Alan C.L. Yu

List of John Benjamins publications for which Alan C.L. Yu plays a role.

Articles

Previous studies have consistently found an asymmetry where priming in the L1-L2 direction is stronger than that in the L2-L1 direction. However, some studies showed that an L2 immersion environment could attenuate bilingual speakers’ access to the L1 and result in a ‘bilingual disadvantage’.… read more
Yu, Alan C.L. 2013 Typologizing phonetic precursors to sound changeLanguage Typology and Historical Contingency: In honor of Johanna Nichols, Bickel, Balthasar, Lenore A. Grenoble, David A. Peterson and Alan Timberlake (eds.), pp. 395–414 | Article
Why are some linguistic patterns more common than others? This question of the relative frequency of pattern attestation has long puzzled typologists of all stripes. In the case of phonological typology, the skewing in frequency of sound pattern attestation may be attributed to the relative… read more
Good, Jeff and Alan C.L. Yu 2005 Morphosyntax of two Turkish subject pronominal paradigmsClitic and Affix Combinations: Theoretical perspectives, Heggie, Lorie and Francisco Ordóñez (eds.), pp. 315–341 | Article