A paper entitled “Perception of nonnative tonal contrasts by Mandarin-English and English-Mandarin sequential bilinguals” (Chan & Chang, 2019) has been published in the August issue of the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. This paper describes the L3 tone perception study presented at BUCLD 42, which was completed as part of the requirements for I Lei (Vicky) Chan’s […]
Profs. Chang and Barnes are off to Australia to deliver presentations at next week’s International Congress of Phonetic Sciences at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre. Prof. Chang is presenting results on tone in heritage Mandarin (from collaborative work with Prof. Yao Yao) in the Monday afternoon poster session (2pm, Main Foyer 2 & 3). […]
Welcome to the three students who will be joining the lab this summer: Celia Anderson (interning from June 24 to August 2) is a rising sophomore majoring in Linguistics and Computer Science at the University of Chicago. Her interests are in modeling language and language learning, prosody, second language acquisition (especially of East Asian languages), bilingual language acquisition, and […]
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 […]