Hi there! I'm an Assistant Professor in the Department of
Linguistics and Translation at City University of Hong Kong. Before joining CityU,
I earned my Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania in 2024.
My research interests are at the interface of sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics.
In particular, I'm interested in how individuals integrate different types of cues
in their perception and production of language variation.
Feb 2026: My paper "Validating explicit rating tasks for measuring pronunciation biases: A case study of ING variation" just came out in Behavior Research Methods. Paper can be found here.
ainili[at]cityu.edu.hk
Department of Linguistics and Translation, City University of Hong Kong
83, Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR
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