主要经历

教育背景

南加州大学语言学博士（2022）

研究方向

本人研究聚焦于生成音系学理论，以及音系–语音介面和音系–形态介面。当前主要研究对象包括汉语普通话及方言，以及意大利东北部阿尔卑斯山区的濒危语言Ladin（ISO 639-3: lld）。

音系学旨在探讨语音系统的规则和抽象表征，并关注跨语言的共性和差异。作为理论语言学的重要分支和基础性学科，音系学研究可与句法、语言习得及病理语言学等领域交叉。生成音系学中的部分理论包括优选论（Optimality Theory）、自主音段音系学（Autosegmental Phonology）、节律音系学（Metrical Phonology）、韵律音系学（Prosodic Phonology）等。

当前研究主题

• 汉语方言的形态–音系介面研究：如重叠构词等形态过程中所体现的音系规则，主要在优选论框架内构建音系语法。
• 汉语方言变音的语音、音系研究：通过声学数据揭示汉语方言中变音现象的系统特征，为音系理论提供实证基础。
• 基于发音音系学的音节结构研究：在发音音系学（Articulatory Phonology）框架内考察汉语音节的内部结构，强调抽象音系单位与语音信号之间的映射关系。

研究简介、论文下载等请参见：https://yifanyang08.github.io/ 

教学科研

期刊论文（^{†通讯作者；*指导学生}）

1. Yang, Yifan^† & Rachel Walker. 2025. Temporal organization in word-initial sibilant-stop clusters in Moenat. Romance Minority Languages and Linguistic Theory (RMLLT). Special Issue of Isogloss: Open Journal of Romance Linguistics (Eds. Michela Russo & Shanti Ulfsbjorninn). https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/isogloss.407
2. Yang, Yifan. 2024. Floating mora affixation in Huozhou diminutive subtraction. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics 9(1): 1–41. https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.15130
3. Walker, Rachel & Yifan Yang. 2024. Consonant phonotactics in the Moenat variety of Ladin. Italian Journal of Linguistics 36(1). https://doi.org/10.26346/1120-2726-217
4. Yang, Yifan. 2023. Rapa Nui: A case for correspondence in reduplication. Linguistic Inquiry 54(2): 395–412. https://doi.org/10.1162/ling_a_00444
5. Yang, Yifan^†, Rachel Walker, Alessandro Vietti & Armin Chiochetti. 2022. Ladin, varieties of Val di Fassa. Journal of the International Phonetic Association 52(3): 495–520. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025100320000262

书籍章节

1. Zhang, Jisheng & Yifan Yang. 2016. Phonological evolution of ‘zi’ rime change on the border of Shanxi and Henan Province: A case study of dialects in Hebi [晋豫边界鹤壁地区“子”变韵的音系理据]. In Wei Zheng (ed.), Phonetic and Phonological Changes on Dialect Boundaries [《边界方言语音与音系演变论集》]. Shanghai: Zhongxi Press [中西书局]. (In Chinese)

部分会议论文

1. Yang, Yifan^† & Zhiheng Qian*. 2025. Temporal organization of prenuclear glides in Hefei Mandarin. INTERSPEECH 2025.
2. Qian, Zhiheng*, Huifang Kong & Yifan Yang^†. 2024. Dynamic properties of diphthongs in Hefei Mandarin. Proceedings of the National Conference on Man-Machine Speech Communication (NCMMSC 2024).
3. Walker, Rachel & Yifan Yang. 2023. Temporal coordination and markedness of Moenat Ladin consonant clusters. In Noah Elkins, Bruce Hayes, Jinyoung Jo & Jian-Leat Siah (eds.), Supplemental Proceedings of the 2022 Annual Meeting on Phonology. Washington, DC: Linguistic Society of America.
4. Yang, Yifan. 2018. Quantified exponence constraints and the typology of exponence. In Gillian Gallagher, Maria Gouskova & Sora Yin (eds.), Supplemental Proceedings of the 2017 Annual Meeting on Phonology. Washington, DC: Linguistic Society of America.
5. Yang, Yifan & Wei Wei. 2017. Verbal reduplication in Mandarin Chinese: An analysis at the syntax-phonology interface. In Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine & Yosuke Sato (eds.), Proceedings of GLOW in Asia XI (Vol. 1). Cambridge, MA: MIT Working Papers in Linguistics (MITWPL).