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Yao Yao 姚瑶 |
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Ph.D. Candidate
1203 Dwinelle Hall
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| General | |
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| Research |
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Variation in spontaneous speech
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| Publications |
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Journal papers Ke, Jinyun, and Yao Yao. (2008) Analyzing language development from a network approach. Journal of Quantitative Linguistics, Vol 15, 1, pp 70-99. [pdf] Yao, Yao, Sam Tilsen, Ronald L. Sprouse, and Keith Johnson. (to appear) Automated measurement of vowel formants in the Buckeye Corpus. 言語研究 Gengo Kenkyu (Journal of the Linguistic Society of Japan) Chang, Charles, Yao Yao, Erin Hayes and Russell Rhodes. (under review) Production of phonetic and phonological contrast by heritage speakers of Mandarin. Conference proceedings Yao, Yao and Feng-hsi Liu. (2010). A working report on statistically modeling dative variation in Mandarin Chinese. In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Lingusitics (COLING 2010) . Beijing, China. Yao, Yao. (2009a). An Exemplar-based Approach to Automatic Burst Detection in Spontaneous Speech. In Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Linguists (CIL XVIII). Seoul, South Korea: Korea University. [pdf] Yao, Yao. (2009b). Understanding VOT Variation in Spontaneous Speech. In Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Linguists (CIL XVIII). Seoul, South Korea: Korea University. [pdf] Yao, Yao, Charles B. Chang, Shira Katseff, Russell Lee-Goldman, and Marta Piqueras-Brunet. (2009). A web-accessible dictionary of Southeastern Pomo. In Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Linguists (CIL XVIII). Seoul, South Korea: Korea University. [pdf] Chang, Charles B., Erin F. Haynes, Yao Yao, and Russell Rhodes. (2009). The Phonetic Space of Phonological Categories in Heritage Speakers of Mandarin. In Malcolm Elliott et al. (eds.), Proceedings from the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society: The Main Session, 31-45. Chicago, IL: Chicago Linguistic Society. [pdf] Chang, Charles B., Erin F. Haynes, Yao Yao, and Russell Rhodes. (2009). A Tale of Five Fricatives: Consonantal Contrast in Heritage Speakers of Mandarin. In Laurel MacKenzie (ed.), University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 15.1: 37-43. Philadelphia, PA: Penn Linguistics Club. [pdf] Chang, Charles, and Yao Yao. (2007) Tone production in whispered Mandarin. In the Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS XVI), 1085-88. Saarbrucken, Germany, August 2007. [pdf] Yao, Yao. (2007) Double nominative construction revisited - a corpus-based study on the semantic interpretation of Chinese topic sentences. In the Proceedings of the 8th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop (CLSW08), 25-31. Hong Kong, May 2007. [pdf] |
| Presentations/Posters |
| 2011 | Speaker or listener: Exploring the effect of phonological neighbors on vowel production. Paper presented at the 2010 Annual Meeting of Linguistic Society of America. Pittsburgh, PA, January 2011. |
| 2010 | A working report on statistically modeling dative variation in Mandarin Chinese. (With Liu, Feng-hsi).Paper to be presented at the 23rd International Conference on Computational Lingusitics (COLING 2010). Beijing, China. August, 2010. |
| Lexical neighbors: speakers' friends, listeners' foes: A study of vowel quality in spontaneous speech. (With Gahl, Susanne and Keith Johnson).Post presented at the CUNY 2010 Conference on Human Sentence Processing. New York, NY, March 2010 | |
| Separating talker- and listener-oriented forces in speech using phonological neighborhood density. Paper presented at the 2010 Annual Meeting of Linguistic Society of America. Baltimore, MD, January 2010. [ppt] | |
| 2009 | Predicting word order variation in Chinese ditransitive sentences. (With Liu, Feng-hsi). Annual Research Forum of Linguistic Society of Hong Kong. Hong Kong, December, 2009. |
| Are we self-centered or considerate speakers: evidence from phonological neighborhood density. Annual Research Forum of Linguistic Society of Hong Kong. Hong Kong, December, 2009. | |
| Effect of phonological neighborhood density on word duration in spontaneous speech. Poster presented at the 2009 Fall Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. San Antonio, TX, October 2009. | |
| Is speech talker-oriented or listener-oriented? - Evidence from phonological neighborhood effect in spontaneous speech production. Invited talk at TREND: A Trilateral Weekend of Linguistics. Stanford University, May 2009. | |
| To learn or not to learn: The growing path of children's phonological neighborhoods. Paper presented at the 2009 Annual Meeting of Linguistic Society of America. San Francisco, CA, January 2009. [ppt] | |
| 2008 | With Xie, Zhiguo. Topic-driven derivation and interpretation of verb copying in mandarin Chinese. Poster presented at the Western Conference of Linguistics (WECOL 2008). Davis, CA, Novemeber 2008. [ppt] |
| A report on vowel alternation in the pronunciation in conversational American English. Paper presented at the 37th of the New Ways of Analyzing Variation conference (NWAV37). Houston, TX, November 2008. [ppt] | |
| Understanding VOT variation in spontaneous speech. Paper presented at the 18th Congress of International Linguists (CIL18). Seoul, Korea, July 2008. [ppt] | |
| An exemplar-based approach to automatic burst detection in voiceless stops. Paper presented at the 18th Congress of International Linguists (CIL18). Seoul, Korea, July 2008. [ppt] | |
| With Chang, Charles, Shira Katseff, Russell Lee-Goldman, Marta Piqueras-Brunet. A web-accessible dictionary of Southeastern Pomo. The 18th Congress of International Linguists (CIL18). Seoul, Korea, July 2008. [ppt] | |
| With Chang, Charles, Erin Haynes, and Russell Rhodes. The phonetic space of phonological categories in heritage speakers of Mandarin. Paper presented at the 44th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago, April 25. [ppt] | |
| With Chang, Charles, Erin Haynes, and Russell Rhodes. A tale of two fricatives: Consonantal contrast in heritage speakers of Mandarin. Paper presented at the 32nd Penn Linguistics Colloquium. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania, February 23. [ppt] | |
| With Chang, Charles. Reexamining cue enhancement: The case of whispered tones in Mandarin Chinese. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Chicago, IL, January 2008. [pdf] | |
| 2007 | An exemplar-based approach to automatically detect burst in word-initial voiceless stops in spontaneous speech. Poster presented at the 2007 Fall Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. New Orleans, LA, November 2007. |
| With Chang, Charles. Tone production in whispered Mandarin. Paper presented at the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS XVI). Saarbrucken, Germany, August 2007. | |
| Double nominative construction revisited - a corpus-based study on the semantic interpretation of Chinese topic sentences. Paper presented at the 8th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop (CLSW08). Hong Kong, May 2007. [pdf] | |
| 2004 | With Ke, Jinyun and James W. Minett. Lexicon evolves as a self-organizing small world network. Paper presented at the 12th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL12). Tianjin, China, June 2004. |