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Linguistic studies, University of Chicago, with Leonard Bloomfield, Edward Sapir, Carl Darling Buck; field work, Indian languages in California, 1927-1928: Hoopa, Mattole, Wailaki; Hare Indians, Canada; China, 1929-1946; origins and nature of Academia Sinica; analysis of work of leading Chinese language scholars; methodology for comparative linguistics: rules, loan
words, consonant clusters in archaic Chinese, proto dialects; bibliography; return trips to China 1978, 1983.