William Shi-Yuan Wang

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William Shi-Yuan Wang's Degrees

PhD Linguistics Stanford University
Masters Linguistics Stanford University
Bachelors Linguistics University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, William Shi-Yuan Wang is a linguist, with expertise in phonology, the history of Chinese language and culture, historical linguistics, and the evolution of language in humans. He is Chair Professor at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Emeritus Professor of the University of California, Berkeley, and Academician of Academia Sinica .

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Competing Changes as a Cause of Residue (1969) (433)
Individual differences in language ability and language behavior (1979) (363)
Paternal population history of East Asia: sources, patterns, and microevolutionary processes. (2001) (237)
Vocal Physiology: Voice Production, Mechanisms and Functions (1989) (211)
Speech Recoding in Reading Chinese Characters. (1977) (177)
Visual lateralisation effect in reading Chinese characters (1979) (170)
Phonological Features of Tone (1967) (164)
The influence of language experience on categorical perception of pitch contours (2010) (146)
Modelling endangered languages: The effects of bilingualism and social structure (2008) (144)
The Chinese Language (1973) (135)
The position of embedding transformations in a grammar . Some syntactic rules in Mandarin . Tree representations in linguistics (1963) (133)
Language regions of brain are operative in color perception (2009) (131)
The Lexicon in phonological change (1977) (115)
When words collide: Orthographic and phonological interference during word processing (1983) (110)
Self-organization and selection in the emergence of vocabulary (2002) (101)
The invasion of language: emergence, change and death. (2005) (99)
Language change and social networks (2008) (96)
Cerebral lateralization of function and bilingual decision processes: Is thinking lateralized? (1978) (94)
Brain size does not predict general cognitive ability within families. (2000) (94)
TWO ASPECT MARKERS IN MANDARIN. (1965) (88)
Tumor vasculogenic mimicry predicts poor prognosis in cancer patients: a meta-analysis (2016) (85)
13 Vowel Features, Paired Variables, and the English Vowel Shift (1968) (82)
Segmentation Techniques in Speech Synthesis (1958) (82)
Resting State EEG-based biometrics for individual identification using convolutional neural networks (2015) (79)
Delta, theta, beta, and gamma brain oscillations index levels of auditory sentence processing (2016) (68)
Language Acquisition, Change and Emergence-Essays in Evolutionary Linguistics (2005) (67)
Language Change A Lexical Perspective (1979) (60)
Perceptual Distance and the Specification of Phonological Features (1968) (60)
The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Linguistics (2015) (59)
Spatial distance and lexical replacement (1986) (58)
Tone recognition of continuous Cantonese speech based on support vector machines (2005) (56)
Sound patterns in language (2014) (55)
EVOLUTION OF GRAMMATICAL FORMS (2010) (52)
The effect of intertalker variations on acoustic-perceptual mapping in Cantonese and Mandarin tone systems. (2012) (48)
Snowball effect in lexical diffusion: the development of -s in the third person singular present indicative in English (1996) (46)
Vertical and horizontal transmission in language evolution (2005) (39)
Unequal effects of speech and nonspeech contexts on the perceptual normalization of Cantonese level tones. (2012) (37)
Explorations in language (1991) (37)
The impact of tone systems on the categorical perception of lexical tones: An event-related potentials study (2012) (37)
Hemisphere lateralization is influenced by bilingual status and composition of words (2011) (37)
Kusunda: an Indo-Pacific language in Nepal. (2004) (36)
Computational Studies of Language Evolution (2003) (34)
The ancestry of the Chinese language (1998) (33)
Optimization Models of Sound Systems Using Genetic Algorithms (2003) (32)
A Chinese Text Input Brain–Computer Interface Based on the P300 Speller (2012) (31)
Sub-lexical phonological and semantic processing of semantic radicals: a primed naming study (2013) (31)
Functionally integrated neural processing of linguistic and talker information: An event-related fMRI and ERP study (2016) (31)
A simulation study on word order bias (2009) (29)
Achieving constancy in spoken word identification: Time course of talker normalization (2013) (29)
On detecting borrowing: distance-based and character-based (2003) (28)
Cross‐linguistic study of categorical perception for lexical tone (1975) (27)
Exploring social structure effect on language evolution based on a computational model (2008) (26)
IMPLEMENTATION OF PHONOLOGICAL CHANGE: THE SHUĀNG-FĒNG CHINESE CASE (1977) (25)
Cultural background influences the liminal perception of Chinese characters: An ERP study (2010) (24)
Neural bases of congenital amusia in tonal language speakers (2017) (23)
Perception of vowel duration (1976) (23)
The networks of syllables and characters in Chinese* (2008) (22)
Frequency Studies of English Consonants (1960) (21)
TONE CHANGE IN CHAO-ZHOU CHINESE: A STUDY IN LEXICAL DIFFUSION (1977) (21)
The emergence of language : development and evolution (1991) (20)
The Written Languages of the World: A Survey of the Degree and Modes of Use. Volume 1: The Americas (1981) (19)
Languages and dialects of China (1991) (19)
Categorical perception of Chinese characters by simplified and traditional Chinese readers (2018) (17)
Language Polygenesis : A Probabilistic Model (1996) (17)
Basic Words and Language Evolution (2004) (17)
Segment Inventory for Speech Synthesis (1958) (17)
Chinese-English Machine Translation System. (1975) (16)
Language, Evolution, and the Brain (2009) (16)
Coevolution of lexicon and syntax from a simulation perspective (2005) (16)
Effect of Noise on Lexical Tone Perception in Cantonese-Speaking Amusics (2016) (16)
Evolutionary principles and the emergence of syntax (1996) (15)
Conjoining and Deletion in Mandarin Syntax (1967) (15)
Pre-lexical phonological processing in reading Chinese characters: An ERP study (2014) (15)
An Assistive Communication Brain-Computer Interface for Chinese Text Input (2010) (14)
LANGUAGE CHANGE * (1976) (14)
Project DOC: Its Methodological Basis (1969) (13)
The effect of Mandarin listeners' musical and pitch aptitude on perceptual learning of Cantonese level-tones. (2021) (13)
Speech and speaker recognition (1986) (12)
Linguistic Diversity and Language Relationships (1996) (11)
LANGUAGE EXPERIENCE INFLUENCES NON-LINGUISTIC PITCH PERCEPTION (2013) (11)
Snowball effect in lexical diffusion (1996) (10)
Antineoplastic effect of intracellular expression of a single-chain antibody directed against type IV collagenase. (2000) (10)
The Effect of Speech Variability on Tonal Language Speakers’ Second Language Lexical Tone Learning (2018) (9)
Human communication : language and its psychobiological bases : readings from Scientific American (1982) (9)
The Influence of Tone Inventory on ERP without Focal Attention: A Cross-Language Study (2014) (9)
A simulation study exploring the role of cultural transmission in language evolution (2010) (9)
The development of Middle English ī in England: A study in dynamic dialectology (1998) (8)
Evolution theory and lexical diffusion (1998) (8)
Studies in the Yue dialects I: Phonology of Cantonese (1973) (8)
The Cambridge Handbook of Literacy: Chinese Literacy (2009) (7)
COMPUTATIONAL SIMULATION ON THE COEVOLUTION OF COMPOSITIONALITY AND REGULARITY (2006) (7)
An Innovative Prosody Modeling Method for Chinese Speech Recognition (2004) (7)
Conflict monitoring in multi-sensory flanker tasks: Effects of cross-modal distractors on the N2 component (2018) (7)
LEXICAL DIFFUSION IN SEMANTIC CHANCE: WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO UNIVERSAL CHANGES (1995) (7)
A LANGUAGE EMERGENCE MODEL PREDICTS WORD ORDER BIAS (2006) (6)
Language and the Evolution of Modern Humans (2002) (6)
Language Origin and the Effects of Individuals' Popularity (2006) (6)
Regularity and randomness in ageing: Differences in resting-state EEG complexity measured by largest Lyapunov exponent (2021) (6)
Which cognitive functions subserve clustering and switching in category fluency? Generalisations from an extended set of semantic categories using linear mixed-effects modelling (2020) (6)
Conventionalization of Linguistic Knowledge Under Communicative Constraints (2008) (5)
Middle Chinese Tones in Modern Dialects (1987) (5)
A computational model of the coevolution of lexicon and syntax (2005) (5)
William W. Chiang,"We two know the script; we have become good friends": Linguistic and social aspects of the women's script literacy in southern Hunan, China (1998) (5)
L2 proficiency predicts inhibitory ability in L1-dominant speakers (2020) (5)
Can inhibition deficit hypothesis account for age-related differences in semantic fluency? Converging evidence from Stroop color and word test and an ERP flanker task (2021) (5)
Research on Chinese-English Machine Translation. (1969) (5)
Theoretical Issues in Studying Chinese Dialects. (1990) (5)
CHINESE LINGUISTICS AND THE COMPUTER (1973) (5)
The emergence of language: Development and evolution: Readings from "Scientific American" magazine. (1991) (5)
A high performance Mandarin digit recognizer (1999) (4)
The written languages of the world: A survey of the degree and modes of use. Volume 1: The Americas Ed. by Heinz Kloss and Grant D. McConnell (review) (2015) (4)
Language, writing, and the computer: Readings from Scientific American (1986) (4)
A distance‐sensing device for tracking tongue configuration (1975) (4)
STRESS IN ENGLISH (1962) (4)
Linguistics: The Cambridge Survey, Volume 3. Language: Psychological and Biological Aspects. Frederick J. Newmeyer (1991) (4)
Variation and Selection in Language Change (1982) (3)
Genes, Dates, And The Writing System (1996) (3)
Coevolution of lexicon and syntax from a simulation perspective: Research Articles (2005) (3)
Languages and Genes (2011) (3)
Influence of vowel height, intensity, and temporal order on pitch perception (1976) (3)
Development of Chinese-English Machine Translation System. (1974) (3)
Brain--computer interface (BCI): is it strictly necessary to use random sequences in visual spellers? (2012) (3)
Effect of Language Experience on the Categorical Perception of Cantonese Vowel Duration (2011) (3)
Bibliography and glossary for Chinese grammar (1963) (3)
Ambiguity and language evolution: Evolution of homophones and syllable number of words (2006) (3)
Chinese Characters and Their Impact on Other Languages of East Asia (1971) (3)
An EEG blind source separation algorithm based on a weak exclusion principle (2016) (3)
Delta and theta neural entrainment during phonological and semantic processing in speech perception (2019) (3)
Evolution of Homophones and Syntactic Categories Noun and Verb (2018) (3)
The Peoples and Languages of China (2015) (3)
Phonological Features of Tone Author ( s ) : (2007) (3)
Categorical perception of Cantonese tones in context: a cross-linguistic study (2007) (3)
13 Representing Language Relationships (1987) (3)
Language and the brain in the sunset years 1 (2019) (2)
Music as social bonding: A cross-cultural perspective (2021) (2)
Reassessing Combinatorial Productivity Exhibited by Simple Recurrent Networks in Language Acquisition (2006) (2)
Tone recognition for Chinese speech: a comparative study of Mandarin and Cantonese (2004) (2)
QUINCE System; State-of-the-Art Review (1978) (2)
[Immunohistochemical study of Cath-D and CD44 in laryngeal squamous cell carcinomas]. (1998) (2)
Parallel tone score association method for tone language speech recognition (2004) (2)
Cumulative effects of phonetic context on speech perception (2015) (2)
Computational exploration on language emergence and cultural dissemination (2005) (2)
Ambiguity Resolution and Evolution of Word Order (2012) (2)
Human Diversity and Language Diversity (2001) (2)
Critical periods for language: Comment on "Rethinking foundations of language from a multidisciplinary perspective" by T. Gong et al. (2018) (2)
Towards a neural measure of perceptual distance - classification of electroencephalographic responses to synthetic vowels (2014) (2)
Language Emergence and Transmission (1999) (1)
[Wound healing following laser cordectomy for early glottic carcinoma]. (2016) (1)
Electronic synthesis of speech By R. Linggard (review) (2015) (1)
categorization in artificial agents: guidance on empirical research? (2005) (1)
Dynamic dialectology and social networks (2008) (1)
Coevolution of language and intentionality sharing (2009) (1)
Effects of envelope filter cutoff frequency on the intelligibility of Mandarin noise-vocoded speech in babble noise: implications for cochlear implants (2013) (1)
SEGMENTATION TECHNIQUES ON SPEECH SYNTHESIS (PART I) (1958) (1)
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CHINESE LINGUISTICS (1967) (1)
Reliable bands guided similarity measure for noise-robust speech recognition (2000) (1)
Project DOC (1969) (1)
The global organization of the English lexicon and its evolution (2012) (1)
Inter-talker Variation as a Source of Confusion in Cantonese Tone Perception (2011) (1)
The musical language of Yuen Ren Chao: A cultural and empirical study of the modernization of Chinese music (2022) (1)
Assessing Language Incompetence (1980) (1)
DISYLLABIC BOUND FORMS IN MODERN MANDARIN CHINESE (2014) (1)
Conventionalization of linguistic categories under simple communicative constraints (2008) (1)
EVOLUTION OF TENSE AND ASPECT (2014) (1)
The role of the naming game in social structure (2008) (1)
Ambiguity in Language (2011) (1)
Explorations in language/ William S-Y. Wang (1991) (1)
Bilingual Prefabs: No Switching Cost Was Found in Cantonese–English Habitual Code-Switching in Hong Kong (2022) (1)
3. Isoglosses: Artifactual or real? (1992) (1)
Models - simple but not simpler: Comment on "Modelling language evolution: Examples and predictions" by Tao Gong et al. (2014) (1)
Normalizing Talker Variation in the Perception of Cantonese Level Tones: Impact of Speech and Nonspeech Contexts (2012) (1)
Language heterogeneity and self-organizing consciousness (2002) (1)
An ERP study on categorical perception of lexical tones and nonspeech pitches (2008) (0)
Time‐order‐error in judgment of prosodic features—pitch, loudness, and duration (1977) (0)
Extrinsic context is crucial for talker normalization in Cantonese tone perception (2012) (0)
Change in language: Whitney, Bréal, and Wegener By Brigitte Nerlich (review) (2015) (0)
EVOLUTION OF THE GLOBAL ORGANIZATION OF THE LEXICON (2008) (0)
Studies in Tone and Intonation. R. M. Brend (1977) (0)
Sub-lexical phonological and semantic processing of semantic radicals: a primed naming study (2012) (0)
Computational Modeling in Evolutionary Linguistics (2006) (0)
Distances and Trees in Linguistics (1995) (0)
The Influence of Linguistic Background on Asymmetric Tone Perception Induced by Position of Context (2011) (0)
Ogura is currently on the staff of Tsurumi University, Yokohama and a research associate of the Project on Linguistic Analysis in the University of California at Berkeley, and the book under review opens with Foreword (2009) (0)
Talking and human evolution (2007) (0)
Chinese-English machine translation project on linguistic analysis, University of California, Berkeley (1976) (0)
Association between Modulation Spectrum and Speech Intelligibility of Syllable-timed Languages (2011) (0)
Language as a Complex Adaptive System (2006) (0)
R. S. Meyerstein, Functional load: descriptive limitations, alternatives of assessment and extensions of application. The Hague: Mouton, 1970. Pp. 134. (1972) (0)
Chapter 3. Ambiguity resolution and the evolution of homophones in English (2022) (0)
Age-Related Differences of Tone Perception in Mandarin-Speaking Seniors (2020) (0)
On Journal of Chinese Linguistics Transition (2018) (0)
Editorial: Relationship of language and music, ten years after: Neural organization, cross-domain transfer and evolutionary origins (2022) (0)
Interaction of long-term acoustic experience and local context information on the perceptual accommodation of talker variability (2013) (0)
Development of Chinese-English Machine Translation System. Fnal Technical Report. (1974) (0)
1 Lexical Diffusion and Neogrammarian Regularity (2014) (0)
The Musical Language of Yuen Ren Chao: A Case Study of the Modernization of Chinese Music. (2021) (0)
Research in Chinese-English Machine Translation. Final Report. (1971) (0)
Bias in the judgment of the vowel loudness (1978) (0)
Speech and speaker recognition Ed. by M. R. Schroeder (review) (2015) (0)
CLIBOC: Chinese Linguistics Bibliography on Computer (1971) (0)
Linguistics in Retrospect and Prospect (2006) (0)
A simulative study of the roles of cultural transmission in language evolution (2007) (0)
W. E. Jones & J. Laver (ed.), Phonetics in linguistics: a book of readings . London: Longman, 1973. Pp. x + 345. (1974) (0)
Martha C. Pennington (ed.), Language in Hong Kong at century's end. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1998. Pp. xv, 449. US $33.40. (2001) (0)
Change in Language: Whitney, Bréal, and Wegener@@@Change in Language: Whitney, Breal, and Wegener (1991) (0)
The role of cultural transmission in intention sharing (2008) (0)
Tumor vasculogenic mimicry predicts poor prognosis in cancer patients: a meta-analysis (2016) (0)
In honor of William S-Y. Wang: Interdisciplinary Studies on Language and Language Change (1994) (0)
Surgical treatment of malignant esophageal tumors in PUMC Hospital. (2000) (0)
Spoken language processing: people versus machines (2004) (0)
354 NONLINEAR ANALYSIS OF CORTICAL ACTIVITY DURING MENTAL TASK PERFORMANCE (2005) (0)
Cantonese adaptation of melodic intonation therapy (MIT) for dementia patients (2020) (0)
Resting-State EEG-Based Biometrics with Signals Features Extracted by Multivariate Empirical Mode Decomposition (2020) (0)
Age-Related Decline of Classifier Usage in Southwestern Mandarin (2021) (0)
Foreign Language Learning in Older Adults: Anatomical and Cognitive Markers of Vocabulary Learning Success (2022) (0)
Categorical perception of Chinese characters by simplified and traditional Chinese readers (2018) (0)
Association between declarative memory and language ability in older Chinese by education level (2020) (0)
Categorical Perception of Lexical Tones in Mandarin-Speaking Seniors. (2022) (0)

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