1. Member of the Following Students' Ph.D. Dissertation Committee in DEALL and Other Units at OSU:

    A. Dissertations in Progress:

1. Shih, Ya-ting. Ph.D. Candidate, Spring 2010. (Also served on student's Candidacy Exam Comm.) (Advisor: Leslie C. Moore, Teaching and Learning, Education)
   (Topic: Bilingual children’s acquisition of Taiwan Mandarin and Taiwanese fricatives)
2. Yang, Jia. Ph.D. Candidate, Spring 2010. (Also served on student's Candidacy Exam Comm.) (Advisor: Galal Walker, DEALL)
   (Topic: On English-speaking learners' management of Chinese collocation)
3. Huang, Yao-feng. Ph.D. Candidate. (Advisor: Leslie C. Moore, Teaching and Learning, Education)
   (Topic: The effects of two methods for training Taiwanese EFL college students to identify non-native phonemic contrasts)
4. Yang, Jing. Ph.D. Candidate, Winter 2011. (Also served on student's Candidacy Exam Comm.) (Advisor: Robert Fox, Speech and Hearing Sciences)
   (Topic: Chinese-English bilingual L1 acquisition of vowels)
5. Sun, Yung Wei. Ph.D. Candidate, Spring 2011. (Advisor: Robin Rice, Music)
   (Topic; A performance guide to Mandarin-Chinese diction and contemporary Chinese art songs)

1. Hung, Tsun-Hui. 2011. (Spring late-quarter defence; Summer 2011 graduation) "One music? Two musics? How many musics? Cognitive ethnomusicological, behavioral, and fMRI study on vocal and instrumental rhythm processing." (Advisor: Udo Will, Music)
2. Chen, Guangyan. 2011. "Developing a culture-based rating criterion model for assessing oral performances in teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language." (Spring 2011) (Advisor Galal Walker, DEALL)
3. Chang, Chiung-Yun. 2010. "Dialect Differences in the Production and Perception of Mandarin Chinese Tones." (Summer 2010) (Advisor Robert Fox, Dept. of Speech and Hearing Sciences)
4. Zhang, Yongfang. 2009. "Performance-Based Chinese L2 Reading Instruction: A Spiral Approach." (Summer 2009) (Advisor: Galal Walker, DEALL)
5. Dong, Xinran. 2009. "Requests in Academic Settings in English, Russian and Chinese." (Spring 2009 (late quarter defence), Summer 2009 (graduation)) (Advisor: Daniel E. Collins, Dept. of Slavic and E. European Lgs. & Lits.; Co-Advisor: Marjorie K.M. Chan, DEALL)
6. Riha, Helena. 2008. "Lettered words and Roman letter characters in Chinese writing: A study of alphabetic writing in Chinese newswires." (Summer 2008 (end-of-quarter defence), Autumn 2008 (graduation)) (Advisor: Mary E. Beckman, Linguistics)
7. Xu, Lei. 2007. "Phonological variation and word recognition in continuous speech." (Summer 2007) (Advisor: Shari Speer, Linguistics)
8. Lu, Xiaofei. 2006. "Hybrid models for Chinese unknown word resolution." (Summer 2006) (Advisor: Detmar Meurers, Linguistics)
9. Wong, Peggy W. P. 2006. "Syllable fusion in Hong Kong Cantonese spontaneous speech." (Winter 2006) (Advisor: Mary E. Beckman, Linguistics; Co-Advisor: Marjorie K.M. Chan, DEALL)
10. Huang, Tsan. 2004. "Language-specificity in auditory perception of Chinese tones." (Summer 2004) (Advisor: Keith Johnson, Linguistics)

11. Wu, Sue-mei. 1997. "The coverbs in Classical Chinese." (Co-Advisors: Frank F. S. Hsueh and Yan-shuan Lao, DEALL)
12. Rouzer, John (Jack) Harvey. 1997. "Ontological metaphor in Chinese syntax." (Advisor: James H.-Y. Tai, DEALL)
13. Wu, Xiaoqi. 1996. "Zai, dao, and gei constructions -- A study of Chinese word order." (Advisor: James H.-Y. Tai, DEALL)
14. Hu, Wenze. 1995. "Functional perspectives and Chinese word order." (Advisor: James H.-Y. Tai, DEALL)
15. Peng, Shu-hui. 1995. "Phonetic implementation and perception of segmental coarticulation and tone sandhi." (Unable to attend oral defence) (Advisor: Mary E. Beckman, Linguistics)

16. Shi, Jianguo. 1994. "Shuyang phonology." (Advisor: Frank F. S. Hsueh, DEALL)
17. Wang, Liangqing. 1994. "Origin and development of classifiers in Chinese." (Advisor: James H.-Y. Tai, DEALL)
18. Christensen, Matthew. 1994. "Variation in spoken and written narrative discourse." (Advisor: James H.-Y. Tai, DEALL)
19. Ao, Benjamin Xiaoping. 1993. "Phonetics and phonology of Nantong Chinese." (Advisor: David Odden, Linguistics)
20. Lee, Gina. 1993. "Comparative, diachronic and experimental perspectives on the interaction between tone and vowel in standard Cantonese." (Advisor: Brian Joseph, Linguistics)

21. He, Baozhang. 1992. "Situation types and aspectual classes of verbs in Mandarin Chinese." (Advisor: James H.-Y. Tai, DEALL)
22. Bourgerie, Dana Scott. 1990. "A quantitative study of sociolinguistic variation in Cantonese." (Advisor: James H.-Y. Tai, DEALL)
23. Sergent, Wallace K., Jr. 1990. "A study of the oral reading strategies of advanced and highly advanced second language readers of Chinese. (Advisor: James H.-Y. Tai, DEALL)
24. McGinnis, Scott. 1990. "A pragmatic analysis of Mandarin interrogatives: data from modern Taiwan drama." (Advisor: James H.-Y. Tai, DEALL)
25. Zhang, Zheng-sheng. 1988. "Tone and tone sandhi in Chinese." (Advisor: Arnold Zwicky, Linguistics)

2. Member of the Following Students' M.A. Thesis Committee in DEALL:

1. Su, Lulei. 2011. "A pedagogical perspective on Advanced L2 Learners’ acquisition of Chinese conceptual metaphor." (Summer 2011).(Advisor: Galal Walker)
2. Bi, Zhiwei. 1996. "Xuxiu Siku Quanshu Zongmu Tiyao: An analysis of the Sequel to the Annotated Bibliography of the Four Treasures." (Advisor: Yan-shuan Lao)
3. Tutachikova, Olga. 1995. "Acquisition of Mandarin Chinese pronunciation by foreign learners: The role of memory in learning and teaching." (Advisor: Galal Walker)
4. Zhou, Lieting. 1994. "On the occurrence conditions of localizers in Mandarin Chinese." (Advisor: James H.-Y. Tai)
5. Butler, Craig. 1990. "An examination of 'dao Place (qu)' and 'qu Place' in Mandarin Chinese." (Advisor in Au 89-Wi 90: Marjorie K.M. Chan; Advisor for oral defence in Sp 90: Robert Sanders)
6. Liu, Cheng-hui. 1988. "Analytical study of the Lingbao dialect." (Advisor: Frank F. S. Hsueh)

3. Member of the Following Students' Senior Honors Thesis Committee in the Dept. of Linguistics at OSU:

1. Yasu, Kuniko. 1999. "A cross-language study of classifying stops in Japanese and Chinese: the difference and its significance for second language acquisition." (Project advisor: Michael Broe)
2. Liaw, Lily. 1997. "An acoustic analysis of Shanghainese phones: an exploration of the three-way voicing contrast." (Advisor/Project advisor: Keith Johnson)

4. External Examiner of the Following Student's Senior Honors Thesis Oral Defence Committee at Another Institution:

1. Politzer-Ahles, Stephen. 2008. "The puzzle of Mandarin 了: An integrated approach." Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio. 2 May 2008. (Advisor: Jianhua Bai)

5. External Examiner of the Following Student's M.A./M. Phil Thesis Committee at Another Institution:

1. Lau, Chaak Ming. 2008. "Loanword truncation and optimal word length: Evidence from Cantonese." University of Hong Kong, China. (Advisor: Kang-Kwong Luke)
2. Yeung, Lau Luk Margery. 1999. "On noun-verb overlapping in Cantonese." University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China. (Advisor: Kang-Kwong Luke)

6. External Member/Supervisor of the Following Students' Ph.D. Dissertation Committee at Another Institution:

1. Wang, Jing. 2004. "Rhythmic grouping, tone sandhi and stress in Beijing Mandarin." Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. (Advisor: Robert Mannell; Associate Supervisor: Marjorie K.M. Chan)
2. Davison, Deborah. 1989. "Tone sandhi and accent in the lexical phonology of Mandarin Chinese dialects." University of California, Berkeley. (Due to incomplete processing of paperwork at U.C. Berkeley, I became an unofficial outside member of the committee.)

7. Member of the Following Students' M.A./Ph.D. General Examination Committee in Other Departments at OSU:

1. Yang, Jing. Winter 2011. Ph.D. General Examination. (Advisor: Robert Fox, Speech and Hearing Sciences)
2. Shih, Ya-ting. Spring 2010. Ph.D. General Examination. (Advisor: Alan Hirvela, College of Education)
3. Liu, Yu-Hsiu. Spring 2010. Ph.D. General Examination. (Advisor: Keiko Samimy, College of Education)
4. Li, Hui. Autumn 2009. Ph.D. General Examination. (Advisor: Mari Haneda, College of Education)
5. Yang, Hsiu-hui. Spring 2009. Ph.D. General Examination. (Advisor: Keiko Samimy, College of Education)

6. Pyo, Jeongsoo. Spring 2007. Ph.D. General Examination. (Advisor: Alan Hirvela, College of Education)
7. Riha, Helen. Spring 2007. Ph.D. Genral Examination. (Advisor: Mary E. Beckman, Linguistics)
8. Xu, Lei. Summer 2005. Ph.D. General Examination. (Advisor: Shari Speer, Linguistics)
9. Lu, Xiaofei. Spring 2005. Ph.D. General Examination. (Advisor: Detmar Meurers, Linguistics)
10. Wong, Peggy W. P. Autumn 2002. Ph.D. General Examination. (Advisor: Mary E. Beckman, Linguistics; Co-Advisor: Marjorie K.M. Chan, DEALL)

11. Huang, Tsan. Spring 2002. Ph.D. General Examination. (Advisor: Keith Johnson, Linguistics)
12. Nissen, Shawn. Autumn 2000. Ph.D. General Examination. (Advisor: Robert Fox, Speech and Hearing Sciences)
13. Herman, Rebecca. 1996. Ph.D. General Examination. (Advisor: Mary E. Beckman, Linguistics)
14. Peng, Shu-hui. 1994. Ph.D. General Examination. (Advisor: Mary E. Beckman, Linguistics)
15. Pan, Ho-hsien Cleo. 1993. Ph.D. General Examination. (Advisor: Robert Fox, Speech and Hearing Sciences)

16. Ao, Benjamin Xiaoping. 1993. Ph.D. General Examination. (Advisor: David Odden, Linguistics)
17. Yeo, Harold. 1992. Masters General Examination. (Advisor: Conrad Smith, Journalism)
18. Dai, John Xiang-ling. 1990. Ph.D. General Examination. (Co-written with James H.-Y. Tai) (Advisor: Arnold Zwicky, Linguistics)