Yue Yin

I am Yue Yin, a third-year PhD student in Linguistics at The Ohio State University, co-advised by Dr. Micha Elsner and Dr. Becca Morley. I think of myself as an experimental and computational phonologist: I study how sound systems work, and how learners — human and machine — come to acquire them.

My work combines laboratory experiments, computational modeling, and fieldwork.

In the lab, I use (1) artificial language learning experiments to explore learning biases of human beings in phonological learning; (2) both production and perception experiments to tap into the mechanisms of sound variation and change.
On the computational side, I build and diagnose models of phonological learning, and probe how self-supervised speech models represent sounds.
I have done fieldwork on Guangshui Mandarin, Long’an Zhuang, and Narua (Mosuo), where I study tones, vowel length contrast, as well as sound change.

You can find my research projects, publications, and my CV (PDF) here. Outside of linguistics, here is a bit more about me.

My email: yin.1007@osu.edu

news

Aug 25, 2026	I’ll be giving an oral presentation at AMP 2026: Learning Biases in Tone–Segment Complexity Asymmetry: An Artificial Language Learning Experiment.

selected publications

AMP

Modeling the Learning of Tier Projection with Blocking in Non-Local Phonological Processes

Yue Yin

In Proceedings of the Annual Meetings on Phonology, 2026

DOI Bib

@inproceedings{yin2026tier,
  title = {Modeling the Learning of Tier Projection with Blocking in Non-Local Phonological Processes},
  author = {Yin, Yue},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Annual Meetings on Phonology},
  volume = {2},
  number = {1},
  year = {2026},
  doi = {10.7275/amphonology.3701},
}

PLSA

A more comprehensive view on the production-perception link of cue weighting in sound change: The case of vowel length contrast in Long’an Zhuang

Yue Yin

In Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, 2025

DOI Bib

@inproceedings{yin2025vowel,
  title = {A more comprehensive view on the production-perception link of cue weighting in sound change: The case of vowel length contrast in {Long'an Zhuang}},
  author = {Yin, Yue},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America},
  volume = {10},
  number = {1},
  pages = {5912},
  year = {2025},
  doi = {10.3765/plsa.v10i1.5912},
}

LabPhon

Does language contact influence the direction of production-perception misalignment? The case of vowel length contrast in Long’an Zhuang

Yue Yin

In Proceedings of the 19th Conference on Laboratory Phonology, 2024

Bib

@inproceedings{yin2024vowel,
  title = {Does language contact influence the direction of production-perception misalignment? The case of vowel length contrast in {Long'an Zhuang}},
  author = {Yin, Yue},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 19th Conference on Laboratory Phonology},
  pages = {85--86},
  year = {2024},
}