Publications

Book Chapters

• Daoxin Li & Sandra R. Waxman. (2025). Infant word learning. To appear in Hilary Nesi & Petar Milin (Eds.), International encyclopedia of language and linguistics (3rd edition). Elsevier. (Advance online publication.) doi: 10.1016/B978-0-323-95504-1.00857-7

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

• Daoxin Li. (2024). Controlling overt subjects in Mandarin. Journal of East Asian Linguistics, 33, 333-366. doi: 10.1007/s10831-024-09280-2 PDF

• Daoxin Li & Kathryn D. Schuler. (2023). Acquiring recursive structures through distributional learning. Language Acquisition, 30(3-4), 323-336. doi: 10.1080/10489223.2023.2185522 Awarded Language Acquisition 2023 Best Paper by an Untenured Scientist

• Li Yin, R. Malatesha Joshi, Daoxin Li, & Seon-Kee Kim. (2020). Decisions about consonant doubling among non-native speakers of English: Graphotactic and phonological influences. Reading and Writing, 33, 1839-1858. doi: 10.1007/s11145-020-10017-5

Peer-reviewed Conference Articles

• Daoxin Li & Kathryn Schuler. (2024). Children can use distributional cues to acquire recursive structures. In Proceedings of the 46th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2024) (pp. 1925-1932). PDF

• Daoxin Li, Christine Soh Yue, & John Trueswell. (2024). Is it a bat or a thing? Referential contrast in the learning of homophones and superordinate terms. In Proceedings of the 46th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2024) (pp. 2301-2307). PDF

• Qing Lyu, Hua Zheng, Daoxin Li, Li Zhang, Marianna Apidianaki, & Chris Callison-Burch. (2022). Is “my favorite new movie” my favorite movie? Probing the understanding of recursive noun phrases. Proceedings of the 2022 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2022), 5286–5302. doi: 10.18653/v1/2022.naacl-main.388 Data&code

• Daoxin Li & Kathryn Schuler. (2021). Distributional learning of recursive structures. In Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2021) (pp. 1437-1443). PDF

Conference Articles with Peer-reviewed Abstracts

• Daoxin Li & Kathryn D. Schuler. (To appear). Children can use distributional cues to acquire recursive structures. In Proceedings of the 49th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 49). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

• Daoxin Li. (2024). Modelling the distributional learning of verb argument structure. In Hayat Abdullah Ali AlThagafi and Jupitara Ray (Eds.), Proceedings of the 48th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 48) (pp. 313-326). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. PDF

• Daoxin Li & Kathryn Schuler. (2023). Distributional learning of recursive structures: The role of structural representation. In Paris Gappmayr and Jackson Kellogg (Eds.), Proceedings of the 47th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 47) (pp. 487-498). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. PDF

• Daoxin Li, Shengqi Zhong, & Kathryn Schuler. (2023). Adapting infant looking time paradigms for the web. In Paris Gappmayr and Jackson Kellogg (Eds.), Proceedings of the 47th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 47) (pp. 499-504). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. PDF

• Daoxin Li. (2023). Passives, impersonals, and Voice in Sakha. In Si Kai Lee, Sarah Asinari & Sabine Lazakovits (Eds.), Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic (Tu+7), (pp. 88-103). doi: 10.3765/ptu.v7i1.5308

• Daoxin Li. (2022). Syntactic bootstrapping mental verbs and perception verbs with limited morphosyntactic cues. In Ying Gong & Felix Kpogo (Eds.), Proceedings of the 46th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 46) (pp. 428-441). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. PDF

• Daoxin Li, Lydia Grohe, Petra Schulz, & Charles Yang. (2021). The distributional learning of recursive structures. In Danielle Dionne & Lee-Ann Vidal Covas (Eds.), Proceedings of the 45th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 45) (pp. 471-485). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. PDF

• Daoxin Li. (2021). Controlling overt subjects in Mandarin. In Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, 6(1), 303-316. doi: 10.3765/plsa.v6i1.4973

• Daoxin Li, Xiaolu Yang, Thomas Roeper, Michael Wilson, Rong Yin, Jaieun Kim, Emma Merritt, Diego Lopez, & Austin Tero. (2020). Acquisition of recursion in child Mandarin. In Megan M. Brown & Alexandra Kohut (Eds.), Proceedings of the 44th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 44) (pp. 294-307). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. PDF

Manuscripts

• Daoxin Li & Kathryn D. Schuler. (In revision). Children’s distributional learning of recursive structures: Capacities and constraints. Preprint

• Daoxin Li & Kathryn D. Schuler. (In revision). Distributional learning of recursive structures is constrained by structural representation. Preprint

• Daoxin Li & Charles Yang. (In prep). Productivity and the distributional learning of recursive structures.

• Daoxin Li & John Trueswell. (In prep). One meaning or two? The role of referential contrast in the learning of homophones and superordinate terms.

• Kathryn D. Schuler, Daoxin Li, & Shengqi Zhong. (In prep). Adapting the head turn preference procedure for the web.

Current and Past Collaborators

I have been fortunate to work with a wonderful group of researchers: Lydia Grohe, Julie Anne Legate, Alison Lobo, Veronica Lyu, Tom Roeper, Katie Schuler, Petra Schulz, John Trueswell, Sandra Waxman, Charles Yang, Xiaolu Yang, Li Yin, Christine Soh Yue, Iris Zhong