Ph.D. in Linguistics, 2017, The University of Kansas

M.Phil. in Linguistics, 2012, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

M.A. in English Language and Literature, 2004, Tianjin Normal University

B.A. in English Education, 2001, Tianjin Normal University

Phonology, Phonetics, Speech perception, Second language acquisition, Chinese dialects

I am interested in supervising research graduate projects on phonetics, experimental phonology, second language phonetics/phonology, sound change, and language typology.

• Liu, Pauline Bolin, & Mingxing Li. (2024). The perceptual distinctiveness of the [n-l] contrast in different vowel and tonal contexts. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA), Express Letters 4 (11), 115202. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0034196(Published online 1 Nov 2024)
• Wee, Lian-Hee, & Mingxing Li. 2023. Complexity in the Phonology of Tone. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009086707
• Li, Mingxing, & Jie Zhang. 2023. The interplay between psychoacoustic perception and L1-specific perception in evaluating the distinctiveness of sound pairs. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, EL 3 (4), 045201-045207.  https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0017771
• Kong, Huifang, Shengyi Wu, Mingxing Li, & Xiangrong Shen. 2023. The articulatory properties of apical vowels in Hefei Mandarin. Journal of the International Phonetic Association. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025100323000178
• Li, Mingxing. 2021. The typology of sibilant place contrasts in the high-front vowel context across Chinese dialects. Journal of East Asian Linguistics, 30, 387–438. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10831-021-09232-0
• Li, Mingxing, & Jie Zhang. 2017. Perceptual distinctiveness between dental and palatal sibilants in different vowel contexts and its implications for phonological contrasts. Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology, 8(1), 18, 1–27. https://doi.org/10.5334/labphon.27
• Wee, Lian-Hee, & Mingxing Li. 2015. Modern Chinese phonology. In William S-Y Wang & Chaofen Sun (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Chinese Linguistics, pp. 474–489. Oxford: Oxford University Press.