Yu-An Lu

2006 M.A. in Linguistics, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. (Linguistic Society of Taiwan, Thesis Award Honorable Mention)
Advisor: Hui-Chuan Huang

2002 B.A. in Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Taiwan University

2024-
Professor, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures

2022-
Higher Education Academy (Advance HE) Senior Fellow

2020-
Higher Education Academy (Advance HE) Fellow

2013-2018
Assistant professor, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures

2011-2012
Lecturer, Stony Brook University, Linguistics Department

2017 On the perceptual basis of phonological relationships (MOST106-2410-H-009-031), Ministry of Science and Technology, NT$603,000.2017 Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award, NCTU.

2017 Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award, NCTU.

2017 Distinguished Undergraduate Mentor Award, NCTU.

2017 On the perceptual basis of phonological relationships (MOST106-2410-H-009-031), Ministry of Science and Technology, NT$603,000.

2016 Perceptual  learning  of  non-native  contrasts  (MOST105-2410-H-009-049), Ministry of Science and Technology, NT$438,000.

2015 The effect of phonological relationships in speech perception II (MOST104-2410-H-009-031), Ministry of Science and Technology, NT$534,000.

2015 Distinguished Undergraduate Mentor Award, NCTU.

2014 The effect of phonological relationships in speech perception, (科技部優秀年輕學者研究計畫 MOST103-2628-H-009-001), Ministry of Science and Technology, NT$584,000.

2014 Outstanding Undergraduate Mentor Award, NCTU.

2014 Testing the effect of allophonic relationships and dialectal variations in speech perception, (邁向頂尖大學新進教師增能計畫101W9866), National Chiao Tung University, NT$400,000.

2013-2014 Phoneme substitution and positional asymmetry in second language learning, NSC grant (NSC102-2410-H-009-018), National Science Council of Taiwan, NT$424,000.

2013-2015 Recruiting Outstanding and Excellent Scholars Award, National Science Council, Taiwan.

2011-2012 Dissertation Fellowship, Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation, “The Role of Alternation in Phonological Relationships”, US$15,000.

2011 Graduate Student Research Award for the paper The psychological reality of phonological representations: the case of Mandarin fricatives presented at the 23rd North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics.

2006-2012 Teaching Assistantship/Research Assistantship and Full Tuition Scholarship. Linguistics Department, Stony Brook University, New York.

2006-2009
Presidential Fellowship. Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, US $2,500 per semester.

2006-2008
中華民國教育部留學獎學金 US$24,000.

Submitted
with Jiwon Hwang. Perception-production link mediated by position in the imitation of Korean nasal stops.

Under revision
with Chenhao Chiu, Kuei-Hong Lin and Shao-Jie Jin. Prosody-modulated and vowel-dependent nasal merger in Taiwan Mandarin.

Accepted
with Meng-Hsuan Lin. Exploring pitch and duration reflexes in Taiwanese Southern Min tones and variations
across generations. Concentric: Studies in Linguistics.

2024
with Kristine M. Yu. Formosan Phonetics. In Paul Jen-kuei Li, Elizabeth Zeitoun and Rik De Busser (eds.) Handbook on Formosan Linguistics. Leiden: Brill.

2024
with Jiwon Hwang. The effect of distributional restrictions in speech perception: A case study from Korean and Taiwanese Southern Min. Language and Speech 67(3): 744-771.

2024
with Cheng-Huan Lee. The effect of orthography in Mandarin speakers’ production of English voiceless stops. Second Language Research 40(3): 615-641.

2023
with Shao-Jie Jin and Sheng-Fu Wang. Identifying generalizable knowledge from the distribution of tonotactic accidental gaps in Mandarin. Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology.

2022
with Tzu-Hsuan Yang and Shao-Jie Jin. The Effect of Lexicality, Frequency and Markedness on Mandarin Tonal Categorization. Frontiers in Psychology.

2022
with Carlos Gussenhoven, Sang-Im Lee-Kim, Chunhui Liu, Hamed Rahmani, Tomas Riad, Hatice Zora. The Sequence Recall Task and lexicality of tone: Exploring tone “deafness”. Frontiers in Psychology.

2021
with Chenhao Chiu. Shēngyùn Xué 聲韻學 [Phonology]. In Shuan Fan Huang (ed) 語言學：結構、認知與文化的探索. 國立臺灣大學出版中心.

2021
with Sang-Im Lee-Kim. The effect of linguistic experience on perceived vowel duration: Evidence from Taiwan Mandarin speakers. Journal of Phonetics.

2021
with Chenhao Chiu. Acoustic and articulatory evidence on incomplete syllable-final nasal mergers in Taiwan Mandarin. Language and Speech 64(4): 771-789

2019
The effect of dialectal variation on word recognition: A case from Taiwan Southern Min. Language & Linguistics 20: 567-600

2016
with Miran Kim. Prosody transfer in second language acquisition: Tonal alignment in the production of English pitch accent by native Mandarin speakers. Tsing Hua Journal of Chinese Studies 46: 785-816.

2016
Testing the roles of distribution and alternation in phonological relationships. Language and Linguistics 17: 501-528.

2016
with Chiawen Wei. The influence of tonal and segmental differences on perception: A case study from Sixian Hakka to Hailu Hakka. 台灣客家語文研究輯刊第四輯, 199-254 頁.

2015
with Jiwon Hwang. Phoneme substitution and positional asymmetry in second language learning. In Capturing Phonological Shades (Hsiao & Wee eds.)

2014
with Jiwon Hwang. Phonotactic restrictions and phonological relationships in speech perception. Harvard Studies in Korean Linguistics XVI, p149-159.

2014
Mandarin fricatives redux: The psychological reality of phonological representations. Journal of East  Asian Linguistics, 23:43-69.