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:

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

2001-2003:  Lecturer, Dept. of Linguistics, Harvard University

Research interests:

Phonology, phonetics, phonology-phonetics relations, tone languages, Chinese languages

Recent publications and work-in-progress:

Zhang, Jie and Yuwen Lai (submitted).  Testing the role of phonetic naturalness in Mandarin tone sandhi.  Under review.  Also in Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, Vol. 28 (2006):  65-126.  (Draft)

Zhang, Jie (under revision). A directional asymmetry in Chinese tone sandhi systems.  Under revision for Journal of East Asian Linguistics.  (Draft)

Zhang, Jie (to appear).  Contour tone distribution is not an artifact of tonal melody mapping.  To appear in Studies in the Linguistic Sciences.  (Draft)

Zhang, Jie (to appear).  The formal comparison between constraint weighting and constraint domination.  To appear in Phonology.  (Draft)

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.  (Draft)

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

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

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.  (Draft)

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

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 910: Seminar in phonology: Prosodic Phonology--Stress and Tone
Ling 910:  Seminar in phonology:  Experimental Phonology
Ling 925:  Seminar in phonology:  Phonetically Based Phonology