Sheng-Fu Wang
List of John Benjamins publications in which Sheng-Fu Wang is involved.
Articles
2023 Markedness and voicing gaps in stop and fricative inventories Studies in Language 47:2, pp. 350–391 | Article
This study investigates the hypothesis that marked sounds are more likely to be gaps in a sound inventory. A gap is defined as an absence of an [α voice] stop or fricative when the [−α voice] counterpart exists. Different formulations of markedness are tested and evaluated on whether they label… read more
FEMALE teachers get raped and MALE teachers commit sexual harassment? Overt gender marking in Mandarin Chinese news reports Concentric: Online-First Articles | Article
This study explores overt gender markers (nü ‘female’ and nan ‘male’) with the profession noun laoshi ‘teacher’ in Mandarin Chinese news reports and their pragmatic implications. As Mandarin does not have grammatical gender, we examine whether indicating a referent’s gender through overt marking… read more