Education: B.A. Yale College, 1953
                 M.A. Yale University, 1957
                 PhD Yale University, 1959

 Area of Specialization: Chinese Linguistics, phonetics
 Year appointed: 1960
Languages: English (native), Chinese

Courses Taught:
 

 Important Publications:

"Ancient Chinese -p,-t,-k ending in the Peking Dialect", Language 38.378.84., 1962

"The Jongyuan in Yunn: a guide to Old Mandarin pronunciation" New Haven: Far Eastern Publications, 1966.

"A tabu word in the Peking Dialect", Language 42.285-94, 1966.

"The sound of a Tarng poem": 'Grieving about Greenslope' by Duh Fuu", Journal of the American Oriental Society, 89.59-67, 1969.

"Sheir, shwu 'who? whom?' and moh 'none' in Old Chinese," JOurnal of the American Oriental Society, 94.447-66, 1971.

"More on Peking archaisms", T'oung pao, 58.172-89, 1972.

"The rimes of 'Northward Journey,' by Duh-Fuu (712-70)", Journal of the American Oriental Society, 93.129-35, 1973.

"T'ang poetic vocabulary", New Haven: Far Eastern Publications, 1976.

"Fifty-five T'ang Poems: A to Z in the reading and understanding of T'ang poetry", New Haven: Far Eastern Publications, 1976.

"Spoken Standard Chinese: Vol 1, 1976; Vol 2, 1978; Written Standard Chinese, Vol 1, 1980; Vol 2, 1982, Vol 3, 1986; Vol 4, 1991, with Po-fei Huang, Far Eastern Publications, 1976-91.

"Phonological Domains in the Peking Dialect", Agard, F.P., et al., add., in "Essays in honor of Charles F. Hockett, 326-36. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1983.

"A reference to a 'visiting star' in a Chinese poem", in Berggren, J.L., and B.R. Goldstein, eds., "From ancient omens to statistical mechanics: essays on the exact sciences presented to Asger Aaboe," vol 39 of "Acta historical scientiarum naturalium et medicinalium", University Library, Copenhagen.

• 1982-88 Chairman, Dept. EALL.
• 1972 Member Advisory Board, Inter-University Program for Chinese Studies, Taipei.
• 1969-76 Secretary Treasurer, American Oriental Society.