Research
Read how they describe their research on their University of Lethbridge profile.
Latest papers
An Investigation of Hand Use in Preschool Children: Vocabulary and Social Competence Predict Cognitive Development.
Journal of child language · 2026
The Effect of Language Background and Grade Level on Fricative Production of Children Learning Mandarin in a Chinese-English Bilingual Program.
Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2025 · senior author
Speech Production Development in Mandarin-Speaking Children: A Case of Lingual Stop Consonants.
Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025 · first author
Latest funding
- $193,300
Patient Oriented Innovative Nutrition Trial (POINT): precision use of multinutrients for ADHD in youth
CIHR · 2023 · Co-investigator
- $198,000
Child speech articulation development: Integrative and cross-language perspectives
NSERC · 2020 · Principal investigator
- $40,000
The role of gender identity in children's development of sex-specific speech production: A cross-language perspective
SSHRC · 2019 · Principal investigator
16 publications.
An Investigation of Hand Use in Preschool Children: Vocabulary and Social Competence Predict Cognitive Development.
van Rootselaar NA, Li F, Gibb R, Gonzalez CLR
The Effect of Language Background and Grade Level on Fricative Production of Children Learning Mandarin in a Chinese-English Bilingual Program.
Yang L, Pollock K, Lin Y, Tucker BV, Li F
Speech Production Development in Mandarin-Speaking Children: A Case of Lingual Stop Consonants.
Li F
Speech Production of Mandarin Lexical Tones Among Canadian Elementary Students Enrolled in Mandarin-English Bilingual Schools.
Lin Y, Pollock KE, Li F
Acquisition of Mandarin tones by Canadian first graders: Effect of prior exposure to tonal and non-tonal languages.
Meckelborg A, Luu M, Nguyen T, Lin Y, Li F, Pollock K
Editorial: New ideas in language sciences: language acquisition.
Lerner I, Guijarro-Fuentes P, Filippi R, Li F, Schwieter JW
A conceptual model of second language pronunciation in communicative contexts: Implications for children's bilingual education.
Lin Y, Li F, MacLeod AAN, Pollock KE
Which hand knows the "right" word? What hand selection reveals about vocabulary in pre-and school-aged children.
van Rootselaar NA, Grandmont D, Gibb R, Li F, Gonzalez CLR
Development of ultrasonic calls in rat pups follows similar patterns regardless of isolation distress.
Stark RA, Harker A, Salamanca S, Pellis SM, Li F, Gibb RL
Articulation Speaks to Executive Function: An Investigation in 4- to 6-Year-Olds.
Netelenbos N, Gibb RL, Li F, Gonzalez CLR
Patient Oriented Innovative Nutrition Trial (POINT): precision use of multinutrients for ADHD in youth
Principal investigators: Leung, Brenda M; Berg, Kelsey; MacEachern, Sarah; Nieman, Peter
Keywords: Adhd; Children; Innovative Trials; Nutrients; Patient Oriented; Youth
Child speech articulation development: Integrative and cross-language perspectives
Principal investigators: Li, Fangfang
Keywords: speech sound articulation; cross-language comparison; tongue motor control; speech perception
The role of gender identity in children's development of sex-specific speech production: A cross-language perspective
Principal investigators: Li, Fangfang
Keywords: (1) gendered speech; (2) child speech production; (3) gender identity; (4) acoustic analysis; (5) cross-language comparison; (6) child development
The development of speech production in children: Integrating articulation, perception and motor control
Principal investigators: Li, Fangfang
Speech production in children enrolled in second language education programs
Principal investigators: Li, Fangfang
Keywords: speech production development; second language acquisition; immersion education
Child language acquisition research in Alberta: weaving an integrative and inclusive network
Principal investigators: Li, Fangfang
Keywords: child language acquisition; community involvment; second language learning and teaching
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Robbin Gibb and Fangfang Li: 3 shared papers
- Robbin Gibb and Inge Genee: 1 shared paper
- Inge Genee and Fangfang Li: 1 shared paper
- Fangfang Li and Nicole Rosen: 1 shared paper
- Psychology Department
- Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience
- Languages ＆ Linguistics Department
- Linguistics
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