UCL DEPT OF PHONETICS & LINGUISTICS

Dr. Moira Yip

Professor
Co-director, Centre for Human Communication


University College London
Department of Phonetics and Linguistics
Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT

Phone: +44 (0)20-7679-3158 (internal extension x33158)
FAX: +44 (0)20-7383-4108
Email:

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.

Full List of Publications

A. Books:
Authored books

  1. (1991) The Tonal Phonology of Chinese. Garland Publishing, New York.(372 pp.)
  2. (2002) Tone. Cambridge University Press. (341pp.)

    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:

  1. 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.
  2. M.Yip (1980) The metrical structure of regulated verse. Journal of Chinese Linguistics 8.1:107-125.
  3. (1980) Why Scanian is not a case for multi-valued features. Linguistic Inquiry 11.2:432-6.
  4. (1982) Against a segmental analysis of Zahao and Thai - a laryngeal tier proposal. Linguistic Analysis 9.1:43-59
  5. (1982) Reduplication and CV Skeleta in Chinese Secret Languages. Linguistic Inquiry 13.4:637-661.
  6. (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.
  7. (1987) English Vowel Epenthesis.Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 5.4: 463-484.
  8. Yip, M., J. Maling and R. Jackendoff (1987) Case in Tiers.63.2: 217-250.
  9. Yip, M.(1988) Edge-In Association. Proceedings of NELS 18 University of Massachusetts at Amherst, pp. 538-552.
  10. (1988) Template Morphology and the Direction of Association. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 6.4. pp. 551-577.
  11. (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.
  12. (1988) The Obligatory Contour Principle and Phonological Rules: A Loss of Identity.Linguistic Inquiry 19.1:65-100.
  13. (1989) Contour Tones. Phonology 6.1: pp. 149-174.
  14. (1989) Cantonese Morpheme Structure and Linear Ordering. Proceedings of West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics VIII. University of British Columbia, Vancouver. pp. 445-456.
  15. (1989) Feature Geometry and Co-occurrence Restrictions. Phonology 6.2:349-374.
  16. (1990) Consonant-Vowel Interaction in Cantonese. In N. Smith and Wang Jia-Ling, eds. Studies in Chinese Phonology.Foris, Dordrecht.
  17. (1990) Tone, Phonation and Intonation Register. NELS 20: 487-501.
  18. (1992) Iterative Rules. In Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics. Oxford University Press: 245.
  19. (1992) The Prosodic Morphology of Four Chinese Dialects. Journal East Asian Languages 1.1. pp 1-35.
  20. (1992) Reduplication with Fixed Melodic Materia. Proceedings of the North Eastern Linguistics Society 22, 459-476. G.L.S.A, UMass Amherst.
  21. (1993) Cantonese Loanword Phonology and Optimality Theory. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 2.3: 261-293.
  22. (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<.
  23. (1999) Reduplication as alliteration and rhyme. Glot International, 4.8., pp 1-7.
  24. (2001) Segmental unmarkedness versus input preservation in reduplication. In L. Lombardi, ed. Segmental phonology in Optimality Theory. Cambridge University Press, pp 206-230.
  25. (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.
  26. (2002) Non-arguments for sub-syllabic constituents. Journal of Chinese Phonology: Special issue. Vol 11: 49-72.
  27. (2003) Phonology: Long-distance processes. In W. J. Frawley, ed. International Encyclopedia of Linguistics (Second Edition). Oxford University Press.Vol 3, pp 326-7.
  28. (2003) Casting doubt on the Onset/Rime distinction. Lingua 113/8, pp 779 - 816.
  29. (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.
  30. (To appear 2004) Phonological markedness and allomorph selection in Zahao. Language and Linguistics.

C. Other publications, included invited chapters

  1. (1980) The tonal phonology of Chinese. Indiana University Linguistics Club.
  2. (1980) Some fragments of the tonal phonology of Mandarin. Cahiers de Linguistique- Asie Orientale. No.7:47-57
  3. (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.
  4. (1988) Negation in Cantonese as a Lexical Rule.  Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology.Academia Sinica.Vol. LIX, Part II.: 449-477.
  5. (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.
  6. 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.
  7. (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.
  8. (1994) Isolated Uses of Prosodic Categories. In J. Cole and C. Kisseberth, eds,P erspectives in Phonology, Center for the Study of Language and Information. Stanford, California. pp. 293-311.
  9. (1995) "Tone in East Asian Languages" In J. Goldsmith, ed., Handbook of Phonological Theory Basil Blackwell, Oxford. pp 476-494.
  10. (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.
  11. (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.
  12. (1996)   Lexical Optimization in Languages without Alternations. In J. Durand and B. Laks, eds. Current Trends in Phonology: Models and methods.  CNRS, Paris-X and University of Salford: University of Salford Publications. pp 757-788.
  13. (1997) Dialect variation in nasalization: Alignment or duration? In V. Miglio and B. Moren, eds., University of Maryland Working Papers in Linguistics, Vol.5. Proceedings of the Hopkins Optimality Theory Conference (HOT), pp 176-200.
  14. (1998) Identity Avoidance in Phonology and Morphology. S. LaPointe, D. Brentari, and P. Farrell, eds.    Morphology and its Relation to Phonology and Syntax Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications, pp 216-246.
  15. (1999)   Feet, tonal reduction and speech rate at the word and phrase level in Chinese. In Rene Kager and Wim Zonneveld, eds, Phrasal Phonology. Nijmegen University Press, Nijmegen. Pp 171-194.
  16. (2001) Dialect variation in nasalization: Alignment or duration? In Xu, De- Bao, ed. Chinese phonology in generative grammar. Academic Press, London. pp 163-192. ISBN 0 -12-767670-8.
  17. (2001) Tonal features, tonal inventories, and phonetic targets. UCL Working Papers in Linguistics. pp 161-188.
  18. (2002) Necessary but not sufficient: perceptual loanword influences in loanword phonology. In Kubozono, H. (ed.) The Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan. Special issue on Aspects of loanword phonology. Vol 6.1: 4-21.
  19. (2002) The role of markedness in onset change.  In S.W. Tang and C.S. Liu, eds. On the formal way to Chinese languages.   Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications. pp213-32.
  20. (2003) What phonology has learnt from Chinese. GLOT International, Vol 7. No.1/2: 26-35.
  21. (2003) Some real and not-so-real consequences of comparative markedness. In S. Myers (ed.) Theoretical linguistics 29.1/2: 53-64.
  22. (to appear). Variability in feature affiliations through violable constraints: The case of [lateral]. In M. van Oostendoorp and J. van de Weijer, eds. The Internal Organization of Phonological Segments: Proceedings of Old World Conference in Phonology I. Mouton de Gruyter: Berlin/New York.

D. Reviews

  1. (1993) Review of Foley, William 1991, " The Yimas Language of New Guinea", Stanford University Press. Language. 69.1: 206-207.
  2. (1993) Review of Enrico, John 1991, "The Lexical Phonology  of Masset Haida" Alaska Native Language Center Research Papers No.8. Language 69.1: 203-204.
  3. (2003) Reactions to April MacMahon’s paper. Lingua 113.2.   pp117-121.

F. Submitted or in preparation

  1. (To appear) 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.
  2. (in prep) with Yu-ching Kuo.  Fast and slow speech: Mandarin tone sandhi.
  3. (To appear) Tone. In Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd edition. Elsevier.


March 24, 2004