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LI Zeyu

Academic Title：lecturer

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Research Field：Phonetics and Phonology, Sociolinguistics, Second Language Acquisition

Phone：23498730

Email：zeyu.li@nankai.edu.cn

Address：Room 207

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    2019.10 - 2021.03.       University of Münster, Department of English Linguistics, Lecturer


    2017.05 - 2021.03.       University of Münster, Department of English Linguistics, Research assistant

    ·Research Project: Scottish Standard English – phonological and syntactic features and their variation (Third-party funding : DFG - Individual Grants Programme | Project Number: GU 548/13-1); Compilation of International Corpus of English (ICE) – Scotland

    2016.05 - 2017.02.       University of Würzburg, Department of English Linguistics, Research assistant

    ·Research Project: Historical development of Hong Kong English; Multidimensional analysis of academic English by L2 learners of English.


    Education
    05/2017 - 08/2020Ph.D. in English Linguistics, University of Münster, Germany
    10/2014 - 09/2016M.A. in English-Speaking Cultures, University of Würzburg, Germany
    06/2016 - 09/2016Visiting graduate student, Stanford University, USA
    09/2013 - 07/2014German intensive course, F+U Academy of Languages, Heidelberg
    08/2011 - 12/2012M.S.Sc. in Corporate Communication, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    09/2007 - 07/2011B.A. in English, Nankai University


  • Journal articles

    Li, Zeyu & Gut, Ulrike (2022). The distribution of /w/ and /ʍ/ in Scottish Standard English. Journal of Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory.

    Li, Zeyu; Gut, Ulrike; Schützler, Ole (2021). nurse Vowels in Scottish Standard English: Still Distinct or Merged? Journal of English Linguistics. 49.

    Meer, Philipp; Fuchs, Robert; Gerfer, Anika; Gut, Ulrike; Li, Zeyu (2021). Rhotics in Standard Scottish English. English World-Wide 42(2): 121-144. 

    Oyebola, Folajimi; Ho, Bonnie Sin Yu; Li, Zeyu (2019). A sociophonetic study on TH variation in Educated Nigerian English. In Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetics Sciences, Melbourne, Australia (pp. 2320-2323).

    Li, Zeyu & Kabak, Baris (2017). Rhoticity in Chinese English: An experimental investigation on the realization of the variant (r) in an Expanding Circle variety. Alicante Journal of English Studies 30, 61-91.

    Conference talks

    Zeyu Li, Ulrike Gut & Philipp Meer (2021). Patterns of co-variation in Standard Scottish English: The case of /r/, /ʍ/-/w/, and the nurse merger. Paper presented at the 42nd ICAME conference, TU Dortmund University, Germany & Online. 18-21 August 2021.

    Zeyu Li, Ulrike Gut & Philipp Meer (2021). Covariation of phonological features in Scottish Standard English. Paper presented at The International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE 6). University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland. 2-5 June 2021.

    Zeyu Li & Ulrike Gut (2020). The /ʍ/-/w/ contrast in Scottish Standard English. Paper presented at the 41st ICAME conference. Heidelberg, Germany, 20-23 May 2020.

    Ulrike Gut, Zeyu Li, Ole Schützler & Jenny Herzky (2020). ICE-Scotland - a phonologically annotated corpus. Paper presented at the 41st ICAME conference. Heidelberg, Germany, 20-23 May 2020.

    Ole Schützler, Jenny Herzky & Zeyu Li (2019). Scottish Standard English vis-à-vis British and American English: The case of modal must. Paper presented at the 40th ICAME conference. Neuchâtel, Switzerland. 1-5 June 2019.

    Zeyu Li, Ulrike Gut & Ole Schützler (2019). nurse vowels in Scottish Standard English (SSE) – still distinct or merged? Poster presented at UK Language Variation and Change 12 (UKLVC12). London, England. 3-5 September 2019.

    Ole Schützler, Jenny Herzky & Zeyu Li (2019). Variety-specific coding practices within a shared system: Modal verbs expressing strong obligation in Scottish, Southern British and American English. Paper presented at the 8th Biennial International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English. Bamberg, Germany. 26-28 September 2019.

    Philipp Meer, Robert Fuchs, Anika Gerfer, Ulrike Gut & Zeyu Li (2019): ‘Rhotics in Scottish Standard English’. Paper presented at BICLCE 2019 - 8th Biennial International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English, University of Bamberg, Germany. 26-28 September 2019.

    Oyebola Folajimi, Ho Bonnie Sin Yu & Zeyu Li (2019). A Sociophonetic Study on TH Variation in Educated Nigerian English. Poster presented at the International Congress of Phonetics Sciences (ICPHs), Melbourne, Australia. 5-9 August 2019.

    Zeyu Li (2019). Acquisition of postvocalic /r/ by Mandarin-speaking learners of English. Paper presented at R-atics 6. Paris, France. 7-8 November 2019.

    Zeyu Li (2018). Perception and production of rhoticity by L2 learners of English. Paper presented at the 12th Conference on Native and Non-native Accents of English (Accents 2018). Łódź, Poland. 29 Nov – 01 December 2018.

    Zeyu Li (2018). Acquisition of rhoticity by L2 learners of English. Poster presented at LEAD Summer School in L2 Acquisition, University of Tübingen, Germany. 23-27 July 2018.

    Zeyu Li & Baris Kabak (2017). Which factors determine the degree of rhoticity in Expanding Circle Englishes: The case of Chinese English. Paper presented at 7th Biennial International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English (BICLCE7). Universidade de Vigo, Spain. 28-30 September 2017.


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  • Linguistic methods (University of Münster)

    English writing (Nankai University)

    Introduction to Sociolinguistics (Nankai University)




  • Scholarship of Stanford University (2016)

    Scholarship of German Research Foundation (2018-2021)