Dominic Yu (余平祥)
Department of Linguistics

1203 Dwinelle Hall
University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-2650

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Introduction

Hello. I am a third year graduate student in linguistics at UC Berkeley. I did my undergraduate work (in linguistics as well) at Stanford. I've also spent some time at San Francisco State and as an exchange student at National Taiwan University (台大).

Interests

• phonetics and phonology
• historical linguistics, sound change
• Chinese dialects, especially Cantonese (粵) dialects, Toisan 台山/Szeyap 四邑 (check out a list of references)
• Sino-Tibetan languages
• tone and intonation

Papers

Some unpublished papers...

• The Phonology of Yánchéng - a description of 鹽城話, a dialect of Eastern Mandarin
• Relative clauses and nominal modifiers in Cantonese - Cantonese has at least two ways to make relative clauses! This paper gives an overview of the phenomena and explores different analyses.
• Comparative Phonology of Picurís and Taos - a micro-comparison of two Northern Tiwa languages
• More Picuris materials: A Picurís Lexicon and Picurís Children's Stories With Interlinear Glosses. These are in rough draft form, but perhaps they will be useful to others out there.

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