Daoxin Li

About

Daoxin Li is an Assistant Professor of Linguistics at UNC-Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on the mechanisms of language acquisition.

Employment

• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Assistant Professor
  2025 - Present
• Northwestern University Postdoctoral Scholar
  2024 - 2025

Education

• University of Pennsylvania PhD in Linguistics
  2019 - 2024

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (10)

• Children’s distributional learning of recursive structures: Capacities and constraints
  2025 DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/csdfg_v1
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• Distributional learning of recursive structures is constrained by structural representation
  2025 DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/8m2f4_v1
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• Controlling overt subjects in Mandarin
  Journal of East Asian Linguistics 2024 DOI: 10.1007/s10831-024-09280-2
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• Acquiring recursive structures through distributional learning
  Language Acquisition 2023 DOI: 10.1080/10489223.2023.2185522
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• Acquiring recursive structures through distributional learning
  2023 DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/u5jpb
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• Passives, impersonals and Voice in Sakha
  Proceedings of the Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic 2023 DOI: 10.3765/ptu.v7i1.5308
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• Is “My Favorite New Movie” My Favorite Movie? Probing the Understanding of Recursive Noun Phrases
  Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies 2022 DOI: 10.18653/v1/2022.naacl-main.388
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• Distributional learning of recursive structures
  2021 DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/xhz4m
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• Controlling overt subjects in Mandarin
  Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 2021 DOI: 10.3765/plsa.v6i1.4973
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• Decisions about consonant doubling among non-native speakers of English: graphotactic and phonological influences
  Reading and Writing 2020 DOI: 10.1007/s11145-020-10017-5
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