Ying Li
List of John Benjamins publications for which Ying Li plays a role.
Articles
2024 The role of L1-dialect in L2 production: Acoustic measures on Xining and Leshan dialect speakers’ production of English vowels Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 10:2, pp. 232–257 | Article
This study compared the productions of American English (AE) vowels /i/, /u/, /ɛ/, /ɔ/, /ɪ/, /æ/, /ʊ/, /ʌ/, and /ɑ/ between speakers of two Chinese dialects, the Leshan dialect (LSd) and the Xining dialect (XNd). The participants were native speakers of XNd (n = 120) and LSd (n = 120) with… read more
2024 Naïve English-speaking learners’ use of indirect positive evidence: The case of Mandarin plural marking Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 14:2, pp. 115–146 | Article
When second language learners are faced with acquiring a grammar that is a subset of their native language grammar, direct positive evidence is unavailable. We question whether learners can instead use indirect positive evidence: evidence drawn from errors in the learner’s L1 made by native… read more
2021 More than playfulness: Emojis in the comments of a WeChat official account Understanding Chinese Social Media, Zhao, Sumin and Chaoqun Xie (eds.), pp. 247–271 | Article
This study aims to uncover the complexity of emoji usage on Chinese social media. We investigate emoji usage in comments on push notifications from the WeChat official account of Guokr, which was chosen as a representative for an open forum for public communication. The data includes 2,552… read more