J. Marshall Unger

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James Marshall Unger, (born May 28, 1947 in Cleveland, Ohio), is a professor of Japanese at Ohio State University who specializes in historical linguistics and the writing systems of East Asia.

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  • Studies in Early Japanese Morphophonemics (Bloomington: Indiana University Linguistics Club, 1977; 2nd ed. 1993)
  • With F. C. Lorish, M. Noda, Y. Wada A Framework for Introductory Japanese Language Curricula in American High Schools and Colleges (Washington, D.C.: National Foreign Language Center, 1993)
  • The Fifth Generation Fallacy (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987)
  • Literacy and Script Reform in Occupation Japan (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996)
  • Ideogram: Chinese Characters and the Myth of Disembodied Meaning (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2004)
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