This spring, Prof. Chang has been busy talking about work in the lab! In March, he gave at a talk at the University of California, Irvine’s Department of Language Science, and in April, he gave at a talk at the University of Konstanz’s Department of Linguistics. In May, he will be giving two talks, one […]
Congratulations to Jupitara Ray, whose abstract with Prof. Chang was accepted to the 188th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, to be held jointly with the 25th International Congress on Acoustics in May in New Orleans! The title of their poster, to be presented by Jupitara, is “Testing the role of L1 influence in […]
Kudos to our own Jupitara Ray, whose abstract with Prof. Chang was accepted to the 15th International Symposium on Bilingualism! The title of their presentation is “Phonetic accommodation in Hindi–English and Telugu–English early sequential bilinguals: The roles of category establishment and phonetic dissimilarity”.
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 […]