Yifan Yang   Ph.D. in Linguistics

Papers

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Journal Articles

2025. Yang, Yifan* & Rachel Walker. Temporal coordination in sibilant-stop clusters in Moenat Ladin. Romance minority languages and linguistic theory (RMLLT). Special Issue of Isogloss. Open Journal of Romance Linguistics (Eds. Michela Russo & Shanti Ulfsbjorninn). [Paper]

2024. Yang, Yifan. Floating mora affixation in Huozhou diminutive subtraction. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics. [Paper].

2024. Walker, Rachel & Yifan Yang. Consonant phonotactics in the Moenat variety of Ladin. Italian Journal of Linguistics 36(1). [Paper].

2023. Yang, Yifan. Rapa Nui: a case for correspondence in reduplication. Linguistic Inquiry 54(2). 395-412. [Paper].

2022. Yang, Yifan*, Rachel Walker, Alessandro Vietti & Armin Chiochetti. Ladin, Varieties of Val di Fassa. Journal of the International Phonetic Association 52(3). 495-520. [Paper].

Book Chapters

2016. Zhang, Jisheng & Yifan Yang. 晋豫边界鹤壁地区“子”变韵的音系理据 [Phonological evolution of ‘zi’ rime change on the border of Shanxi and Henan Province: A case study of dialects in Hebi]. In Wei Zheng (ed.), 《边界方言语音与音系演变论集》 [Phonetic and Phonological Changes on Dialect Boundaries]. Shanghai: 中西书局[Zhongxi Press]. (In Chinese) [Paper]

Conference Proceedings

2024. Qian, Zhiheng & Huifang Kong & Yifan Yang*. Dynamic properties of diphthongs in Hefei Mandarin. In Proceedings of the National Conference on Man-Machine Speech Communication 2024 (NCMMSC 2024). [Paper]

2023. Walker, Rachel & Yifan Yang. Temporal Coordination and Markedness in Moenat Ladin Consonant Clusters. In Noah Elkins, Bruce Hayes, Jinyoung Jo and Jian-Leat Siah (eds.), Supplemental Proceedings of the 2022 Annual Meeting on Phonology. Washington, DC: Linguistic Society of America. [Paper]

2018. Yang, Yifan. Quantified exponence constraints and the typology of exponence. In Gillian Gallagher, Maria Gouskova, and Sora Yin (eds.), Supplemental Proceedings of the 2017 Annual Meeting on Phonology. Washington, DC: Linguistic Society of America. [Paper]

2017. Yang, Yifan and Wei Wei. Verbal reduplication in Mandarin Chinese: An analysis at syntax-phonology interface, In Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine and Yosuke Sato (eds.), Proceedings of GLOWin Asia XI (Vol.1). Cambridge, MA: MITWPL.