Academic Staff

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LI Mingxing

Associate Professor

3411 5135
OEM 1119
mingxingli@hkbu.edu.hk
Qualifications
  • 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
     
Research Interests
  • 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.
Selected Publications
  • 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.
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