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Youran Lin
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Latest papers
Are Bilingual Children With Speech, Language, and Communication Needs More at Risk for Heritage Language Attrition Than Their Typically Developing Peers?
Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2026 · first author
Speech Production of Mandarin Lexical Tones Among Canadian Elementary Students Enrolled in Mandarin-English Bilingual Schools.
Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2025 · first author
The Effect of Language Background and Grade Level on Fricative Production of Children Learning Mandarin in a Chinese-English Bilingual Program.
Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2025
Latest funding
- $77,717
English second-language learners' speech sound production: toward a causal model of multidimensional individual difference factors
SSHRC · 2026 · Principal investigator
- $176,661
Bilingual Development in Children with Special Education Needs: Minority and Majority Language Contexts
SSHRC · 2022 · Co-investigator
6 publications.
Are Bilingual Children With Speech, Language, and Communication Needs More at Risk for Heritage Language Attrition Than Their Typically Developing Peers?
Lin Y, Paradis J
Speech Production of Mandarin Lexical Tones Among Canadian Elementary Students Enrolled in Mandarin-English Bilingual Schools.
Lin Y, Pollock KE, Li F
The Effect of Language Background and Grade Level on Fricative Production of Children Learning Mandarin in a Chinese-English Bilingual Program.
Yang L, Pollock K, Lin Y, Tucker BV, Li F
Acquisition of Mandarin tones by Canadian first graders: Effect of prior exposure to tonal and non-tonal languages.
Meckelborg A, Luu M, Nguyen T, Lin Y, Li F, Pollock K
A conceptual model of second language pronunciation in communicative contexts: Implications for children's bilingual education.
Lin Y, Li F, MacLeod AAN, Pollock KE
The development of phonological awareness and Pinyin knowledge in Mandarin-speaking school-aged children.
Lin Y, Lin YJ, Wang F, Wu X, Kong J
English second-language learners' speech sound production: toward a causal model of multidimensional individual difference factors
Principal investigators: Lin, Youran
Bilingual Development in Children with Special Education Needs: Minority and Majority Language Contexts
Principal investigators: Paradis, Johanne C.
Keywords: child bilingualism; speech; language and communication disorders; child L2 acquisition; minority language acquisition; French immersion; students with special education needs
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
Frequent collaborators
- Fangfang Li and Youran Lin: 4 shared papers
- Fangfang Li and Karen Pollock: 2 shared papers
- Karen Pollock and Youran Lin: 2 shared papers
- Fangfang Li and Andrea MacLeod: 1 shared paper
- Fangfang Li and Benjamin Tucker: 1 shared paper
- Andrea MacLeod and Johanne Paradis: 1 shared paper
- Andrea MacLeod and Youran Lin: 1 shared paper
- Benjamin Tucker and Karen Pollock: 1 shared paper
- Benjamin Tucker and Youran Lin: 1 shared paper
- Johanne Paradis and Youran Lin: 1 shared paper
- Communication Sciences & Disorders
- Psychology Department
- Phonetics
- Bilingualism and Second Language Learning
Co-authors at University of Alberta, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Fangfang Li
Psychology Department
4 shared papers, latest 2025
Karen Pollock
Communication Sciences & Disorders
2 shared papers, latest 2025
Andrea MacLeod
Communication Sciences & Disorders
1 shared papers, latest 2023
Benjamin Tucker
Phonetics
1 shared papers, latest 2025
Johanne Paradis
Bilingualism and Second Language Learning
1 shared papers, latest 2026
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