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Modern Chinese Dialects Bibliography


This webpage is for an online bibliography of Chinese dialects. The bibliography does not purport to be exhaustive; rather, it is intended to support my course, Chinese 785: Modern Chinese Dialects. The references below were extracted from sources that were placed in my Chinese 785 course syllabus in Spring Quarter 2001. More references will be added from time to time. Library call numbers are included here that I happen to have the call numbers handy. At this time, the references are all arranged alphabetically by author.
  1. Ao, Benjamin Xiaoping. 1993. Phonetics and Phonology of Nantong Chinese. Ph.D. dissertation, Ohio State University.

  2. Beijing Daxue. 1964. Hanyu Fangyan Cihui. (漢語方言詞匯) Beijing: Yuwen Chubanshe. Beijing: Wenzi Gaige Chubanshe. [PL1497 .P47] (Use in Library - EAS Reading Room)

  3. Beijing Daxue. 1989. Hanyu Fangyin Zihui. (漢語方音字匯) Second edition. Beijing: Wenzi Gaige Chubanshe. [PL1201 .P4 1989 B c2] (Main Library has three copies.)

  4. Beijing Daxue. 1995. Hanyu Fangyan Cihui. (漢語方言詞匯) Second edition. Beijing: Yuwen Chubanshe. (on order)

  5. Bourgerie, Dana Scott. 1987. Particles of Uncertainty: A Discourse to the Cantonese Final Particle. M.A. thesis, Ohio State University.

  6. Bourgerie, Dana Scott. 1990. A Quantitative Study of Sociolinguistic Variation in Cantonese. Ph.D. dissertation, Ohio State University.

  7. Branner, David Prager. 2000. Problems in Comparative Chinese Dialectology: The Classification of Miin and Hakka. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter.

  8. Chan, Marjorie K.M. 1980. Zhong-shan Phonology: A Synchronic and Diachronic Analysis of a Yue (Cantonese) Dialect. M.A. thesis, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. (See Abstract and Table of Contents (including list of tables, charts, and maps).)

  9. Chan, Marjorie K.M. 1983. "Lexical diffusion and two Chinese case studies re-analyzed." Acta Orientalia 44:118-152.

  10. Chan, Marjorie K.M. 1984. "Initial consonant clusters in Old Chinese: Evidence from sesquisyllabic words in the Yue dialects." Fangyan (1984) 4:300-313.

  11. Chan, Marjorie K.M. 1984. "The Chinese in North America: A preliminary ethnolinguistic study." The Annals of the Chinese Historical Society of the Pacific Northwest. Number 2. Edited by Paul Buell and Douglas W. Lee. Bellingham: Center for East Asian Studies, University of Western Washington. Pp. 232-254.

  12. Chan, Marjorie K.M. 1985. Fuzhou Phonology: A Non-Linear Analysis of Tone and Stress. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Washington. (See Abstract, Table of Contents, and Bibliography.)

  13. Chan, Marjorie K.M. 1987. "Tone and melody interaction in Cantonese and Mandarin songs." UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics 68:132-169.

  14. Chan, Marjorie K.M. 1987. "Tone and melody in Cantonese." Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 13:26-37.

  15. Chan, Marjorie K.M. 1987. "Post-stopped nasals in Chinese: an areal study." UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics 68:73-119.

  16. Chan, Marjorie K.M. 1989. "On the status of 'basic' tones." Acta Linguistica Hafniensia 21.2:5-34.
    (An earlier version of the paper appears in UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics (1986) 63:71-94.)

  17. Chan, Marjorie K.M. 1991. "Contour-tone spreading and tone sandhi in Danyang Chinese." Phonology 8:237-259.

  18. Chan, Marjorie K.M. 1994. "Post-stopped nasals and lateral flaps in the Zhongshan (Yue) dialect: a study of a mid-eighteenth century Sino-Portuguese glossary." In: Chinese Languages and Linguistics. Volume II. Historical Linguistics. [Symposium Series of the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Number 2.] Edited by Paul Jen-kuei Li, Chu-Ren Huang, and Chih-chen Tang. Taipei: Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica. Pp. 203-250.

  19. Chan, Marjorie K.M. 1996. ""Gender-marked speech in Cantonese: the case of sentence-final particles je and jek." (UTF-8, 405k) Studies in the Linguistic Sciences 26.1/2:1-38. (For other formats, see my publications webpage.)

  20. Chan, Marjorie K. M. and Hongmo Ren. 1989. "Wuxi tone sandhi: from last to first syllable dominance." Acta Linguistica Hafniensia 21.2:35-64.
    (An earlier version of the paper appears in UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics (1986) 63:48-70.)

  21. Chan, Marjorie K.M. and James H-Y. Tai. 1989. "A critical review of Norman's Chinese." Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association XXIV.1:43-61.

  22. Chan, Marjorie K.M. and James H-Y. Tai. 1994. "From nouns to verbs: Verbalization in Chinese dialects and East Asian languages." In: Sixth North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics. NACCL6. Two volumes, edited by Jose Camacho and Lina Choueiri. Los Angeles, CA: GSIL Publications, University of Southern California. Volume 2, pp. 49-74.

  23. Chang, Kun (張琨). 1992. "Hanyu fangyan-de fenlei" (漢語方言的分類). In: Chinese Languages and Linguistics: I. Chinese Dialects. [Symposium Series of the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica. Number 2. Taipei: Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica. Pp. 1-21.

  24. Chao, Yuen Ren. 1930. "A system of tone letters." Le Maitre Phonetique 30:24-27. (Reprinted in regular English orthography in Fangyan (1980) 2:81-83.)

  25. Chao, Yuen Ren (趙元任). 1931. "Fanqie yu ba zhong" (反切語八種) [Eight varieties of secret languages] Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology 2:312-354. [BIHP = Lishi Yuyan Yanjiu Suo Jikan 歷史語言研究所集刊]

  26. Chao, Yuen Ren. 1933. "Tone and intonation in Chinese." Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology 4.121-134.

  27. Chao, Yuen Ren. 1943. "Languages and dialects of China." The Geographical Journal CII.2:63-66. [Reprinted in: Aspects of Chinese Sociolinguistics: Essays by Yuen Ren Chao. Selected and introduced by Anwar S. Dil. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 1976. Pp.21-25.]

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

  29. Chao, Yuen Ren. 1975. "My fieldwork on the Chinese dialects." Computational Analyses of Asian and African Languages 2:3-7. [Revised and condensed by the author in: Aspects of Chinese Sociolinguistics: Essays by Yuen Ren Chao. Selected and introduced by Anwar S. Dil. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 1976. Pp.226-33.]

  30. Chappell, Hilary. 1992. "Towards a typology of aspect in Sinitic languages." In: Chinese Languages and Linguistics: I. Chinese Dialects. [Symposium Series of the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica. Number 2. Edited by Paul Jen-kuei Li, Chu-Ren Huang, and Chih-chen Tang. Taipei: Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica. Pp. 67-106.

  31. Chen, Matthew Y. 2000. Tone Sandhi: Patterns Across Chinese Dialects. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. [PL1213 .C445 2000] (Excerpt: Chapters 7 and 8: "Stress foot as sandhi domain.")

  32. Cheng, Chin-chuan. 1994. "DOC: Its Birth and Life." In: In Honor of William S-Y. Wang: Interdisciplinary Studies on Language and Language Change. Edited by Matthew Y. Chen and Ovid J.L. Tzeng. Taipei: Pyramid Press. Pp. 71-86.
    [Note: See C.C.Cheng's online DOC (Dialects of China) website, where he also has a downloadable MS DOC file of his article, "Measuring Relationship among Dialects: DOC and Related Resources."]

  33. Cheng, Robert L. 1985. "A comparison of Taiwanese, Taiwan Mandarin, and Peking Mandarin." Language 61.2:352-377.

  34. Coblin, W. South. 2002. "Migration history and dialect development in the lower Yangtze watershed." Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 65.3:529-543.

  35. Crosland, Jeffrey Scott. 1999. The Xiamen Comparative: Syntactic Change in Progress. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Washington.

  36. Dede, Keith Randall Sean. 1999. Language Contact, Variation and Change: The Locative in Xining, Qinghai. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Washington.

  37. Duanmu, San. 1990. A Formal Study of Syllable, Tone, Stress and Domain in Chinese Languages. Ph.D. dissertation, MIT. Distributed by MIT Working Papers in Linguistics.

  38. 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. Pp. 84-96.

  39. Feifel, Karl-Eugen. 1994. Language Attitudes in Taiwan: A Social Evaluation of Language in Social Change. Taipei: The Crane Publishing Co., Ltd. [P40.45.T35 F4 1994]

  40. Fon, Janice and Wen-Yu Chiang. 1999. "What does Chao have to say about tones? - a case study of Taiwan Mandarin." Journal of Chinese Linguistics 27.1:15-37.

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

  42. Grimes, Barbara F. (ed). 1996. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 13th edition. Dallas, Texas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.

  43. Harrison, Godfrey, and Lydia K.H. So. 1997. "The background to language change in Hong Kong." In: One Country, Two Systems, Three Languages: A Survey of Changing Language Use in Hong Kong. Edited by Sue Wright and Helen Kelly-Holmes. Clevedon & Philadelphia: Multilingual Matters Ltd. Pp. 8-17. (Debate, pp. 18-21.) [P40.45.H66 O64 1997]

  44. Hu, Mingyang (胡明揚). 1987. "Putonghua he Beijinghua" (普通話和北京話) In: Beijinghua Chu Tan (北京話初探), by Mingyang Hu. Beijing: Commercial Press. (Reprinted in 1991 in: Yuyanxue Lunwenji (語言學論文集) [English title: Selected Writings in Linguistics], by Mingyang Hu. Beijing: Zhongguo Renmin Daxue Chubanshe. Pages 167-187.)
    (This article is online as a two GB-encoded text files (Part I and Part II) at Hu Wenze's Chinese Dialectology webpage that is part of Hu Wenze and Tao Hongyin's Chinese Linguistics Page.)

  45. Huang, Borong (黃伯榮), chief editor. 1996. Hanyu Fangyan Yufa Lei Bian (漢語方言語法類編). Qingdao: Qingdao Chubanshe. [On order, Main Library]

  46. Huang, Shuanfan. 1988. "A sociolinguistic profile of Taipei." In: The Structure of Taiwanese: A Modern Synthesis. Edited by Robert L. Cheng and Shuanfan Huang. Taipei: Crane Publishing Ltd. Pp. 301-333. (Comments, pp. 334-335.) [PL1710.T28 H73 1988]

  47. Hung, Tony T.N. 1989. Syntactic and Semantic Aspects of Chinese Tone Sandhi. Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, San Diego. Reproduced by the Indiana University Linguistics Club, Bloomington, Indiana.

  48. Iwata, Ray. 1995. "Linguistic geography of Chinese dialects: Project on Han Dialects (PHD)." Cahiers de Linguistique asie Orientale 24.2:195-227.

  49. Jin, Shunde. 1985. Shanghai Morphotonemics: A Preliminary Study of Tone Sandhi Behavior Across Word Boundaries. MA thesis, University of Pittsburgh. Reproduced by Indiana University Linguistics Club, Bloomington, Indiana.

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

  51. Killingley, Siew-Yue. 1983. Cantonese Classifiers: Syntax and Semantics. Newcastle upon Tyne: Grevatt & Grevatt. [EAS Reading Room. PL1739 .K54 1983]

  52. Kratochvil, Paul. 1998. "Intonation in Beijing Chinese." In: Intonation Systems: A Survey of Twenty Languages. Edited by Daniel Hirst and Albert Di Cristo. New York: Cambridge University Press. Pages 417-431.

  53. Lee, Gina. 1993. Comparative, Diachronic and Experimental Perspectives on the Interaction between Tone and Vowel in Standard Cantonese. Ph.D. dissertation, Ohio State University.

  54. Lee, Maureen B. 1998. Downdrift, Catathesis, and Focus in Teochew Chinese Intonation. Ph.D. dissertation, Indiana University.

  55. Li, Rong(李榮). 1985. "Guanhua fangyan-de fenqu" (官話方言的分區) [The grouping of the Mandarin dialects]. Fangyan (方言) (1985) 1: 2-5.

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

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

  58. Li, Fang-kuei. 1973. "Languages and dialects of China." Journal of Chinese Linguistics 1.1:1-13. (Originally published in The Chinese Yearbook (1937), pp.59-65. Shanghai: Commercial Press.)

  59. Li, Rong (李榮). 1989a. "Zhongguo-de yuyan he fangyan" (中國的語言和方言) [Languages and dialects in China] Fangyan (方言) 1989.3:161-167.

  60. Li, Rong (李榮). 1989b. "Hanyu fangyande fenqu" (漢語方言的分區) [Classification of the Chinese dialects] Fangyan (方言) 1989.4:241-259.

  61. Lien, Chinfa. 1988. "Taiwanese sentence-final particles." In: The Structure of Taiwanese: A Modern Synthesis. Edited by Robert L. Cheng and Shuanfan Huang. Taipei: Crane Publishing Ltd. Pp. 209-234. (Comments and responses, pp. 234-240.) [PL1710.T28 H73 1988]

  62. Lien, Chinfa. 1995. "Comparative Construction in Taiwan Southern Min: A Sociolinguistic Survey." Paper presented at the Second Chao Yuen Ren Center for Chinese Linguistics Symposium. 18-19 March 1995. U.C. Berkeley.

  63. Light, Timothy. 1982. "On being 'de-ing.'" Computational Analyses of Asian and African Languages (CAAAL) 19.21-49.

  64. McCawley, James D. 1994. "Comparative-conditional constructions in Mandarin and Cantonese." In: In Honor of William S-Y. Wang: Interdisciplinary Studies on Language and Language Change. Edited by Matthew Y. Chen and Ovid J.L. Tzeng. Taipei: Pyramid Press. Pp. 313-322.

  65. Norman, Jerry. 1988. Chinese. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Excerpt: Chapter 8.1-8.5 (concerning classification, etc).)

  66. Norman, Jerry. 1991. "The Min dialects in historical perspective." Languages and Dialects of China. Edited by William S-Y. Wang. [= Journal of Chinese Linguistics, Monograph Series Number 3.] Pp.325-360. [On order, Main Library]

  67. Ogura, Mieko. 1994. "Dialect formation in China: Linguistic, genetic and historical perspectives." In: In Honor of William S-Y. Wang: Interdisciplinary Studies on Language and Language Change. Edited by Matthew Y. Chen and Ovid J.L. Tzeng. Taipei: Pyramid Press. Pp. 349-372.

  68. Pan, Wuyun. 1991. "An introduction to the Wu dialects." Languages and Dialects of China. Edited by William S-Y. Wang. [= Journal of Chinese Linguistics, Monograph Series Number 3.] [On order, Main Library] Pp.237-293.

  69. Peng, Shu-hui. 1996. Phonetic Implementation and Perception of Place Coarticulation and Tone Sandhi. Ph.D. dissertation, The Ohio State University.

  70. Peng, Shu-hui, Marjorie K.M. Chan, Chiu-yu Tseng, Tsan Huang, Ok Joo Lee, and Mary E. Beckman. 2005. "Towards a Pan-Mandarin system for prosodic transcription." In: Prosodic Typology: The Phonology of Intonation and Phrasing. Edited by Sun-Ah Jun. 2005. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. Pages 230-270.

  71. Pennington, Martha C. (ed.) 1998. Language in Hong Kong at Century's End. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.

  72. Ramsey, S. Robert. 1987. The Languages of China. Princeton: Princeton U. Press.

  73. Shen, Xiaonan. 1990. The Prosody of Mandarin Chinese. Berkeley: University of California Press.

  74. Selkirk, Elisabeth and Shen, Tong. 1990. "Prosodic domains in Shanghai Chinese." In: The Phonology - Syntax Connection. Edited by Sharon Inkelas and Draga Zec. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. Pages 313-337.

  75. Shih, Chi-lin. 1997. "Mandarin third tone sandhi and prosodic structure." In: Studies in Chinese Phonology. Edited by Jialing Wang and Norval Smith. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter. Pages 81-123.

  76. Simmons, Richard VanNess. 1999. Chinese Dialect Classification: A Comparative Approach to Harngjou, Old Jintarn, and Common Northern Wu. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub.

  77. So, Lydia K.H. 1997. "Tonal Change in Hong Kong Cantonese." In: One Country, Two Systems, Three Languages: A Survey of Changing Language Use in Hong Kong. Edited by Sue Wright and Helen Kelly-Holmes. Clevedon & Philadelphia: Multilingual Matters ltd. Pp. 80-83. (Debate, pp. 84-85.) [P40.45.H66 O64 1997]

  78. Tai, James H-Y. 1994. "Chinese classifier systems and human categorization." In: In Honor of William S-Y. Wang: Interdisciplinary Studies on Language and Language Change. Edited by Matthew Y. Chen and Ovid J.L. Tzeng. Taipei: Pyramid Press. Pp. 479-494.

  79. Ting, Pang-hsin (丁邦新). 1992. "Hanyu fangyan-shi he fangyan quyushi-de yanjiu" (漢語方言史和方言區域史的研究). In: Chinese Languages and Linguistics: I. Chinese Dialects. [Symposium Series of the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica. Number 2. Taipei: Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica. Pp. 23-39.

  80. Thurgood, Graham and Randy J. LaPolla (eds.). 2003. The Sino-Tibetan Languages. London: Routledge.

  81. Tsou, Benjamin K. 1997. "Aspects of the two language system and three language problem in the changing society of Hong Kong." In: One Country, Two Systems, Three Languages: A Survey of Changing Language Use in Hong Kong. Edited by Sue Wright and Helen Kelly-Holmes. Clevedon & Philadelphia: Multilingual Matters ltd. Pp. 22-33. [P40.45.H66 O64 1997]

  82. Wang, H. Samuel. 1995. Experimental Studies in Taiwanese Phonology. Taipei: Crane Publishing Co., Ltd.

  83. Wang, Su-chen. 1998. Intonational Units and Declination Units in Taiwanese Discourse. M.A. thesis, National Taiwan University.

  84. Wei, Meei-yau. 1992. Practical Dialogue: Chinese Language Choices and Adaptations in New York City's Chinatown. Ph.D. dissertation, Indiana University.

  85. Wong, Wai Yi P., Marjorie K. M. Chan, and Mary E. Beckman. 2005. "An autosegmental-metrical analysis and prosodic annotation conventions for Cantonese." In: Prosodic Typology: The Phonology of Intonation and Phrasing. Edited by Sun-Ah Jun. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. Pages 271-300.

  86. Wright, Sue. 1997. "One country, two systems, three languages." In: One Country, Two Systems, Three Languages: A Survey of Changing Language Use in Hong Kong. Edited by Sue Wright and Helen Kelly-Holmes. Clevedon & Philadelphia: Multilingual Matters ltd. Pp. 1-7. [P40.45.H66 O64 1997]

  87. Wurm, Stephen Adolphe, et al. (general editors). 1987. Language Atlas of China [Chinese title: Zhongguo Yuyan Ditu Ji (中國語言地圖集)]. Part 1. Hong Kong: Longman (Far East) Ltd. (Part 2 was published in 1991.)
    (This was an eight-year long bilingual (Chinese and English) joint research project between researchers at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the Australian Academy of Humanities, Australia National U. Principal Chinese linguists from the two institutions leading the project at that time were Li Rong and Benjamin T'sou respectively.)

  88. Yang, Paul Fu-mien. 1981. Chinese Dialectology: A Selected and Classified Biblioraphy. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press. [EAS Reading Room. Z7059 .Y284]

  89. Yeung, Lau Luk Margery. 1999. On Noun-Verb Overlapping in Cantonese. M. Phil. thesis, University of Hong Kong.

  90. Yuan Jiahua (袁家驊). 1989. Hanyu Fangyan Gaiyao (漢語方言概要) [Outline of Chinese Dialects]. Second edition. Beijing: Wenzi Gaige Chubanshe. (The first edition was published in 1960.)

  91. Yue-Hashimoto, Anne. 1991. "The Yue dialects." Languages and Dialects of China. Edited by William S-Y. Wang. [= Journal of Chinese Linguistics, Monograph Series Number 3.] Pp.294-324. [On order, Main Library]

  92. Yue-Hashimoto, Anne. 1993. Comparative Chinese Dialectal Grammar: Handbook for Investigators. Paris: Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Centre de Recherches Linguistique sur l'Asie Orientale.

  93. Yue-Hashimoto, Anne. 1994. "Development of the Xiamen neutral question forms." In: In Honor of William S-Y. Wang: Interdisciplinary Studies on Language and Language Change. Edited by Matthew Y. Chen and Ovid J.L. Tzeng. Taipei: Pyramid Press. Pp. 593-610.

  94. Zee, Eric. 1997. "Phonological Changes in Hong Kong Cantonese." In: One Country, Two Systems, Three Languages: A Survey of Changing Language Use in Hong Kong. Edited by Sue Wright and Helen Kelly-Holmes. Clevedon & Philadelphia: Multilingual Matters ltd. Pp. 86-92. (Debate, pp. 93-94.) [P40.45.H66 O64 1997]

  95. Zeng, Suzanne Marie. 1996. A Pragmatic Study of Chinese Interrogatives. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Hawaii.

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

  97. Zhu, Dexi. 1990. "Dialectal distribution of V-neg-VO and VO-neg-V interrogative sentence patterns." Journal of Chinese Linguistics 18.2:209-229.

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