I'm going to attempt to answer my own question- will someone please tell me if my reasoning is correct!
In the short term, increases in anticipated inflation will raise the price of short term inflation linked bonds, as they protect you against the increased inflation, so yield goes down. Long term, the increased inflation in the short term has basically no effect, e.g. an extra 1% inflation in one month time will not make a lot of difference in 20 years. So it behaves like a normal bond, a reduction in price due to the increased nominal interest rate and hence an increased yield.
AM I CORRECT?!
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