Mary Erbaugh
Courtesy Research Associate
Phone: 541-346-xxxx
Email: erbaugh@uoregon.edu
Mary Erbaugh specializes in Chinese psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics. Her edited volume, Difficult Characters: Studies in Chinese and Japanese Writing (Ohio State University, Foreign Language Publications, 2002) analyzes issues from ideology to visual perception in reading characters and kanji. Sound and text narratives across the seven main dialects from Mandarin through Cantonese are compared with English at www.pearstories.org. Child and adult cognitive strategies are analyzed across the dialects in 'Chinese Classifiers: Their Use and Acquisition' (in Ping Li, Li Hai Tan, Elizabeth Bates, and Ovid J.L. Tzeng eds. Handbook of East Asian Psycholinguistics: Chinese. Cambridge University Press, 2004). Current projects examine changes in Shanghai dialect, in child and adult courtesy; and language politics in China and Hong Kong in a book length manuscript The Making of Modern Chinese: Language and Power in Modern China.
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