Educational background:

2001:  Ph.D., Dept. of Linguistics, UCLA.  Dissertation: The Effects of Duration and Sonority on Contour Tone Distribution--Typological Survey and Formal Analysis. Advisor:  Donca Steriade.

1997:  M.A., Dept. of Linguistics, UCLA.  Thesis: Duration in the Tonal Phonology of Pingyao Chinese. Advisor:  Donca Steriade.

1994:  B.E., Dept. of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.

Professional employment:

2009-present: Associate Professor, Dept. of Linguistics, The University of Kansas

2003-2009: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Linguistics, The University of Kansas

Research interests:

Phonology, phonetics, the representation of gradience and variation in phonological grammar, tone languages, Chinese languages.

Representative publications and work-in-progress:

Zhang, Jie (under review). Issues in the analysis of Chinese tone. (pdf)

Zhang, Jie (to appear). Experimental phonology.  To appear in Zhijie Wang and Dongdong Chen (eds.), Linguistics volume, Frontiers in Western Humanities and Social Sciences Research.  In Chinese. (pdf)

Zhang, Jie, Yuwen Lai, and Craig Sailor (to appear). Modeling Taiwanese speakers' knowledge of tone sandhi in reduplication.  To appear in Lingua. (Author version pdf)

Zhang, Jie and Yuwen Lai (2010). Testing the role of phonetic knowledge in Mandarin tone sandhi.  Phonology 27.1:  153-201. (Author version pdf)

Zhang, Jie and Yuwen Lai (2010). Testing the role of phonetic knowledge in Mandarin tone sandhi.  Long version with reaction time results. (pdf)

Zhang, Jie (2009). Contour tone distribution is not an artifact of tonal melody mapping. Studies in the Linguistic Sciences 33.1/2: 73-132. (pdf)

Zhang, Jie, Yuwen Lai, and Craig Sailor (2009). Opacity, phonetics, and frequency in Taiwanese tone sandhi.  In Current issues in unity and diversity of languages:  Collection of papers selected from the 18th International Congress of Linguists.  Linguistic Society of Korea.  3019-3038. (pdf)

Zhang, Jie and Yuwen Lai (2008). Phonological knowledge beyond the lexicon in Taiwanese double reduplication.  In Yuchau E. Hsiao, Hui-Chuan Hsu, Lian-Hee Wee, and Dah-An Ho (eds.), Interfaces in Chinese Phonology: Festschrift in Honor of Matthew Y. Chen on His 70th Birthday.  Academia Sinica, Taiwan.  183-222. (pdf)

Lai, Yuwen and Jie Zhang (2008). Mandarin lexical tone recognition:  the gating paradigm.  In Emily Tummons and Stephanie Lux (eds.), Proceedings of the 2007 Mid-America Linguistics Conference, Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics 30.  183-194. (pdf)

Zhang, Jie (2007). Constraint weighting and constraint domination:  A formal comparison.  Phonology 24.3:  433-459. (pdf)

Zhang, Jie (2007). A directional asymmetry in Chinese tone sandhi systems.  Journal of East Asian Linguistics 16.4:  259-302. (pdf)

Zhang, Jie, Yuwen Lai, and Craig Turnbull-Sailor (2006). Wug-testing the "tone circle" in Taiwanese.  In Donald Baumer, David Montero, and Michael Scanlon (eds.), Proceedings of the 25th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics.  Cascadilla Proceedings Project, Somerville, MA.  453-461. (pdf)

Zuraiq, Wael and Jie Zhang (2006). Phonological assimilation in Urban Jordanian Arabic.  Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics 28, 33-64. (pdf)

Zhang, Jie (2004). Contour tone licensing and contour tone representation.  Language and Linguistics 5.4:  925-968. (pdf)

Zhang, Jie (2004). The role of contrast-specific and language-specific phonetics in contour tone distribution.  In Bruce Hayes, Robert Kirchner, and Donca Steriade (eds.), Phonetically based phonology.  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.  157-190. (pdf)

Zhang, Jie (2002). The effects of duration and sonority on contour tone distribution--A typological survey and formal analysis.  Routledge, New York.

Zhang, Jie (2000). Non-contrastive features and categorical patterning in Chinese diminutive suffixation - MAX[F] or IDENT[F]?  Phonology 17.3:  427-478. (pdf)

Grants and awards:

Courses offered at KU:

Ling 106: Introductory Linguistics
Ling 107: Introductory Linguistics (Honors section)
Ling 312/712: Phonology 1
Ling 314/714: Phonology 2
Ling 572: Structure of Chinese
Ling 794: Proseminar for first-year graduate students
Ling 492/910: Seminar in phonology: Phonological productivity
Ling 910: Seminar in phonology: Prosodic Phonology--Stress and Tone
Ling 910: Seminar in phonology: Experimental Phonology
Ling 925: Seminar in phonology: Phonetic Bases of Phonological Markedness