CV
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General Information
| Full Name | Meixian (Vicky) Li |
| meixian.li@connect.polyu.hk | |
| Affiliation | The Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
| Location | Hong Kong SAR, China |
Education
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2020–2022 M.S. in Speech-Language Pathology
MGH Institute of Health Professions, Boston, USA - Thesis — The Effect of Feedback Timing on Feedback-Based Probabilistic Learning in Children with Developmental Language Disorder.
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2016–2020 B.A. in Speech, Language & Hearing Science (Dean’s List)
The George Washington University, Washington, D.C., USA
Employment
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2022–2023 In-site Speech-Language Pathologist
Massachusetts Public Schools System – Department of Special Education, Quincy, USA
Publications
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2026 A corpus-based study of creaky voice production in English and Mandarin
Proceedings of Interspeech 2026, pp. 1779–1783. DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2026-3235 - Li, M., Yao, Y., & Chang, C. B.
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2026 Social perception of creaky voice in Mandarin Chinese: everyone’s gender matters
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 13, Article 703. DOI: 10.1057/s41599-026-07108-z - Yao, Y., Li, M., & Chang, C. B.
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2024 Perceiving the social meanings of creaky voice in Mandarin Chinese
Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2024, pp. 652–656. DOI: 10.21437/SpeechProsody.2024-132 - Yao, Y., Li, M., Li, S., & Chang, C. B.
Conference Presentations & Posters
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2026 - Li, M., Yao, Y., & Chang, C. B. (September 29). A corpus-based study of creaky voice production in English and Mandarin. Oral presentation, Interspeech 2026, Sydney, Australia.
- Li, M., Yao, Y., & Chang, C. B. Cross-language variation in sociophonetic perception reflects language effects. Poster presentation, Laboratory Phonology 20, Montreal, Canada.
- Li, M., Yao, Y., & Chang, C. B. Gender effects in creaky voice production in English and Mandarin: Men are creakier. Oral presentation, Hanyang International Symposium on Phonetics and Cognitive Sciences of Language (HISPhonCog 2026), Seoul, South Korea.
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2025 - Li, M., Yao, Y., & Chang, C. B. Cross-linguistic social perception of creaky voice by Mandarin-English bilinguals. Poster presentation, 19th International Conference on the Processing of East Asian Languages (ICPEAL 2025), Guangzhou, China.
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2024 - Yao, Y., Li, M., Li, S., & Chang, C. B. (July 4). Perceiving the social meanings of creaky voice in Mandarin Chinese. Speech Prosody 2024, Leiden, The Netherlands.
- Yao, Y., Li, M., Li, S., & Chang, C. B. (June 29). Gender effects in the social perception of creaky voice in Mandarin Chinese. Laboratory Phonology 19, Seoul, South Korea.
Research Experience
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2023–2024 Research Assistant (PI Yao Yao)
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University -
2021–2022 Research Assistant (PI Yael Arbel)
MGH Institute of Health Professions -
2018–2020 Research Assistant (PI Wentao Gu; Co-I James Mahshie)
GWU Joint Lab in Nanjing Normal University -
2016–2017 Research Assistant
Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Project, Washington, D.C.
Teaching
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2024– Teaching Assistant, CBS 3949/3943 — Sounds and Sound Systems of Language
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University -
2023–2024 Teaching Assistant, CBS 3949 — Sounds and Sound Systems of Language
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University -
2021–2022 Instructor, SPSF22 — Introduction to Speech, Language and Hearing
Boston Area Health Education Center
Professional Membership
- Association for Laboratory Phonology (2023– )
- American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (2022– )
- National Student Speech Language Hearing Association (2017–2022)
Awards & Fellowships
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2022 - C.A.R.E. Award — MGH Institute of Health Professions
- J.E.D.I. Reward — MGH Institute of Health Professions
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2019 - George Washington Fellowship — The George Washington University
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2016–2020 - President Scholarship for Academic Achievement — The George Washington University
Skills & Certificates
| Certificates | Certificate of Clinical Competence in Speech-Language Pathology (CCC-SLP); MBSImP |
| Research Methods | EEG; Eye-tracking (Tobii) |
| Analysis Methods | SPSS; MATLAB; Python; Prism; R; Praat |
| Language | Mandarin (Native) → English (Fluent) → French (Intermediate) → American Sign Language (Basic) |