WINTER QUARTER 2004 CHINESE 889 Seminar in Chinese Linguistics Prosody and Discourse Structure Professor Marjorie K.M. Chan Dept. of E. Asian Lang. & Lit. The Ohio State University Columbus, OH 43210

Reading selections will be made available to students during the quarter (and on Reserve in Main Library if needed).

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 889. (Note: Reserved materials for a given course are listed online for the current quarter only. Also, search for OSU's online journal (e-journal) articles at OSU Libraries: Journals Online.)

Topics include the history of Chinese linguistics and related areas, specific studies in Chinese dialects, etc. Winter Quarter 2004's topic is "Prosody and Discourse Structure."

This quarter's seminar aims to provide students with opportunities to explore and examine the interaction between prosodic structure and discourse structure in the Chinese language. Other related prosodic and discoursal phenomena will also be investigated.

This quarter's seminar will be conducted through class discussions of assigned readings and homework assignments, together with acoustic analyses of speech data, in-class lab work, and other relevant activities. .

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. Submit five short homework assignments (about 2-3 pages, plus references and accompanying speech corpora and other data as needed). The fifth assignment is a short reaction paper on a relevant article of the student's choice.
   . Students who do not have their own web account may submit their assignments on diskette (zip disk, etc.), or via email as attachment, for the instructor to upload for class-viewing.

Additional requirements for those registered for 5 (rather than 3) credit hours:

1. A class presentation and a written version of a short term paper project (about 5 double-spaced pages, plus references, appendices and/or data files as needed).
   . Obtain topic approval from the instructor no later than Week 8.

3 Credits:			5 Credits:
Attendance and class participation	50%		Attendance and class participation	35%
Take-home assignments (5)	50%		Take-home assignments (5)	35%
	------		Term Paper Project	30%
	100%			------
				100%

SCHEDULE

This class meets every Friday afternoon during the quarter.
Readings and activities may be subject to change.

WEEK 1	Introduction, Prosody and Discourse Structure
January 9	Introduction and orientation, class discussion of reading. Reading: Clark (2002) Suppl./Background Readings: Swerts et al. (1996) Donzel and Beinum (1996) Kennedy (1998) -- on corpus linguistics

WEEK 2	Spoken Corpora, Stimuli, and In-Class Lab Demos
January 16	Spoken corpora and stimuli for (cross-) linguistic research Speech-analysis software In-class lab demos and lab work Background Readings: Kent (1997, Ch. 9) Ladefoged (1999) Chan (2003)

WEEK 3	Mandarin ToBI Conventions and Parsing of Mandarin Prosody
January 23	Reading: Peng et al. (in press) Suppl. Readings: Wong et al. (in press) Warren (1996) Background Readings: Goldsmith (1990) Selkirk (1984) Due: Homework 1 Happy Chinese New Year (22 Jan. 2004)! (Year of the Monkey)

WEEK 4	Oral Narratives and Discourse/Syntactic Boundary Cues
January 30	Reading: Fon (2002) -- skim through Suppl. Reading: Wennerstrom (2001)

WEEK 5	Right Dislocation, Afterthought, and 'Inverted' Sentences
February 6	Readings: Guo (1999) Tai and Hu (1991) Suppl. Reading: Hu (1996) Due: Homework 2

WEEK 6	Prosody/Intonation and Discourse Structure
February 13	Readings: Beckman (1996, pp. 17-41) Nakatani et al. (1995) Herman (2000) Venditti (2000) - skim through Suppl. Reading: Herman (1998)

WEEK 7	Discourse Markers and Tag Questions
February 20	Reading: Chen and He (2001) Suppl. Reading: Heritage (1998) Due: Homework 3

WEEK 8	Back-Chanelling and Overlapping Talk in Conversational Discourse
Feb. 27	Readings: Clancy et al. (1996) Schegloff (2000) Suppl. Reading: Yang (1996)

WEEK 9	Impoliteness and Adversarial Interactions in Conversations
March 5	(Class postponed -- to be made up on 13 March 2004) Home Reading Assignment: Culpeper et al. (2003) Yaeger-Dror (2002) Suppl. Reading: Seddoh (2002) Due: Homework 4

WEEK 10

Some Current Research in Prosody and Discourse Structure

March 12

Readings: Hirschberg (2002) Beckman (2003) Speer et al. (2003) Venditti and Hirschberg (2003) Due: Homework 5 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Make-Up Class: Saturday, 13 March 2004   3:00 - 6:00 p.m. Student Presentations of Term Paper (for those taking 5 credit hours) Student Presentations of Homework 5 (for those taking 3 credit hours) M. Chan's Presentation: Mandarin ToBI -- A Follow-Up on Annotation Conventions

WEEK 11	Examination Week
March 15-18	Turn in Term Paper (for those registered for 5 credits). Due: Tuesday, 16 March 2004, 12:00 noon (Please inform the instructor by Monday night, 15 March 2004, via email if an extra day is needed to write up the term paper.)

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 e-journal articles available at OSU Libraries: Journals Online (OSU users only).

1. Beckman, Mary E. 2003. "The meaning of intonational structure." ICPhS 15.

2. * Clark, Herbert H. 2002. "Speaking in time." Speech Communications 36: 5-13.
   

3. * Chen, Yiye, and Agnes Weiyun He. 2001. "Dui bu dui as a pragmatic marker: Evidence from Chinese classroom discourse." Journal of Pragmatics 33:1441-1465.

4. * Clancy, Patrica M., Sandra A. Thompson, Ryoko Suzuki, and Hongyin Tao. 1996. "The conversational use of reactive tokens in English, Japanese, and Mandarin." Journal of Pragmatics 26:355-387.

5. * Culpeper, Jonathan, Derek Bousfield, and Anne Wichmann. 2003. "Impoliteness revisited: with special reference to dynamic and prosodic aspects." Journal of Pragmatics 35: 1545-1579.
   

6. Fon, Janice. 2002. A Cross-Linguistic Study on Syntactic and Discourse Boundary Cues in Spontaneous Speech. Ph.D dissertation, Ohio State University, Ohio.

7. * Guo, Jiansheng. 1999. "From information to emotion: The affective function of right-dislocation in Mandarin Chinese." Journal of Pragmatics 31:1103-1128.

8. * Herman, Rebecca. 2000. "Phonetic markers of global discourse structure in English." Journal of Phonetics 28: 466-493.

9. * Hirschberg, Julia. 2002. "Communication and prosody: Functional aspects of prosody." Speech Communication 36: 31-43.
   

10. Nakatani, Christine H., Barbara J. Grosz, David D. Ahn, and Julia Hirscchberg. 1995. Instructions for Annotating Discourse. Technical Report TR-21-95, Center for Research in Computing Technology, Harvard University.

11. 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.

12. * Schegloff, Emanuel A. 2000. "Overlapping talk and the organization of turn-taking for conversation." Language in Society 29: 1-63.
    

13. Speer, Shari, Paul Warren and Amy Schafer. 2003. "Intonation and sentence processing." ICPhS 15.

14. Tai, James and Wenze Hu. 1991. "Functional Motivations for the So-Called 'Inverted Sentences' in Beijing Conversational Discourse." Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association 26.3:75-104.

15. Venditti, Jennifer J. 2000. Discourse Structure and Attentional Salience Effects on Japanese Intonation. Ph.D. dissertation, Ohio State University.

16. Venditti, Jennifer J. and Julia Hirschberg. 2003. "Intonation and discourse processing." ICPhS 15.

17. * Yaeger-Dror, Malcah. 2002. "Register and prosodic variation, a cross language comparison." Journal of Pragmatics 34: 1495-1536.

SUPPLEMENTARY AND BACKGROUND READINGS

An asterisk (*) marks web e-journal articles available at OSU Libraries: Journals Online (OSU users only).

1. * Beckman, Mary E. 1996. "The parsing of prosody." Language and Cognitive Processes 11 (1/2): 17-67.

2. Chan, Marjorie K.M. 2003. "The digital age and speech technology for Chinese language teaching and learning." Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association 38.2: 49-86. [ pdf file, 2.7 MB ]

3. Donzel, Monique E. van, and Florian J. Koopmans-van Beinum. 1996. "Pausing strategie in discourse in Dutch." Proc. ICSLP '96.

4. Goldsmith, John A. 1990. Autosegmental and Metrical Phonology. Cambridge, MA and Oxford, UK: Basil Blackwell. [Library: Main Stacks]

5. * Heritage, John. 1998. "Oh-prefaced responses to inquiry." Language in Society 27: 291-334.

6. Herman, Rebecca. 1998. Intonation and Discourse Structure in English: Phonological and Phonetic Markers of Local and Global Discourse Structure. Ph.D. dissertation, Ohio State University.

7. Hu, Wenze. 1996. "'Inverted' sentences, pragmatics and the Emergent Grammar." (GB-encoded webpage.)
   [This online article is an extension of Chapter 6 of Wenze Hu's 1995 Ph.D dissertation (completed in DEALL, OSU), Functional Perspectives and Chinese Word Order. Also see his 1989 M.A. thesis (from DEALL, OSU), The Inverted Sentences in Beijing Dialect.]

8. Kennedy, Graeme. 1998. An Introduction to Corpus Linguistics. London and New York: Longman.

9. Kent, Raymond. 1997. The Speech Sciences. San Diego and London: Singular Publishing Group, Inc. (Chapter 9. Acoustic Phonetics.)

10. Ladefoged, Peter. 1999. "Instrumental Techniques for Fieldwork." In: Hardcastle, William J. and John Laver (eds.). 1999. The Handbook of Phonetic Sciences. Oxford, UK and Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers Ltd. Pages 137-166.

11. * Lee, Chao-yang. 2001. "Prosody in spontaneous and read speech: some preliminary findings from a tone language." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 109.5: 2415-2415. (Abstract)

12. * Seddoh, S. Amebu. 2002. "How discrete or independent are 'affective prosody' and 'linguistic prosody'?" Aphasiology 16.7: 683-692.

13. Selkirk, Elisabeth O. 1984. Phonology and Syntax: The Relation Between Sound and Structure. Cambridge, MA and London, UK: The MIT Press.

14. Swerts, Marc, Anne Wichmann, and Robbert-Jan Beun. 1996. "Filled pauses as markers of discourse structure." Proc. ICSLP '96.

15. * Warren, Paul. 1996. "Prosody and parsing: an introduction." Language and Cognitive Processes 11 (1/2): 1-16.

16. * Wennerstrom, Ann. 2001. "Intonation and evaluation in oral narratives." Journal of Pragmatics 33: 1183-1206.

17. Wong, Wai Y. P., Marjorie K.M. Chan, Mary E. Beckman. (in press). "An autosegmental-metrical analysis and prosodic annotation conventions for Cantonese." In: Sun-Ah Jun (editor), Prosodic Typology: An Approach Through Intonational Phonology and Transcription. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

18. * Yang, Li-chiung. 1996. "Interruptions and intonation." ICSLP '96.

SUPPLEMENTARY REFERENCES

1. Reference Books: some classic Chinese-language grammar texts (GIF file).

2. Chao, Yuen Ren. 1968. A Grammar of Spoken Chinese. Berkeley: University of California Press.

3. Christensen, Matthew Bruce. 1994. Variation in Spoken and Written Mandarin Narrative Discourse. Ph.D. dissertation, Ohio State University.

4. Chu, Chauncey C. 1998. A Discourse Grammar of Mandarin Chinese. New York: Peter Lang Publishing.

5. Culicover, Peter W. and Louise McNally (eds.). 1998. The Limits of Syntax. Syntax and Semantics. Volume 29. San Diego: Academic Press.
   (The collection includes articles on focus (e.g., Enri Valluve and Maria Vilkuna ("On rheme and kontrast"), Craige Roberts ("Focus, the flow of information, and Universal Grammar"), Michael S. Rochemont ("Phonological focus and structural focus"), etc.

6. * Fon, Janice and Keith Johnson. 2001. "A cross-linguistic study on discourse and syntactic boundary cues in speech." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 109.5: 2475-2475. (Abstract)
   (Also see: Fon, Janice and Keith Johnson, 2000. "Speech timing patterning as an indicator of discourse and syntactic boundaries." Proceeding of 6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing 2: 555-558. Beijing, China.)

7. Jin, Shunde. 1996. An Acoustic Study of Sentence Stress in Mandarin Chinese. Ph.D. dissertation, Ohio State University.

8. Kaisse, Ellen M. 1985. Connected Speech: The Interaction of Syntax and Phonology. Orlando: Academic Press.

9. Kratochvil, Paul. 1968. The Chinese Language Today. London: Hutchinson University Library.

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

11. Li, Charles N., and Sandra A. Thompson. 1981. Mandarin Chinese: A Functional Reference Grammar. Berkeley: University of California Press.

12. Miracle, Charles. 1991. Discourse Markers in Mandarin Chinese. Ph.D. dissertation, Ohio State University.

13. Newmeyer, Frederick J. (editor). 1988. Linguistics: The Cambridge Survey. (Four volumes.) Volume 1. Linguistic Theory: Foundations. Volume 2. Linguistic Theory: Extensions and Implications. Volume 3. Language: Psychological and Biological Aspects. Volume 4. Language: The Socio-cultural Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

14. Norman, Jerry. 1988. Chinese. Cambridge University Press.

15. Shen, Haibing. 1997. Gender and Conversational Interaction in Mandarin Chinese: A Corpus-Based Study of Radio Talk Shows. M.A. thesis, Ohio State University.

LINKS AND WWW RESOURCES

• OSU Libraries' On-Line Catalog (OSCAR) and other Library Catalogs, etc.

• OSU Libraries' Chinese Collection (The introduction contains a description of the history, scope, size, and strengths of the collection (and that includes Chinese linguistics).) (Big5-encoding)

• OSU Libraries also subscribe to a number of linguistics journals with recent issues digitized and available online in PDF and/or HTML format. The benefits are many: it reduces shelving space, eliminates "lost" and "missing" items, and enables instantaneous downloading and multiple-user access for research and course work.

  To retrieve articles from these e-journals, go to:
  

  • OhioLink: Electronic Journal Center. (E-journals include Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Journal of East Asian Linguistics, Journal of Pragmatics, Language, etc.) Alternatively, go via OSU Libraries' Research Tools: Electronic Journals.
    If you have a specific online journal (e-journal) or article in mind, go directly to OSU Libraries: Journals Online.

    Some sources of e-journals:
    

  • Cambridge Journal Online (OSU subscriptions include: Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Journal of Child Language, Journal of Linguistics, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Language in Society, Language Teaching, Language Variation and Change, Phonology, and Studies in Second Language Acquisition.)
  • IDEAL: International Digital Electronic Access Library (OSU subscriptions include: Brain and Cognition, Brain and Language, Computer Speech & Language, Journal of Memory and Language, and Journal of Phonetics.)
  • ISTOR (Depository of back issues of journals, including e-journals for Asian studies, such as Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies (Vol. 1-55, 1936-1995 currently, with a "moving wall" of 5 years) and Journal of Asian Studies (Vol. 16-54, 1956-1995; and Vol. 1-15, 1941-1956 published under the title, The Far Eastern Quarterly; OSU Columbus only))
  • Periodicals Contents Index (PCI) Electronic Index to Journal Articles. (Chadwyck Healey's electronic index to the contents of thousands of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences, from their first issues to 1995. (Participants in JSTOR's Arts & Sciences I and Arts & Sciences II Collections can now link directly from the relevant index records in PCI to the corresponding full text within JSTOR.)

• MLA International Bibliography (part of OhioLINK's online Research Databases)

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

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

• Linguistic Abstracts Online. Searchable online database from Blackwell Publishers, edited by Terry Langendoen, U. of Arizona. Also see Blackwell's List of Journals.

• Linguist List: 2004 Tables of Contents (TOC). For some linguistic journals, and links to back issues as well; part of The LINGUIST List website of links to linguistic resources.

• Lexicon of Linguistics. Searchable lexicon of linguistic terms, edited by Jan Don, Johan Kerstens, and Eddy Ruys at Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS, Utrecht University.

• Some Chinese linguistics journals - Indices:
  
  • Journal of Chinese Linguistics: Index of Articles (1973- ).
  • Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association: Authors and Topics Indices (1966- ).
  • Journal of East Asian Linguistics: Table of Contents of Published Issues (1992- ).
  • Yuyan Jiaoxue Yu Yanjiu [English title: Language Teaching and Linguistic Studies] (No online indices -- Main (EAS): PL1004 .Y827)
  • 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- ).

• Beijing University's Department of Chinese Language and Literature. Online classical corpora and other useful resources.

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

• MC's Courses and Sample Syllabi
  Contains readings and references that may provide an additional source for references.
  Included there are my course syllabi for:
  . Chinese 782: Chinese Phonology --
  . Chinese 784: Chinese Syntax
  . Chinese 889: Chinese Linguistic Seminar
  
          Chinese corpus linguistics (Wi 2001), Language and gender (Au 1997)
  
          [also see my Chinese Language and Gender On-line Bibliography]

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