A paper entitled “Coarticulation and coordination in phonological development: Insights from children’s and adults’ production of complex–simplex stop contrasts in Gã” (Kpogo & Chang, 2025) has been published in the Journal of Phonetics. Abstract: Achieving adult-like coarticulation, which relies on precise gestural coordination, is known to be a challenging aspect of phonological development. Unique coordination challenges are […]
A paper entitled “Expressing diminutive meaning in heritage Twi: The role of complexity and language-specific preferences” (Kpogo, Kohut, & Chang, 2024) has been published by Language Science Press in the edited volume Formal Approaches to Complexity in Heritage Language Grammars. Abstract: Twi (Akan) and English can both express diminutive meaning using a morphological strategy (diminutive suffix) or […]
A paper entitled “On the auditory identifiability of Asian American identity in speech: The role of listener background, sociolinguistic awareness, and language ideologies” (Chang & Fraser, 2023) has been published in the Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America. Abstract: The current study examined the auditory identifiability of Asian American ethnoracial identity, including the role of listener […]
Lab alum Yifan Wu (Xiamen U. ’23) will be moving to Cornell University next year to start a PhD in the Department of Linguistics. Well-done and congratulations, Yifan!
We’re thrilled to hear that lab alum Dominique Lopiccolo (GRS ’19) is headed to the University of Delaware next year to start a PhD in the Department of Linguistics & Cognitive Science. Congratulations, Dom! We’re so proud of you!
A paper entitled “Cultural factors weaken but do not reverse left-to-right spatial biases in numerosity processing: Data from Arabic and English monoliterates and Arabic-English biliterates” (Lopiccolo & Chang, 2021) has been published in the open-access journal PLoS ONE. Abstract: Directional response biases due to a conceptual link between space and number, such as a left-to-right hand bias for […]
Lab alum Dominique Lopiccolo and Prof. Chang will be presenting a poster entitled “Cultural factors weaken but do not reverse left-to-right spatial biases in numerosity processing: Data from readers of Arabic and English” at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society (Psychonomics 2021) later this year. Congratulations to them!