His mother's vocal rhythms When he was small, there was an easy mix of Taiwanese and Japanese in Yang's home. Yang's mother was from Taipei, and she put great stock in the proper pronunciation, so although they lived in distant Hualien, they still maintained the Taipei accent.
母親的聲韻從小在家中便自由使用台灣話和日語的楊牧，其出身台北的母親極注重音韻腔調，雖遠嫁花蓮，仍保存著台北口音。