MOIRA J. YIP: CV and Publications

Department of Phonetics and Linguistics
University College London
Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT
ENGLAND
+44 (0)20-7679-3158
moira@ling.ucl.ac.uk

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Education and Teaching Talks Research activity Publications

EDUCATION

	1976-80	PhD. 1980 Linguistics doctoral program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dissertation 'The Tonal Phonology of Chinese'
	1967-70	B.A. (Honours) Archaeology and Anthropology, Newham College, Cambridge University, England. M.A. 1975

TEACHING AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

	2002-	Professor, Department of Phonetics and Linguistics, University College London
	2001-	Lecturer, Department of Phonetics and Linguistics, University College London
	2001	School of Oriental and African Studies, taught one course in phonology
	1998-00	Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Phonetics and Linguistics, University College London Affiliated member, Newham College Combination Room, Cambridge University
	1994-00	Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Irvine. On leave 1998-2000
	1991-94	Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of California at Irvine
	1987-91	Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science, Brandeis University (Part time)
	1984	Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
	1982-87	Visiting Lecturer, Rank of Assistant Professor, Program in Linguistics and Cognitive Science, Brandeis University
	1980	Lecturer, University of New Hampshire

ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS

	2002-	Co-director, Centre for Human Communication, UCL
	1996	Acting Dean, School of Social Sciences, University of California Irvine (UCI)
	1996-8	Faculty Associate to the Dean of the School of Social Sciences, UCI
	1997-8	Acting chair, Department of Linguistics, UCI

OTHER APPOINTMENTS AND AFFILIATIONS

	2006-	Board member. European Association of Chinese Linguistics
	2005-	Member, Advisory Board, Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics
	2004-	Member, Consultant Board, 'Advances in Optimality Theory' Book series, Equinox Press
	2004-	Member, Advisory Board, Manchester Phonology Meeting
	2003-6	Member, Postgraduate Panel for Modern languages and Linguistics, Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB)
	2003	Member, expert panel, Chair of Linguistics, University of Tromso, Norway.
	1999	Editorial Board, Lingua
	1998-	Editorial Board, Phonology
	1993-	Associate Editorial Board, Linguistic Enquiry
	1992-	Editorial Board, Linguistic Review
	1991-95	Editorial Board, Journal of East Asian Linguistics
	1989-92	Associate Editor, Language
	1989-	Editorial Board, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
	1982-	Reviewer for A.H.R.B., National Science Foundation, Cambridge University Press, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Linguistic Inquiry, The Linguistic Review, Language, Cognition, Phonology, Kluwer, Academic Press, Blackwell Publishers, Routledge, CUNY Graduate School, West Coast Conference in Formal Linguistics (WCCFL), North Eastern Linguistics Society (NELS), Boston University Conference on Language Development, Phonologica 1992, North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL), Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW).
	1980-	Member, Linguistics Society of America
	1999-	Member, Linguistics Association of Great Britain

PRIZES, AWARDS AND HONOURS

1990

Honorable Mention: Walzer Award for Excellence in Teaching, Brandeis University

GRANTS

	1995-7	Chiang Ching Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange. Research Grant jointly awarded with Raung-fu Chung, National Kaohsiung Normal University, Taiwan. $45,000
	1992-3	Irvine Faculty Research fellowship: East Asian Phonology: The Phonology of Chinese Dialects. $9000
	1982	A.C.L.S. China Program Travel Grant

INVITED TALKS

	1979	Tone as a suprasegmental - some arguments from Chinese and Metrical Theory and Chinese Regulated Verse. Cornell University
		A Proposal for a More Precise Phonology of Tone. University of California, San Diego
		Tone in Chinese Dialects: Autosegmental or not? and Tone in Chinese Dialects: A Feature System. University of North Dakota
	1981	The Chinese Language. Brandeis University.
		The Meter of Chinese Regulated Verse and The stress and tone relation, with special reference to the properties of Mandarin and Mixtec. University of Massachusetts, Amherst
		Why tone is not segmental and Autosegmental morphology and language games. Brandeis University
	1982	Word and Phrase Stress in Mandarin. Sino-Tibetan Conference, Peking University, China
	1983	The X Skeleton. Cornell Linguistics Circle, Cornell
	1984	Vowel Epenthesis in English. MIT Linguistics Club
	1985	The Obligatory Contour Principle and Phonological Rules. MIT Linguistics Club
	1987	Chinese Syntax and Phonology. Series of four invited lectures at Centre National de la Recherche en Sciences Sociales, (C.N.R.S.S.), one month in residence, Paris.
		Contour and Complex Segments in Underspecification Theory. MIT Linguistics Circle
	1988	The Association and Spreading of Branching Structures: Contour Tones and Affricates. Linguistics Colloquium, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
	1989	Cantonese Morpheme Structure and Linear Ordering. Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW), University of Utrecht, Holland
		Underspecification in Consonant Clusters. MIT Linguistics Colloquium
		Invited speaker, Fourth Annual Conference on Chinese Linguistics, Ohio State University. (Unable to attend)
		Comments on Ito and Mester's 'Ga-gyoo: Featural and Prosodic Characteristics. Invited discussant, MIT Conference on Features and Underspecification
		Underspecification in Cantonese Lexical Entries Linguistics Society of New Zealand, University of Auckland
		Coronals, Consonant Clusters and the Coda Condition and Tonal Register in East Asian Languages. Cornell Linguistics Circle
		Cantonese and Mandarin Morpheme Structure. Annual Conference of the Chinese Language Teachers' Association, Boston. Special Panel on Linguistics
	1990	The Phonology of Loanwords in Cantonese. Colloquium, University of Delaware
		Two Cases of Double-Dependency in Feature Geometry. Keynote speaker, University of Arizona Phonology Conference
		Two Cases of Double-Dependency in Feature Geometry. Colloquium, MIT
		The Phonology of Loanwords in Cantonese. Guest speaker, Fourth Annual Conference on Chinese Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania
		From the Foot Down: The Prosodic Morphology of Four Chinese Dialects. Workshop in East Asian Linguistics
	1991	Isolated uses of prosodic categories. Invited speaker, Conference to celebrate 25th anniversary of Linguistics Dept., University of Illinois, Urbana. Speakers billed as the top 20 phonologists of the day.
		The Non-linear Phonology of Modern Chinese. Invited course of 8 lectures, Linguistics Society of America Summer Institute. University of California, Santa Cruz
		The Prosodic Morphology of Chinese Dialects. Colloquium at McGill University
		The Prosodic Morphology of Chinese Dialects. Colloquium at University of Ottawa
		The Prosodic Morphology of Chinese Dialects. Colloquium at University of Pittsburgh
		The Prosodic Morphology of Chinese Dialects. Colloquium at Ohio State University
		Invited Speaker, L.S.A. Summer Institute Phonology Workshop
		Reduplication with Fixed Melodic Material. Colloquium, Harvard University
		Reduplication with Fixed Melodic Material. Colloquium, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
	1992	Featural and Segmental Intrusion. Keynote speaker, 7th International Phonology and Morphology Conference, Krems, Austria
		The spreading of Tonal Nodes and Tonal Features. Invited speaker, Berkeley Linguistics Society annual conference
		Reduplication with Fixed Melodic Material. Invited speaker, U.C.L.A. Dept. of Linguistics Phonology Seminar
		Sonorant vs. Obstruent Codas in East Asian Languages: A Prosodic Distinction. Workshop on Theoretical East Asian Linguistics, U.C.I.
	1993	Phonological Constraints and Phonetic Representation. U.C.L.A. Linguistics Department Colloquium
		Cantonese Loanword Phonology and Optimality. U.S.C. Linguistics Department Colloquium Series
		Phonological Constraints, Optimality and Phonetic Realization in Cantonese. U. of Pennsylvania Linguistics Department Colloquium Series.
		Loanword Phonology and Optimality Theory. Rutgers University Linguistics Department
		Phonological Constraints and Phonetic Representation. Invited speaker, Linguistics Society of America Summer Institute, Ohio State University: Phonology Workshop
		Alignment of phonological, morphological, and syntactic boundaries in Chaoyang. Invited speaker, Linguistics Society of America Summer Institute, Ohio State University: Workshop on Interfaces and the Chinese Language
		The Interaction of ALIGN, PARSE-Place, and ECHO in Reduplication. Invited speaker, Rutgers Optimality Workshop (ROW-1)
		Optimality Theory in Chinese. MIT Dept. of Linguistics Colloquium Series
		Phonological Constraints, Optimality, and Phonetic Realization in Cantonese, U. of California, San Diego, Colloquium Series.
	1994	Constraints on the output: The best of all possible words. Invited speaker, Brandeis University Psychology Department Colloquium Series
		Lexical Optimization in Languages without Alternations. Invited speaker, UC Santa Cruz Linguistics Colloquium
		Javanese Non-repetitive Reduplication: Constraints and Anti-constraints. U. of Arizona, Colloquium
		Invited Speaker, UC Berkeley Department of Linguistics Colloquium Series
		Invited Speaker, Cornell University Department of Linguistics Colloquium Series
	1995	Echo Avoidance in Phonology and Morphology. Invited speaker. U. of Arizona Phonology Conference: Workshop on Features in Optimality Theory
		Identity Avoidance in Phonology and Morphology. Invited speaker, U. of California, Davis. Conference on Morphology and its Return to Syntax and Phonology
		Lexical Optimalization in Languages without Alternations. Invited speaker, Current Trends in Phonology. Royaumont, Paris
	1996	Feet, tonal reduction and speech rate at the word and phrase level in Chinese. Colloquium speaker, Brown University.
	1997	Dialect variation in nasalization: Alignment or duration? Invited talk given at the Johns Hopkins/University of Maryland Hopkins Optimality Conference, May 1997
		Dialect variation in nasalization: Alignment or duration? Colloquium talk, University of Southern California
		The role of markedness in onset change. Invited talk given at "On the Formal Way to Chinese Languages", U. of California, Irvine, December 1997
	1998	Floating features, onomatopoeia and reduplication and Tone sandhi and tonal inventories. Two seminars constituting a mini-course in theoretical issues in Chinese phonology. University of Leiden, Holland, April 1998. Also University of Essex, Colchester, England, May 1998
		Tone inventories in Dispersion Theory. Talk given at Workshop in Theoretical East Asian Linguistics (TEAL), UCI, January 1998
		The role of markedness in onset and tone loss. Invited talk given at University College London, May 1998
		Multiple systems of reduplication in a single language: a markedness account. Oxford University General Linguistics Seminar, November 1998
	1999	Multiple systems of reduplication in a single language: a markedness account. Colloquium, University of Cambridge Linguistics Circle. February 1999
		Tonal inventories in Dispersion theory: an Optimality Account. Seminar given at the Department of Phonetics and Linguistics, University College London. March 1999
		Tones and OT: Alternations and inventories. Linguistics Association of Great Britain, U. of Manchester. Invited speaker, Workshop on Optimality Theory, April 1999.
		Tonal features, tonal inventories, and phonetic targets. Invited speaker, Conference on Distinctive Feature Theory. Zentrum fur Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin. October 1999
		Multiple systems of reduplication in a single language: a markedness account. Invited talk, University of York. December 1999
	2000	Alliteration and rhyme in reduplication. Invited speaker, Bangor University, February 2000
		Alliteration and rhyme in reduplication. Invited speaker, University of Newcastle, February 2000
		Tone and prominence - a cross-linguistic perspective. Invited speaker, School of Oriental and African Studies. March 2000
		Tone and prominence - a cross-linguistic perspective. Conference presentation, 8th Manchester Phonology Meeting, May 2000, and U. of Tromsø
	2001	The complex interaction of tone and prominence and Sub-syllabic constituents. Invited speaker, two lecture-series and week in residence as distinguished foreign visitor, Tohuku University, Sendai, Japan, February 2001
		Non-arguments for sub-syllabic constituents. Keynote speaker, Seventh International Conference on Chinese Phonology. National Chengchi University, Taiwan. May 2001
		The complex interaction of tone and prominence. Special seminar at National Chengchi University, Taiwan, May 2001
		Alliteration and rhyme in reduplication. Invited speaker, Phonetics Society of Japan, Meikai University, Tokyo Japan. February 2001
		Individual variation and sub-syllabic constituents. Invited speaker, Manchester University colloquium series
	2002	Necessary but not sufficient: perceptual influences in loanword phonology. Invited speaker, The Architecture of Grammar. Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages, Hyderabad, India.
		Necessary but not sufficient: perceptual influences in loanword phonology. Invited speaker, University of Essex.
		Limitations on markedness reductions in Zahao: chainshifting in OT. Talk to be given at the Tenth Manchester Phonology Meeting, University of Manchester
		Phonological markedness and allomorph selection in Zahao. Invited speaker, 8th International Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
	2003	Variability in feature geometry: the case of [lateral]. First Old World Conference in Phonology, U. of Leiden
		Variability in feature geometry: the case of [lateral]. Edinburgh University
		With Yu-ching Kuo. Fast and slow speech: Mandarin tone sandhi. Talk given at CASTL, University of Tromsø, Norway
	2004	Invited speaker, Manchester Phonology Conference. Loanword phonology
		With Yu-ching Kuo. Tone and prominence: L-to-LH sweeps in Mandarin. Talk given at International Conference on Tone and Intonation, European Science Foundation, Santorini, Greece.
	2005	Invited talk at Cambridge Linguistics Circle
		Invited talk, Tone and Intonation in Europe Workshop, U. of Konstanz
		Invited talk at ZAS, Berlin
		Invited talk at SOAS: Evidence in Phonology
		Invited talk at U. of Tubingen
	2006	Keynote speaker, European Association of Chinese Linguistics (EACL IV), Budapest
		Invited speaker, MIT
		Keynote speaker, First Slovenian Phonology Conference, Ljubljana
	2007	Keynote speaker, Old World Conference in Phonology (OCP) 4, Rhodes, Greece

ACADEMIC SUPERVISION

	Outside examiner, Ph.D./M.A. Committees for
	MIT, Boston University, University of Delaware, McGill University, University of Toronto (2), University of California, San Diego, Brandeis University, University of Essex, University of Auckland, U>C>L>A>, University of Rochester, University of Cambridge, University of Hong Kong, University of Exeter, UCL
	Ph.D. students whose phonology research I have supervised/am supervising in whole or in part:
	Michie Takano, Jonah Lin, Sze-wing Tang, Cheryl Zoll (now at MIT), Hubert Truckenbrodt (now at Rutgers), Mark Hewitt, Gyanam Mahajan, Kazue Takeda, Dorota Glowacka, Samuel Cheung, Gloria Malambe, Ikuto Koga, Nina Topintzi, Mary Pearce
	M.A. Theses:
	Gerald Ngwa, for U. of Cambridge. UCL: Akihiro Muto, Nina Topintzi, Catherine Kenning, Mary Pearce
	B.A. Theses:
	Cynthia Brown (now at U. of Delaware), Linda Lombardi (now at U. of Maryland)
	Visiting scholars:
	Prof. Vijayakrishnan, C.I.E.F.L., Hyderabad, Prof. Raung-fu Chung, National Kaihsiung University, Taiwan

ENABLING ACTIVITY

Service on a number of external review committees for linguistics departments at other institutions:

		2005	External review, Dept of Linguistics, SOAS
		2000-1	Chair, External Review Committee, Department of Linguistics, University of California, San Diego
		1996	Member, External Review Committee, Dept. of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Cruz
		1981-95	Member, Visiting Committee, MIT Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy
		1995-8	Committee on Language in the School Curriculum, Linguistics Society of America

A wide variety of committee assignments at U.C. Irvine and at Brandeis, including:

			University or School level
		1997-8	Chair, Sub-Committee on Academic Process, Graduate Council, UCI
		1997-8	Member, Graduate Council, UCI
		1996	Member, Ad Hoc Personnel Review Committee
		1996	Member, Committee on Chancellor's Visiting Faculty, UCI
		1996	Member, Committee on Chancellor's Distinguished Lecturers, UCI
		1996	Member, Committee on Staff Incentives Award Program, School of Social Sciences, UCI
		1995	Member, Cancian Committee on Academic Support Services for Undergraduates in Social Sciences, UCI
		1993-6	Honors Program Council, UCI
		1992-4	School of Social Sciences Representative, UCI Representative Assembly
		1990-91	Committee on Nominations and Elections, Brandeis University
		1989-90	Chair, Senate Sub-Committee on Flexibility Issues, Brandeis University
		1988-91	Member, University Senate, Brandeis University Mentor, Undergraduate Fellows program, Brandeis University

			Department level:
		1992-5	Undergraduate Director, Dept. of Linguistics, UCI Director, Honors Program, Dept. of Linguistics, UCI
		1991-4	Member, Recruitment Committee, Dept. of Linguistics, UCI Library Representative, Dept. of Linguistics, UCI Member, Graduate Admissions Committee, Dept. of Linguistics, UCI
		1987-91	Advisor, Undergraduate Concentrators in Linguistics and Cognitive Science, Brandeis University Co-ordinator, Honors Program in Linguistics and Cognitive Science, Bandeis University Admissions Committee, Graduate Students in Linguistics and Cognitive Science, Brandeis University

Participation and membership in the appropriate departmental committees at UCL, including:

Chair, Phonetics and Linguistics Department Student-Staff Committee, UCL
Co-ordinator, Advanced MA in Phonology
Personal tutor to undergraduate students
Research Committee
BA Teaching Committee
MA Teaching Committee
Departmental Teaching Committee

Creating central web-site for London Linguistic Circle, to be based here at UCL
Creating new degree course (major) in International relations at UCI
Starting and running annual S.W.O.T.: South Western Optimality Theory Workshop, linking UCLA, UCIrvine, and University of Arizona
Running Theoretical East Asian Linguistics Workshop

RESEARCH ACTIVITY

My 27-year research career in theoretical phonology has covered a number of different areas, to many of which I return at intervals when new issues of interest arise. I will group then under seven headings. A few of my papers do not fit into this classification, such as three or four papers on syntax.

1. Tonal phonology
The single topic on which I have written the most is tonal phonology, particularly the tonal phonology of East Asian languages, including Chinese. These languages often have large tonal inventories, including several level tones and several rising or falling tones. I proposed a widely-adopted set of two binary tonal features, and the exact details of how these features are related to each other and to other laryngeal features has been an on-going theme in my research (and that of many others).

2. Constraints
When I was trained, the prevailing model of phonology was that of Chomsky and Halle's 1968 Sound Pattern of English (and Morris Halle was my thesis advisor). In the mid-1980's some of us began to question this model, which was unable to state generalizations across the desirable outcomes that seemed to motivate many phonological processes. In several papers between 1983 and 1990 I produced evidence as assimilation, simplification in reduplication, and patterns of template satisfaction in morphology. Work like this by me and many others led ultimately to the abandonment of rule-based grammars by a majority of phonologists.

3. Morphology
The interaction between phonology and morphology has been the focus of a number of my papers, particularly reduplication, but also the root-and-pattern morphology found in Semitic languages, tonal morphemes, secret languages, and prosodically conditioned affixations. In two papers in 1988 I showed that Semitic word-formation could best be understood by anchoring the roots at both edges of the word, then filled in the centre, contra the contemporary view that left-to-right processes were involved. In several papers I have looked at reduplicative secret languages, echo reduplication (like the Yiddish-American table-schmable) and most recently several different types of reduplication that co-exist in Chaoyang. These systems shed light on such issues as how copying works, and what the unmarked feature values are.

4. Prosody
Phonological and morphological processes are frequently influenced by prosodic requirements, such as that prominent (stressed) syllables should have high tones, or that words should be of a particular size, usually either bi-syllabic (a metrical foot) or monosyllabic. In several papers I have investigated the role of prosody even in languages which have sometimes been claimed to lack prosody altogether, and I have shown that morphology in Chinese is often subject to prosodic influence, and also that tonal alternations frequently pay attention to prosodic boundaries and distinguish between prominent and non-prominent syllables.

5. Feature Theory
In addition to tonal features, I have investigated other issues in feature theory, such as undespecification (Are some segments lacking in distinctive features?) and natural classes (How can our feature system correctly characterize which sounds group together in phonological processes?) I have used evidence from the use of unmarked segments in reduplication, the invisibility of certain segments to some phonological processes, and the identity restrictions observed on co-occurring consonants within roots, to shed light on these questions.

6. Optimality Theory
Since 1993, I have been working in Optimality Theory, or OT. This framework, laid out in Prince and Smolensky's 1993 work, has become the prevailing theory in the U.S., and is also gaining ground in the rest of the world. My 1993 paper on Cantonese loanwords was the first published paper in an OT framework. Rules play no role in this approach. Instead, all possible outputs for a given input are assessed by a universal set of output constraints that express desirable outcomes, such as unmarked CV syllable structures. The winning candidate will depend on the ranking of the various potentially conflicting constraints, or in other words on where the language places its priorities. This theory allows direct expression of the cross-linguistic preferences as universal constraints, but because low-ranked constraints may be violated under pressure from higher-ranked constraints it also allows for the fact that even these preferences are not surface-true in all languages. In this framework I have looked at many of the topics that have occupied me over the years, and my book entitled 'Tone' is written in OT.

7. East Asian
A constraint thread in my work has been the use of data from Chinese dialects to shed light on theoretical issues, and in turn to use universal grammar to illuminate our understanding of Chinese phonology. Roughly half of my papers have concerned Chinese in whole or part. Before I started work, there were very few phonologists outside China taking Chinese data into account, partly because much of the data was published only in Chinese, and partly because these languages have limited morphology and limited alternations, so they did not look especially interesting! I hope that my work has changed this view, certainly in the area of tone, but also in reduplication, secret languages, and prosodic morphology.

PUBLICATIONS

A. Authored books

(1991) The Tonal Phonology of Chinese. Garland Publishing, New York.(372 pp.)
(2002) Tone. Cambridge University Press. (341pp.)
(2005) Tone. Reprinted. Peking University Press, Peking, China.

Reviewed in:
1. Bao, Zhi-ming. 2003. Phonology 20.2: 275-279.
2. Myers, Scott. 2004. Journal of Linguistics 40.1: 213-215.

B. Refereed articles:

Y.C.Li and M.Yip (1979) The ba construction and ergativity in Chinese. In F. Plank, ed., Ergativity: towards a theory of grammatical relations. Academic Press, London.
M.Yip (1980) The metrical structure of regulated verse. Journal of Chinese Linguistics 8.1:107-125.
(1980) Why Scanian is not a case for multi-valued features. Linguistic Inquiry 11.2:432-6.
(1982) Against a segmental analysis of Zahao and Thai - a laryngeal tier proposal. Linguistic Analysis 9.1:43-59
(1982) Reduplication and CV Skeleta in Chinese Secret Languages. Linguistic Inquiry 13.4:637-661.
(1983) Some problems of Syllable Structure in Axininca Campa. Proceedings of the XIIIth North Eastern Linguistics Society Conference, University of Quebec at Montreal, pp 243-251.
(1987) English Vowel Epenthesis. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 5.4: 463-484.
Yip, M., J. Maling and R. Jackendoff (1987) Case in Tiers. Language 63.2: 217-250.
Yip, M.(1988) Edge-In Association. Proceedings of NELS 18 University of Massachusetts at Amherst, pp. 538-552.
(1988) Template Morphology and the Direction of Association. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 6.4. pp. 551-577.
(1988) Tone Contours as Melodic Units: Tonal Affricates. Proceedings of West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics VII.University of California at Irvine. pp. 347-362.
(1988) The Obligatory Contour Principle and Phonological Rules: A Loss of Identity. Linguistic Inquiry 19.1:65-100.
(1989) Contour Tones. Phonology 6.1: pp. 149-174.
(1989) Cantonese Morpheme Structure and Linear Ordering. Proceedings of West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics VIII. University of British Columbia, Vancouver. pp. 445-456.
(1989) Feature Geometry and Co-occurrence Restrictions. Phonology 6.2:349-374.
(1990) Consonant-Vowel Interaction in Cantonese. In N. Smith and Wang Jia-Ling, eds. Studies in Chinese Phonology. Foris, Dordrecht.
(1990) Tone, Phonation and Intonation Register. NELS 20: 487-501.
(1992) Iterative Rules. In Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics. Oxford University Press: 245.
(1992) The Prosodic Morphology of Four Chinese Dialects. Journal East Asian Languages 1.1. pp 1-35.
(1992) Reduplication with Fixed Melodic Materia. Proceedings of the North Eastern Linguistics Society 22, 459-476. G.L.S.A, UMass Amherst.
(1993) Cantonese Loanword Phonology and Optimality Theory. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 2.3: 261-293.
(1993) The Spreading of Tonal Nodes and Tonal features in Chinese Dialects. In L.A. Buszard-Welcher, J. Evans, D. Peterson, L. Wee and W. Weigel, eds., Proceedings of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, Special Session on Tone: 157-166.
(1999) Reduplication as alliteration and rhyme. Glot International, 4.8., pp 1-7. For Word file, click here
(2001) Segmental unmarkedness versus input preservation in reduplication. In L. Lombardi, ed. Segmental phonology in Optimality Theory. Cambridge University Press, pp 206-230.
(2001) The complex interaction of tones and prominence. Kim, Minjoo, and Strauss, Uri (Eds). Proceedings of NELS 31. G.L.S.A, U. Mass Amherst.
(2002) Non-arguments for sub-syllabic constituents. Journal of Chinese Phonology: Special issue. Vol 11: 49-72.
(2003) Phonology: Long-distance processes. In W. J. Frawley, ed. International Encyclopedia of Linguistics (Second Edition). Oxford University Press.Vol 3, pp 326-7.
(2003) Casting doubt on the Onset/Rime distinction. Lingua 113/8, pp 779 - 816. For pdf file, click here
(2003) Feet and tonal reduction at the word and phrase level in Chinese. In J. McCarthy (ed), Optimality Theory in Phonology: A reader. Blackwell. Oxford. pp 228-245.
(2004) Phonological markedness and allomorph selection in Zahao. Language and Linguistics. 5.4: 969-1001 For pdf file, click here
(2004) Lateral survival: an OT account. Invited contribution to monograph , Advances in Optimality Theory, Paul Boersma and Juan Antonio Cutillas, eds. special issue of International Journal of English Studies. 4.2: 25-51 For pdf version, click here
(2006) The symbiosis between perception and grammar in loanword phonology. Lingua. 116: 950-975 For pdf file, click here

33. (2006) The search for phonology in other species. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 10.10: 442-6

C. Other publications, including invited chapters

(1980) The tonal phonology of Chinese. Indiana University Linguistics Club.
(1980) Some fragments of the tonal phonology of Mandarin. Cahiers de Linguistique- Asie Orientale. No.7:47-57
(1984) A Metrical Analysis of the Development of Chinese Verse. In M. Aronoff and R. Oehrle, ed., Language Sound Structure: Studies in Phonology presented to Morris Halle by his teacher and students MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass. pp346-318.
(1988) Negation in Cantonese as a Lexical Rule. Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology.Academia Sinica.Vol. LIX, Part II.: 449-477.
(1989) Tone Contours as Melodic Units: Evidence from Wuxi. in M.Chan and T. Ernst, eds., Proceedings of the 3rd Ohio State University Conference on Chinese Linguistics. Indiana University Linguistics Club, Bloomington, Indiana. pp. 37-53.
1991) Coronals, Consonant Clusters and the Coda Condition. In C. Paradis and J.F. Prunet, eds. The Special Status of Coronals. Academic Press.pp 61-78.
(1993) Tonal Register in East Asian Languages. In H. van der Hulst and K. Snider, eds. The Phonology of Tone: The Representation of Tonal Register. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, NewYork: 245-268.
(1994) Isolated Uses of Prosodic Categories. In J. Cole and C. Kisseberth, eds, Perspectives in Phonology, Center for the Study of Language and Information. Stanford, California. pp. 293-311.
(1995) "Tone in East Asian Languages" In J. Goldsmith, ed., Handbook of Phonological Theory Basil Blackwell, Oxford. pp 476-494.
(1995) Repetition and its Avoidance: The case of Javanese. K. Suzuki and D. Elzinga, eds., Proceedings of South Western Optimality Theory Workshop 1995 Arizona Phonology Conference vol 5: U. Of Arizona, Department of Linguistics Coyote Papers. Tucson AZ: pp 238-262.
(1996) Phonological Constraints, Optimality and Phonetic Realization in Cantonese. B. Agbayani, K. Takeda, and S-W Tang, eds., UCI Working Papers in Linguistics, pp 141-166.
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(1993) Review of Foley, William 1991, " The Yimas Language of New Guinea", Stanford University Press. Language. 69.1: 206-207.
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F. Submitted or in preparation

Kuo, Yu-ching, Y. Xu and M.Yip. (In press) The phonetics and phonology of apparent cases of iterative tonal change in Standard Chinese. In (ed.) Carlos Gussenhoven and Tomas Riad, Tone and Intonation. Mouton de Gruyter. Due out 2006.
Yip, M. (in press) Tone. In P. de Lacy (ed.) The Cambridge Handbook of Phonology. Cambridge University Press.For pdf version, click here

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