Ying-Ying Tan, PhD

2020

"Variations in Singlish Words: New borrowings and disused loans”. Paper to be presented at the 6th New Ways of Analyzing Variation-Asia Pacific Conference. National University of Singapore, 19-22 Feb 2020. Convenor of special session: "Same same or different?: Variation in Singlish”.

"Ethnic Variation in Singapore English?: A Consonantal Production and Perception Study”. (with Kastoori Kalaivana and Firqin Sumartono). Paper to be presented at the 6th New Ways of Analyzing Variation-Asia Pacific Conference. National University of Singapore, 19-22 Feb 2020. Convenor of special session: "Analyzing variation in the sounds of Singapore English”.

"New borrowings and disused loans in a changing linguistic ecology”. Paper presented at the Conference for Asian Linguistic Anthropology 2020. University Putra Malaysia Bintulu, Sarawak. 5-8 Feb 2020.

2019

"Spontaneous Speech Elicitation for Large Speech Corpus in Multilingual Singapore”. Paper to be presented at the LPSS Conference (Linguistic Patterns in Spontaneous Speech), Academia Sinica, Taipei Taiwan. 21-22 Nov. 2019.

"Spontaneous Speech Elicitation Methods: Comparison within a Large Corpus”. Paper to be presented at the Seoul International Conference on Speech Sciences 2019, Seoul National University, South Korea. 15-16 Nov 2019.

"Building the Singapore English National Speech Corpus”. (with Jia Xin Koh, Aqilah Mislan, Kevin Khoo, Brian Ang, Wilson Ang, and Charmaine Ng). Paper presented at Interspeech 2019. Graz, Austria. 15-19 Sep 2019. 

"The Homonogenization of Ethnic Differences in Singapore English?: A Consonantal Production and Perception Study.” (with Kastoori Kalaivanan and Firqin Sumartono). Paper presented at the International Symposium on Monolingual and Bilingual Speech 2019. Chania, Greece. 27-30 Aug 2019.

"The Construction of ‘Standard English’ in Singapore”. Paper presented at the Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics International Conference (PAAL), Korea University, South Korea. 20-21 Aug 2019.

(sponsored) “The Myth of Multilingualism in Singapore”. Paper presented at the Yonsei-NTU Symposium, Yonsei University, South Korea. 10 Jan 2019.

(invited)  “The Illegitimate Tongue: The Birth of Singlish”. Paper presented at the Harvard College in Asia Program 2019 Spring Conference, Singapore Management University, Singapore. 22 March 2019.

2018

(sponsored) “Multilingualism and the Herderian ideal”. Paper presented at the “Future of Multilingualism” workshop. Johannesburg Institute of Advanced Studies. 28-30 June 2018. Also convenor of workshop.

(sponsored) “Is the loss of language vitality a result of linguistic injustice?” Paper presented at the “Language Vitality in the World of Englishes” workshop. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. 15-16 March 2018. Also convenor of workshop.

“Linguistic imperialism meets linguistic justice: Coming to terms with new English worlds”. Paper presented at the 20th International Congress for Linguists. Cape Town, South Africa. 2-7 July 2018.

“Doing Justice to and in Linguistics”. Paper presented at the TGIF Seminar, Nanyang Technological University. 26 January 2018.

2017

(sponsored) “The Myth of Multilingualism in Singapore”. Paper presented at the “Language, Nationalism, Nations: Multilingualism Beyond Europe” workshop, convened by Pritipuspa Mishra and Ying Ying Tan. Sponsored by the Fung Global Fellows Network Grant, organized by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS), 29-30 September 2017

(invited, sponsored) “The Management of Multilingualism in Singapore”. Paper presented at the Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. 8 Aug 2017. 

(invited, sponsored) “Managing Diversity”. Paper presented at the Program for Global Education for Innovation and Leadership, University of Tokyo, Japan. 21 Jan 2017.

“World Englishes for Linguistic Justice”. Paper presented at the International Association for World Englishes Conference. Syracuse University, USA. 28 June -2 July 2017.

“Juggling two languages: Malay bilinguals’ code-switching patterns in Singapore” (F. Sumartono and Tan Y.Y.) . Paper  presented at the 11th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB11). Limerick, Ireland, 11-13 June 2017.

2016

(invited, sponsored)  “Managing Multilingualism”. Paper presented at the Institute of Policy Studies Conference on Managing Diversity. Lee Kuan Yew Institute of Policy Studies, National University of Singapore. 5 August 2016.

(invited) “Perception of stress in World Englishes”. Paper presented at the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge, UK. 16 February 2016.

(invited) “Intelligibility is not a phonetic problem”. Paper presented at the Centre of Global Englishes, University of Southampton, UK. 09 February 2016.

2015

(invited, sponsored) “Illegitimate standards: The construction of ‘Standard English’ in Singapore”. Paper presented at the Workshop on Languages and Authority: The Authority of Standardization. Princeton University, 26-27 February 2015. 

“Stressed about stress?: Rethinking stress in World Englishes”. Paper presented at the TGIF Seminar, Nanyang Technological University. 27 March 2015.

2014

(invited, sponsored)  “English as a Mother Tongue for Singaporeans”. Paper presented at the Institute of Policy Studies Conference on Race, Religion, and Language. Lee Kuan Yew Institute of Policy Studies, National University of Singapore. 9 October 2014. 

(invited)  “Stressed about stress?: Rethinking stress in World Englishes”. Paper presented at the Linguistics Program Seminar, Princeton University. 29 April 2014.

(invited) “Singlish: An Illegitimate Conception?” Paper presented at the Fung Seminar Series, Princeton University. 3 April 2014.

2013

(invited, sponsored) “The unofficial report on Singapore’s Official English Language Policy”. Paper presented at the International Colloquium on English as an Official Language in Asia. UNIST, South Korea, 15 November 2013. 

“The Americanization of Southeast Asian Englishes?: Evidence from Singapore Engish”. Paper presented at the 2013 International Conference on English Linguistics, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea. 3-6 July 2013.

“South Korea – A bilingual society? A study of bilingualism through linguistic landscape”.  (S. Tan and Tan YY). Paper presented at the 9th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB9). Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. 10-13 June 2013.     

(invited) “Stratified by r: the Singaporean story”. Seminar presented at the National Taiwan University, Graduate Institute of Linguistics. Taipei, Taiwan. 20 March 2013.

(invited) “(Un)intelligibility: A phonetic question or is it a matter of attitude?” Seminar presented at Laboratoire Parole et Langage (LPL), CNRS – Université Aix-Marseille. Aix-en-Provence, France. 22 February 2013.

2012

“’English is my mother tongue’: the new role of English in Singapore”. Paper presented at the IAWE Conference (International Association for World Englishes). City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, and Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China. 6-9 Dec 2012.

(invited) “The r-index and social identities”. Paper presented at the Digital Intangible Heritage of Asia Workshop on Multilingualism and Identities. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. 26-27 November 2012.

“Computer Assisted Language Learning in Singapore – Modelling Singapore English for pronunciation variation detection” (Chen, W., Tan Y.Y., Chng E.S. and Li H.). Paper presented at the 15th International CALL Research Conference. Providence University, Taichung, Taiwan.  24-27 May 2012.

“Intelligibility and attitudes: How Singapore English is perceived around the world”. Paper presented at the English in Asia Conference. Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany. 9-12 May 2012.

2011

(invited) “Phonetic variants of ethnicity, age, education and socioeconomic status in a multilingual context”. Seminar presented at Laboratoire Parole et Langage (LPL), CNRS - Université de Provence. Aix-en-Provence, France. 02 December 2011.

“To r or not to r: a sociophonetic analysis of /ɹ/ in Singapore English”. Paper presented at the 17thInternational Conference for Phonetic Sciences. Hong Kong. 17-21 August 2011. 

“Singapore English as an ELF: Producing a SgE Language Learning Software” (Tan YY, C. Castelli and Chng E.S.).  Paper presented at the Fourth International Conference of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF4) . Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong. 26-28 May 2011.

2010

(invited)  “Social correlates of /r/ in Singapore English”. Paper presented at the Sociophonetics at the crossroads of speech variation, processing and communication. Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa, Italy. 14-15 December 2010.

“Age as a factor in accent identification”.  Poster presented at the Sociophonetics at the crossroads of speech variation, processing and communication. Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa, Italy. 14-15 December 2010.

“The development of a Singapore English CALL resource”. (Chen, W., Tan Y.Y., Chng E.S. and Li H.)  Oriental Chapter of Co-ordination and Standardization of Speech Databases and Assessment Techniques. Kathmandu, Nepal.  24-25 November 2010.

“Native Perception of Prominence in Singapore English?: Implications for Kachru’s Inner and Outer Circles ”.  Paper presented at the 12th Annual International Conference of the Japanese Society for Language Sciences. The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan. 26-27 June 2010.

“Eastern Tunes to Western Words: Prosody in Contact Varieties of English”.  Paper presented at the Inaugural Asian Conference on Arts and Humanities. Osaka, Japan. 18-21 June 2010.

“Prosodic Prominence in Malay”. Paper presented at the 20th Anniversary Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society. University of Zurich, Switzerland. 10-11 June 2010.

2009

“Ghosting Power, Language and the Nation-State: Kelvin Tong’s Men in White” (I. Goh and Tan YY). Paper presented at the ICAS6 (International Conference for Asian Scholars). Daejeon, South Korea.  6-9 August 2009. 

“The Politics of Language in Contemporary Singapore Cinema”. Paper presented at the Conference on ‘Global Languages, Local Cultures’ (Organised by the American Comparative Literature Association). Harvard University. USA. 26 -29 March 2009.

*Seminar Leader for Panel “Language of Politics/Politics of Language” at the same conference.

(invited) “Tonal allocation of Malay loanwords in Teochew” (Tan YY and Ng BC).  Paper presented at the Loanwords in the Asian Context Workshop. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. 9 March 2009.

(invited) “Borrowed and lost: The story of Malay loanwords in Hokkien and Teochew” (Ng BC and Tan YY). Paper presented at the Loanwords in the Asian Context Workshop. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. 9 March 2009.

(invited) “Diversity in accent perception: A cross-generational study of ethnic accent perception in Singapore”. Paper presented at the Language and Diversity Symposium. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. 5-6 March 2009.

2008

(invited) “A Cyclical Phonological Exercise: Tone Sandhi in Chaozhou”. Seminar presented at the Department of English and Literature, Hong Kong Baptist University. Hong Kong. 6 December 2008.

“No more ethnic varieties: the Singapore exception to the Dynamic Model”. Paper presented at the IAWE Conference (International Association for World Englishes). City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. 1-5 Dec 2008.

“Singapore’s Linguistic Genocide Programme”. Paper presented at the CIL18 (18th International Congress for Linguists). University of Korea, South Korea. 21 -26 July 2008.

2007

(invited) “How David Perceives Prominence: Differences in the Perception of Prominence between Singapore and British speakers”. Paper presented at the National Institute of Education Linguistics Colloquium, Singapore. 28 July 2007.

“Borrowed and lost: The story of Malay loanwords in Hokkien and Teochew and what it tells us about the evolving nature of multilingualism in Singapore.” (Ng BC and Tan YY). Poster presented at ISB6 (6th International Symposium on Bilingualism). University of Hamburg, Germany. 30May -2 June 2007.

2006

“Linguistic Genocide in Singapore”. Seminar presented at the Language and Communication Centre Brown Bag Series, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. 24 August 2006.

(invited) “The Politics of Language in Singapore”. Seminar presented at SIM University, Singapore. 22 March 2006.

2005

“The Malayness of the Teochew lexicon”. Paper presented at ASIALEX 2005 (International Conference of Asian Lexicology). Singapore. 1-3 June 2005.

2003

“Is the stressed syllable stressed?! Acoustic and perceptual properties of stress in the ethnic varieties of Singapore English”. Paper presented at 8th ESEA Conference (8th International Conference on English in Southeast Asia). Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 8-10 December 2003.

“Singapore English Pharmakon: Schizoglossia and Sur-vival” (I. Goh and Tan YY). Paper presented at ICAS’03 (International Conference for Asian Scholars). Singapore.  19-22 August 2003. 

“The linguistic landscape of Singapore”. Seminar presented at ‘In the Beginning Series’, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. 6 February 2003.

2002

“Perceptual cues of stress in the ethnic varieties of Singapore English.” Paper presented at AILA 2002 (13th World Congress for Applied Linguistics). Singapore. 16-21 December 2002.

“The perception of prominence in the ethnic varieties of Singapore English.” Paper presented at NUS-LUND Linguistics Colloquium. Singapore: National University of Singapore.  29-30 October 2002.

“The perception of stress in the ethnic varieties of Singapore English.” Seminar presented at PhonProz. Department of English Language and Literature, National University of Singapore.  February 2002.

2001

“How are we stressed?! Phonetic correlates and stress placement in Singaporean English.”  (L. Lim and Tan YY). Paper presented at PTLC2001 (Phonetics Teaching and Learning Conference). London: University College London. April 2001.

2000

“Acoustic correlates of stress in the ethnic subvarieties of Singapore English.”  Paper presented at the Workshop of Analysis of Varieties of English intonation and prosody (WAVEip). Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. 12-14 December 2000.

“Acoustic correlates of stress in the Chinese, Malay and Indian subvarieties of Singapore English.” Seminar presented at ‘Research Scholars Seminar’. Department of English Language and Literature, National University of Singapore.  July 2000.

“Intonation patterns of the ethnic sub-varieties of Singapore English: A substratist analysis.” Paper presented at SPCL (Society of Pidgin and Creole Linguistics) 2000, 74th Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America. Chicago, USA. 7-8 January 2000.

1999

“Intonation patterns of the ethnic subvarieties of Singapore English: a case of substrate influence?” Seminar presented at PhonProz. Department of English Language and Literature, National University of Singapore. October 1999.

“Tone sandhi in Teochew”. Seminar presented at PhonProz. Department of English Language and Literature, National University of Singapore. August 1999