LI, Aini
Biography
Dr. Aini LI is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Translation at City University of Hong Kong. Before joining CityU, she earned her PhD in Linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania, her MA in Linguistics from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and her Bachelor’s degrees in English and International Politics from Shandong University. As an experimental sociolinguist, she uses experimental and corpus approaches to examine how individuals produce and perceive socio-stylistic variation. Additionally, she has broader research interests in the perceptual dynamics of cue integration in both speech and social perception, as well as language variation and change across diverse language varieties.
Research Interests
- Experimental sociolinguistics
- Sociolinguistic cognition
- Language variation and change
- Sociophonetics
- Laboratory phonology
- Quantitative approaches
Key Publications
- 2023. Aini Li, Wei Lai and Jianjing Kuang. Creak identification in Mandarin: The effects of pitch range, prosodic position, creak locality and tone. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 154 (1), 126-140.
- 2023. Aini Li and Gareth Roberts. Co-occurrence, extension, and social salience: The emergence of indexicality in an artificial language. Cognitive Science, 47 (5): e13290.
- 2023. Aini Li, Meredith Tamminga, & Hai Hu. 2023. Intra- and inter-speaker repetitiveness in Chengdu Mandarin locative variation. Language Variation and Change, 35 (1), 107-127.
- 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
- 2022. Aini Li. Dialect leveling in Mandarin Chinese: The case of locative variation in the Chengdu dialect. Asia-Pacific Language Variation, 8(1), 32-71.