- (in press) “‘Love you to the bone’ and other songs: Humour and rusheng 入聲 rhymes in early Cantopop.” (with second author, Jocelyn Chey) In: Humour in Chinese Life and Culture: Resistance and Control in Modern Times. Volume Two. Edited by Jessica Milner Davis and Jocelyn Chey. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.
- "Liu Yi and the Dragon Princess: Cantonese opera adaptations of a Yuan dynasty drama." 2010. Perspectives on Chinese Language and and Culture, edited by Ik-sang Eom, Yea-Fen Chen, and Shi-Chang Hsin. Taipei: Crane Publisher. Pages 55-84. [Note: This is a Festchrift volume edited by former students of Professor Emerita Margaret Mian Yan, to commemorate her 70th birthday and to honor her dedicated promotion of the study of Chinese language, linguistics, and culture over the past four decades.]
- "The perception of Mandarin Chinese tones and intonation by American learners." 2010. (with Chunsheng Yang, first author) Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association 45.1: 7-36.
- "Modality effects revisited: Iconicity in Chinese Sign Language (CSL)." (with Wang Xu). [Article title in Chinese: 語言表達方式效應之再探: 中國手語的相似性] Taiwan Sign Language and Beyond [Monograph title in Chinese: 臺灣手語研究], edited by James H-Y. Tai (戴浩一) and Jane Tsay (蔡素娟). 2009. [= 臺灣人文研究叢書 (十).] Chia-Yi, Taiwan: The Taiwan Institute for the Humanities, National Chung Chung University. Pages 49-81. [This paper is an extended version of Chan and Xu's (2008) NACCL-20 proceedings paper, listed immediately below.]
- "Modality effects revisited: Iconicity in Chinese Sign Language." (with Wang Xu),
Proceedings of the 20th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-20), Volume 1,
edited by Marjorie K.M. Chan and Hana Kang. 2008. Columbus, OH: East Asian Studies Center, The Ohio State University.
Pages 343-360.
* [ PDF (252 KB) -- CSL and TSL video clips (archived at OSU's Media Manager) ]
- "The Judge Goes to Pieces (審死官): A linguistic study of humor in a Cantonese opera."
Proceedings of the Eighteenth North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-18),
edited by Janet Xing. 2006. Los Angeles: GSIL Publications,
University of Southern California. Pages 54-71.
* [ PDF (340 KB) ]
- "Cantonese opera and the growth and spread of vernacular written Cantonese in the twentieth century."
Proceedings of the Seventeenth North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-17),
edited by Qian Gao. 2005. Los Angeles: GSIL Publications, University of Southern California.
Pages 1-18.
* [ PDF (406 KB) ]
- "Towards a Pan-Mandarin system for prosodic transcription." (with Shu-hui Peng (first author), Chiu-yu Tseng, Tsan Huang, Ok Joo Lee, and Mary E. Beckman.)
In: Prosodic Typology: The Phonology of Intonation and Phrasing.
Edited by Sun-Ah Jun. 2005. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. Pages 230-270.
(A pre-publication copy is available online here.)
(This is a much revised collection of papers from the Fourteenth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences 1999 satellite workshop
on "Intonation: Models and ToBI Labelling," San Francisco, CA. 1-7 August 1999.
ToBI stands for "Tone and Break Indices".
See the preliminary Pan-Mandarin ToBI webpage that was
part of my Autumn 1999 seminar on "Intonation and Sentence-Final Particles.")
- "An autosegmental-metrical analysis and prosodic annotation conventions for Cantonese."
(with Wai Yi P. Wong (first author) and Mary E. Beckman.)
In: Prosodic Typology: The Phonology of Intonation and Phrasing.
Edited by Sun-Ah Jun. 2005. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. Pages 271-300.
(A pre-publication copy is available
from the Cantonese ToBI site maintained by Peggy Wong.)
(This is a much revised collection of papers from the Fourteenth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences 1999 satellite workshop
on "Intonation: Models and ToBI Labelling," San Francisco, CA. 1-7 August 1999.)
- "The digital age and speech technology for Chinese language teaching and learning." 2003.
Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association 38.2:49-86.
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PDF (2 pages onto 1; 1.9 MB ]
- "Concordancers and concordances: Tools for Chinese language teaching and research."
Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association 37.2 (2002):1-58.
Note: A pre-final version of the paper was inadvertently published instead of the final, revised version.
The revised version, with color illustrations, can be downloaded here in PDF format (prepared for camera-ready printing).
* [ PDF (1.6 MB) ]
- "Gender, society, and the Chinese language." Conference-closing keynote lecture at the
Eleventh North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL 11), 18-20 June 1999, Harvard University.
(NACCL-11 Proceedings volume compiled by Baozhang He and Wenze Hu. 2000. Cambridge: East Asian Language Programs, Harvard University.)
(A camera-ready pre-publication copy is available online here, with stand-alone pagination added here.)
- "Chinese: Gender-related use of sentence-final particles in Cantonese." In:
Gender Across Languages: The Linguistic Representation of Women and Men.
Edited by Marlis Hellinger and Hadumod Bussmann. 2002.
Volume 2. [= IMPACT: Studies in Language and Society 10.] Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Co. Page 57-72.
* [ PDF (1.66 MB) ]
(An earlier conference proceedings version appears as "Sentence-final particles in Cantonese: A gender-linked survey and study."
In: Eleventh North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL 11) (18-20 June 1999, Harvard University).
Compiled by Baozhang He and Wenze Hu. Cambridge: East Asian Language Programs, Harvard University.
(Pages 87-101 -- via manual counting, as the volume contains no pagination.)
[ PDF (173k), camera-ready, with pagination added to the PDF file.])
- * "Some reflections on the periodization of the Chinese language."
(with James H-Y. Tai, first author), in: Studies in Chinese Historical Syntax and Morphology: Linguistic Essays in Honor of Mei Tsu-lin
[= Collection des Cahiers de Linguistique d'Asie Orientale].
Edited by Alain Peyraube and Chaofen Sun. 1999. [Note: change in publication year.]
Paris: Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. Pages 223-239.
* [ DOC ] (Prepublication copy)
- *"Sentence particles je and jek in Cantonese and their distribution across gender and sentence types."
Engendering Communication: Proceedings of the Fifth Berkeley Women and Language Conference. April 24-26, 1998, Berkeley, California. Edited by Suzanne Wertheim, Ashlee Bailey, and Monica Corston-Oliver. 1998.
Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Women and Language Group.
Pages 117-128.
- * "Gender differences in the Chinese language: a preliminary report." Proceedings of the Ninth North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics. Two volumes, edited by Hua Lin.
1998. Los Angeles: GSIL Publications, University of Southern California. Volume 2, pages 35-52.
* [ PDF (240 KB) ]
- * "Gender-marked speech in Cantonese: the case of sentence-final particles je and jek." (405k)
Studies in the Linguistic Sciences 26.1/2 (Spring/Fall 1996):1-38.
* [ PDF (2 MB) ]
- "Fuzhou glottal stop: floating segment or correlation of close contact?" In: Chinese Phonology.
Edited by Jialing Wang and Norval S.H. Smith. 1996. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. Pp. 275-289.
- "Some thoughts on the typology of sound symbolism and the Chinese language." Proceedings of the
8th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics
(NACCL-8). Two volumes, edited by Chin-chuan Cheng, Jerome Packard, James Yoon, and Yu-ling You. 1996.
Los Angeles, CA: GSIL Publications, University of Southern California. Volume 2, pp. 1-15.
* [ PDF (210 KB) ]
- "Sound symbolism and the Chinese language." Proceedings of the 7th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics
(NACCL) and the 4th International Conference on Chinese Linguistics (ICCL). Two volumes, edited by Tsai Fa Cheng, Yafei Li and Hongming Zhang. 1996.
(As this volume was undated, I had used '1996' based on the year it came out in print, and not the year of the conference (viz., 1995).)
Los Angeles, CA: GSIL Publications, University of Southern California. Volume 2, pp. 17-34.
* [ PDF (210 KB) ]
- "An autosegmental analysis of Danyang tone sandhi: some historical and theoretical issues."
New Asia Academic Bulletin (新亞學術集刊) 11 (1995):145-184. (Special Issue: Studies in Wu Dialects (吳語研究), edited by Eric Zee (徐雲揚編). Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong.)
* [ PDF (11 MB) ]
- * "From nouns to verbs: verbalization in Chinese dialects and East Asian languages." (with James Tai) In: Sixth North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics. NACCL6. Two volumes, edited by Jose Camacho and Lina Choueiri. 1995.
(As this first NACCL proceedings was undated, I had used '1995' based on the year it came out in print, and not the year of the conference (viz., 1994).)
Los Angeles, CA: GSIL Publications, University of Southern California. Volume 2, pp. 49-74.
* [ PDF (210 KB) ]
- "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. 1994. Taipei: Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica. Pp. 203-250.
* [ PDF (1.3 MB) ]
- "Contour-tone spreading and tone sandhi in Danyang." Phonology (1991) 8.2:237-259.
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- "Prelinked and floating glottal stops in Fuzhou Chinese." Canadian Journal of Linguistics (1990) 35.4:331-349.
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- "On the status of 'basic' tones." Acta Linguistica Hafniensia (1989) 21.2:5-34.
(An earlier version of the paper appears in UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics (1986) 63:71-94.)
* [ PDF (1.4 MB) ]
- "Wuxi tone sandhi: from last to first syllable dominance." (with Hongmo Ren) Acta Linguistica Hafniensia (1989) 21.2:35-64. (An earlier version of the paper appears in
UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics (1986) 63:48-70.)
* [ PDF (1.3 MB) ]
- * "A critical review of Norman's Chinese." (with James Tai) Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association (1989) XXIV.1:43-61.
- "A study of the one thousand most frequently used characters." (with Baozhang He) Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association (1988) XXIII.3:49-68.
* [ PDF (1. MB) ]
- "Post-stopped nasals in Chinese: An areal study." UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics (1987) 68:73-119.
* [ PDF (3.3 MB) ]
- "Post-stopped nasals: An acoustic investigation." (with Hongmo Ren) UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics (1987) 68:120-131.
(Conference abstract in JASA Suppl.1, Vol.81 (1987))
* [ PDF (716 KB) ]
- "Tone and melody interaction in Cantonese and Mandarin songs." UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics (1987) 68:132-169.
* [ PDF (1.93 MB) ]
- * "Tone and melody in Cantonese." Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1987) 13:26-37.
* [ PDF (439 KB) ]
[Also available online from the Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society.]
- "On the final glottal stop in Fuzhou." Proceedings of the First Annual Meeting of the Pacific Linguistics Conference. Edited by Scott DeLancey and Russell S. Tomlin. 1985. Eugene: Department of Linguistics, University of Oregon. Pp. 54-68.
* [ PDF (786 KB) ]
- "Initial consonant clusters in Old Chinese: Evidence from sesquisyllabic words in the Yue dialects." (Chinese title: 上古音复声母:粤方言一个半音节的字所提供的佐证). Fangyan (1984) 4:300-313.
* [ PDF (296 KB) - PDF (OCR'd on English), 1 MB) ]
- "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. (1984) Bellingham: Center for East Asian Studies, University of Western Washington. Pp. 232-254.
* [ PDF (2.1 MB) ] (Prepublication copy)
- "Stress and vowel quality changes in the Fuzhou Chinese dialect." University of Washington Working Papers in Linguistics (1984) 8:19-38.
- "Lexical diffusion and two Chinese case studies re-analyzed." Acta Orientalia (1983) 44:118-152.
(A shorter version of the paper appears in the University of Washington Working Papers in Linguistics (1982) 7:1-7.)
* [ PDF (1.96 MB) ]
- * "A response to Boltz' notes on Cantonese dentilabialization." Journal of the American Oriental Society (1982) l02.1:107-109. (UTF-8)
* [ PDF (364 KB) ]
- "Chinatown Chinese: a linguistic and historical re-evaluation." (with Douglas W. Lee)
Amerasia Journal (1981) 8.1:111-131.
- "Temporal reference in Mandarin Chinese: An analytical-semantic approach to the study of the morphemes le 了,
zai 在, zhe 着, and ne 呢." Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association (1980) 15.3:33-79.
* [ PDF (1.8 MB) ]
-- a 3-page English, morpheme-by-morpheme gloss, or literal translation, of the sentences in Chan (1980)
is also available here as a
supplementary (pdf) file.
- "Problems and criticisms of the integrated day." Viewpoint (1975) 10.2:19-26.
(Note: This is a non-linguistics article concerning early childhood education. Viewpoint was a journal published by the University of British Columbia's Child Study Centre, which operated from 1961 to 1997. I taught there in 1976.)
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