yuen ren society conference annual conference yuen ren society promotion chinese dialect fieldwork 7 february 1998 317 thomson hall university washington seattle admission free open public program panel 9 0010 30 chair david prager branner 9 00 jintarn danyang dialects richard vanness simmons rutgers university 9 30 literary vs vernacular pronunciation characters wenbaiyidu shanghai sheng tai chang affiliation 10 00the evolution jiang1 yan2 dialect jiangmin zhang lina lu pacific university 10 30 break panel ii 11 0012 00 chair south coblin 11 00 ngai hua luo2 cheng2 county guang3 xi1 province jerold edmondson university texas arlington gui minchao university oklahoma 11 30 hakka revisited jerry norman university washington 12 00 lunch break panel iii 2 00 3 30 chair jerry norman 2 00 common features shan1 xi1 southern dialects anne yue hashimoto university washington 2 30 brief history mandarin w south coblin university iowa 3 00 ji3 nan2 endangered dialect hua lin university victoria canada cao zhiyun beijing language culture university china 3 30 break panel iv 4 00 5 30 chair richard vanness simmons 4 00 glossary nantong dialect benjamin ao affiliation 4 30 taiwanese southern min thumb warren brewer tamkang university taiwan 5 00 numeral codes david prager branner university minnesota