Cognitive science; psycholinguistics; language acquisition; cross-linguistic studies of lexical and sentence processing; bilingualism; connectionist modeling of language learning and language processing. My current research is funded by the National Science Foundation.
Li, P., Zhao, X. & MacWhinney, B. (2007). Dynamic self-organization and early lexical development in children. Cognitive Science, 31, 581-612.
Hernandez, A., & Li, P. (2007). Age of acquisition: Its neural and computational mechanisms. Psychological Bulletin, 133, 638-650.
Li, P., Tan, L, Bates, E., & Tzeng, O.J.L. (2006). Handbook of East Asian Psycholinguistics (Vol.1: Chinese). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. (see more information about the handbook)
Li, P., Farkas, I., & MacWhinney, B. (2004). Early lexical development in a self-organizing neural networks. Neural Networks, 17, 1345-1362.
Li, P., Jin, Z., & Tan, L.H. (2004). Neural representations of nouns and verbs in Chinese: An fMRI study. NeuroImage, 21, 1533-1541.
Li, P. & Shirai, Y. (2000). The acquisition of lexical and grammatical aspect. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter. (see abstract and table of contents of the book).
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