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Love poems of the sixth Dalai Lama (2013)
Book Chapter
Hill, N. W., & Fee, T. (2013). Love poems of the sixth Dalai Lama. In K. R. Schaeffer, M. Kapstein, & G. Tuttle (Eds.), Sources of the Tibetan Tradition (557-559). Columbia University Press

Pop Goes The Avant-Garde: Experimental Theatre in Contemporary China (2012)
Book
Ferrari, R. (2012). Pop Goes The Avant-Garde: Experimental Theatre in Contemporary China. Seagull Books

Pop Goes the Avant-Garde: Experimental Theatre in Contemporary China is the first comprehensive review of the history and development of avant-garde drama and theatre in the People’s Republic of China since 1976. Drawing on a range of critical perspe... Read More about Pop Goes The Avant-Garde: Experimental Theatre in Contemporary China.

The six vowel hypothesis of Old Chinese in comparative context (2012)
Journal Article
Hill, N. W. (2012). The six vowel hypothesis of Old Chinese in comparative context. Bulletin of Chinese linguistics, 6(2), 1-69. https://doi.org/10.1163/2405478X-90000100

Gong Hwang-Cherng in two papers (1980, 1995) collected a number of cognate sets among Chinese, Tibetan, and Burmese. This paper reexamines these cognate sets (base on Gong 1995) using a six vowel version of Old Chinese, specifically the Baxter-Sagart... Read More about The six vowel hypothesis of Old Chinese in comparative context.

Evolution of the Burmese vowel system (2012)
Journal Article
Hill, N. W. (2012). Evolution of the Burmese vowel system. Transactions of the Philological Society, 110(1), 64-79. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-968X.2011.01282.x

Tibeto-Burman historical linguistics has relied heavily on the spelling of Burmese and Tibetan words as found in standard modern dictionaries, at the expense of the earliest attested records. This examination of the development of the Burmese vowel s... Read More about Evolution of the Burmese vowel system.

Phonetics vs. phonology in loanword adaptation: Revisiting the role of the bilingual (2012)
Book Chapter
Chang, C. B. (2012). Phonetics vs. phonology in loanword adaptation: Revisiting the role of the bilingual. In S. Berson, A. Bratkievich, D. Bruhn, A. Campbell, R. Escamilla, A. Giovine, L. Newbold, M. Perez, M. Piqueras-Brunet, & R. Rhomieux (Eds.), Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on Information Structure (61-72). Berkeley Linguistics Society

Following phonological and phonetic models of loanword adaptation, I present evidence from Burmese in favor of an intermediate model of loanword adaptation incorporating both language-independent phonetics and language-particular phonology. On the ba... Read More about Phonetics vs. phonology in loanword adaptation: Revisiting the role of the bilingual.

Evidence for language transfer leading to a perceptual advantage for non-native listeners (2012)
Journal Article
Chang, C. B., & Mishler, A. (2012). Evidence for language transfer leading to a perceptual advantage for non-native listeners. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 132(4), 2700-2710. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4747615

Phonological transfer from the native language is a common problem for non-native speakers that has repeatedly been shown to result in perceptual deficits vis-a-vis native speakers. It was hypothesized, however, that transfer could help, rather than... Read More about Evidence for language transfer leading to a perceptual advantage for non-native listeners.

Rapid and multifaceted effects of second-language learning on first-language speech production (2012)
Journal Article
Chang, C. B. (2012). Rapid and multifaceted effects of second-language learning on first-language speech production. Journal of Phonetics, 40(2), 249-268. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2011.10.007

Despite abundant evidence of malleability in speech production, previous studies of the effects of late second-language learning on first-language speech production have been limited to advanced learners. This study examined these effects in novice l... Read More about Rapid and multifaceted effects of second-language learning on first-language speech production.

Defenders and Enemies of the True Cross: The Sasanian Conquest of Jerusalem in 614 and Byzantine Ideology of Anti-Persian Warfare (2011)
Book
Stoyanov, Y. (2011). Defenders and Enemies of the True Cross: The Sasanian Conquest of Jerusalem in 614 and Byzantine Ideology of Anti-Persian Warfare. Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.1553/0x0028e87e

The Persian conquest of Jerusalem and the Holy Land in 614 represented one of the crucial episodes and high points of the last great war of antiquity between Sasanian Persia and the East Roman/Byzantine empires (603-628). The purpose of this monograp... Read More about Defenders and Enemies of the True Cross: The Sasanian Conquest of Jerusalem in 614 and Byzantine Ideology of Anti-Persian Warfare.

Kang Hai sanqu ji jiaojian 康海散曲集校箋 (A Critical Edition of Kang Hai's Songs with Introduction, Notes, and Two Essays) (2011)
Book
Tan, T. Y. (2011). T. Y. Tan (Ed.), Kang Hai sanqu ji jiaojian 康海散曲集校箋 (A Critical Edition of Kang Hai's Songs with Introduction, Notes, and Two Essays). Zhejiang guji chubanshe

This book provides the first critical edition of Kang Hai’s (1475-1541) complete sanqu songs. It supersedes five existing modern editions of this influential writer as it includes, for the first time, the newly discovered 185 xiaoling songs and 82 so... Read More about Kang Hai sanqu ji jiaojian 康海散曲集校箋 (A Critical Edition of Kang Hai's Songs with Introduction, Notes, and Two Essays).

Multiple Origins of Tibetan o (2011)
Journal Article
Hill, N. W. (2011). Multiple Origins of Tibetan o. Language and linguistics (Taipei), 12(3), 707-721

Widespread agreement prevails that Tibetan o is the result of the merger of several distinct sounds in proto-Tibeto-Burman. Here I attempt to reconcile Matisoff and Gong’s presentations of the origins of Written Tibetan o, making fuller use of
philo... Read More about Multiple Origins of Tibetan o.

Singing the Kyrgyz Manas: Saparbek Kasmambetov's Recitations of Epic Poetry (2011)
Book
Howard, K., & Kasmambetov, S. (2011). Singing the Kyrgyz Manas: Saparbek Kasmambetov's Recitations of Epic Poetry. Brill/Global Oriental. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004218048

Today, the Kyrgyz Manas is one of the most celebrated epic heroic poems in the world. At the turn of the new millennium it was appointed a UNESCO ‘Masterpiece in the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Mankind’, signalling its global importance. It sits... Read More about Singing the Kyrgyz Manas: Saparbek Kasmambetov's Recitations of Epic Poetry.

Systemic drift of L1 vowels in novice L2 learners (2011)
Book Chapter
Chang, C. B. (2011). Systemic drift of L1 vowels in novice L2 learners. In W.-S. Lee, & E. Zee (Eds.), Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (428-431). City University of Hong Kong

Studies of proficient second-language (L2) learners have often noted phonetic drift of their native language (L1) vis-à-vis monolingual norms. Such drift has been attributed to perceptual linkage between similar sounds in L1 and L2. This study provid... Read More about Systemic drift of L1 vowels in novice L2 learners.