Author: PAMLab

Phonetics, Acquisition & Multilingualism Lab (PAMLab) Department of Linguistics, College of Arts and Sciences Boston University

Congrats to Michael Fang

Congratulations to rising senior Linguistics major Michael Fang (CAS ’21), whose abstract with Prof. Chang was accepted for presentation at the 45th Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 45) in November! Their poster will report on the results of Michael’s UROP research: Michael Fang & Charles B. Chang: “Testing the role of the L1 […]

Congrats to Aspen Bombardo

Congratulations to Aspen Bombardo, whose proposal with Prof. Chang was accepted for presentation at the 2020 American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Convention! Unfortunately, the convention has been canceled due to COVID-19. The proposal would have reported the results of Aspen’s UROP research: Aspen Bombardo & Charles B. Chang: “Variation in production of English consonant clusters by […]

Barnes & Lindsey at LabPhon17

Faculty affiliates will be presenting at next week’s Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon17), hosted virtually by the University of British Columbia! Prof. Barnes is giving a poster (with Drs. Nanette Veilleux, Alejna Brugos, and Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel) on “Spectral balance and phantom pitch in intonational pitch perception”. Prof. Lindsey is giving a poster (with Christian Brickhouse) […]

Lindsey & Brown at APLL12

Lab affiliates past and present will be presenting at this week’s International Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics Conference (APLL12), hosted virtually by the University of Oslo! Lab alumna Megan Brown is giving a talk on “Variation in Ende word order”. Prof. Lindsey is delivering (with Katherine Anne Strong) an early career plenary on “Sociophonetic […]

Chang at HLRI12

Next week, Prof. Chang will be one of the invited speakers at the 12th Heritage Language Research Institute, to be hosted (virtually) by Penn State. The title of his presentation is “Heritage language phonetics and phonology: What’s next?”.

Barnes at SP2020

Prof. Barnes will be presenting joint work (with Drs. Alejna Brugos, Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel, and Nanette Veilleux) on “How prosodic prominence influences fricative spectra in English” at this week’s International Conference on Speech Prosody (Speech Prosody 2020), hosted virtually by the University of Tokyo.

Welcome to this summer’s labbies!

Welcome to the three students who will be joining the lab this summer (virtually): Nolan Holley (interning from June 8 to August 21) is a rising junior double-majoring in Mathematics and Russian at Williams College. His interests are in phonetics, pronunciation, sound change, language evolution, and language acquisition. Lena Venkatraman (interning from May 18 to August 21) is a rising junior […]

Congrats to UROP recipient Michael Fang

Congratulations to Michael Fang, who was awarded an Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) grant — specifically, a Humanities Scholars Award — to continue working on research in Summer 2020! Below is a brief description of the project he will be working on: Jiangnan (Michael) Fang: “De-linking between words in conversational English by native speakers of Mandarin” In […]

Prof. Chang at CUNY

This week, Prof. Chang will be in New York to give a colloquium at the CUNY Graduate Center. The presentation, scheduled for February 6, is entitled “L3 perception as a window onto similarity and timing effects in acquisition”.