Yen-Hwei
Lin
Professor of Linguistics
Department of Linguistics and Languages
Michigan State University
DEGREE:
Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin
RESEARCH
INTERESTS: phonology; phonology-phonetics interface; phonology-morphology interface;
Chinese phonology
CAMPUS
ADDRESS: A-620 Wells Hall
PHONE:
517 353-8776
EMAIL:
liny @ msu. edu
Yen-Hwei
Lin specializes in phonology, with particular interests in feature theory,
prosodic structure, phonological representations and constraints, the
phonology-morphology interface, the phonology-phonetics interface, and Chinese
phonology. She is also interested in phonetics, sociolinguistics, and cognitive
science. Her publications include articles in the journals Language, Phonology, Journal of East
Asian Linguistics, Language and Linguistics, Studies in the Linguistic Sciences, and in the edited
volumes Phonology in Progress-Progress in Phonology, Chinese Phonology
in Generative Grammar, The Internal Organization of Phonological Segments, and WCCFL 13. She is the editor of Language
and Linguistics 5.4: Special Issue on Phonetics and Phonology and NACCL-15:
Proceedings of 15th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics, and the author of The
Sounds of Chinese (Cambridge University Press, 2007) and Yinduan Yinxixue [Segmental Phonology] (China Social Sciences
Publishing Press, in progress). She has served on the editorial boards of Journal
of East Asian Linguistics, Language and Linguistics, and Contemporary
Linguistic Theory Series, on the Executive Board of International Association of
Chinese Linguistics, and as a reviewer for Linguistics Inquiry, Phonology, Journal of East
Asian Linguistics, Lingua, Language and Linguistics, Cambridge University
Press, Academic Press, Oxford University Press, and NSF. She taught at the 1997
and 2003 LSA Summer Institutes, was the recipient of the 1991-92 Lilly
Endowment Teaching Fellowship and the 2001-02 CIC Academic Leadership Program
Fellowship, and was a visiting scholar in 1999 and 2004 at the Institute of
Linguistics of Academia Sinica in Taiwan and in 2005 at City University of Hong
Kong.