You-Jing Lin

Peking University, Department of Chinese Languages and literature, Faculty Member

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Language documentation and the exploration of linguistic theory are the two emphases of my studies. I am especially fascinated by what we can discover in studying real talk/spontaneous speech.
I feel it is important for a linguist to work firsthand on languages, particularly as they are used naturally in different contexts.
Supervisors: Carol Genetti and Jackson T. -S Sun

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UNL - New University of Lisbon

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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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The University of Newcastle

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University of Michigan

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The development of phonological awareness and Pinyin knowledge in Mandarin-speaking school-aged children

International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2020

Abstract Purpose The writing of Chinese is non-alphabetic, but children in China learn Pinyin, a ... more Abstract Purpose The writing of Chinese is non-alphabetic, but children in China learn Pinyin, a Romanised alphabetic system, to facilitate literacy development. This research investigates how Mandarin phonological awareness (PA) develops, and how it interacts with Pinyin in school-aged Mandarin-speaking children in China. Method In Beijing, 182 students in grades two through four (ages ranged between 91 and 135 months) were tested for PA (syllable manipulation and onset-rime oddity tasks) and Pinyin knowledge (Pinyin symbol naming and syllable reading tasks). ANOVAs were used to examine their developmental trajectories. Partial correlations and linear regressions were used to examine the relationships between PA and Pinyin knowledge. Result Syllable awareness has already reached the ceiling level by grade two, while onset-rime awareness is still developing across grades. The ability to name Pinyin symbols decreases over time, while the ability to read syllables written in Pinyin stays invariant across grades. PA and Pinyin knowledge are significantly correlated, and the results of linear regression indicated that the relationship between PA and Pinyin syllable reading is bi-directional. Conclusion This study suggests that Mandarin PA development shows features characteristic of a non-alphabetic language with Pinyin knowledge playing a crucial role. Implications for theory and practice of Mandarin-speaking children’s literacy development are discussed.

By No Means Marginal: Privative Tone in Zhuokeji Rgyalrong

Zhuokeji Rgyalrong has long been identified as ‘atonal’ or ‘marginally tonal’. This paper present... more Zhuokeji Rgyalrong has long been identified as ‘atonal’ or ‘marginally tonal’. This paper presents a wealth of evidence from lexical distinctions and from a wide range of morphological constructions, establishing that Zhuokeji is by no means atonal, nor are tonal modifications restricted to a small range of uses. Instead, in addition to being employed to contrast lexical meanings, tones also serve as an essential device in the formation of all sorts of grammatical categories. This paper demonstrates that Zhuokeji Rgyalrong is a tone language that exhibits a privative system in which /HL/ contrasts with /O/. The basic domain of the tonal contrast is the word, and the surface phonological representation of every word is sensitive to the morphological contexts it is situated in. With respect to typology of tone systems, Zhuokeji tone bears both “Asian” and “African” tonal properties.

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