Congratulations to Jupitara Ray, whose abstract with Prof. Chang was accepted to the 188th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, to be held jointly with the 25th International Congress on Acoustics in May in New Orleans! The title of their poster, to be presented by Jupitara, is “Testing the role of L1 influence in […]
Kudos to our own Jupitara Ray, whose abstract with Prof. Chang was accepted to the 15th International Symposium on Bilingualism! The title of their presentation is “Phonetic accommodation in Hindi–English and Telugu–English early sequential bilinguals: The roles of category establishment and phonetic dissimilarity”.
Congratulations to Jupitara Ray on receiving a National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement (DDRI) Grant! Her dissertation project, advised by Prof. Chang, is entitled “Phonetic Accommodation and Drift: A Study of Hindi-English and Telugu-English Early Sequential Bilinguals”. Well-done, Jupitara!
Kudos to our own Jupitara Ray on successfully defending her dissertation prospectus! Her project is entitled “Phonetic accommodation and drift: A study of Hindi-English and Telugu-English early sequential bilinguals”.
A chapter entitled “Phonetic and phonological L1 attrition and drift in bilingual speech” (de Leeuw & Chang, 2024) has been published by Cambridge University Press in The Cambridge Handbook of Bilingual Phonetics and Phonology, edited by Mark Amengual. Abstract: This chapter presents an overview of what is currently known about phonetic and phonological first language (L1) attrition […]
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”!
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!
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 […]
Congratulations to Prof. Chang on being elected a Full Member of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) by the ASA Executive Council!