Publications

Wang, Z., & Do, Y. AcceptedTone contour identification from the perspective of production. Journal of East Asian Linguistics.

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

Chong, A., Yu, B., & Do, Y. In pressConservativity in the scope of phonological generalization learning. Linguistics Vanguard.

2026

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. open_in_newDOI

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. open_in_newDOI

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. open_in_newDOI

McLaren, B., Do, Y., Thompson, A.L., & Husman, J. (2026). An expanded model for perceptual norming: Insights from Japanese ideophones. Topics in Cognitive Science. open_in_newDOI

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. open_in_newDOI

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. 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. 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). open_in_newDOI

Tan, F. L. H., & 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, 42(1), 135–164. open_in_newDOI

Tan, F. L. H., & 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, 36(2), 227–259. 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

Wang, Z., & Do, Y. (2025). Tonal assignment of Chinese lettered words. Journal of Chinese Linguistics. open_in_newDOI

Yu, X., & Do, Y. (2025). Preference for distinct variants in learning sound correspondences during dialect acquisition. Language and Speech, 68(3), 534–565. open_in_newDOI

Zheng, S., & Do, Y. (2025). Substantive bias in artificial phonology learning. Language and Linguistics Compass, 19(1), e70005. open_in_newDOI downloadPDF

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. open_in_newDOI

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

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. open_in_newDOI file_download PDF

2023

Do, Y., Havenhill, J., & Sze, S. S. L. (2023). Variation learning in phonology and morphosyntax. Cognition, 239, 105573. open_in_new 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. 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, 34(1), 133–163. 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, 47(4). open_in_new 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. 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, 17(2), 300–324. open_in_new 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. open_in_new DOI

Do, Y., & Lai, R. K. Y. (2021). Accounting for lexical tones when modeling phonological distance. Language, 97(1), e39–e67. open_in_new 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. open_in_new DOI

Do, Y., & Yeung, P. H. (2021). Evidence against the link between learning phonotactics and learning alternations. Linguistics Vanguard, 7(1). 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, 12. open_in_new 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. file_download PDF

Yu Chan, M. P., & Do, Y. (2021). Vowel modification (aggiustamento) in soprano voices. Music & Science, 4. open_in_new DOI

2020

Do, Y., & Lai, R. K. Y. (2020). Incorporating tone in the modelling of wordlikeness judgements. Phonology, 37(4), 577–615. Cambridge Core. 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

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

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

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., & 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

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. open_in_new DOI

Thompson, A. L. (2018). Are tones in the expressive lexicon iconic? Evidence from three Chinese languages. PLOS ONE, 13(12). open_in_new 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. open_in_new DOI

Do, Y. , Ito, C., & Kenstowicz, M. J. (2014). The base of Korean noun paradigm: Evidence from tone. Korean Linguistics, 16(2), 111–143. open_in_new 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. open_in_new DOI