Author: PAMLab

Phonetics, Acquisition & Multilingualism Lab (PAMLab) Department of Linguistics, College of Arts and Sciences Boston University

Chang at Western U.

Next Wednesday (March 31), Prof. Chang will be giving a talk in the L2 Speech Learning Group at Western University about joint work with Prof. Yao Yao (Hong Kong Polytechnic University). The title of the talk is “An individual-differences perspective on variation in heritage Mandarin speakers”.

Chang at GULP

This Thursday (January 28), Prof. Chang will be giving a talk in the Glasgow University Laboratory of Phonetics (GULP). The title of the talk is “Development of speech perception and production in multilingualism”.

Chang at UBC

This Friday (January 15), Prof. Chang will be giving a virtual colloquium in the Department of Linguistics at the University of British Columbia (UBC). The title of the colloquium is “Phonological learning in multilingual contexts”.

PAMLab at LSA 2021

The lab will be represented at this weekend’s virtual Linguistic Society of America Meeting by PhD student Felix Kpogo, who will be presenting the poster “Developmental variation in production of complex-simplex stop contrasts in Ga” (coauthored with Prof. Chang) in the Friday afternoon Language Acquisition poster session (2pm PST / 5pm EST, Poster Room 2).

Chang at Southampton

This Wednesday (November 25), Prof. Chang will be giving a virtual colloquium at the University of Southampton in the Centre for Linguistics, Language Education and Acquisition Research (CLLEAR). The title of the colloquium is “Continuity of native language development in adulthood: The case of phonetic drift”.

Chang at NUPFFALE

Next week, Prof. Chang will be the keynote speaker at the upcoming (November 23) online meeting of NUPFFALE (Núcleo de Pesquisa em Fonética e Fonologia Aplicada à Língua Estrangeira) at Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC).

Paper in Languages (Chang & Kwon)

A paper entitled “The contributions of crosslinguistic influence and individual differences to nonnative speech perception” (Chang & Kwon, 2020) has been published in the “Exploring Cross-linguistic Effects and Phonetic Interactions in the Context of Bilingualism” special issue of Languages, guest-edited by Dr. Mark Amengual. Abstract: Perception of a nonnative language (L2) is known to be affected by crosslinguistic […]

Welcome to this fall’s labbies!

Welcome to the seven students who will be joining the lab this semester (virtually): Allie Asaro (SAR ’20) is a senior majoring in Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences. An aspiring speech-language pathologist, she is interested in bilingual language acquisition and implications for the field of speech-language pathology, especially for distinguishing between language difference and disorder. Jack Brown […]

Kpogo in International Journal of Bilingualism

Congratulations to third-year PhD student Felix Kpogo on the publication of his article “The influence of native English-speaking environment on Akan-English bilinguals’ production of English inter-dental fricatives” (with Virginia Gathercole) in the August 2020 issue of the International Journal of Bilingualism! Felix Kpogo & Virginia C. Mueller Gathercole: “The influence of native English-speaking environment on […]