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…