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Publications

Journal articles

2023. Aini Li and Gareth Roberts. Co-occurrence, extension and social salience: the emergence of indexicality in an artificial language. Cognitive Science.

2023. Aini Li, Meredith Tamminga and Hai Hu. Intra- and inter-speaker repetitiveness in Chengdu Mandarin locative variation. Language Variation and Change, 1-21..

2022. Aini Li, Ruaridh Purse and Nicole Holliday. Variation in global and intonational pitch settings among Black and white speakers of Southern American English. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 152(5):2617-2628. Paper

2022. Aini Li. Regional dialect leveling in Mandarin Chinese: the case of locative variation in the Chengdu dialect. Asia-Pacific Language Variation, 8(1), 32-71. Paper

2022. Wei Lai and Aini Li. Integrating phonological and phonetic aspects of Mandarin Tone 3 sandhi in auditory sentence disambiguation. Laboratory Phonology, 13(1):8, 1-31. Paper

Conference proceedings

2022. 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. In: Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2022). Paper

2022. 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. In: Proceedings of Interspeech 2022. Paper

2022. Wei Lai and Aini Li. The perceptual generalization of normalized cue distributions across speakers. In: Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Paper

2022. Aini Li and Jianjing Kuang. Phonetic realization and variation of consonant geminates in Sakha. In: Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, volume 7(1). 5234. Paper

2022. Aini Li, Wei Lai, and Jianjing Kuang. How do listeners identify creak? The effects of pitch range, prosodic position and creak locality in Mandarin. In: Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2022. Paper

2021. Aini Li and Gareth Roberts. The emergence of indexicality in an artificial language. In: Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Paper

2021. Aini Li and Meredith Tamminga. Intra and interspeaker repetitiveness in locative variation. In: University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, volume 27(1). Paper

2020. Wei Lai and Aini Li. Integrating the application and realization of Mandarin 3rd tone sandhi in the resolution of sentence ambiguity. In: Proceedings of Interspeech 2020, pages:1918-1922. Paper

2019. Aini Li. A variationist analysis of locative markers in Chengdu Dialect of Mandarin. In: Proceedings of the 30th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics. Paper

Manuscripts

Under revision. Aini Li, Wei Lai and Jianjing Kuang. Identifying creaky voice in Mandarin: the effects of creak locality, prosodic position, pitch range and tone.

In prep. Hai Hu*, Aini Li*, Yina Ma, and Chien-Jer Charles Lin. Grammaticality in Chinese: dialectal influences and sources of variability. ("*" indicates equal contribution)

In prep. Aini Li and Wei Lai. The perceptual generalization of normalized cue distributions across speakers.

In prep. Aini Li. How do listeners evaluate creak? A matched-guise study in Mandarin Chinese.