Yifan Yang   Ph.D. in Linguistics

Conference Presentations

* Corresponding author.

2024. Dynamic properties of diphthongs in Hefei Mandarin. Talk presented at the National Conference on Man-Machine Speech Communication 2024 (NCMMSC 2024). August 2024, Urumqi, China. (Co-authors: Qian, Zhiheng & Huifang Kong & Yifan Yang*). [Paper]

2023. Templatic backcopying and Generalized Surface Correspondence. Talk to be presented at The 10th International Conference of Formal Linguistics (ICFL-10). October 2023, Beijing, China (Tsinghua University).

2023. Mora affixation in nonconcatenative morphology. Talk presented at The 29th Annual Meeting of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL 29). May 2023, Macau, China (Macau University of Science and Technology).

2022. Temporal Coordination and Markedness in Moenat Ladin Consonant Clusters. Poster presented at The 2022 Annual Meeting on Phonology (AMP 2022). October 2022, Los Angeles. (Co-authors: Walker, Rachel & Yifan Yang.) [Paper] [Poster] [References]

2019. Generalized Surface Correspondence in reduplication. Poster presented at The 2019 Annual Meeting on Phonology (AMP 2019). October 2019, Stony Brook, NY. [Poster] [Demo sound files]

2019. Variation of sibilants in three Ladin dialects. Poster presented at The 3rd Phonetics and Phonology in Europe Conference (PaPE 2019). June 2019, Lecce, Italy. (Co-authors: Yang, Yifan, Rachel Walker, & Alessandro Vietti.) [Poster]

2019. Cumulative markedness in three-consonant clusters. Talk presented at The 14th Old World Conference on Phonology (OCP-14). January 2019, Verona, Italy. (Co-authors: Walker, Rachel & Yifan Yang.) [Presentation slides]

2018. Backcopying driven by Surface Correspondence. Talk presented at The Workshop on Phonological Variation and its Interfaces. November 2018, Barcelona, Spain. [Presentation handout]

2017. Quantified exponence constraints and the typology of exponence. Poster presented at The 2017 Annual Meeting on Phonology (AMP 2017). September 2017, New York City. [Poster][Paper]

2017. Non-concatenative effects of mora affixation: A case study of Huozhou Chinese. Talk presented at The 11th International Workshop on Theoretical East Asian Linguistics (TEAL-11). June 2017, Taipei, Taiwan. [Presentation handout]

2017. Verbal reduplication in Mandarin Chinese: An analysis at syntax-phonology interface. Talk presented at GLOW in Asia XI. February 2017, Singapore. (Co-authors: Yang, Yifan & Wei Wei.) [Presentation handout]

2016. Realize nonconcatenative allomorphs in Harmonic Serialism: A case study of diminutive formation in Huozhou Chinese. Talk presented at The 7th International Conference on Formal Linguistics (ICFL-7). December 2016, Tianjin, China.

2016. The realization of mutation in Chinese dialects. Poster presented at The 2016 Annual Meeting on Phonology (AMP2016). October 2016, Los Angeles.

2014. Phonetic analysis and the special pattern of nasal rime change in Qixian Chinese. Talk presented at The 2014 International Conference on Phonetic Research and Language Learning & English Phonetic Conference in China (ICPRLL&EPCC2014). October 2014, Changsha, China.

2014. Evolutionary process of zi rime change in northern Henan Province: perspective of linguistic geography and markedness. Talk presented at The Third International Symposium on Chinese Language and Discourse (ISCLD-3). June 2014, London.

2014. Evolutionary process of zi rime change in north Henan Province: perspectives of linguistic geography. Talk presented at The 14th International Symposium of Chinese Languages and Linguistics (IsCLL-14). June 2014, Taipei, Taiwan.