Yuhan Lin

Sociolinguist. Shenzhen University.

[Yuhan Lin @YuhanLinXM]

It would be exciting for anyone interested in the sociolinguistics of staged/high performance, hip hop (outside the US), and the concept of persona. And it would certainly be a fun reading for undergrad classes.

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I’m super excited to share with you my recent Journal of Sociolinguistics article in collaboration with Dr. Tianxiao Wang on a Chinese hip hop survival show. @WileyAnthro https://t.co/KwC8bjoQs8

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‘authentic Chinese hip hop’. We hope to show that Eckert’s semiotic landscape provides a useful framework for capturing the dynamics of emerging online communities in the age of microcelebrity.

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@TsungLunOne Thanks, fellow sibilant enthusiast! I hope you find the paper interesting, too.

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While it took literally forever, my dissertation article (linked below) is finally out! I believe it would be an interesting read for anyone working on style-shifting, sound change, second dialect acquisition, and Mandarin sibilants. https://t.co/PPrmzCiJ9V

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Also, the sibilant merger/split I examined is highly socially salient, which is goes against the social invisibility of vowel mergers/splits in the English literature. Engaging with recent work, I discuss possible factors that can facilitate splits and its social salience.

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For the retroflex sibilant, results show a two-way interaction between audience and place-based orientation in the wordlist but not in conversation, which I interpreted as the increased attentional resources in wordlist reading allowing for more agentive style-shifting.

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Just going to take a moment and praise myself for delivering a somewhat fluent talk at 6am and being able to make sense in Q&A.

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Speakers merging T3-T6 in HK Cantonese increase their phonetic distinction when imitating unmerged stimuli, but only for one of the two talkers, possibly due to the greater phonetic distance in his production. Talker social rating and shadower lg attitudes didn't matter much.

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Now that I’m at this, here’s another co-authored paper that recently came out.
https://t.co/gMV2HzWnsj

[Yuhan Lin @YuhanLinXM]

Now that I’m at this, here’s another co-authored paper that recently came out.
https://t.co/gMV2HzWnsj

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And I’m really impressed that they managed to tag me.

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We discuss how Taiwanese singer Jay Chou uses the same sets of linguistic variants to index drastically different social meanings. This is made possible through the differing degree of conformity to the linguistic norms and the stylization in other semiotic channels.

[Language in Society @Language_In_Soc]

NEW ON FIRSTVIEW

"Linguistic constraint, social meaning, and multi-modal stylistic construction: Case studies from Mandarin pop songs" by @YuhanLinXM & Marjorie K. M. Chan

https://t.co/qsAPAuhB7o

#SocialMeaning #LinguisticConstraint #Multimodal #HighPerformance #Mandarin

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@researcher_abby Thanks so much for the support!!!

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@jennycz And of course I didn't realize it was a Xiamen thing until college... Also, the local vernacular is called 'salt and pepper Mandarin' in Sichuan (likely from the spicy local cuisine) and 'plastic Mandarin' in Hunan (not so sure why).

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@jennycz My colleague had the same issue and he’s been able to work with the test version for ELAN 5.4. I was told that it freezes sometimes, but it’s not completely useless.

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@dialect @Yujing_Su @NUSLinguistics since pinyin is really useful for selecting the relevant linguistic features, I decided to stick to the hacked version.

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@dialect @Yujing_Su @NUSLinguistics Mandarin syllables to p2fa's dictionary. I've used it for read speech and conversation, and it's generally been fine. I can send you some uncorrected samples if it helps. Also, p2fa now has its Mandarin aligner, but the last time I checked it takes only characters and not pinyin