Books

• The life cycle of language: past, present, and future. Co-edited with Darya Kavitskaya. Oxford University Press. 2023.
• A dictionary of linguistics and phonetics, 7th edition. Co-edited with David Crystal. Wiley Blackwell. 2023.
• “Sound Change in Endangered and Small Communities”. Co-edited with Christian DiCanio, Anne Pycha, and Georgia Zellou. Special issue of Linguistic Vanguard: https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2021-0095.
• Origins of sound change: Approaches to phonologization. Editor. Oxford: The Oxford University Press. 2013.
  • Review: Diachronica, The LinguistList, Acta Linguistica Hungarica.
• The Handbook of Phonological Theory, 2nd edition. Co-editing with John Goldsmith and Jason Riggle. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. 2011.
• A natural history of infixation. Oxford: The Oxford University Press. 2007.
  • Reviews: Journal of Linguistics, Linguistic Typology, Studies in Language
• Exemplar-based models in linguistics. Co-edited with Susanne Gahl. Special issue of Linguistic Review 23(3). 2006.

Journal articles

• Yu, Alan C. L., Robert McAllister, Nick Mularoni, & Carol To. 2024. Atypical temporal sensitivity in coarticulation in autism: Evidence from sibilant-vowel interaction in Cantonese. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-024-06258-w [Preprint and online materials]
• Ou, Jinghua, Ming Xiang, & Alan C. L. Yu. 2023 Individual variability in subcortical neural encoding shapes phonetic cue weighting. Scientific Reports 13, 9991. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-37212-y
• Yu, Alan C. L. 2023. Tonal context influences tone-duration interaction: Evidence from Cantonese. JASA Express Letters 3: 035203. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0017517. [Supplemental materials]
• Yu, Alan C. L. 2023. The actuation problem. Annual Review in Linguistics 9: 215-231. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-linguistics-031120-101336
• Zellou, Georgia, Christian DiCanio, Anne Pycha, and Alan C. L. Yu. 2022. Introduction. Linguistics Vanguard. Special issue on “Sound Change in Endangered and Small Communities”. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2021-0095.
• Yu, Alan C. L. 2022. Perceptual cue weighting is influenced by the listener’s gender and subjective evaluations of the speaker: the case of English stop voicing. Frontiers in Psychology 13:840291. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.840291. [Preprint & supplemental materials]
• Ou, Jinghua and Alan C. L. Yu. 2021. Neural Correlates of Individual Differences in Speech Categorization: Evidence from Subcortical, Cortical, and Behavioral Measures. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2021.1980594 [Preprint]
• Yu, Alan C. L., Crystal W. T. Lee, Chen Lan, and Peggy P. K. Mok. 2021. “A new system of Cantonese tones? Tone perception and production in Hong Kong South Asian Cantonese.” Language and Speech 65(3): 625-649. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/00238309211046030.
• Ou, Jinghua, Alan C. L. Yu, and Ming Xiang. 2021. “Individual differences in categorization gradience as predicted by online processing of phonetic cues during spoken word recognition: Evidence from eye movements.” Cognitive Science 45(3): e12948. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12948.
• Yu, Alan C. L. 2021. “Toward an individual-difference perspective on phonologization.” Glossa 6(1), 14. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.661
• Franich, Kathryn, Hung Yat Wong, Alan C. L. Yu & Carol K. S. To. 2020. Temporal Coordination and Prosodic Structure in Autism Spectrum Disorder: Timing Across Speech and Non-speech Motor Domains. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.
• Yu, Alan C. L. and Carol K. S. To. 2020. “Atypical context-dependent speech processing in autism.” Applied Psycholinguistics. 1-15.
• Ronai, Eszter, Yenan Sun, Alan C. L. Yu, and Ming Xiang. 2019 “Integration of contextual-pragmatic and phonetic information in speech perception: An eye-tracking study.” Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology, 10(1), 20. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/labphon.186
• Yang, Chunsheng and Alan C. L. Yu. 2019. “The acquisition of Mandarin affricates by American second language learners.” Taiwan Journal of Linguistics 17(2): 91-122.
• Yu, Alan C. L. 2019. “On the nature of the perception-production link: Individual variability in English sibilant-vowel coarticulation.”  2019. Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology, 10(1), 2. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/labphon.97.
• Yu, Alan C. L. and Georgia Zellou. 2019. “Individual differences in language processing:  phonology.” Annual Review in Linguistics. 5: 131-150. [Proofs]
• Daniel Chen, Yosh Halbertsam, and Alan C. L. Yu. 2016. “Perceived masculinity predicts U.S. supreme court outcomes.” PLOSONE 11(10): e0164324.
• Peggy P. K. Mok and Alan C. L. Yu. 2016. “The effects of language immersion on the bilingual lexicon: Evidence from Chinese-English bilinguals.” Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism.
• Yu, Alan C. L. 2016. “Vowel-dependent variation in Cantonese /s/ from an individual-difference perspective.” 2016, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 139(4): 1672-1690.
• Yu, Alan C. L. and Hyunjung Lee. 2014.”The stability of perceptual compensation for coarticulation within and across individuals. A cross-validation study.” (with Hyunjung Lee) 2014. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 136(1): 382-388.
• Yu, Alan C. L., Carissa Abrego-Collier, and Morgan Sonderegger. 2013. “Phonetic imitation from an individual-difference perspective: Subjective attitude, personality, and ‘autistic’ traits.” PLOS ONE 8(9): e74746.
• Yu, Alan C. L. 2011. “On measuring phonetic precursor robustness: A response to Moreton 2008. Phonology 28: 491-518.
• Yu, Alan C. L. 2010. “Perceptual compensation is correlated with individuals’ “autistic” traits: Implications for models of sound change.” PLoS ONE 5(8): e11950. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0011950.”
• Yu, Alan C. L. 2008. The phonetics of quantity alternation in Washo.” Journal of Phonetics 36(3):508-520.
• Yu, Alan C. L. 2007. “Understanding near mergers: The case of morphological tone in Cantonese,” Phonology 24(1): 187-214.
• Yu, Alan C. L. 2005. “Quantity, stress, and reduplication in Washo,” Phonology 22(3): 437-475.
• Yu, Alan C. L. 2004. “Explaining final obstruent voicing in Lezgian: Phonetics and history,” Language. 80(1): 73-97.
• Yu, Alan C. L. 2004. “Infixing with a vengeance: Pingding Mandarin infixation,”  Journal of East Asian Linguistics 13(1): 39-58.
• Yu, Alan C. L. 2003. “Pluractionality in Chechen,” Natural Language Semantics 11(3): 289-321.
• Yu, Alan C. L. 2000. “Stress assignment in Tohono O’odham,” Phonology 17 (1): 117-135.

Book chapters

• Yu, Alan C. L., Carol Kit-sum To, and Yao Yao. 2023. Child-directed speech as a source of phonetic precursor enhancement in sound change. In Darya Kavitskaya and Alan C. L. Yu (eds.) The life cycle of language: past, present, and future. Oxford University Press. 354-370.
• Bochnak, M. Ryan, Emily Hanink, and Alan C. L. Yu. 2024. “Wáˑšiw“. In Carmen Jany, Marianne Mithun, and Keren Rice (eds.) Handbook of Languages and Linguistics of North America. Mouton de Gruyter. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton. 1201-1222. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110712742-048
• Oliver Niebuhr, Henning Reetz, Jonathan Barnes, and Alan C. L. Yu. 2020. “Fundamental aspects of perception of f0”. In Carlos Gussenhoven and Aoju Chen. The Oxford Handbook of Language Prosody. Oxford University Press. 29-42.
• Yu, Alan C. L. 2020. “The phonetics of sound change”. In Richard D. Janda, Brian D. Joseph, and Barbara S. Vance (eds.) The Handbook of Historical Linguistics, Volume II. 293-313.
• Chen, Daniel L., Yosh Halberstam, Manoj Kumar, and Alan C. L. Yu. 2019. “Attorney voice and the US Supreme Court”. In M. Livermore and D. Rockmore (eds.), Law as Data: Computation, Text, and the Future of Legal Analysis. Santa Fe Institute Press.
• Yu, Alan C. L. 2018. “Laryngeal schizophrenia in Washo resonants.” 2018. In Gene Buckley, Thera Crane, and Jeff Good (eds.) Revealing structure. Palo Alto: CSLI. 267-280.
• Yu, Alan C. L. 2017. Global optimization in allomorph selection: two case studies. In Vera Gribanova and Stephanie Shih (eds.) The Morphosyntax-Phonology Connection: Locality and Directionality at the Interface. Oxford University Press. 3-27.
• Yu, Alan C. L. 2017. “Phonotactic constraints in Chinese dialects.” In Rint Sybesma (ed.) Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics. Brill. 415-422.
• Yu, Alan C. L.  2015. “The role of experimental investigation in understanding sound change.” In Patrick Honeybone and Joseph Salmons (eds.) Handbook of Historical Phonology. Oxford University Press. 410-428
• Yu, Alan C. L. 2013. “Typologizing phonetic precursors to sound change.” In Bickel, Balthasar, Lenore A. Grenoble, David A. Peterson, & Alan Timberlake (eds.)  Language typology and historical contingency. A festschrift to honor Johanna Nichols. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 395 – 414
• Yu, Alan C. L. 2013. “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 University Press. 201-227.
• Yu, Alan C. L. 2011. “Contrast reduction.” In John Goldsmith, Jason Riggle, and Alan C. L. Yu (eds.) The Handbook of Phonological Theory, 2nd edition. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. 291-318.
• Yu, Alan C. L. 2011. “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.
• Yu, Alan C. L. 2010. “Tonal effects on perceived vowel duration“. In Laboratory Phonology 10. Mouton de Gruyter. 151-168.
• Yu, Alan C. L. 2007. “The phonology-morphology interface from the perspective of infixation.” In Matti Miestamo & Bernhard Wälchli (eds.) New challenges in typology: Broadening the horizons and redefining the foundations. Mouton de Gruyter.
• Good, Jeffrey and Yu, Alan C. L. 2005. “Morphosyntax of two Turkish subject pronominal paradigms,” (with Jeff Good), ed. by Lorie Heggie & Francisco Ordonez. Perspectives on clitic and agreement affix combinations. John Benjamins. 2005.

Other publications

• “Atypical coarticulation in autism: evidence from sibilant-vowel interaction in Cantonese.” 2023. With Robert McAllister and Carol Kit-sum To. In Radek Skarnitzl & Jan Volín (eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 3982-3986). Guarant International.
• “Brainstem encoding of voice onset time: preliminary findings.” 2019. With Jinghua Ou. In Sasha Calhoun, Paola Escudero, Marija Tabain & Paul Warren (eds.) Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia 2019. Canberra, Australia: Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc. 2114-2118.
• “An acoustic study of vowel harmony in Washo.” 2019. With Sean Flamand and Darby Douros. In Sasha Calhoun, Paola Escudero, Marija Tabain & Paul Warren (eds.) Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia 2019. Canberra, Australia: Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc. 1422-1425.
• “The acquisition of Cantonese vowel length contrast and vowel rounding contrast by South Asian students in Hong Kong.” 2019. With Peggy Mok, Chun Wai Leung, and Chen Lan. In Sasha Calhoun, Paola Escudero, Marija Tabain & Paul Warren (eds.) Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia 2019. Canberra, Australia: Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc.  3641-3645.
• “Non-segmental conditioning of sibilant variation in American English.” 2018. With Jacob Phillips and Daniel Chen. In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 9.
• “Perception and production of Cantonese tones by South Asians in Hong Kong.” 2018. With Peggy P. K. Mok and Crystal W. L. Lee. In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 9.
• “Investigating variation in English vowel-to-vowel coarticulation in a longitudinal phonetic corpus.” 2015. With Carissa Abrego-Collier, Jacob Phillips, Betsy Pillion, and Daniel Chen. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences.
• “Variability in perceived duration: pitch dynamics and vowel quality.” 2014.  With Hyunjung Lee and Jackson Lee. In TAL-2014, 41-44.
• “Copula agreement and the stage-level/individual-level distinction in Washo.” 2011. With Ryan Bochnak and Timothy Grinsell. 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.
• “Effects of speaker evaluation on phonetic convergence.” 2011. With Carissa Abrego-Collier, Julian Grove, and Morgan Sonderegger. In the Proceedings of the International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences XVII.
• “Effects of working memory capacity and “autistic” traits on phonotactic effects in speech perception.” 2011. With Julian Grove, Martina Martinovic, and Morgan Sonderegger. In the Proceedings of the International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences XVII.
• “A typological study of the interaction between level tones and duration.” 2011. With Matthew Faytak. In the Proceedings of the International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences XVII.
• “A rational account of perceptual compensation for coarticulation.” 2010. With Morgan Sonderegger. In S. Ohlsson & R. Catrambone (eds.), Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. 375-380.
• “Tonal mapping in Cantonese vocative reduplication.” 2010. In the Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. Berkeley: Berkeley Linguistics Society. 341-352.
• “Two patterns of reduplication in Washo.” 2012. In the Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. Berkeley: Berkeley Linguistics Society. 365-378.
• “On iterative infixation.” 2008. In Hannah J. Haynie and Charles B. Chang (eds.) Proceedings of the 26th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. 516-524.
• “Tonal phonetic analogy.” 2007. In the Proceedings of the International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences XVI. 1749-1752.
• “Lexical and phonotactic effects on wordlikeness judgements in Cantonese.” 2007. With James Kirby. In the Proceedings of the International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences XVI. 1389-1392.
• “Moraic anchoring of f0 in Washo,” 2007. With Justin Murphy. In the Proceedings of the International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences XVI. 1161-1164.
• “Toward a typology of compensatory reduplication.” 2005. In John Alderete et al. (eds.) Proceedings of the 24th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. 397-405.
• “Some methodological issues in phonetic typology research: Cantonese contour tone revisited“, 2003. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on Phonetic Sources of Phonological Patterns: Synchronic and Diachronic Explanations. 623-634.