Yang Yang
List of John Benjamins publications in which Yang Yang is involved.
Articles
2025 The phonology (prosody)-syntax interface in children with developmental language disorder International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 12:1, pp. 94–116 | Article
Children with developmental language disorder (DLD) often experience language impairments in various linguistic domains, particularly in syntax and often in phonology. These two domains, phonology (including prosody) and syntax, are believed to interact with each other in children with typical… read more
2024 “By whom was I left behind?”: Identity struggles in the narratives of Chinese leftover women ( sheng nü ) Narrative Inquiry 34:1, pp. 53–77 | Article
Applying Bamberg’s (2012) practice-oriented analytical framework for narrative identity as produced through specific linguistic behaviours, this research focuses on the context-specific construction of multiple identities in the accounts of Chinese leftover women (sheng nü). It also seeks to… read more
2019 Clause type anticipation based on prosody in Mandarin International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 6:1, pp. 1–26 | Article
Mandarin wh-words such as shénme are wh-indeterminates, which can have interrogative interpretations (‘what’) or non-interrogative interpretations (i.e., ‘something’), depending on the context and licensors. For example, when diǎnr (‘a little’) appears right in front of a wh-word, the string can… read more