Books in the Princeton/Cambridge Studies in Chinese Linguistics series

A comprehensive account of the Sino-Tibetan language.

Originally published in 1976, this book was one of the first in any language to apply the techniques of acoustic phonetics to Mandarin Chinese. It describes the acoustic cues for the perception of nine vowels and four tones, based on an analysis of the speech of one male speaker of the Peking dialect.

A study and translation of Tou O Yuan, a traditional Chinese drama by Kuan Hanch'ing, the leading playwright of the Yuan period (1279-1368). In her very full introduction Professor Shih discusses the literary and historical background to the play - the language and conventions of Yuan drama and its remarkable emergence under Mongol rule.

Professor Hashimoto describes the the formation, phonology and syntax of the Hakka dialects.

Originally published in 1972, this is the first in a series of dialect studies by the Princeton Chinese Linguistics Project. Yue is one of the major Chinese dialect groups and Cantonese is the standard dialect in the group. The present volume surveys the phonology of Cantonese.