This Friday (January 14), Prof. Chang will be giving a virtual colloquium in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Toronto. The title of the colloquium is “A multifactorial approach to analyzing individual differences among heritage speakers”.
Labbies were active at this weekend’s 96th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA 2022): PhD student Megan Brown gave the talk “Regressive cross-linguistic influence in multilingual speech program: The primacy of typological similarity” (co-authored with Prof. Chang) in the Friday morning Bilingualism session, and PhD student Felix Kpogo gave the poster “A […]
Prof. Chang will be one of the invited speakers at the upcoming 29th Manchester Phonology Meeting (29mfm), participating in the special session on Second Language Phonology and Phonological Theory along with Prof. Ellen Broselow and Prof. Dr. Ellen Simon. He will speak about “Viewing phonological knowledge through the lens of sequential bilingualism”.
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 […]
Prof. Chang will be the discussant in the Language acquisition and attrition session at next year’s 18th Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon 18)!
A paper entitled “Emotion word development in bilingual children living in majority and minority contexts” (Ahn & Chang, 2022) has been published in Applied Linguistics. Abstract: The lexicon of emotion words is fundamental to interpersonal communication. To examine how emotion word acquisition interacts with societal context, the present study investigated emotion word development in three groups of child […]
This weekend, Prof. Chang will be one of the plenary speakers at the 50th Poznań Linguistic Meeting (PLM2020/2021). The title of his presentation is “Similarity in multilingual development and attrition”.
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!
Congratulations to lab affiliates on their acceptances to the 49th meeting of New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV49): PhD student Danielle Dionne and Prof. Chang will be giving a talk entitled “Linguistic unity and diversity among Asian Americans in Boston”. Prof. Erker will be giving a talk entitled “Filled pauses and the conservative contours of […]
Next month, Prof. Chang will be giving a talk in the Abralin ao Vivo series entitled “Phonetic drift as an aspect of lifespan language development”. The talk is free and open to the public and will be livestreamed on the Abralin ao Vivo webpage.