Liao,Q., & Do, Y. AcceptedToneCL: Contrastive learning for few-shot syllable-level tone classification. AACL-IJCNLP 2026.
Zheng, S., & Do, Y. AcceptedPhonetic substance in text-based neural network simulations of vowel harmony. Phonology.
Yu, X., Lee, R.H.K., Song, Y., & Do, Y. AcceptedProcessing second dialect cognates using sound correspondences: An event-related potential study. Laboratory Phonology.
Wang, Z., & Do, Y. AcceptedTone contour identification from the perspective of production. Journal of East Asian Linguistics.
2026
Chong, A.J., Yu, B., & Do, Y. (2026). Conservativity in the scope of phonological generalization learning. Linguistics Vanguard. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2025-0197
Yu, X., Xue, Y., & Do, Y. (2026). Exploring substantive bias through incidental phonological learning: Accuracy and conscious status of the resultant knowledge. Language and Speech.
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Zhang, S., & Do, Y. (2026). Roles of predictability and acoustic distance in sound discrimination via contrastive learning. Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics 2026 (pp.477–487). Association for Computational Linguistics. DOI
Tan, F. L. H., & Do, Y. (2026). The development of spectral and temporal encodings in speech sounds. Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics 2026 (pp.113–126). Association for Computational Linguistics. DOI
Tan, F. L. H., Chik, A. W. C., Thompson, A. L., Yip, J. W. T., & Do, Y. (2026). Machine-learning errors in Hong Kong Sign Language handshape recognition reflect markedness patterns attested in learning. Sign Language & Linguistics.
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McLaren, B., Do, Y., Thompson, A.L., & Husman, J. (2026). An expanded model for perceptual norming: Insights from Japanese ideophones. Topics in Cognitive Science. DOI
Zheng, S., Tan, F. L. H., & Do, Y. (2026). Modeling the impact of prenatal audio attenuation on speech sound learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. Advance online publication. DOI
Thompson, A.L., Chik, A. W. C., Ngai, M., Chen, R., Ng, J., & Do, Y. (2026). Iconicity and semantic transparency in Hong Kong Sign Language: Evidence from ratings and three guessing paradigms. Language and Cognition, 18, Article e21. DOI
Cui, J., Shine, H., Do, Y., & Snedeker, J. (2026). Investigating the tone-segment asymmetry in phonological counting: A learnability experiment. Proceedings of the Annual Meetings on Phonology, 2(1). DOI
Tan, F. L. H., Zheng, S., Liu, M., & Do, Y. (2026). Modeling prosodic development with prenatal audio attenuation. Proceedings of the Annual Meetings on Phonology, 2 (1). DOI
Tan, F. L. H., & Do, Y. (2026). Bottom-up modeling of phoneme learning: Universal sensitivity and language-specific transformation. Speech Communication,176, Article 103343. DOI
2025
Sze, S. L., Yu, X., Van Hoey, T., Yu, B., & Do, Y. (2025). Bilinguals’ advantages in executive function: Learning phonotactics and alternation. Second Language Research,42(1), 135–164. https://doi.org/10.1177/02676583251327097
Tan, F. L. H., & Do, Y. (2025). Attention-LSTM autoencoder simulation for phonotactic learning from raw audio input. Linguistics Vanguard. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2024-0210
Thompson, A. L., Van Hoey, T., Chik, A. W. C., & Do, Y. (2025). Iconic hand gestures from ideophones exhibit stability and emergent phonological properties: An iterated learning study. Cognitive Linguistics, 36(2), 227–259. DOI
Yu, B., Zheng, S., & Do, Y. (2025). Learners’ generalization of alternation patterns from ambiguous data. Proceedings of the Annual Meetings on Phonology, 1(1), Article 1. DOI
Wang, Z., & Do, Y. (2025). Tonal assignment of Chinese lettered words. Journal of Chinese Linguistics. DOI
Yu, X., & Do, Y. (2025). Preference for distinct variants in learning sound correspondences during dialect acquisition. Language and Speech, 68(3), 534–565. DOI
Zheng, S., & Do, Y. (2025). Substantive bias in artificial phonology learning. Language and Linguistics Compass, 19(1), e70005. DOIdownloadPDF
2024
Van Hoey, T., Yu, X., Pan, T.-L., & Do, Y. (2024). What ratings and corpus data reveal about the vividness of Mandarin ABB words. Language and Cognition, 16(4), 1674–1696. https://doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2024.22
Yu, X., & Do, Y. (2024). Perceptual and featural measures of Mandarin consonant similarity: Confusion matrices and phonological features dataset. Data in Brief, 52, 109868. DOI
Yu, X., Van Hoey, T., Tan, F. L. H., Du, B. & Do, Y. (2024). Tracking phonological regularities: Exploring the influence of learning mode and regularity locus in adult phonological learning. Linguistics Vanguard, 10(1), 93–104. DOI
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2023
Do, Y., Havenhill, J., & Sze, S. S. L. (2023). Variation learning in phonology and morphosyntax. Cognition, 239, 105573. DOI
Huang, T., & Do, Y. (2023). Substantive bias and variation in the acquisition of vowel harmony. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics, 8(1), 1–28. DOI
Yu, B., & Do, Y. (2023). The transmission of vowel harmony and vowel disharmony: An iterated learning study. Proceedings of the Annual Meetings on Phonology, 10(0). DOI
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Van Hoey, T. (2023). ABB, a salient prototype of collocate–ideophone constructions in Mandarin Chinese. Cognitive Linguistics, 34(1), 133–163.DOI
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Van Hoey, T., Thompson, A. L., Do, Y., & Dingemanse, M. (2023). Iconicity in ideophones: Guessing, memorizing, and reassessing. Cognitive Science, 47(4).DOI
2022
Do, Y., & Mooney, S. (2022). Variation awaiting bias: Substantively biased learning of vowel harmony. To appear in Journal of Child Language, 49(2), 397–407. DOI
Lee, J. Y., & Do, Y. (2022). The Syllable-onset sibilant-plosive clusters revisited. The New Studies of English Language and Literature, 81, 127. DOI
Thompson, A. L., Chan, M. P. Y., Yeung, P. H., & Do, Y. (2022). Structural markedness and depiction: The case of lower sequential predictability in Cantonese ideophones. The Mental Lexicon, 17(2), 300–324. DOI
2021
Do, Y., & Havenhill, J. (2021). Production and substantive bias in phonological learning. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of Phonology 2020. Annual Meeting of Phonology 2020. DOI
Do, Y., & Lai, R. K. Y. (2021). Accounting for lexical tones when modeling phonological distance. Language, 97(1), e39–e67. DOI
Do, Y., & Lee, J. Y. (2021). The effect of pragmatic cues on phoneme perception in real word recognition. Studies in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology, 27(2), 193–213. DOI
Do, Y., & Yeung, P. H. (2021). Evidence against the link between learning phonotactics and learning alternations. Linguistics Vanguard, 7(1). DOI
Huang, T., & Do, Y. (2021). Directionality of disyllabic tone Sandhi across Chinese dialects is conditioned by phonetically-grounded structural simplicity. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of Phonology 2020. Annual Meeting of Phonology 2020. DOI
Huang, T., & Do, Y. (2021). Phonetically grounded structural bias in learning tonal alternations. Frontiers in Psychology, 12. DOI
Thompson, A. L., Collignon, N., & Do, Y. (2021). Articulatory features of phonemes pattern to iconic meanings: Evidence from cross-linguistic ideophones. Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 1104–1110.
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Yu Chan, M. P., & Do, Y. (2021). Vowel modification (aggiustamento) in soprano voices. Music & Science, 4.DOI
2020
Do, Y., & Lai, R. K. Y. (2020). Incorporating tone in the modelling of wordlikeness judgements. Phonology, 37(4), 577–615. Cambridge Core. DOI
Lai, R. K. Y., & Do, Y. (2020). Large-sample confidence intervals of information-theoretic measures in linguistics. Journal of Research Design and Statistics in Linguistics and Communication Science, 6(1), 19–54. DOI
Song, Y., Do, Y., Thompson, A. L., Waegemaekers, E. R., & Lee, J. (2020). Second language users show shallow morphological processing. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 42(5), 1121–1136. Cambridge Core. DOI
Thompson, A. L., Akita, K., & Do, Y. (2020). Iconicity ratings across the Japanese lexicon: A comparative study with English. Linguistics Vanguard, 6(1). DOI
2019
Do, Y., & Lai, R. K. Y. (2019). Measuring phonological distance in a tonal language: An experimental and computational study with Cantonese. Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics, 2(1), 371–372. DOI
Song, Y., Do, Y., Lee, J., Thompson, A. L., & Waegemaekers, E. R. (2019). The reality of hierarchical morphological structure in multimorphemic words. Cognition, 183, 269–276. DOI
Thompson, A. L., & Do, Y. (2019). Defining iconicity: An articulation-based methodology for explaining the phonological structure of ideophones. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics, 4(1), 72. DOI
Thompson, A. L., & Do, Y. (2019). Unconventional spoken iconicity follows a conventional structure: Evidence from demonstrations. Speech Communication, 113, 36–46. DOI
Van Hoey, T., & Thompson, A. L. (2019). The Chinese ideophone database (CHIDEOD). Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale, 49(2), 136–167. DOI
2018
Do, Y. (2018). Paradigm uniformity bias in the learning of Korean verbal inflections. Phonology, 35(4), 547–575. DOI
Havenhill, J., & Do, Y. (2018). Visual speech perception cues constrain patterns of articulatory variation and sound change. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 728. DOI
Lai, R. K. Y. (2018). Factors affecting object preposing in Cantonese complex predicates. HKU Working Papers Issue, 87.
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Song, Y., & Do, Y. (2018). Cross-linguistic structural priming in bilinguals: Priming of the subject-to-object raising construction between English and Korean. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 21(1), 47–62. Cambridge Core. DOI
Thompson, A. L. (2018). Are tones in the expressive lexicon iconic? Evidence from three Chinese languages. PLOS ONE, 13(12). DOI
2014
Do, Y., Ito, C., & Kenstowicz, M. (2014). Accent classes in South Kyengsang Korean: Lexical drift,
novel words and loanwords. Lingua, 148, 147–182.
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Do, Y. , Ito, C., & Kenstowicz, M. J. (2014). The base of Korean noun paradigm: Evidence from tone. Korean Linguistics, 16(2), 111–143. DOI
2010
Do, Y., & Kenstowicz, M. (2010). A note on phonological phrasing in South Kyungsang. Studies in Phonetics,Phonology and Morphology, 16(3), 371–382.
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