Aini Li
List of John Benjamins publications in which Aini Li is involved.
Articles
2022 Regional dialect leveling in Mandarin Chinese: The case of locative variation in the Chengdu dialect Asia-Pacific Language Variation 8:1, pp. 32–71 | Article
This paper studies the variation that stems from language contact between the suffix ‑tou, a locative marker in the Chengdu dialect spoken in Southwest China, and its standard Chinese counterpart ‑mian. The data are drawn from sociolinguistic interviews with 40 native speakers of the Chengdu… read more
Subject pronominal expression in Mandarin: Production patterns and the perception-production relationship Asia-Pacific Language Variation: Online-First Articles | Article
This study investigates production patterns of Mandarin subject pronoun expression (SPE) and the understudied relationship between evaluative judgments and actual usage of this feature. Building on established perception patterns among 185 native Mandarin speakers, these participants completed… read more