Yike Yang
Biographic Data
| ID | 3916185 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yike Yang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yike |
| FAMILY NAME | Yang |
| SIGNATURE | YANG Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2297-6878 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The effects of native phonotactic experience, cross-language perceptual similarity, and non-native phonological merger on Mandarin speakers’ perception of Cantonese syllable-final segments
Existing studies have emphasized the important effect of native phonotactic experience and cross-language perceptual similarity on non-native speech perception, but have seldom considered this issue when the targeted non-native segments are undergoing a phonological merger. To supplement this discussion, this study investigated Mandarin Chinese (MC) speakers’ perception of syllable-final segments (⁄-р⁄, ⁄-t⁄, ⁄-k⁄, ⁄-m⁄, ⁄-n⁄, ⁄-ŋ⁄, ⁄-Ø⁄) that ar…
Bilinguals show reduced sensitivity to audience-related considerations in language production: Corpus evidence from Mandarin referring expressions
It has long been argued that speakers’ choices of linguistic forms during production are influenced by the functional pressures of efficiency and ambiguity avoidance. A reduced form is often easier to produce but can potentially cause ambiguity. Examining bilinguals’ choices between the full and reduced forms can provide valuable insights into how the pressures compete with each other. In the present study, we explore the alternating use of full …
A corpus-based sociolinguistic study of could you and would you in contemporary British English
Despite the significant role of politeness markers in managing interpersonal communication, relatively little attention has been paid to the modal forms could you and would you , particularly regarding their functional differences and sociolinguistic variation. This corpus-based study investigates these two politeness markers in contemporary British English using data from the Spoken British National Corpus 2014, a large collection of conversatio…
First language attrition and second language attainment of Mandarin-speaking immigrants in Hong Kong: Evidence from prosodic focus
In the field of bilingual language development, studies of first language (L1) attrition and second language (L2) attainment have traditionally been two separate streams of research. The present study aims to investigate the L1 and L2 development of Mandarin-speaking immigrants in Hong Kong in depth from the perspective of prosodic focus via a production experiment and a perception one. The data revealed evidence of L1 Mandarin attrition in produ…
From language to meteorology: Kinesis in weather events and weather verbs across Sinitic languages
Interactions among the environment, humans and language underlie many of the most pressing challenges we face today. This study investigates the use of different verbs to encode various weather events in Sinitic languages, a language family spoken over a wide range of climates and with 3000 years of continuous textual documentation. We propose to synergise the many concepts of kinesis that grew from Aristotle’s original ideas to account for the c…
Directionality of Atmospheric Water in Chinese: A Lexical Semantic Study Based on Linguistic Ontology
Why are fog, dew, and frost said to “fall” in some languages when they don’t in the physical world? We explore this seeming infelicity to study the nature of linguistic conceptualization. We focus on variations and changes of the morphosemantic behaviors of weather words in Mandarin and other Sinitic languages with an interdisciplinary approach to establish links between linguistic expressions and scientific facts. We propose that this use of dir…
Disagreement Strategies on Chinese Forums: Comparing Data From Hong Kong and Mainland China
Prior research on disagreement has mainly focused on its negative impact, suggesting that disagreement should be avoided in communication. Consequently, disagreement is rarely studied in computer-mediated communication, particularly in the Chinese context. Adopting the interactional approach, this project pioneers the investigation of disagreement strategies on online forums in Hong Kong and mainland China, in hopes of providing insights into a b…
Disagreement Strategies on Chinese Forums: Comparing Data From Hong Kong and Mainland China
Prior research on disagreement has mainly focused on its negative impact, suggesting that disagreement should be avoided in communication. Consequently, disagreement is rarely studied in computer-mediated communication, particularly in the Chinese context. Adopting the interactional approach, this project pioneers the investigation of disagreement strategies on online forums in Hong Kong and mainland China, in hopes of providing insights into a b…
From language to meteorology: Kinesis in weather events and weather verbs across Sinitic languages
Interactions among the environment, humans and language underlie many of the most pressing challenges we face today. This study investigates the use of different verbs to encode various weather events in Sinitic languages, a language family spoken over a wide range of climates and with 3000 years of continuous textual documentation. We propose to synergise the many concepts of kinesis that grew from Aristotle’s original ideas to account for the c…
Directionality of Atmospheric Water in Chinese: A Lexical Semantic Study Based on Linguistic Ontology
Why are fog, dew, and frost said to “fall” in some languages when they don’t in the physical world? We explore this seeming infelicity to study the nature of linguistic conceptualization. We focus on variations and changes of the morphosemantic behaviors of weather words in Mandarin and other Sinitic languages with an interdisciplinary approach to establish links between linguistic expressions and scientific facts. We propose that this use of dir…
Disagreement Strategies on Chinese Forums: Comparing Data From Hong Kong and Mainland China
Prior research on disagreement has mainly focused on its negative impact, suggesting that disagreement should be avoided in communication. Consequently, disagreement is rarely studied in computer-mediated communication, particularly in the Chinese context. Adopting the interactional approach, this project pioneers the investigation of disagreement strategies on online forums in Hong Kong and mainland China, in hopes of providing insights into a b…
First language attrition and second language attainment of Mandarin-speaking immigrants in Hong Kong: Evidence from prosodic focus
In the field of bilingual language development, studies of first language (L1) attrition and second language (L2) attainment have traditionally been two separate streams of research. The present study aims to investigate the L1 and L2 development of Mandarin-speaking immigrants in Hong Kong in depth from the perspective of prosodic focus via a production experiment and a perception one. The data revealed evidence of L1 Mandarin attrition in produ…
The effects of native phonotactic experience, cross-language perceptual similarity, and non-native phonological merger on Mandarin speakers’ perception of Cantonese syllable-final segments
Existing studies have emphasized the important effect of native phonotactic experience and cross-language perceptual similarity on non-native speech perception, but have seldom considered this issue when the targeted non-native segments are undergoing a phonological merger. To supplement this discussion, this study investigated Mandarin Chinese (MC) speakers’ perception of syllable-final segments (⁄-р⁄, ⁄-t⁄, ⁄-k⁄, ⁄-m⁄, ⁄-n⁄, ⁄-ŋ⁄, ⁄-Ø⁄) that ar…
Bilinguals show reduced sensitivity to audience-related considerations in language production: Corpus evidence from Mandarin referring expressions
It has long been argued that speakers’ choices of linguistic forms during production are influenced by the functional pressures of efficiency and ambiguity avoidance. A reduced form is often easier to produce but can potentially cause ambiguity. Examining bilinguals’ choices between the full and reduced forms can provide valuable insights into how the pressures compete with each other. In the present study, we explore the alternating use of full …
A corpus-based sociolinguistic study of could you and would you in contemporary British English
Despite the significant role of politeness markers in managing interpersonal communication, relatively little attention has been paid to the modal forms could you and would you , particularly regarding their functional differences and sociolinguistic variation. This corpus-based study investigates these two politeness markers in contemporary British English using data from the Spoken British National Corpus 2014, a large collection of conversatio…
Linguistics (4 works) · Mandarin Chinese (4 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (2 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (2 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (2 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (2 works) · Natural language processing (2 works)