Han Li

Han Li

Stony Brook University

Hi there!

I am a PhD student in the Department of Linguistics at Stony Brook University. I am also affiliated with the Institute for Advanced Computational Science. I work with Jeffrey Heinz and Ellen Broselow. My research interest is primary in tone languages. Specifically, these questions include:

  • autosegmental theory
  • interaction between tone and intonation/segments/metrical structure
  • computational nature of tone and its processe

Before Stony Brook, I got my master degree from Nanhang University (Nanjing, China) in 2021. My master thesis investigated the phonetic cues of rhetorical questions in Mandarin. Additionally, I have conducted field studies in the Northwest of China, engaging with diverse dialects/languages such as Uyghur in Xinjiang, China (my birthplace and hometown) and Lanzhou in Gansu China. Some other languages that I was interested in include Wu dialects (Southeastern China), Cantonese, Hausa (west Africa)

My Chinese name is 李晗 (lǐ hán) where lǐ is my family name meaning “plum” and hán is my given name meaning “dawn”. I grew up in a family where Mandarin, Sichuan dialect and Shanghainese were all spoken, and I had friends who spoke Uyghur.

🔥 News

  • 2023.07: This itsy bitsy spider eventually defended her first Qualifying Paper The Q-morpheme in Hausa. Committee: Ellen Broselow (main advisor), Marie Huffman, Jiwon Yun.
  • 2023.06: I presented my project on a question marker in Hausa in ACAL-54 at UConn.
  • 2022.02: A paper that I coauthored with Yi Li about Lanzhou Tonal Merger was accepted by Journal of Chinese Linguistics.

Publications

  • Yi, L., Li, H., Li, Y., Mu, J. (Accepted).An Ongoing Tonal-Patten Change: Lanzhou Dialect. Journal of Chinese Linguistics.
  • Li, H. (2021). Prosodic Differences between Rhetorical Questions and Information-seeking Questions in Mandarin. ICU Working Papers in Linguistics (ICUWPL) , (15), 45-52.

Conferences

  • The Q-morpheme in Hausa. Annual Conference of African Linguistics 54 (ACAL-54). UConn, June 2023

Teaching

Primary Instructor

  • LIN101 Introduction to Linguistics
  • LIN307/542 Sociolinguistics

Teaching Assistant

  • LIN201 Phonetics
  • LIN301 Phonology
  • LIN361/539 Math Methods
  • LIN430 Uncommonly Taught Languages

📜 CV

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