My most updated CV can be found in here.
Publications (*student collaborator)
Munson, B., Li. F., & Yoneyama, K. (2021) Indexical Effects in Cross-LanguageSpeech Perception: The case of Japanese listeners and English fricatives. In W. Ratree (Ed.) Second Language Speech Learning: Theoretical and Empirical Progress, Cambridge University Press.
Li. F., & Netelenbos, N*. (2020) Stop consonant perception in French immersion students in Western Canada. In F. Li, K. E. Pollock, & R. Gibb (Eds.) Child Bilingualism and Second Language Learning: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (pp. 167-187), John Benjamins Publishing Company.
Stark, R. A.*, Harker, A., Salamanca, S., Pellis,S. Li, F., & Gibb,R. L. (2019) Development of ultrasonic calls in rat pups follows similar patterns regardless of isolation distress. Developmental Psychobiology, doi:10.1002/dev.21933.
McKenzie, G.*, & Li, F. (2019) Cross-Language Comparison of VOT Development in English- and Mandarin-speaking Children and Adolescents. Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), 3095-3099.
Rootselaar, N.*, Li, F., & Gonzalez, C. (2019) The effect of manual action on vowel production for nouns and verbs. Proceedings of the 19th Inter-national Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), 2548-2552.
Vasishth, S., Nicenboim, B, Beckman, M. E.,Li, F., & Kong, E. (2018) Bayesian data analysis in the phonetic sciences: A tutorial introduction. Journalof Phonetics, 71, 147-161.
Netelenbos, N.*, Gibb, R. L.,Li, F.& Conzalez, C. L. R. (2018) Articulation speaks to executive function. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 172,oi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00172
Li, F., Ferenc, B., Tomblin, B. (2017) Fricative and affricate productions of Spanish-English bilingual children with cochlear implants. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 60, 2047-2411.
Li, F. (2017) The dvelopment of gender-specific patterns in the production of voiceless sibilant fricatives in Mandarin Chinese. Linguistics 55(5), 1021-1044.
Li, F., & Munson, B. (2016) The development of voiceless sibilant fricatives in Putonghua-speaking children. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 59, 699-712. [PDF]
Li, F., Rendall, D., Vasey, P., Kinsman, M., Ward-Sutherland, A., & Diano, G. (2016) The development of sex/gender-specific /s/ and its relationship to gender identity in children and adolescents. Journal of Phonetics, 57, 59-70. [PDF]
*Netelenbos, N, Li. F., & Rosen, N. (2016) Stop consonant production of French immersion students in Western Canada: A study of voice onset time. International Journal of Bilingualism, 20(3), 346-357. [PDF]
*Turner, J., *Netelenbos, N., Rosen, N., & Li, F. (2015) Stop consonant production by French-English bilingual children in Southern Alberta. Proceedings of the XVIIIth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 10 -14 August 2015, Glasgow, Scotland. [PDF]
Gonzalez, C. L., Li. F., *Mills, K. L., Rosen, N., & Gibb, R. (2014) Speech in action: Degree of hand preference for grasping predicts speech articulation competence in children. Frontier in Psychology: Developmental Psychology, 5, 1267.doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01267. [PDF]
Gonzalez, C. L., *Mills, K. J., Inge, G., Li, F., Piquette, N., Rosen, N., Gibb, R. (2014) Getting the right grasp on executive function. Frontiers in Psychology: Developmental Psychology, 5, 285.doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00285.[PDF]
Beckman, M. E., Li, F., Kong, E. J., & Edwards, J. (2014) Aligning the timelines of phonological acquisition and change. Laboratory Phonology, 5(1), 151- 194.[PDF]
*Netelenbos, N. & Li, F. (2013) The production and perception of voice onset time in English-speaking children enrolled in a French-immersion program. Proceedings of the 14th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech), Lyon, France, pp.2380-2383. [PDF]
*Kinsman, M. & Li, F. (2013) The relationship between gender-differentiated productions of /s/ and gender role behaviour in young children. Proceedings of the 14th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech), Lyon, France, pp.1283-1286. [PDF]
Li, F. (2013) The effect of speakers’ sex on voice onset time in Mandarin stops. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 133(2), EL 142-147. [PDF]
Li, F. (2012) Language specific developmental differences in speech production: A cross-language acoustic study. Child Development, 83(4), 1303-1315. [PDF]
Li, F., Munson, B., Edwards, J., Yoneyama, K.& Hall, K.(2011) Language specificity in the perception of voiceless sibilant fricatives in Japanese and English: Implications for cross-language differences in speech-sound development. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 129(2), 999-1011. [PDF]
Li, F., Edwards, J., and Beckman, M. E. (2009) Contrast and covert contrast: The phonetic development of voiceless sibilant fricatives in English and Japanese toddlers. Journal of Phonetics. 37, 111-124. [PDF]
Li, F., Edwards, J., and Beckman, M. E. (2007) Spectral measures for sibilant fricatives of English, Japanese, and Mandarin Chinese. Proceedings of the XVIth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 6 -10 August 2007, Saarbruecken, Germany. [PDF]
Li, F. (2005) An acoustic study on feminine accent in the Beijing Dialect. Proceedings of the 17th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics. June, 2005, Montery, CA, USA.
Li, Z. Gao, Y. and Li, F. (2004) Appraisal and modesty -- self-identity construction in personal statements. The Social Psychology of English Learning by Chinese College Students. Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press. 227-248.
Gao, Y. and Li, F. (2001) Self-e.acing, boasting, and truthful Self-Praise -Presentation and construction of self in Chinese students' personal statements. Intercultural communication: exploration and practice. Proceedings of China's 4th Symposium on Intercultural Communication. 2001, Xi'an,China. 235-254.
Current projects and collaborators
- Ultrasound imaging on children speaking different languages. This research aims to describe children’s lingual movement patterns and its relationship with children’s perceptual and motor development in English, Mandarin, and Japanese. This research has been funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). I am currently in collaboration with Haskins laboratories to develop protocols of testing children using the ultrasound machine!
- Bilingual children's speech development. In collaboration with Karen Pollock, Yvan Rose, and Andrea MacLeod, I am investigating children’s speech productions in second-language learning programs in Alberta. We currently have two sites: French immersion programs in Lethbridge and English-Mandarin bilingual programs in Edmonton. This research has been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada.
- Gendered speech in English and Mandarin Chinese. Working together with Paul Vasey, I am exploring how much of gendered speech is determined by gender identity and how much can be attributed to anatomical or biological differences between the two sexes. This research has been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada.
- Cross-language study of children’s phonological development. This is part of the paidologos project which focuses on cross-language comparison of children's phonological development in different languages, for which, I continue my collaborations with Mary Beckman, Jan Edwards, Benjamin Munson, Eunjong Kong, and Jeff Holliday.
- Relationship between speech articulation and handedness in children. Claudia Gonzalez and I started a series of collaborative research to probe the link between motor control and speech production in children. We have found that greater proficiency in fricative production is correlated with higher frequency of right-hand use in reaching for food. We are in the process of extending the study to adults.
- Speech production in children with cochlear implants. I am also working with Ferenc Bunta on Spanish-English bilingual children who received cochlear implants to investigate the interplay between input and bilingualism.