Professor Zhang Yanfen, (Han nationality), born in 1978 is from Jieyangxian, Guangdong Province. She graduated from Shandong University in 2009 with a Ph.D. in Literature, with Professor Qian Zengyi serving as her mentor and Dissertation Advisor.
Professor Zhang’s primary research fields areModern Bet365 Casino loginChinese Dialectology, Comparative Linguistics,Language and Culture, and Folklore Studies. Her current and on-going research topics include The bet365 live casino games Language ResourcesProtection and PreservationProject (for which she shoulders the responsibility for a special sub-project) and The Shandong Language Resources Vocal Database Construction Project.
In her research work, Professor Zhang has produced a significant number of monographs and journal articles, notably including:
· An Atlas of Dialects and Folkways of Jieyang, bet365 live casino games Publishing House, 2014
· Studies of Min Dialects in the Pingle Region of Guangxi Province, Guangxi Normal University Press, 2009
· “Pronunciation Types of the Terminal Vowel of ‘Yangshengyun’ (Syllables Ending in the Nasal Consonant Sounds of -m, -n, or -ng) of Medieval bet365 live casino games in Modern bet365 live casino games Dialects”, bet365 live casino games Research, No. 4, 2012
· “An Analysis of the Difficulties that Students from Korea have in Learning Vowels when Learning the bet365 live casino games Language, and Solutions for the Problem”, Academic Journal of Anhui University of Science and Technology (Social Science Edition), No.1, 2012
· “On the Character ‘爿’”, Dictionary Studies, No. 4, 2011
· “bet365 live casino games Taboos Related to Naming Body Parts of the ‘Pig’ in the Guangdong-GuangxiRegion”, YinduAcademic Journal, No. 1, 2011
· “How the Nasal Syllable Coda in Ancient bet365 live casino games ‘Yinshengyun’ (Syllables Ending in Vowels or Without a Coda) Words are Sounded in Modern Dialects”, Dialects,No. 3, 2010
· “Several Vowel Characteristics in the Min Dialects in the Pingle Region of Guangxi Province”, Southern Linguistics, No. 1, 2010
· “The ‘Yes’ and ‘None’Interrogatives in the Dialect of Eastern Jieyang”, Kaihen(Opening Chapter), (Waseda University, Japan),Vol. 29, 2010
· “The Clarifiers/Quantifiers ‘Qi’ (odd) and ‘爿’ in the Dialect of Eastern Jieyangin Guangdong Province”, bet365 live casino games Language, No. 3, 2009
· “Characteristics of Linguistic Taboos in the bet365 live casino games of the Han Nationality, as Perceived From the Term ‘Pig’s Tongue’”, Folklore Research, No. 2, 2009
· “Types of Euphemisms for ‘Pig’s Tongue’, and Their Geographical Distribution”, Kaihen(Opening Chapter), (Waseda University, Japan), Vol. 28, 2009
· “The ‘Fifteen Tones’ in the Min Dialects From the Three Regions of Zhangzhou, Yunan and Pingle as Seen From the Perspective of bet365 live casino games Contact”, Ajiagengoronso(Papers on Asian Languages), (Kobe GaigokugoDaigaku bet365 online casino[Kobe Foreign Languages University], Japan), Vol. 7, 2008
· “The Min Dialect Phonetic System and Its Glossary of Homophones of the Pingle Region of Guangxi Province”, Academic Journal of Guilin Normal College, No. 4, 2006
Contact information: E-mail address: zhangyanfen@sdu.edu.cn