Chinese 889. Seminar in Chinese Linguistics. Winter Quarter 1991.
LINGUISTIC STRESS AND RELATED ISSUES IN CHINESE DIALECTS
Instructor: Marjorie Chan
353 Cunz Hall (292-3619) (marjorie.chan@osu.edu)
Office M 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Hours: T 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. (or by appt.)
Class Fridays, 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Time/Place: 132 Cunz Hall
Course 1. Readings available in Reserve (Main Lib.), or may be purchased
Materials: at COP-EZ, 1664 Neil Avenue (292-4576) for Week 3 onwards.
2. One of the readings is also available from SBX:
Xiaonan Susan Shen (1990), The Prosody of Mandarin Chinese
Goals: There are two primary goals in this course. The first goal is
to expose students to an overview of the stress phenomenon among
Chinese dialects, from the works of American Structuralists to
current generative works and acoustic studies. With the
background knowledge of various issues and problems concerning
this topic, the second goal is for students to identify and
select a problem and to demonstrate their ability to analyze it
critically as well as to propose a solution.
Course To reflect the goals of the course, each student will be
Work: expected to lead a discussion of one long article (or some
shorter excerpts). Students are to read these articles care-
fully and critically in order to contribute to the class
discussions. A one-page abstract and term paper are expected of
each student. In addition, a 5 to 10 page paper (on a narrower
topic) is required of students taking the course for 3 units,
while a 15 to 20 page paper (on a broader topic) is required of
students taking the course for 5 units.
Term Paper The term paper topic should be based on the readings and
Topic: supplementary materials introduced by the instructor. Any
dialect of Chinese may be selected. Other related topics
reflecting the students' primary interest -- phonology,
morphology or syntax/semantics -- may be selected upon approval
from the instructor. For example, a student might analyze tone
and stress in Taiwanese Mandarin vs. Beijing Mandarin (or
Beijing and some other subvariety of Mandarin), optional vs.
obligatory neutral tone syllables in certain sentence
environments or in Beijing Mandarin, role of stress in rhythmic
structures in poetry, optional vs. obligatory deletion of
unstressed syllables (grammatical markers, suffixes, etc.) in
different sentence environments. Students are encouraged to
discuss their paper topics with the instructor prior to
submitting their abstract.
Credits: 3 - 5 units
Grades: Class presentations 10 10
Class participation 5 5
Term paper 15 35
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30 pts. 50 pts.
Deadlines: Abstract Friday, 22 February 1991 (Week 7)
Term Paper Monday, 18 March 1991 (Exam Week)
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SYLLABUS
Week 1: Introduction to the course
1/11 Chinese dialects and typologies of accentual systems by European and
American Structuralists (from Chan 1982)
Week 2: Linguistic Stress in Mandarin: The Structuralist Tradition
1/18 1. Chao (1968), Chapter 1.3.6 (Stress), pp.35-39.
2. Kratochvil (1968), Chapter 2.2 (Suprasegmental features),
pp. 35-47.
3. Kratochvil (1968), Chapter 3.3 (Morphophonemics), pp.82-88
Presenter of above 3 excerpts: Jack Rouzer
4. Hockett (1950, in Joos (1957). (Pay particular attention to
matters concerning stress.)
Presenter: Shi Jianguo
Week 3: Linguistic Stress in Mandarin: Acoustic Correlates
1/25 and Language-Music Interface
1. Kratochvil (1969)
Presenter: Wu Xiaoqi
2. Chan (1990-91)
(No prereading for this talk.)
Presenter: Marjorie Chan
Week 4: Phonetics and Phonology of Stress and Neutral Tone
2/1 1. Lin and Yan (1988)
Presenter: Bae Jaesuk
2. Cheng (1973), Chapter 7 (The neutral tone), pp.54-83.
(Early Generative Approach)
Presenter: Hu Wenze
Week 5: Word and Phrasal Stress: Current Non-linear Approach
2/8 1. Yip (1980), Chapter 0, pp.19-23 (some background to Chapter 2);
Chapter 2.1 (Tone and stress), pp.89-105).
Presenter: Cao Huiyi
2. Yip (1982)
Presenter: Susan Mast (also presents Kratochvil (1968)
excerpt in Week 6)
Week 6: Stress and Intonation
2/15 1. Kratochvil (1968), Chapter 4.5 (Sentences), pp.121-134,
esp. pp.121-129.
Presenter: Susan Mast (also presents Yip (1982) in Week 5)
2. Shen (1990), Chapters 3 (Tone and intonation) and 4 (Tone, stress
and intonation), pp.31-65.
Presenter: Liao Rongrong
Week 7: Tone and Stress Interaction: The Fuzhou Case
2/22 1. Students' presentation of abstract/term paper topics.
2. Chan (1985), Part of Chapter 3 (The interaction of tone and
stress), pp.184-216.
Presenter: Marjorie Chan
(Discussion will continue in Week 8 if insufficient time.)
NB: Class will end at 3:50 p.m. in order to attend Professor Moira
Yip's talk at 4:00 p.m.
Week 8: Stress and Tone Sandhi Phenomena:
3/1 Cross-dialect Survey and Min (Fuzhou) Case Study
1. Yue-Hashimoto (1987), in Chinese Lang. Soc. of H.K. (1987)
Presenter: Matthew Christensen
2. Chan (1985), Part of Chapter 4 (Tone sandhi), pp.259-292
Presenter: Jin Shunde
Week 9: Stress and Tone Sandhi Phenomena: Wu Case Studies
3/8 1. Kennedy (1953) on Tangxi (Wu), in Language 29 (1953).
Presenter: Marjorie Chan
2. Wright (1983), Chapter 1 (Introduction), pp.11-23;
Chapter 3 (Shanghai), pp.156-184
Presenter: Tang Jian
Week 10: Presentation of Term Papers
3/15 1. Class presentations
2. Quarter-end party!
Week 11: Exam Week
3/18 Deadline for submission of term paper. Approval in advance required
for extension.
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READINGS ON RESERVE, MAIN LIBRARY
BOOKS:
Chan, Marjorie K.M. 1985.
Fuzhou Phonology: A Non-linear Analysis of Tone and Stress.
Ph.D. dissertation, University of Washington.
Chao, Yuen Ren. 1968.
A Grammar of Spoken Chinese.
Berkeley: University of California Press.
Cheng, Chin-Chuan. 1973.
A Synchronic Phonology of Mandarin Chinese.
Mouton: The Hague.
Chinese Language Society of Hong Kong. 1987.
Wang Li Memorial Volumes. English Volume.
Hong Kong: Joint Publishing Co.
(Contains: Anne O. Yue-Hashimoto,
"Tone sandhi across Chinese dialects." Pp. 445-474.)
Language, Volume 29 (1953).
(Contains: George A. Kennedy,
"Two tone patterns in Tangsic." Pp. 367-373).
Joos, Martin (ed.). 1957.
Readings in Linguistics 1: The Development of Descriptive Linguistics
in America, 1925-56.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
(Contains: Charles F. Hockett, 1950.
"Peiping morphophonemics," pp. 315-328.)
Kratochvil, Paul. 1968.
The Chinese Language Today.
London: Hutchinson University Library.
Shen, Xiao-nan Susan. 1990.
The Prosody of Mandarin Chinese.
Berkeley: University of California Press.
Wright, Martha S. 1983.
A Metrical Approach to Tone Sandhi in Chinese Dialects.
Ph.D. dissertation, University of Massachusetts.
Yip, Moira. 1980.
The Tonal Phonology of Chinese.
Ph.D. dissertation, M.I.T.
Distributed by the Indiana University Linguistics Club,
Bloomington, Indiana.
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ARTICLES:
Chan, Marjorie K.M. 1982.
"Some issues in tonal analysis." U. of Washington. Manuscript.
Chan, Marjorie K.M. 1990-91.
"Singing in Mandarin: Language and Music Interface."
Presented at the 1990-1991 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic
Society of America (LSA), 3-6 January 1991. Chicago, IL.
Manuscript.
Kratochvil, Paul. 1969.
"Syllabic volume as acoustic correlate of perceptual prominence
in Peking Dialect." Unicorn 5:1-18.
Lin, Mao-can and Jing-zhu Yan. 1988.
"The characteristic features of the final reduction in the
neutral-tone syllable of Beijing Mandarin."
Phonetic Laboratory Annual Report of Phonetic Research.
Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
Pp.37-51.
Yip, Moira. 1982.
"Word and phrase stress in Mandarin."
Paper presented at the XVth International Conference on
Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics, Beijing, PRC.
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