Welcome to the four new students who will be joining the lab this summer: Serena Agarwal (Brown U. ’27) is a second-year undergraduate student at Brown University. She is interested in the intersection of Linguistics, Computer Science, and Neuroscience, and she is particularly interested in language acquisition, computational linguistics, and psycholinguistics. Maryam Elbenni (Yale U. […]
Felix Kpogo was busy this month giving presentations at the 55th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 55) in Montreal and at the 186th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Ottawa (joint with Acoustics Week in Canada). His ACAL talk was entitled “Locality effects in [æ] vowel production in Twi”, and his ASA […]
Congratulations to Felix Kpogo on the successful defense of his PhD dissertation, “Investigating sound change in Twi vowel harmony: A sociophonetic study of age, gender, and locality effects”!
Prof. Chang is one of the guest scientists speaking at this weekend’s AAPI Month celebration at Boston’s Museum of Science: https://mos.org/events/asian-american-pacific-islander-heritage-month
Last week, Prof. Chang gave talks at The MARCS Institute and at Macquarie University’s Center for Language Sciences. The titles of his talks were “Understanding bilingual speech control: Insights from intoxication” and “Examining language knowledge through the multilingual repertoire”.
Congratulations to PhD students Jackson Kellogg, Felix Kpogo, and Jupitara Ray on their recent awards and fellowships! Jackson received a 2024-25 Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship to support his study of Amharic. Felix received a 2024 Graduate Student Award from the BU Center for the Humanities. Jupitara received a Graduate Research Abroad Fellowship […]
We’re thrilled to announce that our own Felix Kpogo has accepted a two-year Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship at Brown University, where he will be based in the Linguistics Program. Congratulations, Felix! We’re so proud!
This week, Prof. Chang will be giving a talk in Lund University’s Centre for Languages and Literature seminar series on March 15. The title of his talk is “Knowledge of language(s) in multilingual contexts”.
A paper entitled “An individual-differences perspective on variation in heritage Mandarin speakers” (Chang & Yao, 2024) has been published by Cambridge University Press in the book The Phonetics and Phonology of Heritage Languages (edited by Rajiv Rao). Abstract: This chapter takes an individual-differences perspective on the dual sound systems of American heritage speakers (HSs) of Mandarin Chinese. […]
Congratulations to sophomore Linguistics minor Madelyn (Maddie) Jin, who was awarded an Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) grant to work on linguistics research in Spring 2024! Below is a brief description of the project she will be working on: Maddie Jin: “The impact of speech rhythm in the production and perception of Asian-ness in American […]