。Curriculum Vitae

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。About

My name is 林悠然 Lin Youran [lin˦˥ jo͡ʊ˥ ɻan˦˥], and I'd happily go by "Youran" as in "You ran a 100-meter" if that's easier to pronounce! I am from Harbin, China, and spent seven years in Beijing studying Linguistics. I came to Edmonton, Canada in 2018 to study Speech-Language Pathology. Fun fact: Harbin and Edmonton are twin cities!

"When feeling uncertain about future directions, take the more challenging roads." This is what has led me to this challenging but beautiful journey. It took me all the way from Chinese Language and Literature to Linguistics, to Phonetics, to Child Phonology Development, and to SLP. It took me from the other side of the earth to Canada. Yet the journey still goes on.

I am in a combined program of MScSLP and PhD, which means I'm taking the professional training in SLP and doing a doctoral research project at the same time. It is an intense program but I'm really enjoying it. I'm especially interested in working with clients with speech disorders, including speech sound, voice, resonance, fluency, and motor speech disorders. My research interests include speech development in bilingual children and second language learners, the Chinese speech and language in multilingual and multicultural contexts, and speech-language pathology in non-English communities.

I'm currently working with my supervisors, Dr. Karen Pollock and Dr. Fangfang Li, on a project about the speech development in children who are enrolled in the public Mandarin-English bilingual education programs. I hope this will help the children from Chinese families maintain their heritage language, and help the children who are learning Mandarin as a second language to use it to communicate more effectively.

On the side of my coursework and research, I provide consultation for international students who are preparing for their applications and who want to reduce accents to improve their communication. I also enjoy cooking and singing a lot. Also enjoy talking about research with my partner Kris who studies Reinforcement Learning in the Department of Computing Sciences. They were the talented creator of this website.

。Education

• 2018 to Present - University of Alberta

  Program: Combined MSc in SLP and PhD in Rehabilitation Sciences

  Supervisors: Dr. Karen Pollock and Dr. Fangfang Li

• 2015 to 2018 - Peking University

  Program: MA in Linguistics

  Supervisor: Prof. You-Jing Lin

• 2011 to 2015 - Peking University

  Program: BA in Chinese Linguistics

  Supervisor: Prof. Jiangping Kong

。Publications

• Journal Papers

  Lin, Y., Lin, Y-J., Wang, F., Wu, X., & Kong, J. (2020). The development of phonological awareness and Pinyin knowledge in Mandarin-speaking school-aged children. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 22(6), 660-668.

  Lin, Y. & Nicoladis, E. (2018). Motion lexicalization in Chinese among Heritage Language Children in Canada. Heritage Language Journal, 15(3), 272-296.

  Lin, Y. (2016). Articulation characteristics of Dearing speech (in Chinese). Essays of Linguistics, 54, 323-341.

• Presentations (Refereed)

  Lin, Y., Rose, Y., Pollock, K. E., & Li, F. (2021). Oral presentation: Development of Mandarin tones in children enrolled in a Chinese-English bilingual program. The International Child Phonology Conference (ICPC), Lethbridge, AB, June 17-19, 2021. Awarded "Excellent Student Presentation."

  Lin, Y., Pollock, K. E., MacLeod, A. A. N., & Li, F. (2021). Poster presentation: Children’s Chinese speech education and development in Chinese-English bilingual education programs: Teachers’ perspectives. Canadian Centre for Studies and Research on Bilingualism and Language (CCERBAL) Conference, Ottawa, ON. April 29-May 1, 2021.

  Lin, Y., Limacher, S., & Pollock, K. (2019). Poster presentation: The relationship between perceptual ratings of foreign accent and prosodic features of the English speech of bilingual children in Canada. International Symposium on Bilingualism, Edmonton, AB. June 23rd-28th, 2019.

  Lin, Y., Lin, Y-J., Wang, F., Wu, X., & Kong, J. (2019). Oral presentation: The development of phonological awareness and Pinyin knowledge in Mandarin-speaking school-aged children. The International Child Phonology Conference, Montreal, QC. June 14th-15th, 2019. Awarded "Prix D’Exellence pour Communication Scientifique."

  Lin, Y., & Kong, J. (2014). Oral presentation: A study of pitch of ‘Dearing’ as emotional speech. International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing, Singapore. September 12th-14th, 2014.