Papers

Contextualizing the variation in causal clause ordering in Mandarin Chinese: A multifactorial analysis

Gan, Qiao and Ye, Jingyuan

Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory

@article{gan2025contextualizing,
  author = {Gan, Qiao and Ye, Jingyuan},
  title = {Contextualizing the variation in causal clause ordering in Mandarin Chinese: A multifactorial analysis},
  year = {2025},
  journal = {Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory},
  doi = {10.1515/cllt-2025-0024}
}

• Mandarin Chinese
• Corpus linguistics
• Multifactorial analysis

Beijing Rhotacization as a morphophonological variable

Ye, Jingyuan

In J. A. Walker et al. (Eds.), Diversity in Dialect and Language: Selected Papers from Methods in Dialectology XVIII (Melbourne, 2024). Language Science Press

@incollection{yebeijing,
  author = {Ye, Jingyuan},
  title = {Beijing Rhotacization as a morphophonological variable},
  booktitle = {Diversity in Dialect and Language: Selected Papers from Methods in Dialectology XVIII (Melbourne, 2024)},
  editor = {J. A. Walker et al.},
  publisher = {Language Science Press},
  note = {in press}
}

• Beijing Mandarin
• Rhotacization
• Dialectology

Variation and Conventionalisation: Rhotacization in Beijing Dialect

Ye, Jingyuan

PhD thesis, La Trobe University

@phdthesis{ye2026variation,
  author = {Ye, Jingyuan},
  title = {Variation and Conventionalisation: Rhotacization in Beijing Dialect},
  year = {2026},
  school = {La Trobe University},
  url = {https://opal.latrobe.edu.au/articles/thesis/Variation_and_Conventionalisation_Rhotacization_in_Beijing_Dialect/32413821?file=65002656}
}

• Beijing dialect
• Rhotacization
• Place attachment

Addressing the envelope of variation: Methodological insights from Rhotacization in Beijing Chinese

Ye, Jingyuan and Walker, James A.

Language Variation and Change

@unpublished{yeaddressing,
  author = {Ye, Jingyuan and Walker, James A.},
  title = {Addressing the envelope of variation: Methodological insights from Rhotacization in Beijing Chinese},
  note = {under review}
}

• Rhotacization
• Variationist methods

Measuring place attachment in Beijing Chinese: A locally grounded variationist approach

Ye, Jingyuan

Language & Communication

@unpublished{yemeasuring,
  author = {Ye, Jingyuan},
  title = {Measuring place attachment in Beijing Chinese: A locally grounded variationist approach},
  note = {under review}
}

• Place attachment
• Beijing Mandarin
• Variationist methods

From sound to lexicon: Rhotacization and the primacy of linguistic constraints

Ye, Jingyuan and Zhao, Rixin

@unpublished{yesound,
  author = {Ye, Jingyuan and Zhao, Rixin},
  title = {From sound to lexicon: Rhotacization and the primacy of linguistic constraints},
  note = {in preparation}
}

• Rhotacization
• Lexicon
• Linguistic constraints

How do speakers place themselves: Negotiation between Beijingness and standardness

Ye, Jingyuan

@unpublished{yespeakers,
  author = {Ye, Jingyuan},
  title = {How do speakers place themselves: Negotiation between Beijingness and standardness},
  note = {in preparation}
}

• Identity
• Standard language
• Beijing Mandarin