Supervisor Prof Brechtje Post and Dr Mitko Sabev (Co-supervisor, Saarland University)

Research Topic Incomplete neutralisation in Beijing retroflex suffixation

Yutong is a first-year PhD student in the Phonetics and Phonology Laboratory. Supervised by Prof Brechtje Post and Dr Mitko Sabev, Yutong is working on the segmental and prosodic incomplete neutralisation in Beijing Mandarin.

Prior to starting her PhD, Yutong obtained BA (Hons) in Linguistics at the University of Manchester and MPhil in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics at the University of Cambridge.

Research Acoustic phonetics, phonetics-phonology interface, contrast neutralisation, Chinese languages

Conference Papers

Wang, Y., & Sabev, M. (2023). Rime changes and mergers in Beijing retroflex suffixation: an acoustic study. In: Radek Skarnitzl & Jan Volín (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 723–727). Guarant International.

Wang, Y., & Sabev, M. (2024). Rime mergers in Beijing retroflex suffixation: acoustic and perceptual evidence for incomplete neutralisation [Conference poster]. Colloquium of the British Association of Academic Phoneticians, March 27th 2024.

Other activities and roles

Teaching Li1 Sounds and Words Supervision