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Professor

• Affiliation(s)

  • Department of Linguistics
  • Center for Chinese Studies

• Fields of Study

  • Phonology and Chinese linguistics

• About

  San Duanmu’s current research covers three areas: a book project on features, using two large phoneme inventory databases, to be published by Oxford University Press; a survey-based study of changing preferences of language choices in China, as a result of rapid socio-economic transformation in the country; and quantitative studies of some phonological and lexical problems in Chinese.

  He has recently taught Introduction to Language, Sound Patterns, Phonology, Advanced Phonology, a first-year seminar on English Pronunciation, and an advanced seminar on Corpus Linguistics.

  Professor Duanmu has been a member of the Executive Committee of the International Association of Chinese Linguists and of the Editorial Board of the Journal of East Asian Linguistics.  He currently serves on the editorial boards of the journals Contemporary Linguistics (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences), Korean Journal of Chinese Language and Literature (Seoul), and Studies in Chinese Linguistics (Chinese University of Hong Kong).

• Education

  • Ph.D., MIT, 1990

• Selected Publications:

• Books

  • (2008) Syllable structure: the limits of variation
  • (2007) The Phonology of Standard Chinese

• Articles

  • (2012) Word-length preferences in Chinese, Journal of East Asian Linguistics
  • (2008) A Two-Accent Model of Japanese word prosody, Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics
  • (2004) A corpus study of Chinese regulated verse, Phonology
  • (2004) Tone and non-tone languages, Language and Linguistics
  • (1999) Metrical structure and tone, Journal of East Asian Linguistics
  • (1999) Stress and the development of disyllabic words in Chinese, Diachronica
  • (1994) Syllabic weight and syllabic durations, Phonology
  • (1994) Against contour tone units, Linguistic Inquiry