DEPARTMENT OF SPEECH, HEARING & PHONETIC SCIENCES
UCL Division of Psychology & Language Sciences

Moira Yip

 

Pro-Provost for China, Hong Kong and Macao
Professor Co-director, Centre for Human Communication

University College London
Division of Psychology and Language Sciences
Room 115A,
Chandler House,
2 Wakefield Street,
London WC1N 2PF

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Moira Yip

 
Professor Moira Yip is a theoretical linguist working in the area of phonology, with a special interest in Chinese. In addition to more than sixty papers in academic journals, she has published two books on tonal languages, the most recent of which Tone (Cambridge University Press, 2002) was reprinted by Peking University Press. She received her B.A. at Cambridge University , and her Ph.D. at M.I.T., and then taught in the United States for nearly twenty years, where she served as Acting Dean of Social Sciences at the University of California, Irvine . She returned to the U.K. in 1998. She is co-director of the Centre for Human Communication at UCL She sits on the editorial boards of five journals, and the postgraduate panel for Modern Languages and Linguistics of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). She is also on the Board of the European Association of Chinese Linguistics. Her connections with the region are personal as well as professional, since her husband's family comes from Hong Kong.

Research Interests
I have worked on a wide range of issues in theoretical phonology, and particularly on the phonology of Chinese. I have a special interest in tonal phonology. My publications include papers on reduplication, morpho-phonology, prosodic phonology, and feature theory. I am currently working in the framework of Optimality Theory.


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