Yen-Hwei Lin
(She/Her)
liny@msu.edu
(517) 353-8776
B468 Wells Hall
619 Red Cedar Rd
East Lansing, MI 48824
FacultyLinguistics, Languages, and CulturesSecond Language Studies
Professor
Department Chair, LiLaC
Linguistics
Biography
Ph.D., Linguistics, University of Texas at Austin
Yen-Hwei Lin’s research has focused on phonological representations and constraints with particular interests in feature theory, moraic and syllabic structures, the phonology-morphology interface, phonetically-based phonology, and Chinese phonology. She is the author of The Sounds of Chinese, co-editor of Lingua Sinica and an associate editor of Language and Linguistics.
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