Alan C L Yu
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 433871 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Alan C L Yu |
| NOMBRES | Alan C L |
| APELLIDO | Yu |
| FIRMA | YU A C L |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1953-5502 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 47 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1999 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Diachrony and Diachronica
Contextual and paradigmatic effects on suspended contrast across generations
This study reports an apparent-time study of the suspended contrast between lexical and morphological high rising tones in Hong Kong Cantonese. • While suspended tonal contrast has been in circulation for almost a century, our findings suggest that the distinction might be disappearing among females as well as the younger speakers of both genders. • Older speakers still maintain an F0 distinction between the lexical vs. derived rising tones, albe…
Introduction to sound change in endangered or small speech communities
How sound change is initiated and propagates in smaller speech communities is not well understood. This paper provides an overview of the main themes, including theoretical and methodological issues, of the special collection on sound change in endangered and small speech communities
The Actuation Problem
The actuation problem asks why a linguistic change occurs in a particular language at a particular time and space. Responses to this problem are multifaceted. This review approaches the problem of actuation through the lens of sound change, examining it from both individual and population perspectives. Linguistic changes ultimately actuate in the form of idiolectal differences. An understanding of language change actuation at the idiolectal level…
A New System of Cantonese Tones? Tone Perception and Production in Hong Kong South Asian Cantonese
Studies in language contact have identified many instances of linguistic variation and grammatical innovations introduced by speakers from multi-ethnic urban neighborhoods. This study focuses on the variety of Cantonese spoken by South Asian youths in Hong Kong, specifically their production and perception of Hong Kong Cantonese tones. Our findings show that the South Asian Cantonese speakers have a smaller tonal inventory than the canonical six-…
Toward an individual-difference perspective on phonologization
Phonologization is often understood to be a process along the pathway of sound change where low-level physiological or perceptual variation that gives rise to sound patterns is explicitly encoded in the grammar. The nature of this transition and how it comes about remain largely unclear. The broad theoretical goal of this paper is to argue that phonologization should be defined at the level of the individual; it takes place whenever an individual…
Fundamental Aspects in the Perception of f0
This chapter outlines basic characteristics and principles in the perception of f0 and its interplay with other prosodic and segmental elements of speech. It focuses on those theoretical and empirical contributions that are essential for readers to know in order to conduct, interpret, and assess research on prosody and intonation. Thus, it starts with the psychophysical and psychoacoustic aspects of f0 and pitch, and continues with how perceived …
Individual Differences in Language Processing
Individual variation is ubiquitous and empirically observable in most phonological behaviors, yet relatively few studies aim to capture the heterogeneity of language processing among individuals, as opposed to those focusing primarily on group-level patterns. The study of individual differences can shed light on the nature of the cognitive representations and mechanisms involved in phonological processing. To guide our review of individual variat…
The effects of language immersion on the bilingual lexicon
Previous studies have consistently found an asymmetry where priming in the L1-L2 direction is stronger than that in the L2-L1 direction. However, some studies showed that an L2 immersion environment could attenuate bilingual speakers’ access to the L1 and result in a ‘bilingual disadvantage’. This study investigated how language immersion modulates the priming effects of late adult bilingual speakers. We compared late Chinese-English bilingual sp…
Prosodically-governed Segmental Fission in Washo
Stress-sensitive quantity alternation is commonplace in Scandinavian languages (Elert 1964; Eliasson 1985; Kiparsky To appear; Leyden 2002), but few reports have detailed similar types of alternation in Native American languages. This paper will offer both phonetic and phonological evidence for a case of segmental quantity alternation in Washo. It is argued that the segmental alternations observed are motivated by a previously unnoticed requireme…
Origins Of Sound Change Approaches To Phonologization
Explanations for sound change have traditionally focused on identifying the inception of change, that is, the identification of perturbations of the speech signal, conditioned by physiological constraints on articulatory and/or auditory mechanisms, which affect the way speech sounds are analyzed by the listener
The Handbook of Phonological Theory
On measuring phonetic precursor robustness
Much debate in recent years has focused on the relative contribution of analytic and channel biases in shaping the typology of sound. Moreton (2008) argues forcefully for the strength of analytic bias, such as Universal Grammar and other non-modality-specific cognitive biases that facilitate the learning of some phonological patterns and inhibit that of others, in creating typological asymmetries on its own, unassisted by the robustness of phonet…
The Syllable
This chapter provides an overview of the syllable, a fundamental unit in the organization of speech sounds. It discusses the syllable's internal structure, including the onset, nucleus, and coda, and explores the various phonotactic constraints that govern the permissible combinations of sounds within a syllable. The chapter also examines the role of the syllable in stress assignment, prosodic phrasing, and other phonological processes. It consid…
Tonal Mapping in Cantonese Vocative Reduplication
Two Patterns of Reduplication in Washo
The phonetics of quantity alternation in Washo
Understanding near mergers
A growing body of work on exemplar-based theories of learning suggests the possibility of formal models of phonological representation which will offer deeper explanations of basic phonological properties than current models allow. The main purpose of this paper is to shed light on near merger, a recalcitrant problem in sound change and in phonological theory, with this newer perspective, through a case study of tonal near merger in Cantonese
Introduction to the special issue on exemplar-based models in linguistics
Recent years have witnessed the emergence of a cluster of approaches in linguistic theory known as exemplar-based models. Such exemplar-based models are being developed in research domains as diverse as phonetics, phonology, morphology, historical linguistics, semantics, syntax, and language acquisition. This special issue brings together, for the first time, articles applying exemplarbased models to a wide range of linguistic subdisciplines. We …
Quantity, stress and reduplication in Washo
Plural internal reduplication in Washo has generated much interest in the phonological literature. This study presents a novel analysis that unifies the treatment of a set of seemingly disparate aspects of this plural reduplication pattern (e.g. variation in the placement and size of the reduplicant, contrastive vowel length in stressed syllables, post-tonic gemination, and vowel-length inheritance in reduplication), relying on the interaction be…
Infixing with a Vengeance
The Origins of Vowel Systems (review)
Reviewed by: The origins of vowel systems by Bart de Boer Alan C. L. Yu The origins of vowel systems. By Bart de Boer. (Studies in the evolution of language 1.) Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. 168. ISBN 0198299664. $21.95. What is the role of the population in explaining the universal in human vowel systems? This book, based in part on the author’s 1999 dissertation, offers an enticing and intriguing answer to this question through the…
Explaining final obstruent voicing in Lezgian
In Lezgian, a Nakh-Daghestanian language, final and preconsonantal ejectives and voiceless unaspirated obstruents are voiced in certain monosyllabic nouns. This article offers acoustic evidence confirming that the two coda-voicing series are indeed voiced in final position. Based on comparative evidence, it is demonstrated that this phonetically aberrant neutralization pattern is the result of a series of phonetically natural sound changes. Such …
Some Methodological Issues in Phonetic Typology Research
Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on Phonetic Sources of Phonological Patterns: Synchronic and Diachronic Explanations (2003)
Pluractionality in Chechen
Individual Differences in Language Processing
Individual variation is ubiquitous and empirically observable in most phonological behaviors, yet relatively few studies aim to capture the heterogeneity of language processing among individuals, as opposed to those focusing primarily on group-level patterns. The study of individual differences can shed light on the nature of the cognitive representations and mechanisms involved in phonological processing. To guide our review of individual variat…
Quantity, stress and reduplication in Washo
Plural internal reduplication in Washo has generated much interest in the phonological literature. This study presents a novel analysis that unifies the treatment of a set of seemingly disparate aspects of this plural reduplication pattern (e.g. variation in the placement and size of the reduplicant, contrastive vowel length in stressed syllables, post-tonic gemination, and vowel-length inheritance in reduplication), relying on the interaction be…
Explaining final obstruent voicing in Lezgian
In Lezgian, a Nakh-Daghestanian language, final and preconsonantal ejectives and voiceless unaspirated obstruents are voiced in certain monosyllabic nouns. This article offers acoustic evidence confirming that the two coda-voicing series are indeed voiced in final position. Based on comparative evidence, it is demonstrated that this phonetically aberrant neutralization pattern is the result of a series of phonetically natural sound changes. Such …
Pluractionality in Chechen
A New System of Cantonese Tones? Tone Perception and Production in Hong Kong South Asian Cantonese
Studies in language contact have identified many instances of linguistic variation and grammatical innovations introduced by speakers from multi-ethnic urban neighborhoods. This study focuses on the variety of Cantonese spoken by South Asian youths in Hong Kong, specifically their production and perception of Hong Kong Cantonese tones. Our findings show that the South Asian Cantonese speakers have a smaller tonal inventory than the canonical six-…
Contextual and paradigmatic effects on suspended contrast across generations
This study reports an apparent-time study of the suspended contrast between lexical and morphological high rising tones in Hong Kong Cantonese. • While suspended tonal contrast has been in circulation for almost a century, our findings suggest that the distinction might be disappearing among females as well as the younger speakers of both genders. • Older speakers still maintain an F0 distinction between the lexical vs. derived rising tones, albe…
The Actuation Problem
The actuation problem asks why a linguistic change occurs in a particular language at a particular time and space. Responses to this problem are multifaceted. This review approaches the problem of actuation through the lens of sound change, examining it from both individual and population perspectives. Linguistic changes ultimately actuate in the form of idiolectal differences. An understanding of language change actuation at the idiolectal level…
The Syllable
This chapter provides an overview of the syllable, a fundamental unit in the organization of speech sounds. It discusses the syllable's internal structure, including the onset, nucleus, and coda, and explores the various phonotactic constraints that govern the permissible combinations of sounds within a syllable. The chapter also examines the role of the syllable in stress assignment, prosodic phrasing, and other phonological processes. It consid…
The phonetics of quantity alternation in Washo
Affix-Placement Variation in Turkish
Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Special Session on Caucasian, Dravidian, and Turkic Linguistics (2000)
Stress assignment in Tohono O'odham
The proper treatment of NON-DERIVED ENVIRONMENT BLOCKING (NDEB), also known as the Derived Environment Constraint, has long been the subject of debate by phonologists. Past approaches include the Strict Cycle Condition (Mascaró 1976), the Elsewhere Condition (Kiparsky 1982) and underspecification (Kiparsky 1993). However, since the introduction of Optimality Theory (McCarthy & Prince 1993, 1994, Prince & Smolensky 1993), phonologists have tried t…
On the Origin of Coda Voicing in Lezgian
Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on Aspect (2000)
Some Methodological Issues in Phonetic Typology Research
Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on Phonetic Sources of Phonological Patterns: Synchronic and Diachronic Explanations (2003)
Pluractionality in Chechen
Infixing with a Vengeance
The Origins of Vowel Systems (review)
Reviewed by: The origins of vowel systems by Bart de Boer Alan C. L. Yu The origins of vowel systems. By Bart de Boer. (Studies in the evolution of language 1.) Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. 168. ISBN 0198299664. $21.95. What is the role of the population in explaining the universal in human vowel systems? This book, based in part on the author’s 1999 dissertation, offers an enticing and intriguing answer to this question through the…
Explaining final obstruent voicing in Lezgian
In Lezgian, a Nakh-Daghestanian language, final and preconsonantal ejectives and voiceless unaspirated obstruents are voiced in certain monosyllabic nouns. This article offers acoustic evidence confirming that the two coda-voicing series are indeed voiced in final position. Based on comparative evidence, it is demonstrated that this phonetically aberrant neutralization pattern is the result of a series of phonetically natural sound changes. Such …
Quantity, stress and reduplication in Washo
Plural internal reduplication in Washo has generated much interest in the phonological literature. This study presents a novel analysis that unifies the treatment of a set of seemingly disparate aspects of this plural reduplication pattern (e.g. variation in the placement and size of the reduplicant, contrastive vowel length in stressed syllables, post-tonic gemination, and vowel-length inheritance in reduplication), relying on the interaction be…
Introduction to the special issue on exemplar-based models in linguistics
Recent years have witnessed the emergence of a cluster of approaches in linguistic theory known as exemplar-based models. Such exemplar-based models are being developed in research domains as diverse as phonetics, phonology, morphology, historical linguistics, semantics, syntax, and language acquisition. This special issue brings together, for the first time, articles applying exemplarbased models to a wide range of linguistic subdisciplines. We …
Understanding near mergers
A growing body of work on exemplar-based theories of learning suggests the possibility of formal models of phonological representation which will offer deeper explanations of basic phonological properties than current models allow. The main purpose of this paper is to shed light on near merger, a recalcitrant problem in sound change and in phonological theory, with this newer perspective, through a case study of tonal near merger in Cantonese
Two Patterns of Reduplication in Washo
The phonetics of quantity alternation in Washo
Tonal Mapping in Cantonese Vocative Reduplication
The Handbook of Phonological Theory
On measuring phonetic precursor robustness
Much debate in recent years has focused on the relative contribution of analytic and channel biases in shaping the typology of sound. Moreton (2008) argues forcefully for the strength of analytic bias, such as Universal Grammar and other non-modality-specific cognitive biases that facilitate the learning of some phonological patterns and inhibit that of others, in creating typological asymmetries on its own, unassisted by the robustness of phonet…
The Syllable
This chapter provides an overview of the syllable, a fundamental unit in the organization of speech sounds. It discusses the syllable's internal structure, including the onset, nucleus, and coda, and explores the various phonotactic constraints that govern the permissible combinations of sounds within a syllable. The chapter also examines the role of the syllable in stress assignment, prosodic phrasing, and other phonological processes. It consid…
Origins Of Sound Change Approaches To Phonologization
Explanations for sound change have traditionally focused on identifying the inception of change, that is, the identification of perturbations of the speech signal, conditioned by physiological constraints on articulatory and/or auditory mechanisms, which affect the way speech sounds are analyzed by the listener
Prosodically-governed Segmental Fission in Washo
Stress-sensitive quantity alternation is commonplace in Scandinavian languages (Elert 1964; Eliasson 1985; Kiparsky To appear; Leyden 2002), but few reports have detailed similar types of alternation in Native American languages. This paper will offer both phonetic and phonological evidence for a case of segmental quantity alternation in Washo. It is argued that the segmental alternations observed are motivated by a previously unnoticed requireme…
The effects of language immersion on the bilingual lexicon
Previous studies have consistently found an asymmetry where priming in the L1-L2 direction is stronger than that in the L2-L1 direction. However, some studies showed that an L2 immersion environment could attenuate bilingual speakers’ access to the L1 and result in a ‘bilingual disadvantage’. This study investigated how language immersion modulates the priming effects of late adult bilingual speakers. We compared late Chinese-English bilingual sp…
Individual Differences in Language Processing
Individual variation is ubiquitous and empirically observable in most phonological behaviors, yet relatively few studies aim to capture the heterogeneity of language processing among individuals, as opposed to those focusing primarily on group-level patterns. The study of individual differences can shed light on the nature of the cognitive representations and mechanisms involved in phonological processing. To guide our review of individual variat…
Fundamental Aspects in the Perception of f0
This chapter outlines basic characteristics and principles in the perception of f0 and its interplay with other prosodic and segmental elements of speech. It focuses on those theoretical and empirical contributions that are essential for readers to know in order to conduct, interpret, and assess research on prosody and intonation. Thus, it starts with the psychophysical and psychoacoustic aspects of f0 and pitch, and continues with how perceived …
Toward an individual-difference perspective on phonologization
Phonologization is often understood to be a process along the pathway of sound change where low-level physiological or perceptual variation that gives rise to sound patterns is explicitly encoded in the grammar. The nature of this transition and how it comes about remain largely unclear. The broad theoretical goal of this paper is to argue that phonologization should be defined at the level of the individual; it takes place whenever an individual…
Introduction to sound change in endangered or small speech communities
How sound change is initiated and propagates in smaller speech communities is not well understood. This paper provides an overview of the main themes, including theoretical and methodological issues, of the special collection on sound change in endangered and small speech communities
The Actuation Problem
The actuation problem asks why a linguistic change occurs in a particular language at a particular time and space. Responses to this problem are multifaceted. This review approaches the problem of actuation through the lens of sound change, examining it from both individual and population perspectives. Linguistic changes ultimately actuate in the form of idiolectal differences. An understanding of language change actuation at the idiolectal level…
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