Aini Li and Meredith Tamminga. The role of immediately prior exposure and talker accent on sociolinguistic variant identification. Poster to be presented at the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2023), Prague, Czech Republic, August 7-11.
Aini Li. Can phonological variant choices be primed in perception and production? Paper presented at the 98th Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting (LSA 2023), Denver, CO, January 5-8. Slides
Aini Li and Wei Lai. How do listeners evaluate creak: A matched-guise study in Mandarin Chinese. Paper presented at the 98th Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting (LSA 2023), Denver, CO, January 5-8. Slides
Wei Lai and Aini Li. Generalizing across various phonetics-to-phonology mapping systems. Paper presented at the 98th Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting (LSA 2023), Denver, CO, January 5-8. Slides
Aini Li and Wei Lai. The social meanings of creaky voice in Mandarin Chinese: a matched-guise study. Paper presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation-Asia Pacific 7 (NWAV-AP7), Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, December 14-16.
Aini Li. Can phonological variant choices be primed in perception and production? Paper presented at the 50th meeting of New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV 50), University of Stanford, Stanford, CA, October 13-15. Slides
Aini Li and Wei Lai. A matched-guise study of Mandarin creaky voice. Paper presented at the 50th meeting of New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV 50), University of Stanford, Stanford, CA, October 13-15. Slides
June Choe, Yiran Chen, May Pik Yu Chan, Aini Li, Xin Gao, and Nicole Holliday. Language-specific effects on automatic speech recognition errors in American English. Paper presented at the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2022), Gyeongju, Korea, October 12-17.
May Pik Yu Chan, June Choe, Aini Li, Yiran Chen, Xin Gao, and Nicole Holliday. Training and structural bias in ASR performance for world Englishes. Paper presented at Interspeech 2022, Incheon, Korea, September 18-22.
Wei Lai and Aini Li. The perceptual generalization of normalized cue distributions across speakers. Paper presented at the 44th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2022), Toronto, Canada, July 27-30. Slides
Aini Li, Wei Lai and Jianjing Kuang. How do listeners identify creak? The effects of pitch range, prosodic position and creak locality in Mandarin. Paper presented at the 11th International Conference on Speech Prosody (SpeechProsody 2022), Lisbon, Portugal, May 23-26. Slides
Hai Hu, Aini Li, Jiahui Huang, Yina Ma and Chien-Jer Charles Lin. Examining the replicability of grammaticality judgments in Chinese journal articles: dialectal influences and sources of variability. Paper presented at 35th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP2022), University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, March 24-26 (Virtual). Slides
Aini Li and Gareth Roberts. The role of social meaning in the emergence of indexicality. Paper presented at the 11th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 11), University of Vienna, Austria, April 11-14 (Virtual). Slides
Aini Li and Gareth Roberts. Co-occurrence, extension, and social salience: the emergence of indexicality in an artificial language. Paper presented at Georgetown University Round Table 2022 (GURT 2022: Dialect Contact), Georgetown University, Washington, DC, March 10-13 (Virtual). Slides
Aini Li, Wei Lai and Jianjing Kuang. How do listeners identify creak? The effects of tone, pitch range, prosodic position and creak locality in Mandarin. Poster presented at the 96th Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting (LSA 96), Washington, DC, January 6-9. Poster
Aini Li and Jianjing Kuang. Phonetic realization and variation of consonant geminates in Sakha. Poster presented at the 96th Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting (LSA 2022), Washington, DC, January 6-9. Poster
Aini Li and Gareth Roberts. The emergence of indexicality in an artificial language. Paper presented at the 49th meeting of New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV 49), University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, October 19-24. (Virtual).
Aini Li and Gareth Roberts. The emergence of indexicality in an artificial language. Poster presented at the 43rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2021), University of Vienna, Austria, July 26-29. (Virtual). Poster
Hai Hu, Aini Li, Jiahui Huang, Yina Ma and Chien-Jer Charles Lin. Replicating acceptability judgments from syntax papers in Chinese. Paper presented at the 33rd North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL 33), University of Chicago, Chicago IL, June 24-25. (Virtual). Poster
Aini Li, Ruaridh Purse and Nicole Holliday. Do African Americans really have lower voices? Pitch, gender and ethnicity in Memphis. Paper presented at the 45th Penn Linguistics Conference (PLC 45), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA, March 19-21. [Virtual]. Slides
Wei Lai and Aini Li . Integrating the application and realization of Mandarin 3rd tone sandhi in the resolution of sentence ambiguity. Poster presented at Interspeech 2020, Shanghai, China, October 25-29. poster
Wei Lai and Aini Li . Integrating phonetic and phonological aspects of Mandarin third tone sandhi in auditory sentence disambiguation. Poster presented at the 17th Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon17), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, July 6-8. Poster
Aini Li and Meredith Tamminga. Priming and "anti-priming" in intra- and inter-speaker variation . Paper presented at the 44th Penn Linguistics Conference (PLC 44), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA, March 27-29. [Cancelled]. Slides
Aini Li and Meredith Tamminga. Priming and "anti-priming" in intra- and inter-speaker variation. Poster presented at the 33rd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, University of Massachusetts, Amherst MA, March 19-21. Poster
Wei Lai and Aini Li. The integration of Mandarin third tone sandhi in auditory sentence disambiguation. Poster presented at the 33rd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, University of Massachusetts, Amherst MA, March 19-21. Poster
Hai Hu, Aini Li, Yiwen Zhang and Phillip Weirich. Vowel raising in Chengdu Dialect of Mandarin. Poster presented at the 93rd Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting (LSA 2019), New York City, January 3-6. Poster
Aini Li. A variationist analysis of locative markers in Chengdu Dialect of Mandarin. Paper presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation 47 (NWAV 47), New York University, New York NY, October 18-21. Slides
Aini Li. A variationist analysis of locative markers in Chengdu Dialect of Mandarin. Paper presented at The 30th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL 30), Ohio State University, Columbus OH, March 9-11. Slides