Communications

Invited talks

• Li, P. (2025, November). Multimodal phonetic training revisited: Comparing the effects of tactile training and visual training. Language, Cognition, and Communication lab, University of Edinburgh (UK).
• Li, P. (2025, September). How to become a successful second language learner: Learning strategies and career development. School of Foreign Languages, Dezhou University (China).
• Li, P. (2024, June). The acquisition of Spanish lexical stress and intonation by Chinese native speakers. Department of Hispanic Studies, East China Normal University, Shanghai (China).
• Li, P. (2024, April). An explicit training technique: Hand gestures for L2 phonetic training. Guest lecture for Second Language Acquisition (12865101), Master in Teaching and Learning English as a Foreign/Second Language, University of Rovira i Virgili (Spain).
• Li, P. (2023, October). L2 phonology on Norwegians learning Chinese. MultiLing Closing Conference 2023, Oslo (Norway).
• Li, P. (2022, October). Pedagogical terms in L2 classrooms: The issue of directly importing Japanese grammatical terms into Chinese. “What’s in a name?” Labelling concepts and languages 2.0: Expanding the scenery, Oslo (Norway).
• Li, P. (2021, July). Role of hand gestures in L2 segmental learning. Kita’s Lab, University of Warwick, On-line.
• Li, P., Baills, F., Baqué, L., & Prieto, P. (2020, December). The effects of visuospatial hand gestures on the L2 learning of French suprasegmental features and front rounded vowels. Nijmegen-Barcelona L2 Seminar, Online.
• Li, P. (2020, January). Multimodal training of L2 pronunciation: The role of visuospatial hand gestures. Workshop d’UR-Ling 2020, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (Spain).

Oral presentations

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• Li, P., Feng, Q., & Xi, X. (2026, June). Comparing the effectiveness of audio-visual and audio-tactile training in L2 Italian stop acquisition by L1 Mandarin speakers. The 35th Conference of the European Second Language Association (EuroSLA35), Lisbon (Portugal).
• Li, P., Martin, C., & Xi, X. (2025, June). Mandarin speakers’ development of L2 Spanish lexical stress perception and production in a one-year study abroad program. The 6th Phonetics and Phonology in Europe (PaPE2025), Palma (Spain).
• Gardner, Q., Chondrogianni, V., Li, P., & Branigan, H. (2025, June). Morphophonological effects on morphosyntactic processing during L2 English real-time comprehension. The 15th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB15), Donostia (Spain).
• Yang, S.#, Li, P., Martin, C., & Stoehr, A. (2025, April). The role of domain-general auditory ability in foreign language learning: Training L1-Spanish speakers in the perception and production of lexical tones in a multi-session study. The 10th International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech (New Sounds 2025), Toronto (Canada).
• Xi, X. & Li, P. (2024, August). Exploring the influence of study abroad on L2 perception of segmental and prosodic contrasts: A focus on Chinese learners studying in Spain. The 21st International Association of Applied Linguistics World Congress (AILA2024), Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia).
• Li, P., & Xi, X. (2024, July). The perception of Spanish lexical stress by proficient Mandarin learners of Spanish. The 12th International Conference on Speech Prosody (SP2024), Leiden (the Netherlands).
• Xi, X., Zhou, S., & Li, P. (2024, July). Duration as a prosodic marker of contextual factors in Mandarin positive polar questions. The 12th International Conference on Speech Prosody (SP2024), Leiden (the Netherlands).
• Xi, X. & Li, P. (2023, November). Spanish imperatives produced by proficient Chinese learners of Spanish: The differences in prenuclear pitch accent and boundary tones. The 2nd International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI2023), Singapore.
• Xi, X. & Li, P. (2023, October). The effects of study abroad on the perception of L2 Spanish stops and lexical stress by L1 Chinese learners. The 10th International Conference on Second Language Acquisition Research in China, Jinan (China).
• Li, P., Flege, J., Martin, C., & Kartushina, N. (2023, September). A longitudinal perception study on the establishment of L2 categories. The 14th annual Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching (PSLLT2023), West Lafayette (USA).
• Li, P., Martin, C., & Kartushina, N. (2023, September). Language dominance and code-switching shape vowel production in Basque-Spanish bilinguals. Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP29), San Sebastián (Spain).
• Li, P., Flege, J., Martin, C., & Kartushina, N. (2023, August). Speech sound stability over time: Evidence from Norwegian vowels in spontaneous speech production. The 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS2023), Prague (Czechia).
• Li, P. & Xi, X. (2023, August). Nuclear contours of Spanish echo questions produced by proficient Chinese learners of Spanish: A dynamic analysis. The 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS2023), Prague (Czechia). Gösta Bruce Scholarship by Gösta Bruce Memorial Fund through IPA
• Xi, X., Li, P., & Prieto, P. (2023, August). Does visuospatial working memory predict L2 audiovisual perceptual learning from phonetic training with hand gestures? The 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS2023), Prague (Czechia).
• Xi, X., Li, P., & Prieto, P. (2023, March). Training Catalan speakers English /æ/-/ʌ/ and /i/-/ɪ/ with hand gestures. The 2023 Conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL2023), Portland (USA).
• Xi, X. & Li, P. (2022, November). Spanish stops and their allophones produced by proficient Mandarin learners of Spanish. The 25th Conference of the Oriental COCOSDA (O-COCOSDA2022), On-line event.
• Xi, X., Li, P., & Prieto, P. (2022, July). Hand gestures encoding articulatory feature and the learning of L2 vowels: the effects of visual accessibility. The 9th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS9), Chicago (USA).
• Xi, X., Li, P. & Prieto, P. (2022, May). Hand gestures cueing visible mouth aperture help the pronunciation of novel L2 English vowel pair. The 7th International Conference on English Pronunciation: Issues and Practices (EPIP7), Grenoble (France).
• Li, P. & Ye, C. (2022, April). Bilingual (dis)advantages interact with foreign language proficiency: Evidence from Japanese plosives produced by Shanghainese-Mandarin and Mandarin speakers. International Symposium on Monolingual and Bilingual Speech (ISMBS), Lafayette (USA).
• Xi, X., Li, P. & Prieto, P. (2022, April). Training English vowels with hand gestures: the effects of encoding articulatory movements to different degrees of visual accessibility. New Sounds 2022, Barcelona (Spain).
• Li, P. & Xi, X. (2021, October). The realization of Spanish lexical stress and vowel quality by high-proficiency Mandarin learners of Spanish. The 3rd International Conference on Language Education and Research, On-line event.
• Xi, X. & Li, P. (2021, October). Production of Spanish stops and approximants by Mandarin learners of Spanish. The 3rd International Conference on Language Education and Research, On-line event.
• Li, P., Xi, X., Baills, F. & Prieto, P. (2021, July). Actively producing hand gestures mimicking articulatory features favors the acquisition of novel words containing those features. The 30th Conference of the European Second Language Association (EuroSLA 30), Barcelona (Spain).
• Xi, X., Li, P., Baills, F. & Prieto, P. (2021, July). Hand gestures facilitate the acquisition of novel phonemic contrasts when adequately encoding target articulatory features. The 30th Conference of the European Second Language Association (EuroSLA 30), Barcelona (Spain).
• Li, P., Xi, X., Baills, F., & Prieto, P. (2020, September). Appropriately performing hand gestures cueing phonetic features facilitates simultaneous speech imitation in an L2. The 7th Gesture and Speech in Interaction Conference (GESPIN2020), Stockholm (Sweden).
• Xi, X., Li, P., Baills, F., & Prieto, P. (2020, September). Training the pronunciation of L2 novel phonetic features: a comparison of observing versus producing hand gestures. The 7th Gesture and Speech in Interaction Conference (GESPIN2020), Stockholm (Sweden).
• Li, P., Baills, F., & Prieto, P. (2019, June). Durational hand gestures facilitate the learning of L2 vowel length contrasts. The 3rd Phonetics and Phonology in Europe Conference (PaPE 2019), Lecce (Italy). Best talk award by LabPhon
• Li, P., Baills, F., & Prieto, P. (2019, September). Does the use of visuospatial hand gestures facilitate the learning of L2 vowel length contrasts? The 28th Conference of the European Second Language Association (EuroSLA 28), Münster (Germany).
• Li, P., Baills, F., & Prieto, P. (2019, September). Que l’ús de gestos facilita l’aprenentatge de la durada vocàlica en una segona llengua? Xè Workshop sobre la Prosòdia del Català, Barcelona (Spain).
• Li, P., & Liu, M. (2015, May). On the Japanese loanwords in Zhou Zuoren’s essays: A corpus-based study. International Symposium on Corpus Linguistics 2015, Tianjin (China).
• Li, Y., & Li, P. (2013, March). 周作人の文章にみられる新漢語 [“New Kango” in Zhou Zuoren’s essays]. International Symposium on Modern East Asian Language Contact, Seoul (Korea).
• Li, P. (2011, August). 借用語から見る日本語の摂取力 [Absorption capacity of Japanese: A study on loanwords in Japanese]. The 10th International Conference on Japanese Language Education (ICJLE), Tianjin (China).

Poster presentations

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• Yang, S.#, Li, P., Martin, C., & Stoehr, A. (2026, June). The effects of auditory processing on Spanish children’s perception of English /i/-/ɪ/ contrast. The 35th Conference of the European Second Language Association (EUROSLA35), Lisbon (Portugal).
• Cordero-Rull, M., Li, P., & Martin, C. (2026, June). Talk to the hand: Investigating the multimodal nature of foreigner-directed speech and gesture. International Symposium on Bilingual and L2 Processing in Adults and Children 2026 (ISBPAC2026), Reading (UK).
• Hu, H.#, Piazza, G., Cordero-Rull, M., Kalashnikova, M., Li, P., & Martin, C. (2026, May). Universal or speaker-dependent? Acoustic adjustments in foreign-directed speech. Conference on Multilingualism 2026 (COM2026), Toulouse (France).
• Yang, S.#, Li, P., Martin, C., & Stoehr, A. (2026, May). Auditory processing modulation of L2 vowel perception and production in preadolescents. Conference on Multilingualism 2026 (COM2026), Toulouse (France).
• Drogata, A.#, Li, P., & Stoehr, A. (2026, May). Auditory processing abilities and the effects of phonetic training in L2 English stops. Conference on Multilingualism 2026 (COM2026), Toulouse (France).
• Cordero-Rull, M.#, Li, P., & Martin, C. (2026, May). Beyond words: How native speakers adapt speech and gestures to non-native speakers. Conference on Multilingualism 2026 (COM2026), Toulouse (France).
• Qiu, Y.#, Martin, C., & Li, P. (2025, June). Speech meets reading: orthographic knowledge modulates speech categorization. The 6th Phonetics and Phonology in Europe (PaPE2025), Palma (Spain).
• Xi, X., Shea, C., & Li, P. (2025, June). A longitudinal study of perception and production of L2 Spanish stops and the role of individual differences. The 6th Phonetics and Phonology in Europe (PaPE2025), Palma (Spain).
• Yang, S.#, Li, P., Martin, C., & Stoehr, A. (2025, June). Rewriting auditory ability for language learning: Spanish native speakers’ acquisition of voiceless aspirated stops. The 34th Conference of the European Second Language Association (EUROSLA34), Tromsø (Norway).
• Li, P., Martin, C., & Xi, X. (2025, June). The effects of study abroad on L2 lexical stress learning: a longitudinal study. The 15th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB15), Donostia (Spain).
• Yang, S.#, Li, P., Martin, C., & Stoehr, A. (2025, June). Is there a bilingual advantage in foreign language phonological acquisition? Training Spanish-Basque bilinguals in the acquisition of lexical tones in a multi-session study. The 15th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB15), Donostia (Spain).
• Qiu, Y.#, Stoehr, A., Martin, C., & Li, P. (2025, May). Speech meets reading: orthographic knowledge modulates speech categorization. XVII International Symposium of Psycholinguistics (ISP17), Barcelona (Spain).
• Xing, L.#, Li, P., Singh, A., & Kartushina, N. (2025, February). Efficacy and generalization of L2 articulatory feedback training: When quality overrides quantity. Phonology in the Nordic Countries (FiNo2025), Oslo (Norway).
• Li, P., Flege, J., Martin, C., & Kartushina, N. (2024, June). Variability and stability in individuals’ speech sound production over time. International Workshop on Language Production (IWOLP2024), Marseille (France).
• Kartushina, N., Li, P., & Martin, C. (2024, June). Vowel systems of early Basque-Spanish bilinguals: The role of language use and code-switching habits in phonetic differentiation. International Workshop on Language Production (IWOLP2024), Marseille (France).
• Li, P., Ioannidou, I.#, Marazzina, I.#, Pericacho, P.#, Reardon, B.#, & Xing, L.# (2024, July). Exploring the role of personality traits in the imitation abilities of non-native speech in familiar and unfamiliar languages. The 12th International Conference on Speech Prosody (SP2024), Leiden (the Netherlands).
• Xi, X. & Li, P. (2024, June). Exploring perceptual development of L2 phonological contrasts during a study abroad program. The 19th Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon19), Seoul (Korea).
• Li, P., Flege, J., Martin, C., & Kartushina, N. (2023, September). Regressive transfer from L2 to L1 in speech production after a study abroad program. Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP29), San Sebastián (Spain).
• Xi, X. & Li, P. (2023, August). Effects of stress and prominence on Spanish stops and lenition in L2 speech of proficient Mandarin learners of Spanish. The 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS2023), Prague (Czechia).
• Li, P., Martin, C., & Kartushina, N. (2023, June). A comparison of Spanish and Gipuzkoa Basque vowels produced by Basque-Spanish bilinguals. The 5th Phonetics and Phonology in Europe (PaPE2023), Nijmegen (the Netherlands).
• Li, P. & Xi, X. (2023, June). The prosodic realization of Spanish focus in nuclear position by proficient Chinese learners of Spanish: The case of broad, corrective and contrastive foci. The 5th Phonetics and Phonology in Europe (PaPE2023), Nijmegen (the Netherlands).
• Xi, X., Li, P., & Prieto, P. (2023, June). In L2 phonetic training, learners benefit more with hand gestures cueing visually salient articulatory information. The 5th Phonetics and Phonology in Europe (PaPE2023), Nijmegen (the Netherlands).
• Li, P. & Xi, X. (2022, September). Spanish lexical stress produced by proficient Mandarin learners of Spanish. The 4th International Symposium on Applied Phonetics (ISAPh4), Lund (Sweden).
• Li, P., Zhang, Y., Fu, X., Baills, F., & Prieto, P. (2022, May). Melodic perceptive skills predict Catalan speakers’ imitation abilities of unfamiliar languages. 11th International Conference on Speech Prosody (SP2022), Lisbon (Portugal).
• Ozakin, A., Xi, X., Li, P., & Prieto, P. (2021, June). Thanks or tanks: training with tactile cues facilitates the pronunciation of English interdental consonants. 12th Annual Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching Conference (PSLLT 2021), On-line event.
• Li, P., Baills, F., Baqué, L., & Prieto, P. (2021, June). Embodied prosodic training enhances the learning of L2 pronunciation and specific vocalic features. The 4th Phonetics and Phonology in Europe Conference (PaPE 2021), Barcelona (Spain). Best poster award by LabPhon
• Yuan, C., & Li, P. (2019, September). Interpreting Mandarin positive polar questions. The 10th Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics (ExLing 2019), Lisbon (Portugal).
• Li, P., & Prieto, P. (2019, August). A short training with durational hand gestures improves Catalan speakers’ pronunciation of Japanese vowel length contrasts. The 9th International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech (New Sounds 2019), Tokyo (Japan).
• Li, P., Baills, F., & Prieto, P. (2019, April). Durational hand gestures facilitate the learning of L2 vowel length contrasts. XIV International Symposium of Psycholinguistics (ISP), Tarragona (Spain).