Background
Tao, Liang Naturalized. Daughter of Zhuo Kang and Miansi Wang.
linguistics educator researcher
Tao, Liang Naturalized. Daughter of Zhuo Kang and Miansi Wang.
Bachelor equivalent, Hunan Normal University, 1976. Master of Arts, University of California, 1984. Doctor of Philosophy, University of Colorado, 1993.
English language teacher Chenzhou #5 Secondary School, China, 1976—1978. English language lecturer Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, China, 1978—1981. Postdoctoral research associate University of Colorado, Boulder, 1993—1996.
Visiting professor Ohio University, Athens, 1996—1998, assistant professor, 1998—2005, associate professor, since 2005. Chinese language program coordinator Ohio University, Athens, since 1998.
Teachers English to Speakers Other Languages Certified University of California, Davis, 1983, Cognitive Science Certified University of Colorado, 1993. Achievements include first to Initiated study of repair in natural conversational Mandarin Chinese. Research in First promoted the syntactic tone in Mandarin Chinese.
Research in Uniquely combines discourse functional study of language with psycholinguistic experiments on phonetics, phonology, syntax, and discourse analysis. First to Mandarin relative clauses without the grammatical marker.
Member of Psychonomic Society (associate).
Married Shih-liang Wen, November 12, 1979. 1 child Nannan Jiang.
