Research Bio
Alan Yu works in the areas of behavioral, psychological, and neural mechanisms underlying human speech perception and production, language variation and change (esp. in Hong Kong and Mainland China), linguistics of autism and other speech and language disorders
Research Expertise and Interest
language variation and change, speech and language disorders
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Teaching
Courses taught during the three most recent terms
2026 Spring
Comparative and Historical Linguistics [LINGUIS 130]
Special Individual Study [LINGUIS 299]
Supervised Research: Social Sciences [UGIS 192B]
Advanced Phonetics [LINGUIS 210]
Special Group Study [LINGUIS 298]