Songqi Li

I have a keen interest in language processing and development ranging from exploring intricate mappings, including word-form mapping at the sub-lexical level, to form-meaning mapping at the conceptual level. In terms of language processing, I am particularly fascinated by how language experience with different grain sizes influences learner’s decoding and encoding strategies as well as cognitive ability. I am deeply intrigued by the implications of these factors on the development of lexicon and literacy skills. My research encompasses a diverse range of participants, including monolinguals, bilinguals spanning across the lifespan, developing children and those with developmental disorders.

With an interdisciplinary lens, I seek to enrich the fields of psycholinguistics and language development with insights that are as robust as they are enlightening. Currently, I am researching Metalinguistic Awareness and the Relationship to Reading Development in Children, specifically this topic involves statistical learning ability of sub-lexical regularities, phonological, orthographical, and morphological awareness. My previous individual projects include Bilingual Cross-language Activation and Lexical Control in Production, which focus on semantic representation, lexical selection, and control with cross-modal experiential design and cognitive adaptation; The Impact of Bilingualism under the Framework of the Interface Hypothesis, which involves the interaction of cognitive abilities and language processing of syntactic-pragmatic interface structure, and an optimization approach to children’s acquisition of Chinese Classifiers, which focuses on Pan and Syntactic Assimilation phenomenon.