Category: Congratulations

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 […]

Congrats to UROP recipient Aspen Bombardo

Congratulations to Aspen Bombardo, who was awarded a second Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) grant to continue working on research in Spring 2019! Below is a brief description of the project she will be working on: Aspen Bombardo: “Variation in the production of English consonant clusters by Asian American bilinguals” Aspen will be working on a sociophonetic research project examining […]

Congrats to UROP recipient Aspen Bombardo

Congratulations to Aspen Bombardo, who was awarded an Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) grant to continue working on research in the lab in Fall 2018! Below is a brief description of the project she will be working on: Aspen Bombardo: “Variation in the production of English consonant clusters by Asian American bilinguals” Aspen will be working on a sociophonetic research […]

Congrats to UROP recipient Sharmaine Sun

Congratulations to Sharmaine Sun, who was awarded an Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) grant to continue working on research in the lab in Summer 2018! Below is a brief description of the project she will be working on: Sharmaine Sun: “Language use and perceptions of Asian Bostonians” Sharmaine will be working on a sociophonetic research project with two components: (1) examining […]

Congrats to UROP recipient Sharmaine Sun

Congratulations to Sharmaine Sun, who was awarded a Spring 2018 Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) grant to continue working in the lab this coming semester! Below is a brief description of the project she will be working on: Sharmaine Sun: “Language use and perceptions of Asian Bostonians” Sharmaine will be working on a sociophonetic research project investigating features of English and heritage languages […]

Congrats to UROP grant recipient

Congratulations to Sharmaine Sun, who was awarded a Fall 2017 Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) grant to continue working on research in the lab this semester! Below is a brief description of the project she will be working on: Sharmaine Sun: “Language use and perceptions of Asian Bostonians” Sharmaine will be working on a sociophonetic research project with two components: (1) examining […]

Congrats to UROP grant recipients

Congratulations to Sharmaine Sun and Kathryn Turner, who were awarded Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) grants to work on research in the lab in Summer 2017! Below are brief descriptions of the projects they will be working on: Sharmaine Sun: “Language use and perceptions of Asian Bostonians” Sharmaine will be working on a sociophonetic research project with two components: […]

Congrats to UROP grant recipient

Congratulations to Kathryn Turner, who was awarded an Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) grant to work on research in the lab in Spring 2017! Below is a brief description of the project she will be working on: Kathryn Turner: “Development of speech production in Korean-English bilingual children” Kathryn will be comparing the speech production of young […]

Congrats to UROP grant recipients

Congratulations to Jimmy Sbordone and Dallas Walter, who were awarded Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) grants to work on research projects in Spring 2016! Below are brief descriptions of the projects they will be working on: James Sbordone: “Phonetic description of Southeastern Pomo, an endangered language of California” Jimmy will be working on an acoustic analysis […]