Publications

Journal articles

• Xi, X., Li, P., & Prieto, P. (2024). Improving L2 vowel production with hand gestures encoding visible articulation: Evidence from picture-naming and paragraph-reading tasks. Language Learning
• Li, P., Zhang, Y., Baills, F., & Prieto, P. (2023). Musical perception skills predict speech imitation skills: Differences between speakers of tone and intonation languages. Language and Cognition. 10.1017/langcog.2023.52
• Li, P., Baills, F., Alazard-Guiu, C., Baqué, L., & Prieto, P. (2023). A pedagogical note on teaching L2 prosody and speech sounds using hand gestures. Journal of Second Language Pronunciation, 9(3):1-9. 10.1075/jslp.23043.li
• Li, P., Baills, F., Baqué, L., & Prieto, P. (2023). The effectiveness of the embodied prosodic training in L2 accentedness and vowel accuracy. Second Language Research, 39(4):1077-1105. 10.1177/02676583221124075
• Ozakin, A., Xi, X., Li, P., & Prieto, P. (2023). Thanks or tanks: Training with tactile cues improves learners’ accuracy of English interdental consonants in an oral reading task. Language Learning and Development, 19(4): 404-419. 10.1080/15475441.2022.2107522
• Li, P., Xi, X., Baills, F. & Prieto, P. (2021). Training non-native aspirated plosives with hand gestures: Learners' gesture performance matters. Language Cognition and Neuroscience, 36(10): 1313-1328. 10.1080/23273798.2021.1937663
• Li, P., Baills, F. & Prieto, P. (2020). Observing and producing durational hand gestures facilitates the pronunciation of novel vowel-length contrasts. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 42(5): 1015 - 1039. 10.1017/S0272263120000054 [Reported by La Vanguardia]
• Xi, X., Li, P., Baills, F. & Prieto, P. (2020). Hand gestures facilitate the acquisition of novel phonemic contrasts when appropriately mimic target phonetic features. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 63(11):3571-3585. 10.1044/2020_JSLHR-20-00084
• Li, P. (2017). 周作人散文中的日语借词对现代汉语的影响 [On the impact of Japanese loanwords in Zhou Zuoren’s essays on modern Chinese]. Journal of Hefei University, 36(1), 106-110. 10.3969/j.issn.1673-162x.2017.01.023
• Li, P. (2014). 周作人散文中的日语借词初探 [A preliminary study on Japanese loanwords in Zhou Zuoren's essays]. Journal of Hefei University, 31(4), 58-62. 10.3969/j.issn.1672-920x.2014.04.012

Book chapters

• Li, P., Baills, F., Xi, X., & Prieto, P. (2024). Gesture shape and gesture-speech alignment predict simultaneous L2 sound production accuracy. In A. Brown & S. W. Eskildsen (eds.). Multimodality across Epistemologies in Second Language Research. (pp. 173–186) Now York: Routledge. 10.4324/9781003355670-13
• Li, P. (2018). 周作人和日语借词 [Zhou Zuoren and Japanese loan words]. In Y. Li (ed.). 近代汉日词汇交流研究 [Lexical Interchange between China and Japan in Modern Times]. Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press.

Peer reviewed preceedings

• Li, P., Flege, J., Martin, C., & Kartushina, N. (2023). Speech stability across time: Evidence from Norwegian vowels in spontaneous speech production. In R. Skarnitzl & J. Volín (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS2023) (pp. 1201-1205). Guarant International.
• Li, P. & Xi, X. (2023). Nuclear contours of Spanish echo questions produced by proficient Chinese learners of Spanish: A dynamic analysis. In R. Skarnitzl & J. Volín (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS2023) (pp. 2491-2495). Guarant International.
• Xi, X. & Li, P. (2023). Effects of stress and prominence on Spanish stops and lenition in L2 speech of proficient Mandarin learners of Spanish. In R. Skarnitzl & J. Volín (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS2023) (pp. 2740-2744). Guarant International.
• Xi, X., Li, P., & Prieto, P. (2023). Does visuospatial working memory predict L2 audiovisual perceptual learning from phonetic training with hand gestures? In R. Skarnitzl & J. Volín (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS2023) (pp. 2670-2674). Guarant International.
• Xi, X., Li, P., & Prieto, P. (2023). Reducing acoustic overlap of L2 English vowels through gestures encoding lip aperture. In A. Henderson & A. Kirkova-Naskova (Eds.), Proceedings of the 7th International Conference onEnglish Pronunciation: Issues and Practices (pp. 261–270). Université Grenoble-Alpes.10.5281/zenodo.8225191
• Li, P. & Xi, X. (2022). Spanish lexical stress produced by proficient Mandarin learners of Spanish. In S. Ishihara & M. Tronnier (Eds.), Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Applied Phonetics (ISAPh2022) (pp. 40-45). 10.21437/ISAPh.2022-8
• Xi., X. & Li, P. (2022). Spanish stops and their allophones produced by proficient Mandarin learners of Spanish. In V. H. Do, C. M. Luong, S. Nakamura, H. H., Nguyen, & T. M. H. Nguyen (Eds.), 25th Conference of the Oriental COCOSDA International Committee for the Co-ordination and Standardisation of Speech Databases and Assessment Techniques (O-COCOSDA), 2022 (pp. 152-157). 10.1109/O-COCOSDA202257103.2022.9997932
• Li, P. & Ye, C. (2022). Voice onset time of Japanese stops produced by Shanghainese-Mandarin learners with various Japanese proficiency levels. In E. Babatsouli (Ed), Proceedings of the International Symposium on Monolingual and Bilingual Speech 2022 (pp. 54-60). ISBN: 979-8-218-08730-2
• Li, P., Zhang, Y., Fu, X., & Baills, F., & Prieto, P. (2022). Melodic perceptive skills predict Catalan speakers’ imitation abilities of unfamiliar languages. In S. Frota, M. Cruz, & M. Vigário (Eds.), Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Speech Prosody (pp. 876–880). 10.21437/SpeechProsody.2022-178
• Li, P., Xi, X., Baills, F., & Prieto, P. (2020, accepted). Appropriately performing hand gestures cueing phonetic features facilitates simultaneous speech imitation in an L2. In Proceedings of the 7th GeSpIn Conference. [Author copy]
• Xi, X., Li, P., Baills, F., & Prieto, P. (2020, accepted). Training the pronunciation of L2 novel phonetic features: A comparison of observing versus producing hand gestures. In Proceedings of the 7th GeSpIn Conference. [Author copy]
• Yuan, C. & Li, P. (2019). Interpreting Mandarin positive polar questions. In A. Botinis (Ed.), Proceedings of 10th International Conference of Experimental Linguistics (pp. 213-216).10.36505/ExLing-2019/10/0053/000415
• Li, P. (2011). 借用語から見る日本語の摂取力 [Absorption capacity of Japanese: A study on loanwords in Japanese]. In G. Xiu & Y. Li (Eds.), 異文化コミュニケーションのための日本語教育 [Japanese Education for the Cross-cultural Communication]. Beijing: Higher Education Press

Others

• Li, P. (2021, January 12). 从体验认知视域谈多模态教学——以语音教学为例 [Multimodal learning from the perspective of embodiment: The pronunciation]. 中国社会科学报（中文版）[China Social Science Today, Chinese version]. p.3. [link]