Syllabus Distributed in Class for Chinese 899/Linguistics 899 (Winter Quarter 1990).
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PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY OF MANDARIN AND NON-MANDARIN CHINESE
Instructors: Mary Beckman Marjorie Chan
Dept. of Linguistics Dept. of E. Asian L & L
292-9752 (office) 292-3619 (office)
356 Cunz Hall 353 Cunz Hall
Office Hrs.: TBA Office Hrs.: TBA
Course Materials: Chinese and Linguistics 899:
Chinese Phonetics and Phonology (set of readings)
Available at the University Bookstore,
2009 Millikin Road
Course Prerequisites: No phonetics/phonology background required.
Co-Requisites: Chinese 899 (3 credits)
Linguistics 899 (3 credits)
Class Meetings: Tue. & Thur. 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. 132 Cunz Hall
Discussion of readings, in-class fieldwork,
and lab reports.
Fri. TBA 136 Cunz Hall
Laboratory session
Tue. March 13, 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.:
Last meeting with party instead of final exam.
Course Work: Weekly readings.
In-class presentations of readings by students.
Occasional in-class fieldwork.
Weekly group lab projects.
Weekly individual homework assignments based
on fieldwork or lab projects.
No midterm, final, or term paper.
Grades: Based roughly 90% on individual written
homework assignments and your in-class
presentation of them, and the other 10% on
your presentation of one reading, and other
class participation
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SYLLABUS
Week 1:
R 1/4 Orientation & scheduling of lab time.
Organization of study groups.
MC: Lecture overview of varieties of Chinese.
F 1/5 MB: Phonetics/psychophysics/physics of tone
Week 2:
Reading: Kratochvil (1968) The Chinese Language Today. Pp. 35-47.
T 1/9 Discuss reading.
Ear training on Mandarin tones & make spectrograms.
R 1/11 In-class fieldwork on inventory of tones on
monosyllables in all varieties of Chinese that we have
consultants.
F 1/12 Lab: recording, digitizing and making pitch tracks.
(Measurements of amplitude, duration, and F0)
Week 3:
Reading: Garding et al. (1986) "Tone 4 and Tone 3 discrimination
in Modern Standard Chinese" (Language & Speech
29.3:281-293)
Wang & Li (1967) "Tone 3 in Pekingese" (J. of Speech &
Hearing Research 10:629-636)
T 1/16 Discuss Garding et al. article
In-class fieldwork: Discriminability of other tone
pairs in Mandarin (eg. T1 & T4, T2 & T4, T2 & T3),
and in other varieties of Chinese.
R 1/18 Discuss Wang & Li article
Presentation of Week 2 homework assignment.
F 1/19 Lab: Constructing small perception experiments to test
on classmates & friends.
Week 4:
Reading: Shen (1989) "Interplay of the four citation and
intonation in Mandarin Chinese" (Journal of Chinese
Linguistics 17:61-73)
Shih (1988) "Tone and intonation in Mandarin" (Working
Papers of the Cornell Phonetics Laboratory 3:83-109)
T 1/23 Presentation of Week 3 homework.
MB: Background on intonation, pitch range, tune type,
declination, etc.
Discuss Shen's article.
R 1/25 Discuss Shih's article.
In-class fieldwork: Design an experiment on tone and
intonation in a variety of Chinese.
F 1/26 Lab: Conduct the experiment designed in class (1/25).
Week 5:
Reading: Chan (1989) "Wuxi tone sandhi" (Acta Linguistica
Hafniensia 21:35-64)
T 1/30 Presentation of Week 4 homework.
Discuss Chan's article.
R 2/1 In-class fieldwork: Begin survey of word tones in Wu
dialects using class informants.
F 2/2 Lab: Make pitch tracks of word tones in various Wu
dialects.
Week 6:
Reading: Cao & Maddieson (1989) "An exploration of phonation
types in Wu dialects of Chinese" (manuscript)
T 2/6 Presentation of Week 5 homework.
MB/MC: Background on phonation types.
R 2/8 Discuss Cao & Maddieson article.
In-class fieldwork: Survey of phonation types using
class informants.
F 2/9 Lab: Make measurements of the type in C & M's article
for phonation types identified in class.
Week 7:
Reading: Lee (1983) "The vowel system in two varieties of
Cantonese" (UCLA WPP 57:97-114)
T 2/13 Presentation of Week 6 homework.
MB: Background on resonance, vowel quality, vowel space.
R 2/15 Discuss Lee article.
In-class fieldwork: Make spectrograms of Cantonese
vowels.
F 2/16 Lab: Plot vowel space for a male informant of some
variety of Chinese.
Week 8:
Reading: Zee (1980) "Tone and vowel quality" (J. of Phonetics
8:247-258)
T 2/20 Presentation of Week 7 homework.
Discuss Zee article.
R 2/22 In-class fieldwork/lab: Look at vowel spaces
interacting with tone in the lab for other varieties
of Chinese.
F 2/23 Lab: Study vowel spaces interacting with tone and
phonation type (in Wu dialects).
Week 9:
Reading: Lin, Yan & Sun (1984) "The stress pattern and its
acoustic correlate in Beijing Mandarin" (Proceedings of
the Tenth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences,
p. 504-514)
T 2/27 Presentation of Week 8 homework.
MB/MC: Background on stress.
R 3/1 Discuss Lin et al. article.
In-class fieldwork: Finding minimal pairs for stress in
Mandarin.
F 3/2 Lab: Record minimal pairs, and analyze F0, duration,
vowel quality, etc.
Week 10:
Reading: Zee (1989) "Vowel devoicing in Shanghai" (To be
distributed later)
T 3/6 Presentation of Week 9 homework.
Discuss Zee's article.
R 3/8 In-class fieldwork: Identify environment for vowel
devoicing in Shanghai (and perhaps other varieties
of Chinese).
F 3/9 Lab: Experiment to test if the identified environments
are correct.
Week 11 (Finals Week):
T 3/13 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Presentation of Week 10 homework.
Party!
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