A research article entitled “Bilingual perceptual benefits of experience with a heritage language” (Chang, 2016) has been published in the August issue of Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. Abstract: Research on the linguistic knowledge of heritage speakers has been concerned primarily with the advantages conferred by heritage language experience in production, perception, and (re)learning of the heritage language. […]
A research article entitled “On the cognitive basis of contact-induced sound change: Vowel merger reversal in Shanghainese” (Yao & Chang, 2016) has been published in the June issue of Language, the journal of the Linguistic Society of America. Abstract: This study investigates the source and status of a recent sound change in Shanghainese (Wu, Sinitic) that has […]
Welcome to the three visiting students who will be interning in the lab over the summer: Solveig Olson-Strom (interning from May 30 to August 8) is a Linguistics and Cognitive Science major at Pomona College (Class of 2018). She found the field of linguistics because of an interest in learning other languages, sparked by living […]
Congratulations to Jimmy Sbordone and Dallas Walter, who were awarded Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) grants to work on research projects in Spring 2016! Below are brief descriptions of the projects they will be working on: James Sbordone: “Phonetic description of Southeastern Pomo, an endangered language of California” Jimmy will be working on an acoustic analysis […]
A research article entitled “Context effects on second-language learning of tonal contrasts” (Chang & Bowles, 2015) has been published in the December issue of the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. Abstract: Studies of lexical tone learning generally focus on monosyllabic contexts, while reports of phonetic learning benefits associated with input variability are based largely on […]
The PAM Lab’s webpage has been launched! Stay tuned as the site is updated over the coming weeks…