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Crystal structures of two yttrium aluminium oxides, namely YAlO_3 and Y_3Al_5O_{12}, were investigated in the temperature range 3.4-300 K by high-resolution neutron powder diffraction. Neither traces of phase transformations nor discontinuous changes of physical properties were observed. Thermal expansion of yttrium aluminium oxides was evaluated in terms of 1st order Grüneisen approximation, where the Debye temperatures and the Grüneisen parameters have been estimated for both compositions. Anomalies in the thermal expansion of yttrium aluminium perovskite have been observed and modelled using the Einstein oscillator with negative Grüneisen parameter. Extended bond length analysis revealed significant thermally-driven modifications of the aluminium-oxygen framework.