Moira Yip (b. 1949[1]) is a British-American linguist.
Biography edit
She earned her PhD in Linguistics in 1980 at MIT as a student of Morris Halle.[2] She retired from her position as Professor of Linguistics at University College London (UCL) in 2009.[3] While at UCL she also was co-director of the Centre for Human Communication[4] and Pro-Provost for China.[5][6] Before taking up the position at UCL in 1999, she was Professor of Linguistics and Acting Dean at the University of California-Irvine (1992-1999) and Associate Professor at Brandeis University (1982-1992).
Moira Yip worked on a wide range of issues in theoretical phonology, and particularly on the phonology of Chinese. Her publications include papers on reduplication, morpho-phonology, prosodic phonology, and feature theory. Her frequently cited dissertation on the Tonal phonology of Chinese was published in the Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics series (Garland).[7] In 2002 she published the first modern textbook on tone in the Cambridge University Press linguistics textbook series. Her 1988 journal article on the Obligatory Contour Principle was important in extending the understanding and application of this principle in pre-Optimality Theory phonology.[8]
She is married to business academic George Yip. Since 2017 she has authored a wildlife blog, https://eyesonthewild.blog.
Key publications edit
- Yip, Moira J. 1980. The tonal phonology of Chinese. PhD dissertation, MIT.
- Yip, Moira. 1988. The Obligatory Contour Principle and Phonological Rules: a Loss of Identity. Linguistic Inquiry, 19 (1), 65-100.
- Yip, Moira. 1989. Contour tones. Phonology, 6(1), 149-174.
- Yip, Moira. 2002. Tone. Cambridge University Press.
References edit
- ^ "Professor Moira Jean YIP MA PhD". www.clement-jones.com. Retrieved 2022-08-15.
- ^ Yip, Moira Jean (1980). Moira Yip dissertation (Thesis). Massachusetts Institute of Technology. hdl:1721.1/15971.
- ^ "Iris View Profile". iris.ucl.ac.uk. Retrieved 2017-07-19.
- ^ "Read My Lips: UCL Launches Centre for Human Communication". www.ucl.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2016-04-13. Retrieved 2017-07-19.
- ^ "New Pro-Provost for China, Hong Kong and Macao". www.ucl.ac.uk. 2 October 2006. Retrieved 2017-07-19.
- ^ "Moira Yip: taking the lid off China". www.ucl.ac.uk. Retrieved 2017-08-12.
- ^ Yip, Moira (1990). The tonal phonology of Chinese. Outstanding dissertations in linguistics. New York London: Garland. ISBN 978-0-8153-0154-7.
- ^ "moira yip - Google Scholar". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2017-07-19.