Ray prospectus defense
Kudos to our own Jupitara Ray on successfully defending her dissertation prospectus! Her project is entitled “Phonetic accommodation and drift: A study of Hindi-English and Telugu-English early sequential bilinguals”.
Author: PAMLab
Phonetics, Acquisition & Multilingualism Lab (PAMLab)
Department of Linguistics, College of Arts and Sciences
Boston University
de Leeuw & Chang in CUP Handbook
A chapter entitled “Phonetic and phonological L1 attrition and drift in bilingual speech” (de Leeuw & Chang, 2024) has been published by Cambridge University Press in The Cambridge Handbook of Bilingual Phonetics and Phonology, edited by Mark Amengual. Abstract: This chapter presents an overview of what is currently known about phonetic and phonological first language (L1) attrition […]
Chang at LMU, Aarhus, SFU
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 […]
Kpogo, Kohut & Chang in LSP volume
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 […]
Yao et al. at Speech Prosody
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 […]
Yao et al. at LabPhon 19
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 […]
Chang at Osmania U.
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”.
Chang at PolyU, CityU
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 Summer 2024 labbies!
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. […]
Kpogo at ACAL, ASA
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 […]