Kpogo defends
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”!
Author: PAMLab
Phonetics, Acquisition & Multilingualism Lab (PAMLab)
Department of Linguistics, College of Arts and Sciences
Boston University
Chang at MoS
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
Chang at MARCS, Macquarie
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”.
Awards for Kellogg, Kpogo, Ray
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 […]
Kpogo to Brown
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!
Chang at Lund U.
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”.
Chang & Yao in CUP volume
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. […]
Congrats to UROP recipient Maddie Jin
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 […]
Welcome to the Spring 2024 labbies!
Welcome to the seven new students who will be joining the lab this spring: Jade Ling Garstang (BU GRS ’25) is a first-year MA student in Linguistics. She is interested in language variation, speech perception, and Asian languages, particularly indigenous ones like the Japanese Ryukyuan languages. Madelyn (Maddie) Jin (CAS ’26) is a second-year student […]
Chang elected Full Member of ASA
Congratulations to Prof. Chang on being elected a Full Member of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) by the ASA Executive Council!