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2024–present, Associate Professor, Center for Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou

2020–2024, Assistant Professor, Center for Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou

2015–2020 School of International Studies, Zhejiang University, Ph.D. in Linguistics

2013–2015 School of Foreign Languages, Dalian Maritime University, M.A. in Linguistics

2009–2013 School of Foreign Languages, Dalian Maritime University, B.A. in English

2023-2025, Visiting postdoc, Department of Slavonic Studies, University of Vienna

• Wang, Y., & Kelih, E. (2024). Boundary conditions of the Menzerath-Altmann Law. What should be taken: Tokens, types or lemmas?. Glottometrics, 57. https://glottometrics.iqla.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/57_2024.pdf#page=4

• Wang, Y., Zhang, Y., Zhang, G., He, S., & Qi, J. (2024). Linguistic Properties of Emojis: A Quantitative Exploration of Emoji Frequency, Category, and Position on Twitter. Journal of Quantitative Linguistics, 1–27. https://doi.org/10.1080/09296174.2024.2347055

• Wang, Y., & Zeng, T. (2023). Fellow or foe? A quantitative thematic exploration into Putin’s and Trump’s stylometric features. Glottometrics, 54, 39-57. https://doi.org/10.53482/2023_54_406 

• Wang, Y. & Chen, H. (2022). The Menzerath-Altmann law on the clause level in English texts. Linguistics Vanguard, 8(1), 331-346. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2022-0048

• Wang, Y., & Liu, H*. (2022). Creativity complicates tweets: a quantitative lens on syntactic characteristics of twitter. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 37(1), 264-279. https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqab028

• 刘海涛*、王雅琴. (2019). 当代小说句式特征的计量研究——《繁花》与其他10部茅盾文学奖作品对比.《山西大学学报（哲学社会科学版）》第6期, 65-72. [Liu, H., & Wang, Y. (2019). A Quantitative Stylistic Study on Contemporary Chinese Novels’ Syntactic Features: A Comparison between Fanhua and Other Ten Novels with Mao Dun Literature Award. Journal of Shanxi University (Philosophy and Social Science Edition), 6, 65-72.] http://dx.doi.org/10.13451/j.cnki.shanxi.univ(phil.soc.).2019.06.009 

• Wang, Y., & Liu, H.* (2018). Is Trump always rambling like a fourth-grade student? An analysis of stylistic features of Donald Trump’s political discourse during the 2016 election. Discourse & Society, 29(3), 299-323. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0957926517734659 

• Wang, Y., & Liu, H.* (2017). The effects of genre on dependency distance and dependency direction. Language Sciences, 59, 135-147. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.langsci.2016.09.006 

2023-2025 Quantitative Research on English New Media Based on Dependency Treebank, No. GD23YWY02, funded by Guangdong Planning Office of Philosophy and Social Science of  the People's Republic of China, Team leader. 

2021-2024 A Quantitative-Linguistic Study on the Syntactic Characteristics of English-Chinese Social Media, No. 21YJC740060, funded by the Social Science Foundation of the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, Team leader. 

Quantitative Research Methods in Linguistics (undergraduate)

Statistics for Linguistics with R (undergraduate)

An introduction to Research Methods in Linguistics (undergraduate)

Journal of Quantitative Linguistics

Glottometrics

Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory

National Conference on Computational Linguistics, China, 2025, 2023, 2021

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications

Linguistics Vanguard

Digital Scholarship in the Humanities

Syntaxfest 2025, Workshop on Quantitative Syntax, 2025, August 26-29, Ljubljana. 

The 7th Forum for Applied Linguistics, 2023, Dec 2-3, Guangzhou.