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Peer-Reviewed

Journal Articles

2024

Consonant phonotactics in the Moenat variety of Ladin

Rachel Walker and Yifan Yang

Published Italian Journal of Linguistics 36(1)

2022

Ladin, Varieties of Val di Fassa

Yifan Yang*, Rachel Walker, Alessandro Vietti, and Armin Chiochetti

Published Journal of the International Phonetic Association 52(3), 495-520

Edited Volumes

Book Chapters

2016

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]

Jisheng Zhang and Yifan Yang

Published 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: Zhongxi Press. In Chinese.

Proceedings

Conference Proceedings

2025

Temporal organization of prenuclear glides in Hefei Mandarin

Yifan Yang and Zhiheng Qian

Published INTERSPEECH 2025

2024

Dynamic properties of diphthongs in Hefei Mandarin

Zhiheng Qian, Huifang Kong, and Yifan Yang*

Published Proceedings of the National Conference on Man-Machine Speech Communication 2024 (NCMMSC 2024)

2023

Temporal Coordination and Markedness in Moenat Ladin Consonant Clusters

Rachel Walker and Yifan Yang

Published Supplemental Proceedings of the 2022 Annual Meeting on Phonology. Washington, DC: Linguistic Society of America.

2018

Quantified exponence constraints and the typology of exponence

Yifan Yang

Published Supplemental Proceedings of the 2017 Annual Meeting on Phonology. Washington, DC: Linguistic Society of America.

2017

Verbal reduplication in Mandarin Chinese: An analysis at syntax-phonology interface

Yifan Yang and Wei Wei

Published Proceedings of GLOW in Asia XI (Vol. 1). Cambridge, MA: MITWPL.

Conference Presentations

Talks & Posters

2024

Dynamic properties of diphthongs in Hefei Mandarin

Zhiheng Qian, Huifang Kong, and Yifan Yang*

Talk National Conference on Man-Machine Speech Communication 2024 (NCMMSC 2024)

August 2024, Urumqi, China.

2023

Mora affixation in nonconcatenative morphology

Yifan Yang

Talk The 29th Annual Meeting of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL 29)

May 2023, Macau, China (Macau University of Science and Technology).

2023

Templatic backcopying and Generalized Surface Correspondence

Yifan Yang

Talk The 10th International Conference of Formal Linguistics (ICFL-10)

October 2023, Beijing, China (Tsinghua University).

2022

Temporal Coordination and Markedness in Moenat Ladin Consonant Clusters

Rachel Walker and Yifan Yang

Poster The 2022 Annual Meeting on Phonology (AMP 2022)

October 2022, Los Angeles.

2019

Cumulative markedness in three-consonant clusters

Rachel Walker and Yifan Yang

Talk The 14th Old World Conference on Phonology (OCP-14)

January 2019, Verona, Italy.

2019

Variation of sibilants in three Ladin dialects

Yifan Yang, Rachel Walker, and Alessandro Vietti

Poster The 3rd Phonetics and Phonology in Europe Conference (PaPE 2019)

June 2019, Lecce, Italy.

2019

Generalized Surface Correspondence in reduplication

Yifan Yang

Poster The 2019 Annual Meeting on Phonology (AMP 2019)

October 2019, Stony Brook, NY.

2018

Backcopying driven by Surface Correspondence

Yifan Yang

Talk The Workshop on Phonological Variation and its Interfaces

November 2018, Barcelona, Spain.

2017

Verbal reduplication in Mandarin Chinese: An analysis at syntax-phonology interface

Yifan Yang and Wei Wei

Talk GLOW in Asia XI

February 2017, Singapore.

2017

Non-concatenative effects of mora affixation: A case study of Huozhou Chinese

Yifan Yang

Talk The 11th International Workshop on Theoretical East Asian Linguistics (TEAL-11)

June 2017, Taipei, Taiwan.

2017

Quantified exponence constraints and the typology of exponence

Yifan Yang

Poster The 2017 Annual Meeting on Phonology (AMP 2017)

September 2017, New York City.

2016

The realization of mutation in Chinese dialects

Yifan Yang

Poster The 2016 Annual Meeting on Phonology (AMP 2016)

October 2016, Los Angeles.

2016

Realize nonconcatenative allomorphs in Harmonic Serialism: A case study of diminutive formation in Huozhou Chinese

Yifan Yang

Talk The 7th International Conference on Formal Linguistics (ICFL-7)

December 2016, Tianjin, China.

2014

Evolutionary process of zi rime change in north Henan Province: perspectives of linguistic geography

Yifan Yang

Talk The 14th International Symposium of Chinese Languages and Linguistics (IsCLL-14)

June 2014, Taipei, Taiwan.

2014

Evolutionary process of zi rime change in northern Henan Province: perspective of linguistic geography and markedness

Yifan Yang

Talk The Third International Symposium on Chinese Language and Discourse (ISCLD-3)

June 2014, London.

2014

Phonetic analysis and the special pattern of nasal rime change in Qixian Chinese

Yifan Yang

Talk The 2014 International Conference on Phonetic Research and Language Learning & English Phonetic Conference in China (ICPRLL&EPCC2014)

October 2014, Changsha, China.