Professor, Linguistics
duanmu@umich.eduOffice Information:
phone: 734.647.2154
Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies; LRCCS Faculty
Education/Degree:
PhD, MIT, 1990
Highlighted Work and Publications
(Forthcoming) Elastic Words in Chinese.
San Duanmu, Yan Dong
Name of Periodical: Routledge Encyclopedia of the Chinese Language.
Year of Publication: 2015
A study of elastic word length in monomorphemic nouns in Chinese: 'monosyllabic-only' nouns in the lexicon and in actual use.
San Duanmu
Name of Periodical: New explorations in Chinese prosodic syntax [《汉语韵律语法新探》] (in Chinese).
Year of Publication: 2015
Page Numbers: 4-21
(Forthcoming) A quantitative study of word length preferences in AN nominal units.
Feng Qi, San Duanmu
Name of Periodical: 《语言教学与研究》 [Language Teaching and Linguistic Studies]. (in Chinese)
Year of Publication: 2015
(Forthcoming) Syllable and syllable structure in Chinese.
San Duanmu
Name of Periodical: Encyclopaedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics
Year of Publication: 2015
(Forthcoming) Phonemes, features, and syllables: converting onset and rime inventories to consonants and vowels.
Li Yi, San Duanmu
Name of Periodical: Language and Linguistics.
Year of Publication: 2015
(Forthcoming) The Phonology Inventory Database of China: Its compilation and applications.
San Duanmu
Name of Periodical: 《南方语言学》 [Linguistics of South China]. (in Chinese)
Year of Publication: 2015
Metrical phonology and metrical properties in Chinese.
San Duanmu
Name of Periodical: Journal of Contemporary Linguistics
Volume Number: 16
Issue Number: 3
Year of Publication: 2014
Page Numbers: 288-302
A quantitative study of elastic word length in Modern Chinese.
Lijun Huang, San Duanmu
Name of Periodical: 《语言科学》[Linguistic Sciences]
Volume Number: 12
Issue Number: 1
Year of Publication: 2013
Page Numbers: 8-16
Word-length preferences in Chinese: A corpus study
San Duanmu
Name of Periodical: Journal of East Asian Linguistics
Volume Number: 21
Issue Number: 1
Year of Publication: 2012
Page Numbers: 89-114
A Two-Accent Model of Japanese word prosody
San Duanmu
Name of Periodical: Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics
Volume Number: 28
Year of Publication: 2008
Page Numbers: 29-48
A corpus study of Chinese regulated verse: Phrasal stress and the analysis of variability
San Duanmu
Name of Periodical: Phonology
Volume Number: 21
Issue Number: 1
Year of Publication: 2004
Page Numbers: 43-89
Tone and non-tone languages: An alternative to language typology and parameters
San Duanmu
Name of Periodical: Language and Linguistics
Volume Number: 5
Issue Number: 4
Year of Publication: 2004
Page Numbers: 891-924
Stress and the development of disyllabic words in Chinese
San Duanmu
Name of Periodical: Diachronica
Volume Number: XVI
Issue Number: 1
Year of Publication: 1999
Page Numbers: 1-35
Metrical structure and tone: Evidence from Mandarin and Shanghai
San Duanmu
Name of Periodical: Journal of East Asian Linguistics
Volume Number: 8
Issue Number: 1
Year of Publication: 1999
Page Numbers: 1-38
doi Number: 10.1023/A:1008353028173
Syllabic weight and syllabic durations: A correlation between phonology and phonetics
San Duanmu
Name of Periodical: Phonology
Volume Number: 11
Issue Number: 1
Year of Publication: 1994
Page Numbers: 1-24
Against contour tone units
San Duanmu
Name of Periodical: Linguistic Inquiry
Volume Number: 25
Issue Number: 4
Year of Publication: 1994
Page Numbers: 555-608
(Forthcoming) Foot and stress.
Duanmu, San
Publisher: Beijing University of Languages and Cultures Press (in Chinese).
Year of Publication: 2015
(Forthcoming) A theory of phonological features.
Duanmu, San
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year of Publication: 2015
Syllable structure: the limits of variation
Sam Duanmu
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year of Publication: 2008
Location: Oxford
# of Pages: 304
ISBN: 9780199267590
The Phonology of Standard Chinese
Sam Duanmu
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Month of Publication: December
Year of Publication: 2007
Location: Oxford
# of Pages: 352
ISBN: 978-0199215782
