This semester, Prof. Chang has been busy talking about recent work in the lab! In October, he gave at a talk at LMU Munich’s Institute of Phonetics and Speech Processing entitled “Investigating predictors of regressive cross-linguistic influence in multilingual speech”. In November, he will be giving two talks at Aarhus University, one talk entitled “Aspects […]
A paper entitled “Expressing diminutive meaning in heritage Twi: The role of complexity and language-specific preferences” (Kpogo, Kohut, & Chang, 2024) has been published by Language Science Press in the edited volume Formal Approaches to Complexity in Heritage Language Grammars. Abstract: Twi (Akan) and English can both express diminutive meaning using a morphological strategy (diminutive suffix) or […]
Prof. Chang is a coauthor on a paper with Prof. Yao Yao, PolyU PhD student Meixian (Vicky) Li, and Shiyue Li at this week’s 12th International Conference on Speech Prosody (Speech Prosody 2024) in Leiden. Their paper, entitled “Perceiving the social meanings of creaky voice in Mandarin Chinese”, will be presented in the “Individual and […]
This week, Prof. Chang, along with Prof. Yao Yao and PolyU PhD student Meixian (Vicky) Li, will be attending the 19th Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon 19) in Seoul! They will be presenting a poster, entitled “Gender effects in the social perception of creaky voice in Mandarin Chinese”, in the afternoon poster session on Day […]
This week, Prof. Chang will be giving a talk at Osmania University’s Department of Linguistics. The title of his talk is “Aspects of bilingual speech and bilingual development”.
Next week, Prof. Chang will be giving talks at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University’s Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies and at the City University of Hong Kong’s Department of Linguistics and Translation. The titles of his talks are “Bilingual speech control under intoxication” and “Examining language knowledge through the multilingual repertoire”.
Welcome to the four new students who will be joining the lab this summer: Serena Agarwal (Brown U. ’27) is a second-year undergraduate student at Brown University. She is interested in the intersection of Linguistics, Computer Science, and Neuroscience, and she is particularly interested in language acquisition, computational linguistics, and psycholinguistics. Maryam Elbenni (Yale U. […]
Felix Kpogo was busy this month giving presentations at the 55th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 55) in Montreal and at the 186th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Ottawa (joint with Acoustics Week in Canada). His ACAL talk was entitled “Locality effects in [æ] vowel production in Twi”, and his ASA […]
Congratulations to Felix Kpogo on the successful defense of his PhD dissertation, “Investigating sound change in Twi vowel harmony: A sociophonetic study of age, gender, and locality effects”!
Prof. Chang is one of the guest scientists speaking at this weekend’s AAPI Month celebration at Boston’s Museum of Science: https://mos.org/events/asian-american-pacific-islander-heritage-month