Congratulations to Jiangnan (Michael) Fang, who was awarded an Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) Humanities Scholars Award to work on research in Summer 2019! 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” Michael will be working on a sociophonetic research […]
A research article entitled “Language change and linguistic inquiry in a world of multicompetence: Sustained phonetic drift and its implications for behavioral linguistic research” (Chang, 2019) has been published in the “Plasticity of Native Phonetic and Phonological Domains in the Context of Bilingualism” special issue of Journal of Phonetics, guest-edited by Drs. Esther de Leeuw and Chiara […]
This week, Prof. Chang is giving a colloquium at Northwestern University. The presentation, scheduled for April 12, is entitled “Integration, change, and stability in bilingual speech perception”.
A review chapter entitled “The phonetics of second language learning and bilingualism” (Chang, 2019) has been published in The Routledge Handbook of Phonetics, edited by Profs. William Katz and Peter Assmann. Abstract: This chapter provides an overview of major theories and findings in the field of second language (L2) phonetics and phonology. Four main conceptual frameworks are […]
This week, Prof. Chang is giving an invited talk at his alma mater, Harvard University, in the Universals Workshop series. The presentation, scheduled for March 29, is entitled “Crosslinguistic overlap in bilingualism: The view from speech perception”.
Prof. Chang is in Poznań this week to give an invited talk in the Distinguished Professors’ Lecture Series at Adam Mickiewicz University. The presentation, scheduled for March 21, is entitled “Integration and dynamicity in bilingual speech perception”.
Welcome to the new Linguistics student joining the lab this semester to work on research: Jiangnan (Michael) Fang is a sophomore double-majoring in Linguistics and Mathematics and minoring in Music. His interests are in second language acquisition, speech production, the perception of nonnative vs. native speakers, and the relationship of speech perception to prosodic features such as […]
Prof. Chang is in New York this week to present results on L2 perceptual learning of Korean (from collaborative work with Dr. Sungmi Kwon) in the Saturday afternoon ‘Phonetics II’ session at this week’s Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. The title of the presentation is “The contributions of crosslinguistic influence and individual […]
Welcome to Dr. Yao Yao, who will be a Visiting Researcher in the lab for Spring 2019. Dr. Yao’s areas of specialty are phonetics, psycholinguistics, and corpus linguistics. She completed her PhD in Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, and is on sabbatical from her position as Associate Professor in the Department of Chinese and Bilingual […]
Congratulations to Aspen Bombardo, who was awarded a second Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) grant to continue working on research in Spring 2019! Below is a brief description of the project she will be working on: Aspen Bombardo: “Variation in the production of English consonant clusters by Asian American bilinguals” Aspen will be working on a sociophonetic research project examining […]