Yu'an Yang 杨雨岸
yang.yu.an.06 at gmail dot com
I’m a linguist. I received my Ph.D. from the Linguistics Department at the University of Maryland, College Park where I was also a Language Science Fellow.
Broadly, I’m interested in the interaction between clause types (e.g. declaratives, interrogatives) and speech acts (e.g. assertions, questions), and how they are acquired. My advisors were Valentine Hacquard and Jeffery Lidz. See projects for more.
When I’m not doing linguistics, I help take care of community cats with A Cat’s Life Rescue.
Here’s my CV.
news
| Jul 15, 2022 | I defended! Check out my dissertation here! I’m also going to present parts of it (chapter 3 and 5) at this year’s BUCLD; hope to see you there! |
| May 15, 2022 | Our paper “Do children know WHanything? 3-year-olds know the ambiguity of wh-phrases in Mandarin” is published online in Langauge Acquisition! |
| Feb 14, 2022 | I have been awarded a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant by the National Science Foundation to support my dissertation project investing how children learn to identify clause types and speech acts! I will present some preliminary findings at Commit22, check out my slides here. |
| Jan 8, 2022 | My talk “Are you asking me? Learning to identify questions in early speech to children” received an honorable mention at the LSA’s Five-Minute Linguist Competition! Watch the video here. |