Yuen Ren Chao
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1892 – 1982
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Who was Yuen Ren Chao?
Yuen Ren Chao, was a Chinese American linguist and amateur composer. He made important contributions to the modern study of Chinese phonology and grammar.
Besides helping to shape the Gwoyeu Romatzyh, a Chinese romanization scheme, Chao is also credited with inventing a notation for transcribing tonal pitch variation in spoken languages.
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- Born
- Nov 3, 1892
Tianjin - Spouses
- Ethnicity
- Chinese American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- China
- Profession
- Education
- Cornell University
- Harvard University
- Employment
- University of California, Berkeley
- Harvard University
- Tsinghua University
- Cornell University
- Died
- Feb 25, 1982
Cambridge
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on July 23, 2013
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