Ying-Ying Tan, PhD

Forthcoming/In press/In prep

Tan, Ying Ying. (in prep, 2020). Illegitimate Tongues: Contesting Language Policies in Singapore. London and New York: Routledge. (contracted)

Tan, Ying Ying and Pritipushpa Mishra (eds). (in prep, 2020). Language, Nations and Multilingualism: Questioning the Herderian Ideal. London and New York: Routledge. (contracted)

Tan, Ying Ying. (in prep, 2020). "The Myth of Multilingualism in Singapore". In Tan Ying Ying and Pritipushpa Mishra (eds). Language, Nations and Multilingualism: Questioning the Herderian Ideal. London and New York: Routledge.

Tan, Ying Ying and  Pritipushpa Mishra. (in prep, 2020). "Questioning the Herderian Ideal". In Tan Ying Ying and Pritipushpa Mishra (eds). Language, Nations and Multilingualism: Questioning the Herderian Ideal. London and New York: Routledge.

Tan, Ying Ying (2020, in press). “What’s our mother tongue?: Answers from language habits of Singaporeans”. In Mathew Matthews (ed.) Language, Race, and Religion in Singapore. Singapore: NUS Press.

Cavallaro, Francesco, Bee Chin Ng, and Ying-Ying Tan. (2020, in press) “Singapore English”. In Kingsley Bolton and Andy Kirkpatrick (eds.), Handbook of Asian Englishes, Blackwell-Wiley. 

Kalaivanan, Kastoori, Firqin Sumartono, and Ying-Ying Tan. (2020, in press). “The Homonogenization of Ethnic Differences in Singapore English?: A Consonantal Production Study”. Language and Speech.

Kalaivanan, Kastoori, Firqin Sumartono, and Tan Ying Ying. (2020, under review). “The perception of consonants by Singaporeans”. 

Peer-reviewed Journal Papers & Book Chapters 

Tan, Ying Ying (2019). “The use of surveys and questionnaires in World Englishes research”. In P. De Costa, Crowther & Maloney (Eds.). Investigating World Englishes: Research Methodology and Practical Applications. London and NY: Routledge, 69-86. pdf.

Tan, Ying Ying (2019). “On attitudes, intelligilibilty, and perception: Cases of studies in World Englishes using surveys and questionnaires.” In P. De Costa, Crowther & Maloney (Eds.). Investigating World Englishes: Research Methodology and Practical Applications. London and NY: Routledge, 126-144. pdf.

Foo, Amanda and Tan Ying Ying. (2019). Linguistic insecurity and the linguistic ownership of English among Singaporean Chinese”. World Englishes 38(1), 1-24. pdf.

Sumartono, Firqin and Tan Ying Ying. (2018). “Juggling Two Languages: Malay-English Bilinguals’ Code-switching Behaviour in Singapore”. The Linguistics Journal 12(1): 108-138. pdf.

Tan, Ying Ying. (2017). "Singlish: An Illegitimate Conception in Language Policies?". European Journal of Language Policy. 9(1): 85-103. pdf.

Wong, Kevin and Tan Ying Ying. (2017) “Mandarinization and the Construction of Chinese Ethnicity in Singapore”. Chinese Language and Discourse 8(1): 18-50. pdf.

Wong, Kevin and Tan Ying Ying. (2017) “Being Chinese in a global context: Linguistic constructions of Chinese ethnicity”. Global Chinese 3(1): 1-23. pdf.

Tan, Ying Ying. (2016). “The Americanization of the phonology of Asian Englishes: Evidence from Singapore.” in Gerhard Leitner, Azirah Hashim and Hans-Georg Wolf (eds.), Communicating with Asia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 120-134. pdf

Tan, Ying Ying. (2015). “’Native’ and ‘non-native’ perception of stress in Singapore English”. World Englishes 34(3): 355-369. pdf

Tan, Shanna and Tan Ying Ying. (2015). Examining the functions and identities associated with English and Korean in South Korea: A linguistic landscape study. Asian Englishes 17(1): 59-79. pdf

Tan, Ying Ying. (2014). “English as a ‘mother tongue’ in contemporary Singapore”. World Englishes. 33(3): 319-339. pdf

Chong, Rachael and Tan Ying Ying (2013). "Attitudes toward accents of Mandarin in Singapore". Chinese Language and Discourse. 4(1): 120–140. pdf

Tan, Ying Ying and Christina Castelli (2013). “Intelligibility and attitudes: how American English and Singapore English are perceived around the world”. English World-Wide. 34(2): 177-201. pdf

Tan, Ying Ying. (2012). “To r or not to r: social correlates of /ɹ/ in Singapore English”. International Journal of the Sociology of Language. 218: 1-24. pdf

Tan Ying Ying. (2012). “Age as a factor in ethnic accent identification in Singapore”. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development.  33(4): 1-19. pdf

Tan, Ying Ying and Irving Goh. (2011). “Politics of Language in Contemporary Singapore Cinema: The Films of Jack Neo, or Politics by Cinematic Means”. Interventions: Journal of Postcolonial Studies. 13(4): 610-626. pdf

Tan, Ying Ying (2010). “Singing the same tune? Prosodic norming in bilingual Singaporeans” in Madalena Cruz Ferreira (ed) Multilingual Norms. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, pp.173-194. pdf

Wee, Lionel and Tan Ying Ying. (2008). “That’s so last year! Constructions in a socio-cultural context”. Journal of Pragmatics. 40(12): 2100-2113. pdf

Goh, Irving and Tan Ying Ying. (2007). “Singapore Pharmakon”. Social Identities. (Special issue on Derrida’s Monolingualism and the Other.) 13(3): 393-410. pdf

Tan, Ying Ying. (2006). “Is the stressed syllable stressed?! The perception of prominence in Singapore English”. In Azirah Hashim and Norizah Hassan (eds.) Varieties of English in Southeast Asia and Beyond. Kuala Lumpur: University of Malaya Press. pp. 133-152. pdf

Tan, Ying Ying.  (2005). “Observations on British and Singaporean perception of prominence”. In: David Deterding, Adam Brown and Low Ee Ling (eds). English in Singapore: Phonetic Research on a Corpus. Singapore: McGraw Hill. pp. 95-103. pdf 

Tan, Ying Ying. (2003). “Reading the census: language use in Asia”. In: Lindsay, Jennifer and Tan Ying Ying (eds.). Babel or Behemoth: Language Trends in Asia. Singapore: Singapore University Press. pp.175-210. pdf.

Published Proceedings/Working papers

Tan, Ying Ying (2019). "Spontaneous Speech Elicitation for Large Speech Corpus in Multilingual Singapore”. Proceedings of the LPSS. Academia Sinica, Taipei Taiwan. pdf. 

Koh, Jia Xin, Aqilah Mislan, Kevin Khoo, Brian Ang, Wilson Ang, Charmaine Ng, and Ying-Ying Tan. (2019). “Building the National Speech Corpus”. Proceedings of Interspeech 2019. Graz, Austria. pdf.

Chen, Wenda, Tan Ying Ying, Chng Eng Siong and Li Haizhou. (2012). “Computer Assisted Language Learning in Singapore – Modelling Singapore English for pronunciation variation detection”. Proceedings of the 15th International CALL Research Conference. Providence University, Taiwan.

Tan, Ying Ying (2011). “To r or not to r: a sociophonetic analysis of /ɹ/ in Singapore English”. Proceedings of the 17th International Conference for Phonetic Sciences. ICPhS, Hong Kong.

Tan, Ying Ying (2010). “Native Perception of Prominence in Singapore English?: Implications for Kachru’s Inner and Outer Circles ”. Japanese Society in Language Sciences Handbook. pp.141-145.

Chen, Wenda, Tan Ying Ying, Chng Eng Siong and Li Haizhou. (2010). “The development of a Singapore English CALL resource”. Proceedings of the Oriental Chapter of Co-ordination and Standardization of Speech Databases and Assessment Techniques. Paper No. 21.

Tan Ying Ying and Zhu Shenfa. (2002). “Report on the workshop ‘Minding our Ps and Qs: pronunciation and related questions in the classroom’ conducted by Vivienne Fong & Lisa Lim.” In: E. L. Low and S. C. Teng (eds). The Teaching and Use of Standard English. Singapore: SAAL. pp. 91-105.

Lim, Lisa and Tan Ying Ying. (2001). “How are we stressed?! Phonetic correlates and stress placement in Singaporean English.”  In: Maidment, John A. & Eva Estebas i Vilaplana (eds). Proceedings of Phonetics Teaching & Learning Conference 2001. London: University College London. pp. 27-30.

Tan Ying Ying.  (2001). “Acoustic correlates of stress in the ethnic subvarieties of Singapore English.” Working Papers in Language, Literature and Theatre. Singapore: Department of English Language and Literature, National University of Singapore.

Edited Book

Lindsay, Jennifer & Tan Ying Ying (eds.). (2003). Babel or Behemoth: Language Trends in Asia. Singapore: NUS Press. 210pp.

Dissertation

Tan Ying Ying.  (2003). “The acoustic and perceptual properties of stress in the ethnic subvarieties of Singapore English”. Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation.  Department of English Language and Literature, National University of Singapore.  pdf.