Publications
* Equal contribution
Books
Gómez-Alzate, E., Li, Y., & Cuza, A. (in progress). Language in Context: Ideologies, Policies, and Community-based Research. Routledge.
Proceedings & Journal Articles
2026
Fang, S.*, Li, Y.*, & Cong, Y. (2026). Semantic Capacity in Language Learners and LLMs: A Case Study of Quantifier Scope. In The Fifteenth Biennial Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2026), Spain.
2025
Fang, S., Li, Y., & Cong, Y. (2025). Understanding Quantifier Scope with Large Language Models: How Many Children Climbed Trees? In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2025).
Li, Y., Cong, Y., & Francis, E. (2025). Beyond Binary Animacy: A Multi-Method Investigation of LMs’ Sensitivity in English Object Relative Clauses. In Proceedings of the 14th Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL, NAACL 2025).
2023
Li, Y., Gao, Y., & Lu, X. (2023). Effects of Word Limit on Sentence Length and Clause Length in Academic Journal Article Abstracts: A Synergetic Linguistic Perspective. Journal of Quantitative Linguistics, 30(3–4), 322–342.
Under Review
Li, Y., Cong, Y., & Francis, E. Mechanistic Interpretability of Animacy Effects on Structure Choice in GPT-2. Under review at CoNLL 2026.
Fang, S.*, Li, Y.*, & Cong, Y. Language Models Approximate Human Sensitivity to the Syntax–Pragmatics Tension but Show Cross-Linguistic and Model Variation. Under review at Humanities and Social Sciences Communications.
In Preparation
Li, Y. & Francis, E. Rethinking Animacy in Relative Clauses: Accessibility and Competition Across Agent–Patient Configurations. Manuscript completed and to submit to Cognitive Linguistics.
Fang, S.*, Li, Y.*, & Cong, Y. Processing of Quantifier Scope: Experimental and Modeling Evidence from English and Chinese. Manuscript completed and to submit to Languages.
Fang, S., Li, Y., Lu, J., & Cong, Y. Semantic Representation Generalization in BabyLMs.
Francis, E., Li, Y., Khodadadi, G., Mack, M., Ok, S., Bahmanian, N., Fang, S., Michaelis, L. A., Sheu, V., & Weirick, J. Effects of Verb Type and Prior Context on the Production of Relative Clause Extraposition in English.
Last updated: April 2026