Congratulations to Jupitara Ray on receiving a National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement (DDRI) Grant! Her dissertation project, advised by Prof. Chang, is entitled “Phonetic Accommodation and Drift: A Study of Hindi-English and Telugu-English Early Sequential Bilinguals”. Well-done, Jupitara!
A paper entitled “Coarticulation and coordination in phonological development: Insights from children’s and adults’ production of complex–simplex stop contrasts in Gã” (Kpogo & Chang, 2025) has been published in the Journal of Phonetics. Abstract: Achieving adult-like coarticulation, which relies on precise gestural coordination, is known to be a challenging aspect of phonological development. Unique coordination challenges are […]
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”.
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 […]
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”.