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Books and Edited Volumes

 Li, P., & Green, D. (2007). Introduction to Neurocognitive approaches to bilingualism: Asian languages. A special issue of Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 10, 117-119.

   Klein, W., & Li, P. (2007). The expression of time in language. Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter. (A volume of the Expression of Cognitive Categories series).

   Li, P., Tan, L.-H., Bates, E., & Tzeng, O. (2006). Handbook of East Asian Psycholinguistics (Vol. 1: Chinese Psycholinguistics). Cambridge University Press. (General Editor: Li, P.)

   Nakayama, M., Mazuka, R., Shirai, Y. (2006). Handbook of East Asian Psycholinguistics (Vol. 2: Japanese Psycholinguistics). Cambridge University Press. (General Editor: Li, P.)

   Lee, Chungmin, Kim, Y., Simpson, G. (2007). Handbook of East Asian Psycholinguistics (Vol. 3: Korean Psycholinguistics). Cambridge University Press. (General Editor: Li, P.)

   Li, P., & Shirai, Y. (2000). The acquisition of lexical and grammatical aspect. Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter.

Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals

   Chan, A., Luke, K., Li, P., Li, G., Yip, V., Weekes, B., & Tan, L. (2007). Neural correlates of nouns and verbs in early bilinguals. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (Eds., In G. Eden & D.L. Flowers: A special issue on skill acquisition, reading, and dyslexia).

Chen, L., Shu, H., Liu, Y., & Li, P. (2007). ERP signatures of subject-verb agreement in L2 learning. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 10, 161-174.

Guo, J., Shu, H., & Li, P. (2007). Context effects in lexical ambiguity procesing in Chinese: A meta-analysis. Journal of Cognitive Science, 8, 91-107.

Li, P., Zhao, X., & MacWhinney, B. (2007). Dynamic Self-Organization and children’s word learning. Cognitive Science, 31(4), 581-612.

Hernandez, A., & Li, P. (2007). Age of acquisition: Its neural and computational mechanisms.  Psychological Bulletin, 133, 638-650.

Sepanski, S., & Li, P. (2007). Sentence processing in late bilinguals: Comprehension of form and meaning. Journal of Cognitive Science, 8, 69-89.

Zhao, X., & Li, P. (2007). The acquisition of lexical and grammatical aspect in a developmental lexicon model. Linguistics: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Language Sciences.  (in press)

Xing, H., Shu, H., & Li, P. (2007). A self-organizing connectionist model of vocabulary acquisition by elementary school children. Contemporary Linguistics. (Journal of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; in Chinese)

Liu, Y., & Shu, H., & Li, P. (2007). Word naming and psycholinguistic norms: Chinese. Behavior Research Methods, 39, 192-198.

Li, P., & Xing, H. (2006). Disease but no sheep. Science, 311, 1867.

Li, P., Sepanski, S., & Zhao, X. (2006). Language history questionnaires: A web-based interface for bilingual research. Behavioral Research Methods, 38, 202-210.

Li, X., Shu, H., Liu, Y.Y., & Li, P. (2006). Mental representation of verb meanings: Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 18, 1774-1787.

Li, P., & Cunningham, K. (2005). The APA Style Converter: A Web-based interface for converting articles to APA Style for publication. Behavior Research Methods, 37, 219-223.

Hernandez, A., Li, P., & MacWhinney, B. (2005). The emergence of competing modules in bilingualism. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 9, 220-225.

Li, P. (2004). Overgeneralization, competition, and recovery: Solving the logical problem with positive evidence. Journal of Child Language, 31, 931-933.

Li, P., Farkas, I., & MacWhinney (2004). Early lexical acquisition in a self-organizing neural network. Neural Networks, 17, 1345-1362.

Li, P., Jin, Z., & Tan, L. (2004). Neural representations of nouns and verbs in Chinese: An fMRI study. NeuroImage, 21, 1533-1541.

Xing, H., Shu, H., & Li, P. (2004). The acquisition of Chinese characters: Corpus analyses and connectionist simulations. Journal of Cognitive Science, 5, 1-49.

Grosjean, F., Li, P., Münte, T., & Rodriguez-Fornells, A. (2003). Imaging bilinguals: When the neurosciences meet the language sciences. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 6, 159-165.

Li, P. (2002). Loglinear models for the analysis of language acquisition data. Journal of Cognitive Science, 3, 27-41.

Li, P. (2002). Connectionist models of language acquisition. Contemporary Linguistics, 4, 164-175. (Journal of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; in Chinese)

Li, P. (2002). Bilingualism is in dire need of formal models. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 5, 213.

Li, P., & MacWhinney, B. (2002). PatPho: A phonological pattern generator for neural networks. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers, 34, 408-415.

Li, P., Maher, S., Newmark, E., & Hurley, J. (2001). The role of parental input in the acquisition of aspect. Journal of Cognitive Science, 2, 119-143.

MacWhinney, B., James, J., Schunn, C., Li, P., & Schneider, W. (2001). STEP—A system for teaching experimental psychology using E-prime. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers, 33, 287-296.

Klein, W., Li, P., & Hendriks, H. (2000). Aspect and assertion in Mandarin Chinese. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 18, 723-770.

Lu, C., Bates, E., Li, P., Tzeng, O., Hung, D., Tsai, C., Lee, S., & Chung, Y. (2000). Judgment of grammaticality in aphasia: The special case of Chinese. Aphasiology, 14, 1021-1054.

Li, P. (1998). Mental control, language tags, and language nodes in bilingual lexical processing. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 1, 92-93.

Li, P. & Bowerman, M. (1998). The acquisition of lexical and grammatical aspect in Chinese. First Language, 18, 311-350.

Li, P., & Yip, M. (1998). Context effects and the processing of spoken homophones. Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 10, 223-243. (reprinted in C.K. Leong & K. Tamaoka (eds.), Cognitive Processing of the Chinese and Japanese Languages, pp. 69-89, Kluwer Academic Publishers).

Li, P. (1996). Spoken word recognition of code-switched words by Chinese-English bilinguals. Journal of Memory and Language, 35, 757-774.

Li, P. (1996). The temporal structure of spoken sentence comprehension in Chinese. Perception and Psychophysics, 58, 571-586.

Li, P. (1996). Why don’t L2 learners end up with uniform and perfect linguistic competence? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 19, 733-734.

Li, P., & MacWhinney, B. (1996). Cryptotype, overgeneralization, and competition:  A connectionist model of the learning of English reversive prefixes. Connection Science, 8, 3-30.  

   Li, P. (1993). A pragmatic survey of locatives in Mandarin Chinese. Forum on Linguistics, 18, 3-37. (in Chinese)

Li, P., Bates, E., & MacWhinney, B. (1993). Processing a language without inflections: A reaction time study of sentence interpretation in Chinese. Journal of Memory and Language, 32, 169-192.

Bates, E., Chen, S., Li, P., Opie, M., & Tzeng, O. (1993). Where is the boundary between compounds and phrases in Chinese? A reply to Zhou et al. Brain and Language, 45, 94-107.

Liu, H., Bates, E., & Li, P. (1992). Sentence interpretation in bilingual speakers of English and Chinese. Applied Psycholinguistics, 13, 451-484. 

Bates, E., Chen, S., Tzeng, O., Li, P., & Opie, M. (1991). The noun-verb problem in Chinese aphasia. Brain and Language, 41, 203-233.

   Li, P. (1987). Verb-complement constructions in Chinese classics Shishuo xinyu and Baiyujing. Forum on Linguistics, 14, 129-157. (in Chinese)

Book Chapters

Li, P. (2007). What’s in a lexical system? The emergence of semantic structure in lexical acquisition. In V. Gathercole (Ed.), Language acquisition: A festschrift to Melissa Bowerman. (in press)

Li, P., & Zhao, X. (2007). Computational modeling of the expression of time. The expression of time in language. Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter. (in press)

MacWhinney, B., & Li, P. (2007). Neurolinguistic computational models. In B. Stemmer & W. Whitaker (Eds.), Handbook of the neuroscience of language. Elsevier Science Publisher. (in press)

Li, P. (2006). In search of meaning: The acquisition of semantic structure and morphological systems. In J. Luchjenbroers (Ed.) Cognitive linguistics investigations across languages, fields, and philosophical boundaries (pp.109-137). Amsterdam, Holland: John Benjamins, Inc.

Li, P. (2006). Modeling language acquisition and processing in connectionist networks. In Li, P., Tan, L-H., Bates, E., & Tzeng, O. (Eds.), Handbook of East Asian Psycholinguistics (Vol. 1: Chinese). (pp.320-329). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Li, P., Tan, L., Bates, E., & Tzeng, O. (2006). New frontiers in Chinese psycholinguistics: An introduction. In Li, P., Bates, E., Tan, L-H., & Tzeng, O. (Eds.), Handbook of East Asian Psycholinguistics (Vol. 1: Chinese). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press (pp. 1-9).

Li, P. (2003). Language acquisition in a self-organising neural network model. In P. Quinlan (Ed.) Connectionist models of development: Developmental processes in real and artificial neural networks (pp. 115-149). Hove & New York: Psychology Press. 

Li, P. (2002). Emergent semantic structure and language acquisition: A Dynamic perspective. In H. Kao, C.K. Leong, & G.D., Guo  (Eds.) Cognitive neuroscience studies of the Chinese language (pp. 79-98). Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.

   Li, P. (2002). Aspect and cryptotype: A new approach to an old problem. In T. H-T. Lee, G. Tang, & V. Yip (Eds.), CUHK Papers in Linguistics No. 5. (Special Issue on Language Acquisition: East Asian Perspectives). Hong Kong, China: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press.

Li, P., & Farkas, I. (2002).  A self-organizing connectionist model of bilingual processing. In R. Heredia & J. Altarriba (Eds.), Bilingual sentence processing (pp. 59-85). North-Holland: Elsevier Science Publisher.

Li, P., Shu, H., Yip, M., Y. Zhang, & Y. Tang. (2002). Lexical ambiguity in sentence processing: Evidence from Chinese. In M. Nakayma (Ed.) Crosslinguistic sentence processing (pp. 111-129). Stanford, CA: Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications.

Li, P. (1998). Crosslinguistic variation and sentence processing: The case of Chinese. In D. Hillert (Ed.), Sentence processing: A crosslinguistic perspective. (Vol. 31 of Syntax and Semantics; pp.33-51). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.

Li, P. (1994). Understanding the time course of sentence comprehension: A sentence gating study in Mandarin Chinese. In H.-W. Chang, J.-T. Huang, C.-W. Hue, & O. Tzeng (Eds.), Advances in the study of Chinese language processing. Vol.1, Taipei: National Taiwan University Press, 303-323.

Bates, E., Elman, J., & Li. P. (1994). Language in, on, and about time. In M. Haith, J. Benson, R. Roberts, & B. Pennington (Eds.), The development of future-oriented processes (pp. 293-321). Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press.

Li, P. (1993). The acquisition of the zai and ba constructions in Mandarin Chinese. In: J.C.P. Liang & R.P.E. Sybesma (Eds.) From classical ‘Fú’ to ‘Three inches high’: Studies on Chinese in honor of Erik Zürcher (pp. 103-120). Leuven/Apeldoorn: Garant Publishers.

   Li, P., Bates, E., Liu, H., & MacWhinney, B. (1992). Cues as functional constraints on sentence processing in Chinese. In H.C. Chen & O. Tzeng (Eds.), Language processing in Chinese (pp. 207-234). Series of Advances in Psychology. North-Holland: Elsevier Science Publisher.

   Li, P. (1988). Acquisition of spatial reference in Chinese. In P. Jordens & J. Lalleman (eds.), Language development  (pp. 83-99). Dordrecht: Foris.

Peer-Reviewed Articles in Conference Proceedings

Zhao, X., & Li, P. (2007). Bilingual lexical representation in a self-organizing neural network. In D. S. McNamara & J. G. Trafton (Eds.), Proceedings of the 29th Annual Cognitive Science Society (pp. 755-760). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. (Awarded Best Computational Modeling Prize)

Yang, J., Zevin, J., Shu, H., McCandliss, B., & Li, P. (2006). A triangle model of Chinese reading. Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 912-917). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Zhao, X., & Li, P. (2005). A self-organizing connectionist model of early word production. Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2434-2439). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Farkas, I., & Li, P. (2002). DevLex: A self-organizing neural network model of the development of lexicon. In L. Wang et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Neural Information Processing, #1514, CCE. Singapore: Nanyang Technology University.

Farkas, I., & Li, P. (2002). Modeling the development of lexicon with a growing self-organizing map. In H.J. Caulfield et al. (Eds). Proceedings of the Sixth Joint Conference on Information Science (pp.553-556). Durham, NC: Association for Intelligent Machinery, Inc.

Xing, H., Shu, H., & Li, P. (2002). A self-organizing connectionist model of character acquisition in Chinese. In W.D. Gray & C.D. Schunn (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 950-955). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Farkas, I., & Li, P. (2001). A self-organizing neural network model of the acquisition of word meaning. In E.M. Altmann, A. Cleeremans, C.D. Schunn, & W.D. Gray (Eds.), Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (pp. 67-72). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Zhang, Y.X., Shu, H., Li, P., Liu, Y.Y., & Zhou, X. (2001). Inhibitory processes, homophone meanings recognition, and spoken discourse comprehension in Chinese. In L. Chen & Y. Zhou (Eds.), Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Cognitive Science (pp. 221-226). Beijing: University of Science and Technology of China Press.

Li, P. (2000). The acquisition of tense-aspect morphology in a self-organizing feature map model. In Lila R. Gleitman & Aravind K. Joshi (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp.304-309). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Li, P., Burgess, C., & Lund, K. (2000). The acquisition of word meaning through global lexical co-occurrences. In E. V. Clark (Ed.), Proceedings of the Thirtieth Annual Child Language Research Forum (pp.167-178). Stanford, CA: Center for the Study of Language and Information.

Li, P. (1999). Generalization, representation, and recovery in a self-organizing feature-map model of language acquisition. In M. Hahn & S.C. Stoness (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-First Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp.308-313). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Li, P., & Yip, C.W. (1996). Lexical ambiguity and context effects in spoken word recognition: Evidence from Chinese. In G. Cottrell (Ed.), Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society  (pp.228-232). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Li, P. (1993). Cryptotypes, form-meaning mappings, and overgeneralizations. In E. V. Clark (Ed.), Proceedings of the Twenty-fourth Child Language Research Forum (pp. 162-178). Stanford, CA: Center for the Study of Language and Information. 

Liu, H., Bates, E., & Li, P. (1992). Grammaticality judgment in Chinese-English bilinguals: A gating experiment. In Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 95-99). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

 Book Reviews and Editorials:

Li, P. (2005). War on language. Richmond Times-Dispatch, Section: Commentary; Page: E6, December 11, 2005.

Li, P. (2005). Editorial tribute to Elizabeth Bates. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 8, i-ii.

Li, P., Tan, L., & Tzeng, O.J.L. (2004) Epilogue: A tribute to Elizabeth Bates. In Li, P., Tan, L-H., Bates, E., & Tzeng, O. (Eds.), Handbook of East Asia Psycholinguistics (Vol. 1: Chinese). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Li, P. (2003). Raising children bilingual: Should we, and when? (Review of Bilingualism in development: Language, literacy, and cognition by E. Bialystok). Contemporary Psychology, 48, 667-669.

Li, P. (2001). Review of The biological basis of language (Ed., Ovid J.L. Tzeng). Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 29, 151-157.

   Li, P. (1993). Review of Modern psychological research (Ed., S. Wang). Bulletin of the Hong Kong Psychological Society,  30, 119-125.

   Li, P. (1991). Review of The crosslinguistic study of sentence processing (eds., Elizabeth Bates & Brian MacWhinney). Linguistics,  29, 549-555.

Media Coverage

Hostetler, A.J. (October, 2004). Language and the brain. Richmond Times-Dispatch, Section F1-F2, Oct. 21, 2004. (research from our lab was featured in the article).

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