Texts

Course textbooks are available at the UW Bookstore and are on reserve at Odegaard and East Asia Library.
The course packet is available for purchase at Ave Copy Center (4141 University Way).
You can also download the course packet (11 MB, 160 pages) and print it yourself. It is paginated for double-sided printing.

Syllabi

• CHIN 342/442 syllabus - download the revised schedule (Oct. 26)
• CHIN 442 syllabus/reading list [readings are available on the Chinese 442 CommonView site]
• CHIN 442 reading guide

Handouts and Lecture Notes

• Class handouts
• Reading responses
• Homework assignments

• Sample dialect project

• Midterm exam review sheet
• Additional fǎnqiè exercises
• Final exam review sheet

Lectures will be made available here after the date on which they are delivered in class. They are available in two formats, slideshows for viewing on-screen and pdf files for printing.
• Lecture 2.1 PowerPoint slideshow / pdf (Mandarin syntax)
• Lecture 2.2 PowerPoint slideshow / pdf (Mandarin morphology)
• Lecture 2.3a PowerPoint slideshow / pdf (Articulatory phonetics)
• Lecture 2.3b PowerPoint slideshow / pdf (Mandarin phonology)
• Lecture 3.1 PowerPoint slideshow / pdf (Introduction to dialects) [slideshow file > 10MB because of embedded sound clips]
• Lecture 4.1 PowerPoint slideshow / pdf (Development of Chinese Writing)
• Lecture 4.2 PowerPoint slideshow / pdf (Shuōwén Jiězì)
• Lecture 4.3 PowerPoint slideshow / pdf (Simplified Characters)
• Lecture 4.5 PowerPoint slideshow / pdf (Lexicographic Ordering) [presented in class out of order, during last week of classes]
• Lecture 5.2 PowerPoint slideshow / pdf (Middle Chinese)
• Lecture 5.3 PowerPoint slideshow / pdf (Old Chinese)
• Lecture 6 PowerPoint slideshow / pdf (Chinese and other languages)
• Lecture 7 PowerPoint slideshow / pdf (Language and Culture)

Answers

• Homework answer keys
• Answer to IPA exercise (Course Packet p. 33)
• Midterm Answer Key Version A | B | C
• Answer to fǎnqiè exercises (Course Packet 5.2.5)
• Answer to additional fǎnqiè exercises

Dialects

• Listen to dialect recordings at the Language Learning Center's website for Chinese 342
• You can listen to Cantonese pronunciations of Chinese characters at the MDBG dictionary page (enter one or more characters in the big search box; on the results page, click on one of the Romanized Cantonese pronunciations to hear it pronounced by a native speaker -- note that these pronunciations are NOT notated in IPA!).
• Download a sample dialect project write-up in PDF format

Phonetics

• Web site of the International Phonetic Association
• Full chart of the International Phonetic Alphabet
• Instructions for using IPA practice programs at the LLC

These web sites will allow you to view and listen to the production of speech sounds:

• IPA Charts from Peter Ladefoged's A Course in Phonetics
• Paul Meier's Interactive IPA Charts (note that on this site, 'stops' are referred to as 'plosives', and all voiceless stops are pronounced as aspirated even though they are not so marked)
• Animation and video of production of Chinese initials and finals (only pinyin, not IPA, is given)
• University of Arizona's "Languages Samples Project" IPA charts
• Université de Lausanne's articulatory phonetics introduction
• UW Language Learning Center's IPA tutorial
• U of Iowa's Phonetics: Sounds of English, Spanish and German interactive site (animations of speech production)
• Peter Ladefoged's Course in Phonetics and Consonants and Vowels web site (contains many examples of sounds in non-English languages)
• SIL's IPA Help site

New resources become available on the web all the time, so feel free to search for other useful tools, and let me know if you find something that should be included here.

Fonts and Input

• Free Unicode IPA fonts from SIL: Charis, Doulos, and Gentium (Windows or Macintosh)
• Free Unicode fonts from Berkeley's STEDT project including IPA and other phonetic symbols (Windows or Macintosh)
• Download my pinyin entry keyboard (Macintosh only, sorry!)
• Information on other pinyin fonts and input methods

Both Windows and Macintoshes now come with complete Unicode fonts that include IPA symbols. These are already installed in your system. The Windows fonts are "Arial Unicode MS" and "Lucinda Sans Unicode". The Macintosh font is "Lucida Grande". Both are quite ugly. The links above are for nicer-looking fonts.

There are several web sites where you can click on IPA symbols to assemble a text string, then copy and paste it into your document. Try IPA character picker or this one by Weston Ruter.

On a Macintosh, you can download and install the free IPA Palette. You can also activate the "Keyboard and Character Viewer" keyboard layout (through the "language & text" system preference panel), and look in the "phonetic symbols" section.

You may also download this detailed, but somewhat outdated, guide to entering IPA symbols. Most of the information is for Mac.

Finally, it is possible to create or install Word macros that will convert text like "ren2" to "rén". See for example the instructions at the bottom of this page.

Orthography

• Consult this excellent, informative site on Chinese romanization systems, including good descriptions of Sin Wenz and Hanyu Tongyong Pinyin
• The periodic table of the elements provides excellent examples of recently created xíngshēng 形聲 ("phonetic compound") Chinese characters. See these interactive tables in traditional and simplified characters. (If you are interested, you can select other languages from the drop-down menu as well.)

Maps

• On-line maps of China

Lexicography

• Four-corner method (an informative web site)