Ying-Ying Tan

Associate Professor


Curriculum vitae



Linguistics and Multilingual Studies

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

School of Humanities
48 Nanyang Drive,
SHHK-03-50,
Singapore 639818



Publications


~Monograph~
 Tan, Ying Ying. (in prep, 2023). Singapore’s Languages. Boston: Brill. (contracted)
 ~Edited volumes~
 Tan, Ying-Ying and Pritipushpa Mishra (eds). (2021). Language, Nations and Multilingualism: Questioning the Herderian Ideal. London and New York: Routledge. 
Lindsay, Jennifer & Ying-Ying Tan. (eds.). (2003). Babel or Behemoth: Language Trends in Asia. Singapore: Singapore University Press. 210pp.
~Peer-reviewed journal articles~
 Soh, Ying-Qi, Lee Junwen, and Ying-Ying Tan. (2022). Ethnicity and Tone Production on Singlish Particles, Languages 7(3), 243. 
Lai, Yun-Sxin and Ying-Ying Tan. (2022). Singlish particles and politeness work, Asian Englishes.
Kalaivanan, Kastoori, Firqin Sumartono, and Ying-Ying Tan. (2022). The influence of AoA, language proficiency, and language use on Singapore English consonant perception, Journal of Monolingual and Bilingual Speech 4(1): 1-29.
Kalaivanan, Kastoori, Firqin Sumartono, and Ying-Ying Tan. (2020). The Homonogenization of Ethnic Differences in Singapore English?: A Consonantal Production and Perception Study, Language and Speech, 64(1): 123-140.
Foo, Amanda and Ying-Ying Tan. (2019). On Linguistic Insecurity and Linguistic Ownership: Feeling Insecure about Owning English in Singapore, World Englishes 38(1), 1-24.
Sumartono, Firqin and Ying-Ying Tan. (2018). Juggling Two Languages: Malay-English Bilinguals’ Code-switching Behaviour in Singapore, The Linguistics Journal 12(1): 108-138.
Tan, Ying-Ying. (2017). Singlish: An Illegitimate Conception in Singapore’s Language Policies?, European Journal of Language Policy, 9(1): 85-103.
Wong, Kevin and Ying-Ying Tan. (2017). Being Chinese in a global context: Linguistic constructions of Chinese ethnicity, Global Chinese 3(1): 1-23.
Wong, Kevin and Ying-Ying Tan. (2017). Mandarinization and the Construction of Chinese Ethnicity in Singapore, Chinese Language and Discourse 8(1): 18-50.
Tan, Ying-Ying. (2015). ’Native’ and ‘non-native’ perception of stress in Singapore English, World Englishes 34(3): 355-369. 
Tan, Ying-Ying. (2014). English as a ‘mother tongue’ in Singapore, World Englishes. 33(3): 319-339.
Chong, Rachael and Ying-Ying Tan. (2013). Attitudes toward accents of Mandarin in Singapore, Chinese Language and Discourse. 4(1): 120–140. 
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. 
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. 
Tan Ying-Ying. (2012). Age as a factor in ethnic accent identification in Singapore, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development.  33(4): 1-19. 
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.  
Wee, Lionel and Ying-Ying Tan. (2008). That’s so last year! Constructions in a socio-cultural context, Journal of Pragmatics. 40(12): 2100-2113. 
Goh, Irving and Ying-Ying Tan. (2007). Singapore Pharmakon, Social Identities. (Special issue on Derrida’s Monolingualism and the Other.) 13(3): 393-410. 
~Book chapters~
Tan, Ying-Ying. (Forthcoming, 2023). “Rac(ing) accents”. In S. Rudwick, S. Makoni, and & A. Bassey (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Race and Language, Routledge.
 Tan, Ying-Ying. (2021). "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. pp.152-171.
Pritipushpa Mishra and Ying-Ying Tan. (2021). "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. pp 1-14.
Cavallaro, Francesco, Bee Chin Ng, and Ying-Ying Tan. (2021) “Singapore English”. In Kingsley Bolton and Andy Kirkpatrick (eds.), Handbook of Asian Englishes, Blackwell-Wiley. 
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. pp.69-86.
Tan, Ying-Ying (2019). “On attitudes, intelligibility, 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. pp. 126-144.
 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.
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.
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. 
 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.  
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.  
 ~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.  
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.
Chen, Wenda, Ying-Ying Tan, 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, Ying-Ying Tan, 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 Ying-Ying Tan. (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.
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