DUANMU'S PUBLICATIONS

(The PDF files are near-final versions of the published papers.)

BOOKS

Duanmu, S., 2009. Syllable Structure: The Limits of Variation. Oxford University Press. (More information)

Duanmu, S., 2007. The Phonology of Standard Chinese. 2^nd Edition. Oxford University Press. (Fully revised, more information).

Duanmu, S., 2003. The Phonology of Standard Chinese. Oxford (2000). Translated into Korean by Ik-sang Eom, et al. Seoul: Hankookmunhwasa Publishing Company.

RECENT PAPERS AND TALKS

Duanmu, S., 2009. 对立、特征、和发音动作 [Contrast, Features, and Articulatory Gestures]. To appear in 《语言学论丛》. Beijing: Peking University Press. (PDF file)

Duanmu, S., 2009. Chinese syllable structure. To appear in Companion to Phonology, ed. Colin Ewen, Beth Hume, Marc van Oostendorp, and Keren Rice. Wiley-Blackwell. (PDF file)

Duanmu, S., 2009. Stress, information, and language typology. To appear in 《语言学文选》 [Papers in Linguistics], ed. Feng SHI and Hongming Zhang. Beijing: 世界图书出版社. (PDF file)

Duanmu, S., 2008. The CVX theory of syllable structure. CUNY Conference on the Syllable, January 17-19, CUNY Graduate Center, New York. To appear in Perspectives on the Syllable, ed. Charles Cairns and Eric Raimy. Leiden and Boston: Brill. (PDF file)

Duanmu, S., 2008. The spotty-data problem and boundaries of grammar. In Interfaces in Chinese Phonology: Festschrift in Honor of Matthew Y. Chen on his 70th Birthday, ed. Yuchau E. Hsiao, Hui-Chuan Hsu, Lian-Hee Wee, and Dah-an Ho, 261-278. Taipei: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica. (PDF file)

Duanmu, S., 2007. 重音、信息、和语言的分类 [Stress, information, and language typology]. Yuyan Kexie [Linguistic Science] 6.5: 3-16. (PDF file)

Duanmu, S., 2007. A two-accent model of Japanese word prosody. Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics. (PDF file)

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Duanmu, S., H.-Y. Kim, and N. Stiennon, 2005. Stress and syllable structure in English: Approaches to phonological variations. Taiwan Journal of Linguistics 3.2: 45-57. (PDF file)

Duanmu, S., and N. Stiennon, 2005. Tonal requirements in Chinese regulated verse: a corpus study. Taiwan Journal of Linguistics 3.1: 1-31. (PDF file) (Some Chinese characters are missing in the printed version. This PDF file is more complete.)

Duanmu, S., 2004. Tone and non-tone languages: An alternative to language typology and parameters. Language and Linguistics. 5.4, pp. 891-923. (PDF file)

Duanmu, S., 2004. Left-headed feet and phrasal stress in Chinese. Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale 33.1, pp. 65-103. (PDF file)

Duanmu, S., 2004. A corpus study of Chinese regulated verse: phrasal stress and the analysis of variability. Phonology 21. pp. 43-89. (PDF file, Appendix1, Appendix2, Appendix3)

Kim, M.-R., and S. Duanmu, 2004. Tense and lax stops in Korean. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 13: 59-104. (PDF file)

Duanmu, S., 2002. Two theories of onset clusters. Chinese Phonology 11 (Special issue: glides, syllable and tone): 97-120. (PDF file, Appendix)

Lu, B.-F., and S. Duanmu, 2002. Rhythm and syntax in Chinese: A case study. Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association 37.2: 123-136. (PDF file)

Duanmu, S., 2002. Review of The morphology of Chinese: A linguistic and cognitive approach by Jerome L. Packard, Cambridge University Press. Diachronica 19.1: 190-200. (PDF file)

Duanmu, S., 2001. Review of Matthew Y. Chen (2000) Tone sandhi: patterns across Chinese dialects. (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics 92.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Phonology 18.2: 306-308. (PDF file)

Duanmu, S., 2000. Hanyu de jiezou [Prodosy in Chinese]. Dangdai Yuyanxue [Contemporary Linguistics] 4: 203-209. (PDF file)

Duanmu, S., 1999. Stress and the development of disyllabic vocabulary in Chinese. Diachronica XVI: 1.1-35. (PDF file)

Duanmu, S., 1999. Zhongyin lilun he Hanyu de ci chang xuanze [Metrical theory and word length choices in Chinese]. Zhongguo Yuwen 1999.4 (271): pp. 246-254. (PDF file)

Duanmu, S., 1999. Metrical Structure and Tone: Evidence from Mandarin and Shanghai. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 8: pp. 1-38. (PDF file)

Kim, M.-R. and S. Duanmu, 1999. The interaction between consonant types and tone: a tonogenesis effect in Chonnam Koran. Korean Journal 10.

Duanmu, S., 1997. Phonologically motivated word order movement: evidence from Chinese compounds. Studies in Linguistic Sciences 27.1, pp. 49-73. (PDF file)

Duanmu, S., 1997. Recursive constraint evaluation in Optimality Theory: evidence from cyclic compounds in Shanghai. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 15, pp. 465-507. (PDF file)

Duanmu, S., 1997. Cong Hanyu de zhongyin tan yuyan de gongxing yu texing [Language universals and language particulars: evidence from stress in Chinese]. Zhongguo Yuyanxue Luncong [Studies in Chinese Linguistics] 1: pp. 79-84. (PDF file)

Duanmu, S., 1996. Pre-juncture lengthening and foot binarity. Studies in the Linguistic Sciences 26.1/2, pp. 95-115. (PDF file)

Duanmu, S., 1995, Metrical and tonal phonology of compounds in two Chinese dialects. Language 71.2, pp. 225-259. (PDF file)

Duanmu, S., 1994. Against contour tone units. Linguistic Inquiry 25.4, pp. 555-608. (PDF file)

Duanmu, S., 1994. Syllabic weight and syllabic duration: A correlation between phonology and phonetics, Phonology 11.1, pp. 1-24. (PDF file)

Duanmu, S., 1994. The phonology of the glottal stop in Garo. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 17.2, pp. 69-82. (PDF file)

Duanmu, S., 1993, Rime length, stress, and association domains, Journal of East Asian Linguistics 2.1, pp. 1-44. (PDF file)

Duanmu, S., 1992. An autosegmental analysis of tone in four Tibetan languages. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 15:1, pp. 65-91. (PDF file)

BOOK CHAPTERS (AND SOME CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS)

Duanmu, S., 2006. Chinese (Mandarin): phonology. Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd Edition, ed. by Keith Brown, 351-355. Oxford, UK: Elsevier Publishing House. (PDF file)

Duanmu, S., 2005. The tone-syntax interface in Chinese: some recent controversies. Proceedings of the Symposium ‘Cross-Linguistic Studies of Tonal Phenomena, Historical Development, Tone-Syntax Interface, and Descriptive Studies’, December 14-16, 2004, ed. Shigeki Kaji. Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, pp. 221-254. (PDF file)

Duanmu, San. 2003. The Syllable Phonology of Mandarin and Shanghai. Proceedings of the Fifteenth North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics, 86-102. University of Southern California Press. (PDF file)

Duanmu, S., 2000. Stress in Chinese. Chinese Phonology in Generative Grammar, edited by Debao Xu. New York: Academic Press, pp. 117-138.

Duanmu, S., 2000. Tone: An overview. The First Glot International State-of-the-Article Book: The Latest in Linguistics, edited by Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng and Rint Sybesma. Studies in Generative Grammar 48. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 251-286. (PDF file)

Duanmu, S., 1999. Alignment and the cycle are different. The Derivational Residue in Phonological Optimality Theory, eds. B. Herman and M. van Oostendorp. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 129-152.

Duanmu, S., 1999. Syllable structure in Chinese. The Syllable: Views and Facts, eds. H. van der Hulst, and N. Ritter. Studies in Generative Grammar 45. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 477-499. (PDF file)

Duanmu, S., 1998. Wordhood in Chinese. New Approaches to Chinese Word Formation: Morphology, Phonology and the Lexicon in Modern and Ancient Chinese, ed. J. Packard, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, pp.135-196. (PDF file)

DISSERTATION

Duanmu, S. 1990. A formal study of syllable, tone, stress and domain in Chinese languages. Doctoral dissertation, MIT, Cambridge, Mass. Distributed by MIT Working Papers in Linguistics. (original, reformatted)

SPEECH CORPUS

Duanmu, S., Wakefield, G. H., Hsu, Y. P., Cristina, G., and Qiu, S. P., 1998. Taiwanese Putonghua speech and transcript corpus. Linguistic Data Consortium.

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