Publications

Zheng, S., Tan, F., & Do, Y. Accepted Modeling the impact of prenatal audio attenuation on speech sound learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning. Memory, and Cognition.

McLaren, B., Do, Y., Thompson, A., & Husman, J. Accepted An expanded model for perceptual norming: Insights from Japanese ideophones. Topics in Cognitive Science.

Xue, Y., Yu, X., & Do, Y. Registered Report Accepted Exploring substantive bias through incidental phonological learning: accuracy and conscious status of the resultant knowledge. Language and Speech.

2026
Thompson, A., Chik, A., 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. open_in_newDOI
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).  open_in_newDOI

Tan, F., Zheng, S., Liu, M., & Do, Y. (2026). Modeling prosodic development with prenatal audio attenuation. Proceedings of the Annual Meetings on Phonology, 2 (1). open_in_newDOI

Tan, F., & Do, Y. (2026). Bottom-up modeling of phoneme learning: Universal sensitivity and language-specific transformation. Speech Communication, 176, Article 103343. open_in_newDOI

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.  open_in_newDOI
Tan, F., & Do, Y. (2025). Attention-LSTM autoencoder simulation for phonotactic learning from raw audio input. Linguistics Vanguard. open_in_newDOI
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. open_in_newDOI
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.  open_in_newDOI
Yu, X., & Do, Y. (2025). Preference for distinct variants in learning sound correspondences during dialect acquisition. Language and Speech. open_in_newDOI
Wang, Z., & Do, Y. (2025). Tonal assignment of Chinese lettered words [Preprint]. Journal of Chinese Linguistics. open_in_newDOI

Zheng, S., & Do, Y. (2025). Substantive bias in artificial phonology learning. Language and Linguistics Compass, 19(1), e70005. open_in_newDOI
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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, 1–23. open_in_newDOI
Yu, X., Van Hoey, T., Tan, F., Du, B. & Do, Y. (2024). Tracking phonological regularities: exploring the influence of learning mode and regularity locus in adult phonological learning. Linguistics Vanguard. open_in_newDOI file_download PDF

Yu, X., & Do, Y. (2024). Perceptual and featural measures of Mandarin consonant similarity: Confusion matrices and phonological features dataset. Data in Brief, 52, 109868. open_in_newDOI

2023
Huang, T., & Do, Y. (2023). Substantive bias and variation in the acquisition of vowel harmony. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics, 8(1), Article 1. open_in_new DOI
Do, Y., Havenhill, J., & Sze, S. S. L. (2023). Variation learning in phonology and morphosyntax. Cognition, 239, 105573. open_in_new 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). open_in_new DOI file_download PDF
Van Hoey, T. (2023). ABB, a salient prototype of collocate–ideophone constructions in Mandarin Chinese. Cognitive Linguistics. open_in_new DOI file_download PDF
Van Hoey, T., Thompson, A. L., Do, Y., & Dingemanse, M. (2023). Iconicity in Ideophones: Guessing, Memorizing, and Reassessing. Cognitive Science. open_in_new DOI
2022
Do, Y., & Lee, J.-Y. (2022). The effect of pragmatic cues on phoneme perception in  real word recognition. Studies in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology, 2, 193. open_in_new DOI
Lee, J.-Y., & Do, Y. (2022). The Syllable-onset Sibilant-Plosive Clusters Revisited. The New Studies of English Language and Literature, 81, 127. open_in_new 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. link hdl.handle
2021
Chan, M. P. Y., & Do, Y. (2021). Vowel Modification (Aggiustamento) in Soprano Voices. Music & Science. open_in_new DOI
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. open_in_new DOI
Do, Y., & Lai, R. K. Y. (2021). Incorporating tone in the modelling of wordlikeness judgements. Phonology, 37(4), 577–615. Cambridge Core.  open_in_new DOI
Do, Y., & Yeung, P. H. (2021). Evidence against the link between learning phonotactics and learning alternations. Linguistics Vanguard. open_in_new DOI
Do, Y., & Shannon, M. (2021). Variation Awaiting Bias: Substantively Biased Learning of Vowel Harmony. To appear in Journal of Child Language.  open_in_new 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. open_in_new DOI
Huang, T., & Do, Y. (2021). Phonetically Grounded Structural Bias in Learning Tonal Alternations. Frontiers in Psychology. open_in_new DOI
2020
Do, Y., & Lai, R. K. Y. (2020). Accounting for lexical tones when modeling phonological distance. Language. open_in_new 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. open_in_new DOI
Thompson, A. L., Akita, K., & Do, Y. (2020). Iconicity ratings across the Japanese lexicon: A comparative study with English. Linguistics Vanguard, 6(1). open_in_new 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. open_in_new 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. open_in_new 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. open_in_new DOI
Thompson, A. L., Collignon, N., & Do, Y. (2019). 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. file_download PDF
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. open_in_new DOI
Thompson, A. L., & Do, Y. (2019). Unconventional spoken iconicity follows a conventional structure: Evidence from demonstrations. Speech Communication, 113, 36–46. open_in_new DOI
Van Hoey, T., & Thompson, A. L. (2019). The Chinese Ideophone Database (CHIDEOD). Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale, 49(2), 136–167. open_in_new DOI
2018
Do, Y. (2018). Paradigm uniformity bias in the learning of Korean verbal inflections. Phonology, 35(4), 547–575. open_in_new DOI
Havenhill, J., & Do, Y. (2018). Visual Speech Perception Cues Constrain Patterns of Articulatory Variation and Sound Change. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 728. open_in_new DOI
Lai, R. K. Y. (2018). Factors affecting object preposing in Cantonese complex predicates. HKU Working Papers Issue, 87. file_download PDF
Thompson, A. L. (2018). Are tones in the expressive lexicon iconic? Evidence from three Chinese languages. PLOS ONE, 13(12). open_in_new DOI
2016
Do, Y. , Ito, C., & Kenstowicz, M. J. (2016). The base of Korean noun paradigm: Evidence from tone. Korean Linguistics, 16(2), 111–143. open_in_new DOI
Song, Y., & Do, Y. (2016). 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. open_in_new DOI