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Professor

• Fields of Study

  • Phonology, including features, syllable structure, stress, and tone

• 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).

  Selected Publications

  • 2007  The Phonology of Standard Chinese, 2nd edition.  Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • 2008  Syllable Structure: The Limits of Variation.  Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • 1994  Against contour tone units.  Linguistic Inquiry.
  • 1994  Syllabic weight and syllabic durations: a correlation between phonology and phonetics.  Phonology.
  • 1999  Metrical structure and tone: evidence from Mandarin and Shanghai.  Journal of East Asian Linguistics.
  • 2004  A corpus study of Chinese regulated verse: phrasal stress and the analysis of variability.  Phonology.
  • 2004  Tone and non-tone languages: an alternative to language typology and parameters.  Language and Linguistics.
  • 2008  A two-accent model of Japanese word prosody.  Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics (http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~twpl/
  • 2010  Corpus: Shanghai language survey data (with Yiwen Zhou).  Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, ms.
  • 2012  Word-length preferences in Chinese: a corpus study.  Journal of East Asian Linguistics.

• Education

  • Ph.D., MIT