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Alan C. L. Yu
Associate Professor of Linguistics and the College
Director of the Phonology Laboratory

Department of Lingusitics
Classics 309
E-mail: aclyu "at" uchicago.edu
Phone: (773) 702-8528

Research interests:
Phonological theory, sound change, phonetics-phonology interface, speech perception and production, Native American linguistics, language variation and change, language documentation & revitalization, prosodic morphology, Cantonese linguistics.

Updates (as of ):

Press coverage: "A final say? They hope not." Los Angeles Times
"On measuring phonetic precursor robustness: A response to Moreton 2008. To appear. Phonology.
"Individual differences in socio-cognitive processing and the actuation of sound change." To appear. In Alan C. L. Yu (ed.) Origins of sound change: Approaches to phonologization Oxford University Press.

"Contrast reduction." To appear. In John Goldsmith, Jason Riggle, and Alan C. L. Yu (eds.) The Handbook of Phonological Theory, 2nd edition. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.

"Mergers and neutralization". 2011. In van Oostendorp, Marc, Colin J. Ewen, Elizabeth Hume and Keren Rice (eds). The Blackwell Companion to Phonology. Blackwell Publishing. 1892-1918.

"Copula agreement and the stage-level/individual-level distinction in Washo." To appear. 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.

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