Ying Li
List of John Benjamins publications for which Ying Li plays a role.
Articles
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