Publications

To appear

  • Yu, Alan C. L. On measuring phonetic precursor robustness: A response to Moreton 2008. Phonology.
  • Yu, Alan C. L. Contrast reduction. In John Goldsmith, Jason Riggle, and Alan C. L. Yu (eds.), The Handbook of Phonological Theory, 2nd edition. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
  • Yu, Alan C. L. Individual differences in socio-cognitive processing and the actuation of sound change. In Alan C. L. Yu (ed.) Origins of sound change: Approaches to phonologization. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Yu, Alan C. L. Laryngeal schizophrenia in Washo. In Gene Buckley and Jeff Good (eds.).
  • Abrego-Collier, Carissa. Liquid dissimilation as listener hypocorrection. Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. (PDF)
  • Kirby, James P. The role of probabilistic enhancement in phonologization. In A. C. L. Yu (ed.), Origins of sound change: Approaches to phonologization. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Kirby, James P. Acquisition of covert contrasts: an unsupervised learning approach. In R. Baglini et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the 46th annual conference of the Chicago Linguistic Society.
  • Martinović, Martina. The Interaction of Animacy with Phonetic and Phonological Factors in Neoštokavian. In Proceedings of the 29th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics.
  • Bochnak, Ryan, Timothy Grinsell, and Alan C. L. Yu. Copula agreement and the stage-level/individual-level distinction in Washo. In Meagan Louie & Alexis Black (eds.), The UBC Working Papers in Linguistics: Proceedings of the 16th Workshop on the Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the Americas. (PDF)

2011

  • Yu, Alan C. L. Mergers and neutralization. In van Oostendorp, Marc, Colin J. Ewen, Elizabeth Hume and Keren Rice (eds), The Blackwell Companion to Phonology. Blackwell Publishing. 1892-1918.
  • Abrego-Collier, Carissa, Julian Grove, Morgan Sonderegger, and Alan C. L. Yu. Effects of speaker evaluation on phonetic convergence. In W.-S. Lee and E. Zee (eds.), Proceedings of the International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences XVII. (PDF)
  • Kirby, James P. Modeling the acquisition of covert contrast. In W.-S. Lee and E. Zee (eds.), Proceedings of Proceedings of the International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences XVII. 1090-1093.
  • Yu, Alan C. L., Julian Grove, Martina Martinović, and Morgan Sonderegger. Effects of working memory capacity and "autistic" traits on phonotactic effects in speech perception. In W.-S. Lee and E. Zee (eds.), Proceedings of the International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences XVII. (PDF)

2010

  • Yu, Alan C. L. Perceptual compensation is correlated with individuals' "autistic" traits: Implications for models of sound change. 2010. PLoS ONE 5(8): e11950. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0011950. (PDF)
  • Yu, Alan C. L. Tonal effects on perceived vowel duration. In Laboratory Phonology 10, 151-168. Mouton de Gruyter.
  • Kirby, James P. Dialect experience in Vietnamese tone perception. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 127(6):3749--3757.
  • Sonderegger, Morgan and Alan C. L. Yu. A rational account of perceptual compensation for coarticulation. In S. Ohlsson & R. Catrambone (eds.), Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. 375-380. (PDF)

2008

  • Yu, Alan C. L. The phonetics of quantity alternation in Washo. Journal of Phonetics 36(3):508-520.

2007

  • Kirby, James P. and Alan C. L. Yu. 2007. Lexical and phonotactic effects on wordlikeness judgments in Cantonese. Proceedings of the International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences XVI, 1389-1392.

2006

  • Yu, Alan C. L. Prosodically-conditioned segmental fission in Washo. In Rebecca Cover & Yumi Kim (eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. 513-524.

2005

  • Liu, Fang and Yi Xu. Parallel transmission of focus and interrogative meaning in Mandarin. Phonetica 62: 70-87.
  • Yu, Alan C. L. Quantity, stress, and reduplication in Washo. Phonology 22(3): 437-475.
  • Midtlyng, Patrick & Alan C. L. Yu. Phonetic structures of Washo. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 117, 2490.
  • Yu, Alan C. L. Deriving speaking rate effects on tonal realization without varying the speech rate. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 117, 2543.

2004

  • Yu, Alan C. L. Explaining final obstruent voicing in Lezgian: Phonetics and history, Language. 80(1): 73-97.
  • Yu, Alan C. L. Some methodological issues in phonetic typology research: Cantonese contour tone revisited. In Pawel Nowak & Corey Yoquelet (eds.), Proceedings of the 29th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society.

2003

  • Yu, Alan C. L. Contour tone induced lengthening in Cantonese. In M. J. Solé, D. Recasens, and J. Romero (eds.), Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Barcelona. 2381-2384.