chapter 3 "Conversational implicature," Chapter 4 "Presupposition" (semantic presupposition vs. pragmatic theories of presupposition, ...), Chapter 5 "Speech acts," and Chapter 6 "Conversational structure".) [Main: P99.4.P72 L48 1983]

29. Liao, Chao-chih. 1994. A Study on the Strategies, Maxims, and Development of Refusal in Mandarin Chinese. Taipei: Crane Publishing Co., Ltd. [Main: PL1241 .L447 1994]

30. Liao, Chao-chih. 1997. Comparing Directives: American English, Mandarin and Taiwanese English. Taipei: Crane Publishing Co., Ltd. [Main: (in process)]

31. Lyons, John. 1977. Semantics. 2 volumes. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. (Volume 2 includes: Chapter 14 "Context, style and culture" (communicative competence; conversational implicatures and presuppositions...), Chapter 16 "Mood and illocutionary force" (speech-acts; commands, requests and demands; questions; negation ...) and Chapter 17, "Modality" (necessity and possibility; epistemic modality and factivity; tense as a modality; deontic modality; obligation, permission ...) [Main: P325 .L96]

32. Palmer, F. R. (Frank Robert). 1986. Mood and Modality. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. [Main: P299.M6 P35 1986]

33. Panther, Klaus-Uwe. 1981. "Indirect speech act markers or why some linguistic signs are non-arbitrary." Papers from the Seventeenth Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, April 30-May 1, 1981. Pages 295-302.

34. Riggenbach, Heidi. 1999. Discourse Analysis in the Language Classroom. Volume 1: The Spoken Language. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. (Written for ESL/EFL teachers for use in the language classroom.) [OhioLINK libraries]

35. Schiffrin, Deborah. 1994. Approaches to Discourse. Oxford, UK; Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Pub. (An overview of different approaches to discourse analysis: speech act theory, interactional sociolinguistics, ethnography of communication, (Gricean) pragmatics, conversational analysis, and variation analysis.) [Main: P302 .S2987 1994; other OhioLINK libraries]

LINKS AND WWW RESOURCES

Our College and University Internet Resources (DEALL's links).

OSU Libraries (Homepage):

Catalogs (OSU Libraries' online catalog (OSCAR) and other library catalogs).
. See also some tips in the WWW resources section of my Chinese 680 online course page.

Chinese Collection (Eng./Big5)

Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) [WWW (OSU Columbus Only)]

OhioLINK: MLA International Bibliography

Part of OhioLINK's online Research Databases.

Linguistics and Language Indexes, Abstracts, Bibs, and TOCs (links to resources compiled by U. of Houston Libraries)

Linguist List: 1999 Tables of Contents (TOC) (for some linguistic journals, and links to back issues as well)

Journal of Chinese Linguistics: Index of Articles (1973- ).

Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association: Authors and Topics Indices (1966- ).

Yuyan Yanjiu: Table of Contents Index (Eng./GB) (1981- )

Part of Wenze Hu and Hongyin Tao's Chinese Linguistics Page.

Zhongguo Yuwen: Table of Contents Index (GB for now, Eng. under construction) (1995- ).

Linguistic Iconism Association

"Dissertations and MA Theses in Linguistic Iconism", links, etc.

See also: Olga Fischer and Max Nanny's Iconicity in Language: Bibiography (part of their website on Iconicity in Language and Literature, and Margaret Magnus' Bibliography of Phonosemantics.

Marjorie Chan's ChinaLinks (Homepage with Table of Contents to 4 satellite pages and their contents)

1. ChinaLinks1: General Resources for Chinese Studies
   Search engines, publishers, Asian studies associations and journals (with indices), etc.
2. ChinaLinks2: Chinese Language Software & AV Programs
   Downloadable CJK fonts and decoders, IPA and Pinyin fonts, RealPlayer, etc.
3. ChinaLinks3: Chinese Language and Linguistics
   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, etc.
4. ChinaLinks4: General Linguistics and Internet Resources
   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 Speech Internet Dictionary (SID), 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.

On-Line Dissertation Abstracts

On-line copy of my short piece for the IACL Newsletter, with hot links to websites, such as UMI, for abstracts of Ph.D. dissertations (and some M.A. theses).

MC's Chinese Language and Gender On-Line Bibliography

Bibliography plus some web-accessible articles, online collections of gender-related course syllabi, etc.

MC's Courses and Sample Syllabi

Contains readings and references that may provide an additional source for references.

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