Alan C.L. Yu
List of John Benjamins publications in which Alan C.L. Yu is involved.
2025 Diachrony and Diachronica: 40@40 Diachronica 42:2, pp. 137–160 | Editorial
2017 The effects of language immersion on the bilingual lexicon: Evidence from Chinese-English bilinguals Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 7:5, pp. 614–636 | To be specified
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
2013 Typologizing phonetic precursors to sound change Language 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
2005 Morphosyntax of two Turkish subject pronominal paradigms Clitic and Affix Combinations: Theoretical perspectives, Heggie, Lorie and Francisco Ordóñez (eds.), pp. 315–341 | Article