What is Moira Yip?
'''Moira Yip''' is a British [[linguist]]. She earned her [[PhD]] in Linguistics in 1980 from [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/15971|title=Moira Yip dissertation}}</ref> She retired in 2009 from [[University College London]] (UCL). She had been Professor of Linguistics there.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=MJYIP36|title=Iris View Profile|website=iris.ucl.ac.uk|language=en|access-date=2017-07-19}}</ref> At UCL she also was co-director of the [[UCL Division of Psychology and Language Sciences|Centre for Human Communication]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/media/library/chc|title=Read My Lips: UCL Launches Centre for Human Communication|website=www.ucl.ac.uk|language=en|access-date=2017-07-19|archive-date=2016-04-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160413012800/https://www.ucl.ac.uk/media/library/chc|url-status=dead}}</ref> She was also Pro-Provost for China.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0610/06100201|title=New Pro-Provost for China, Hong Kong and Macao|website=www.ucl.ac.uk|language=en|access-date=2017-07-19}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ucl.ac.uk/silva/news/news-articles/0609/06092701|title=Moira Yip: taking the lid off China|website=www.ucl.ac.uk|language=en|access-date=2017-08-12}}{{Dead link|date=November 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Before joining UCL, she was Professor of Linguistics and Acting Dean at the [[University of California-Irvine]] (1992-1999) and Associate Professor at [[Brandeis University]] (1982-1992). Moira Yip worked on [[theory]] of [[phonology]] (ideas about how sound is important in language). She was especially interested in [[Standard Chinese phonology|phonology of Chinese]]. Her dissertation on the ''Tonal phonology of Chinese'' was published in the ''Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics'' series (Routledge). In 2002 she published the first modern textbook on [[Tone (linguistics)|tone]] in the