PAMLab at Northwestern
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”.
Author: PAMLab
Phonetics, Acquisition & Multilingualism Lab (PAMLab)
Department of Linguistics, College of Arts and Sciences
Boston University
Chapter in Routledge Handbook of Phonetics
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 […]
PAMLab at Harvard
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”.
PAMLab in Poznań
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 this spring’s labbies!
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 […]
PAMLab at LSA 2019
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!
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 […]
Congrats to UROP recipient Aspen Bombardo
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 […]
PAMLab at JK 26
Prof. Chang is in Los Angeles this week to present results on sound change in Korean fricatives (from collaborative work with Dr. Hae-Sung Jeon) in the Friday afternoon poster session at this week’s Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference. The title of the presentation is “The role of speaker gender in diachronic change of Korean fricatives”.
Welcome to this fall’s labbies!
Welcome to the recent Linguistics graduate who will be joining the lab this semester to work on research projects: Leslie Fink graduated with a Linguistics major from Dartmouth College in 2016. Her interests are in adult language acquisition, experimental design, quantitative methods, and materials development. And a warm welcome back to Aspen!