Bombardo to Vanderbilt
We’re thrilled to hear that lab alum Aspen Bombardo (SAR ’21) is headed to Vanderbilt University next year to start the Doctor of Audiology (AuD) program. Congratulations, Aspen! We’re so proud of you!
Category: Congratulations
Congrats to UROP recipient Kate Fraser
Congratulations to junior Linguistics major Kate Fraser, who was awarded an Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) grant — specifically, a Humanities Scholars Award — to work on linguistics research in Summer 2021! Below is a brief description of the project she will be working on: Kate Fraser: “Listener perception and identification of Asian American speech” […]
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 […]
Congrats to Michael Fang
Congratulations to rising senior Linguistics major Michael Fang (CAS ’21), whose abstract with Prof. Chang was accepted for presentation at the 45th Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 45) in November! Their poster will report on the results of Michael’s UROP research: Michael Fang & Charles B. Chang: “Testing the role of the L1 […]
Congrats to Aspen Bombardo
Congratulations to Aspen Bombardo, whose proposal with Prof. Chang was accepted for presentation at the 2020 American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Convention! Unfortunately, the convention has been canceled due to COVID-19. The proposal would have reported the results of Aspen’s UROP research: Aspen Bombardo & Charles B. Chang: “Variation in production of English consonant clusters by […]
Lindsey & Brown at APLL12
Lab affiliates past and present will be presenting at this week’s International Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics Conference (APLL12), hosted virtually by the University of Oslo! Lab alumna Megan Brown is giving a talk on “Variation in Ende word order”. Prof. Lindsey is delivering (with Katherine Anne Strong) an early career plenary on “Sociophonetic […]
Congrats to UROP recipient Michael Fang
Congratulations to Michael Fang, who was awarded an Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) grant — specifically, a Humanities Scholars Award — to continue working on research in Summer 2020! Below is a brief description of the project he will be working on: Jiangnan (Michael) Fang: “De-linking between words in conversational English by native speakers of Mandarin” In […]
Prof. Lindsey at St. Mark’s School
This Friday, Prof. Lindsey will be in Southborough to deliver the keynote address for the Asian Studies Chair Installation Ceremony at St. Mark’s School. Knock ’em dead, Prof. Lindsey!
Paper on L3 tone perception in JASA
A paper entitled “Perception of nonnative tonal contrasts by Mandarin-English and English-Mandarin sequential bilinguals” (Chan & Chang, 2019) has been published in the August issue of the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. This paper describes the L3 tone perception study presented at BUCLD 42, which was completed as part of the requirements for I Lei (Vicky) Chan’s […]
Congrats to Humanities Scholars Award recipient Michael Fang
Congratulations to Jiangnan (Michael) Fang, who was awarded an Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) Humanities Scholars Award to work on research in Summer 2019! Below is a brief description of the project he will be working on: Jiangnan (Michael) Fang: “De-linking between words in conversational English by native speakers of Mandarin” Michael will be working on a sociophonetic research […]