Publications

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Journal articles

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.

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