Profs. Erker and Lindsey are headed to the University of Oregon for presentations at this week’s New Ways of Analyzing Variation conference (NWAV 48)! Prof. Erker is giving a talk in the Friday morning Constraints session: “Is lexical frequency overrated?” (9:45am, EMU Cedar & Spruce). Prof. Lindsey is on two presentations: the first is part of the Thursday […]
Welcome to the current Linguistics students who’ve joined the lab this semester: Felix Kpogo (BU GRS ’23) is a second-year PhD student in Linguistics. His interests are in first and second language acquisition (in particular, phonological and lexical acquisition), bilingualism, and African/Ghanaian languages such as Akan, Ga, and Ewe. His previous research examined Akan-English bilinguals’ […]
Welcome to Prof. Kate Lindsey, a new faculty affiliate of the lab. Prof. Lindsey is a phonologist who specializes in the study of Ende and other languages of southern New Guinea. Her research interests are in underspecification and variation in phonological systems, vowel harmony and phonological reduplication, fieldwork and language documentation, and language typology. Please […]
Next week, Prof. Chang will be in Hong Kong to give a colloquium at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. The presentation, scheduled for August 26, is entitled “L1 status, crosslinguistic similarity, and transfer in L3 speech perception”.
A review chapter entitled “Phonetic drift” (Chang, 2019) has been published in The Oxford Handbook of Language Attrition, edited by Profs. Monika Schmid and Barbara Köpke. Abstract: This chapter provides an overview of research on the phonetic changes that occur in one’s native language (L1) due to recent experience in another language (L2), a phenomenon known as […]
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 […]