學歷及資歷 Education and Qualifications
  • BA in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language, Southwest University
    西南大學對外漢語教學文學學士
  • MA in Chinese Linguistics and Language Acquisition, The Chinese University of Hong Kong 
    香港中文大學漢語語言學及語言獲得文學碩士
  • PhD in Linguistics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    香港理工大學語言學哲學博士
  • National Examiner for PSC (Putonghua Shuiping Ceshi), The State Language Commission of China
    國家語委國家級普通話水平測試員
  • Certificate for Teachers of Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages, Center for Language Education and Cooperation
    中外語言交流合作中心《國際中文教師證書》
當前職務 Current Positions
  • 助理教授 Assistant Professor
  • 中文教學專修統籌 Coordinator of Education Concentration in Chinese
  • Associate Director of General Education
  • Deputy Warden of Residential and Amenities Complex
研究興趣 Research Interests
  • 語言習得 Language Acquisition
  • 言語科學 Speech Science
  • 語言教學 Language Teaching
  • 語料庫語言學 Corpus Linguistics
  • 心理語言學 Psycholinguistics
  • 語言本體論 Linguistic Ontology
  • 跨文化語用學 Intercultural Pragmatics
講授科目 Courses Taught
  • 語言學概論
  • 中文作為第二語言教學
  • 大一國文
  • Digital Technologies in Teaching 數位技術與教學
  • Introduction to Linguistics
  • Exploring Data Analysis and Visualisation with R
  • Research Methodology: Linguistics and Chinese Language Studies
  • Interdisciplinary Approach (Module: 'Digital Humanities and Chinese Studies')
  • Corpus Linguistics
  • Psycholinguistics
研究項目 Research Projects
  • 2024 Faculty Development Scheme 2024/25, Research Grants Council (UGC/FDS15/H09/24)
    Project title: Effects of Diverse Training Paradigms on Enhancing Comprehensibility of Cantonese Speech in Immigrants
    Role: Principal Investigator
  • 2024 Innovation and Technology Fund, Innovation and Technology Commission
    Project title: Multimodal and multilingual individualized training in improving empathy and emotion recognition by autistic children combining robotics and AR technology
    Role: Co-Investigator
  • 2023 University Research Grant, Hong Kong Shue Yan University (URG/22/04)
    Project title: Constructing a Narrative Corpus of Mandarin-speaking Immigrants in Hong Kong
    Role: Principal Investigator
  • 2022 Faculty Development Scheme 2022/23, Research Grants Council (UGC/FDS15/H15/22)
    Project title: The interactions of L1 and L2 tonal systems in Mandarin-Cantonese late bilinguals
    Role: Principal Investigator
  • 2021 ASA International Student Grant, Committee for International Research and Education, The Acoustical Society of America
    Project title: Acoustic correlates in the production and perception of prosodic focus: A cross-linguistic investigation
    Role: Principal Investigator
學術著作 Publications
學術期刊 Journal Articles
  1. Yang, Y. (2025). HKNSC: A Dynamic Bilingual Narrative Speech Corpus from Hong Kong. Journal of Open Humanities Data, 11, 26. https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.313  (ESCI/Scopus)
  2. Wang, Y., Xu, M., Shao, J., Zhu, J., Yang, Y., Yan, N., Wang, L., & Zhou, Y. (2025). Vocal Emotion Perception in Mandarin-Speaking Older Adults with and without Hearing Loss. Speech Communication, 169, 103204. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.specom.2025.103204 (SCIE/Scopus)
  3. Yang, Y. (2024). Acoustic Analyses of L1 and L2 Vowel Interactions in Mandarin–Cantonese Late Bilinguals. Acoustics, 6(2), 568-578. https://doi.org/10.3390/acoustics6020030  (ESCI/Scopus)
  4. Zou, Y., Yang, Y.*, & Han, D. (2024). Effects of language dominance on the L1 and L2 tone production of Mandarin–Cantonese bilinguals. JASA Express Letters, 12(4), 125201. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0034497 (ESCI/Scopus)
  5. Yang, Y. (2023). First Language Attrition and Second Language Attainment of Mandarin-speaking Immigrants in Hong Kong: Evidence from Prosodic Focus. Language Acquisition, 30(2), 201-203. doi: 10.1080/10489223.2022.2081808 (A&HCI/SSCI)
  6. Chen, S., Zhang, C., Lau, P., Yang, Y., & Li, B. (2022). Modelling representations in speech normalization of prosodic cues. Scientific Reports, 12, 14635. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-18838-w  (SCIE)
  7. Lee, W. Y. & Yang, Y.* (2022). Acquisition of English Plural Marking by a Cantonese-English Bilingual Child: A Corpus-based Case Study. Journal of Applied Linguistics and Language Research, 9(2), 81-95. https://www.jallr.com/index.php/JALLR/article/view/1226
  8. Chen, S., Li, B., He, Y., Chen, S., Yang, Y. & Zhou, F. (2022). The effects of perceptual training on speech production of Mandarin sandhi tones by tonal and non-tonal speakers. Speech Communication, 139, 10-21. doi: 10.1016/j.specom.2022.02.008 (SCIE)
  9. Yang, Y. (2021). Disagreement Strategies on Chinese Forums: Comparing Data from Hong Kong and Mainland China. Sage Open, 11(3): 21582440211036879. doi: 10.1177/21582440211036879 (SSCI)
  10. Chen, S., Yang, Y. & Wayland, R. (2021). Categorical perception of Mandarin pitch directions by Cantonese musicians and non-musicians. Frontiers in Psychology, 12: 713949. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.713949 (SSCI)
  11. Dong, S., Yang, Y., Ren, H., & Huang, C.-R. (2021). Directionality of Atmospheric Water in Chinese: A Lexical Semantic Study Based on Linguistic Ontology. SAGE Open, 11(1): 2158244020988293. doi: 10.1177/2158244020988293 (SSCI)
  12. Huang, C.-R., Dong, S., Yang, Y., & Ren, H. (2021). From language to meteorology: Kinesis in weather events and weather verbs across Sinitic languages. Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 8, 4. doi: 10.1057/s41599-020-00682-w (A&HCI/SSCI)
  13. Yang, Y. (2020). Acquisition of the Mandarin ba-construction by Cantonese learners. Macrolinguistics, 8(1), 88-104. doi: 10.26478/ja2020.8.12.6 (DOAJ)
  14. Chen, S., Zhu, Y., Wayland, R., & Yang, Y. (2020). How musical experience affects tone perception efficiency by musicians of tonal and non-tonal speakers? PLOS One, 15(5), e0232514. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0232514 (SCIE)
  15. Chen, S., He, Y., Wayland, R., Yang, Y., Li, B., & Yuen, C. W. (2019). Mechanisms of tone sandhi rule application by tonal and non-tonal non-native speakers. Speech Communication, 115, 67-77. doi: 10.1016/j.specom.2019.10.008 (SCIE)
  16. Wang, Y., Zhang, H., & Yang, Y. (2014). The Syntheticity and Movement of Chinese—A Study of “X+人”Structure in Xi’an Dialect. Journal of Xi'an University of Arts and Science (Social Sciences Edition), 17(6), 34-39. (AMI)
專書章節 Book Chapters
  1. Yang, Y.* & Ho, H. K. (2024). The Influence of Neologisms from Mainland China on Changes in the Lexical Semantics of Hong Kong Cantonese. In M. Dong, J. F. Hong, J. Lin, P. Jin (Eds), Chinese Lexical Semantics: 24th Workshop, CLSW 2023, Singapore, 2023, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 187–195). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-0583-2_15 (EI)
  2. Szeto, K. H, & Yang, Y.* (2024). A Corpus-based Comparative Study on the Semantics and Collocations of meili and piaoliang. In M. Dong, J. F. Hong, J. Lin, P. Jin (Eds), Chinese Lexical Semantics: 24th Workshop, CLSW 2023, Singapore, 2023, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 392–404). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-0586-3_30 (EI)
  3. Yang, Y. (2020). Age effects on L2 grammars: Evidence from Cantonese learners of Mandarin. In D. Chen & D. Bell (Eds.), Explorations of Chinese Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (pp. 220-252). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. PDF
  4. Dong S., Yang Y., Huang C.-R., Ren H. (2020). Directionality and Momentum of Water in Weather: A Morphosemantic Study of Conceptualisation Based on Hantology. In J. F. Hong, Y. Zhang, & P. Liu (Eds), Chinese Lexical Semantics: 20th Workshop, CLSW 2019, Beijing, China, June 28–30, 2019, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 575-584). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-38189-9_59. (EI)
  5. Luo, X., Yang, Y., Sun, J., & Chen, N. (2019). Correspondence between the Korean and Mandarin Chinese pronunciations of Chinese characters: A comparison at the subsyllabic level. In H. Dahlberg-Dodd, M. Nakayama, M. K. M. Chen, & Z. Xie (Eds.), Buckeye East Asian Linguistics: Volume 4 (pp. 46-56). Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Libraries. url: http://hdl.handle.net/1811/87682
會議論文 Conference Papers
  1. Yang, Y. (2023). Durational adjustment in Cantonese focus marking of native and non-native speakers. In Proceedings of ICPhS 2023, 604-608, Prague.
  2. Yang, Y., Han, D., Wong, S. M., Chan, C. S., Leung, C. Y., & Chen, X. (2023). Production of Cantonese tones by Mandarin-speaking immigrants: Acoustic and perceptual measurements. In Proceedings of ICPhS 2023, 1970-1974, Prague.
  3. Yang, Y. & Han, D. (2023). Language dominance influences L1 attrition and L2 acquisition of lexical tones: Data from Mandarin-speaking immigrants in Hong Kong. In Proceedings of Hanyang International Symposium on Phonetics and Cognitive Sciences of Language 2023, 50-51, Seoul.
  4. 楊一可、何浩權。（2023）。內地流行語對香港粵語詞彙語義變異的影響。第24屆漢語詞彙語義學國際研討會論文集，新加坡。
  5. 司徒加希、楊一可。（2023）。以語料庫探討「美麗」「漂亮」之語義及搭配異同。第24屆漢語詞彙語義學國際研討會論文集，新加坡。
  6. Yang, Y. & Chen, S. (2022). Does prosody influence segments differently in Cantonese and Mandarin? A case study of the open vowel /a/. In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2022, 674-678, Lisbon. doi: 10.21437/SpeechProsody.2022-137. (EI)
  7. Yang, Y., Chen, S., & Chen, X. (2020). F0 patterns in Mandarin statements of Mandarin and Cantonese speakers. In Proceedings of Interspeech 2020, 4163-4167, Shanghai. doi: 10.21437/Interspeech.2020-2549. (EI)
  8. Yang, Y. (2020). A corpus-based analysis of Chinese relative clauses produced by Japanese and Thai learners. In Proceedings of the 34th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, 348-357, Hanoi. URL: https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.paclic-1.40. (Scopus)
  9. Yang, Y. & Chen, S. (2020). Individual differences in Mandarin focus production. In Proceedings of ExLing 2020, 229-232, Athens. doi: 10.36505/ExLing-2020/11/0057/000472.
  10. Yang, Y. & Chen, S. (2020). Revisiting focus production in Mandarin Chinese: Some preliminary findings. In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2020, 260-264, Tokyo. doi: 10.21437/SpeechProsody.2020-53. (EI)
  11. Yang, Y., Chen, S., & Li, K. (2019). Effects of Focus on Duration and Intensity in Chongming Chinese. In S. Calhoun, P. Escudero, M. Tabain & P. Warren (Eds.), Proceedings of ICPhS 2019 (pp. 3578-3582), Melbourne. Canberra, Australia: Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc. URL: https://assta.org/proceedings/ICPhS2019/papers/ICPhS_3627.pdf.
  12. Chen, S., Chun, E., Li, B., & Yang, Y. (2019). Perturbation effects in Chongming Chinese with and without focus. In Proceedings of the Hanyang International Symposium on Phonetics and Cognitive Sciences of Language 2019, 127-128, Seoul.
  13. Hong Y., Chen, S., Yang, Y., & Li, B. (2019). Effects of Prosodic Focus on Voice Onset Time (VOT) in Chongming Chinese. In Proceedings of the 33rd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, 414-422, Hakodate. (Scopus)
  14. Yang, Y., Huang, C.-R., Dong, S., & Chen, S. (2018). Semantic transparency of radicals in Chinese characters: An ontological perspective. In Proceedings of the 32nd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, 788-797, Hong Kong. (Scopus)
  15. Yang, Y. (2018). The Use of Disagreement Strategies on Chinese Forums: Comparing Hong Kong and Mainland China. In Proceedings of the 2018 International Conference on Bilingual Learning and Teaching, 26-31, Hong Kong.
  16. Yang, Y., Zhang, C., Hu, Y., Lau, H. Y. P., & Li, B. (2018). Development of Cantonese Nominal Structure in a Bilingual Child: Some Preliminary Findings. In Proceedings of the 2018 International Conference on Bilingual Learning and Teaching, 109-115, Hong Kong.
  17. Chen, S., Zhu, Y., Wayland, R., & Yang, Y. (2018). Effects of Stimulus Duration and Vowel Quality in Tone Perception by English Musicians and Non-musicians. In Proceedings of the 32nd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, 98-106, Hong Kong. (Scopus)
  18. Li, B., Yang, Y., & Chen, S. (2018). Perceptual evaluation of Mandarin tone sandhi production by Cantonese speakers before and after perceptual training. In Proceedings of the 32nd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, 358-366, Hong Kong. (Scopus)
  19. Li, B., Yang, Y., & Chen, S. (2018). Evaluating the Effects of Perceptual Training on Application of Mandarin Tone Sandhi Rules by English Speakers. In Proceedings of the 2018 International Conference on Bilingual Learning and Teaching, 134-140, Hong Kong.
  20. Luo, X., Yang, Y., & Sun, J. (2018). A Study on the Korean and Chinese Pronunciations of Chinese Characters and Learning Korean as a Second Language. In Proceedings of the 32nd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, 428-436, Hong Kong. (Scopus)
  21. Zhang, C., Li, B., Chen, S., & Yang, Y. (2018). Acoustic analysis of whispery voice disguise in Mandarin Chinese. In Proceedings of Interspeech 2018, 1413-1416, Hyderabad. doi: 10.21437/interspeech.2018-2598. (EI)
  22. Chen, S., He, Y., Yuen, C.W., Li, B., & Yang,Y. (2017). Mechanisms of Tone Sandhi Rule Application by Non-native Speakers. In Proceedings of Interspeech 2017, 1760-1764, Stockholm. doi: 10.21437/interspeech.2017-143. (EI)
  23. Shao, J., Zhang, C., Peng, G., Yang, Y., & Wang, W. S. Y. (2016). Effect of Noise on Lexical Tone Perception in Cantonese-Speaking Amusics. In Proceedings of Interspeech 2016, 272-276, San Francisco. doi: 10.21437/interspeech.2016-891. (EI)
會議報告 Conference Presentations
  1. Yang, Y., Zou, Y., & Han, D. (2025, April). Factors contributing to accentedness and comprehensibility in L2 Cantonese read speech of Mandarin learners. Paper presented at the 5th International Conference on Theoretical East Asian Psycholinguistics, Tokyo.
  2. Yang, Y. (2024, December). HKNSC: A Dynamic Bilingual Narrative Speech Corpus from Hong Kong and its Potential for Linguistic Research. Paper presented at the 2024 Annual Research Forum of the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
  3. Yang, Y., Zou, Y., & Han, D. (2024, December). Acoustic correlates of accentedness and comprehensibility in checked syllables of L2 Cantonese by Mandarin learners. Paper presented at the 2024 Annual Research Forum of the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
  4. Han, D., & Yang, Y. (2024, July). Gender differences in acoustic features of Cantonese emotional speech. Paper presented at the 15th International Conference on Evolutionary Linguistics, Changsha.
  5. Zhan, Z., Hui, H. Y., Luo, X., & Yang, Y. (2024, July). Acquisition of Cantonese Sentence-Final Particles by Cantonese-English Bilingual Children. Poster presented at the 15th International Conference on Evolutionary Linguistics, Changsha.
  6. Yang, Y., Han, D. (2024, June). Revisiting tone merger in production and perception of Hong Kong Cantonese. Poster presented at the International Max Planck Research School for Language Sciences (IMPRS) 2024, Nijmegen.
  7. Han, D. & Yang, Y. (2024, June). Constructing a Physiologically Validated Cantonese Emotional Speech Dataset. Paper presented at The Seventh Forum on Cantonese Linguistics (FoCaL-7), Hong Kong.
  8. 韓冬、楊一可。（2024年6月）。粵語學習流動應用程式現狀調查研究。2024對外標準漢語和粵語教與學國際學術研討會。
  9. Yang, Y., Zhan, Z., & Zhang, S. (2023, December). Effect of language dominance on the attrition of Mandarin vowels in Mandarin-Cantonese bilinguals. Paper presented at the 2023 Annual Research Forum of the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
  10. 黃思敏、楊一可。（2023年12月）。從聲調合併論香港粵語聲調簡化趨勢。第二十七屆國際粵方言研討會,俄亥俄（線上）。
  11. Li, B., Wang, X., Chen, S., Zhang, C., Lau, P., & Yang, Y. (2023, December). Talker normalisation of prosodic cues in non-native speakers. Paper presented at Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing Asia 2023, Hong Kong.
  12. Chen, S., Zhang, C., Lau, P., Yang, Y., Li, B., & Fung, W. K. (2019, December). A quantitative model of talker normalization by native and non-native speakers. Poster presented at the 178th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, San Diego, California.
  13. Yang, Y., & Chen, S. (2019, June). Revisiting prosodic focus in Cantonese: A pilot study. Paper presented at the Second Forum on Cantonese Linguistics, Hong Kong.
  14. Wang, X., & Yang, Y. (2019, June). Processing phonetic radicals of Chinese characters in a sentence: Data from Cantonese speakers. Paper presented at the Second Forum on Cantonese Linguistics, Hong Kong.
  15. Yang, Y., Li, B., & Chen, S. (2019, May). Effects of focus and tone on vowel space in Chongming Chinese. Poster presented at the 177th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Louisville.
  16. Li, B., Yang, Y., Chen, S. & He, Y. (2019, May). A comparison of training effects on non-native tone sandhi production between American English and Cantonese speakers. Poster presented at the 177th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Louisville.
  17. Chen, S., Chen, S., He, Y., Li, B., Yang, Y., & Wayland, R. (2019, May). Effects of perceptual training in Mandarin tone sandhi production. Poster presented at the 177th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Louisville.
  18. Yang, Y., Chen, S., & Li, K. (2018, November). Pitch realization of post-focus components in Chongming Chinese. Poster presented at the 176th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and 2018 Acoustics Week in Canada, Victoria.
  19. Chen, S., Yang, Y., Wayland, R., & Zhu, Y. (2018, November). Linguistic experience and musical training in shaping Mandarin tone perception by trilingual non-native Cantonese listeners. Poster presented at the 176th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and 2018 Acoustics Week in Canada, Victoria.
  20. Luo, X. & Yang, Y. (2018, November). Pronunciation of Initial Consonants in Chinese Characters: Correspondence between Chinese and Korean Based on the New HSK Vocabulary. Paper presented at the 2018 International Conference on Chinese language Teaching and Research, Santa Barbara.
  21. Chen, S., Yang, Y., Wayland, R., & Zhu, Y. (2018, October). How musical experience affects the role of vowel quality and stimulus duration played in tone perception by Mandarin listeners? Poster presented at International Conference on Tone and Intonation TIE2018, Gothenburg.
  22. Luo, X., Yang, Y., Sun, J., & Chen, N. (2018, October). A descriptive study on the Chinese pronunciation of Korean Hanja at the Syllable Level. Poster presented at Buckeye East Asian Linguistics Forum 3, Columbus.
  23. Shao, J., Yang, Y., & Zhang, C. (2016, December). Impaired perceptual normalization of lexical tone in Cantonese-speaking congenital amusics. Paper presented at the 16th International Conference on the Processing of East Asian Languages, Guangzhou.
  24. Yang, Y. (2016, September). Production of Mandarin relative clauses by Japanese learners. Poster presented at Pacific Second Language Research Forum 2016, Tokyo.
  25. Yang, Y. (2015, December). The L2 Acquisition of the Mandarin ba-construction by Cantonese Learners: A Preliminary Study on the Age of Acquisition Effects. Paper presented at International Symposium on Chinese Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Newcastle upon Tyne.
  26. Yang, Y., & Lam, S. (2014, May). A preliminary study on L2 optionality: Acquisition of the Mandarin ba-construction by Cantonese Learners. Poster presented at the 14th Annual Conference of the Japan Second Language Association, Hyogo.
  27. Yang, Y., & Lam, S. (2013, November). The L2 Acquisition of the Mandarin ba-construction by Cantonese Learners. Paper presented at the 2013 Annual Research Forum of the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
其他出版物 Others
  1. 楊一可. 樹仁手記：手語屬自然語言 語序詞彙有區別. 文匯報2023年11月13日A15. https://www.wenweipo.com/a/202311/13/AP655130bde4b0fdf828a6729a.html
  2. 楊一可. 樹仁手記：保育瀕危語言 留存歷史文化. 文匯報2023年10月30日A14. https://www.wenweipo.com/a/202310/30/AP653ebb99e4b0fdf828a4b527.html 
  3. 楊一可. 樹仁手記：人類語言太獨特 交流深度超動物. 文匯報2023年1月30日A12. https://www.wenweipo.com/a/202301/30/AP63d6d938e4b053580de33cf8.html
  4. 楊一可. 語言學小知識：音位種類多 意思大不同. 文匯報2020年12月8日A17. https://www.wenweipo.com/a/202012/08/AP5fce920de4b0d6c5063c1e94.html
  5. 楊一可. 語言學小知識：邏輯拆解藏文 專業讀出藏語. 文匯報2020年6月12日A25. http://paper.wenweipo.com/2020/06/12/HK2006120037.htm
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