Category: Faculty

PAMLab at LSA 2021

The lab will be represented at this weekend’s virtual Linguistic Society of America Meeting by PhD student Felix Kpogo, who will be presenting the poster “Developmental variation in production of complex-simplex stop contrasts in Ga” (coauthored with Prof. Chang) in the Friday afternoon Language Acquisition poster session (2pm PST / 5pm EST, Poster Room 2).

Chang at Southampton

This Wednesday (November 25), Prof. Chang will be giving a virtual colloquium at the University of Southampton in the Centre for Linguistics, Language Education and Acquisition Research (CLLEAR). The title of the colloquium is “Continuity of native language development in adulthood: The case of phonetic drift”.

Chang at NUPFFALE

Next week, Prof. Chang will be the keynote speaker at the upcoming (November 23) online meeting of NUPFFALE (Núcleo de Pesquisa em Fonética e Fonologia Aplicada à Língua Estrangeira) at Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC).

Paper in Languages (Chang & Kwon)

A paper entitled “The contributions of crosslinguistic influence and individual differences to nonnative speech perception” (Chang & Kwon, 2020) has been published in the “Exploring Cross-linguistic Effects and Phonetic Interactions in the Context of Bilingualism” special issue of Languages, guest-edited by Dr. Mark Amengual. Abstract: Perception of a nonnative language (L2) is known to be affected by crosslinguistic […]

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 […]

Barnes & Lindsey at LabPhon17

Faculty affiliates will be presenting at next week’s Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon17), hosted virtually by the University of British Columbia! Prof. Barnes is giving a poster (with Drs. Nanette Veilleux, Alejna Brugos, and Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel) on “Spectral balance and phantom pitch in intonational pitch perception”. Prof. Lindsey is giving a poster (with Christian Brickhouse) […]

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 […]

Chang at HLRI12

Next week, Prof. Chang will be one of the invited speakers at the 12th Heritage Language Research Institute, to be hosted (virtually) by Penn State. The title of his presentation is “Heritage language phonetics and phonology: What’s next?”.