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 […]
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?”.
Prof. Barnes will be presenting joint work (with Drs. Alejna Brugos, Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel, and Nanette Veilleux) on “How prosodic prominence influences fricative spectra in English” at this week’s International Conference on Speech Prosody (Speech Prosody 2020), hosted virtually by the University of Tokyo.
This week, Prof. Chang will be in New York to give a colloquium at the CUNY Graduate Center. The presentation, scheduled for February 6, is entitled “L3 perception as a window onto similarity and timing effects in acquisition”.
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!
Lab affiliates past and present will be represented on presentations at this week’s Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting (LSA 2020) in New Orleans! Lab alumna Megan Brown is giving a talk, “Grammatical gender acquisition in sequential trilinguals: Influence of a gendered L1 vs. L2”, in the Saturday afternoon session Sociolinguistics V: Multilingual and Monolingual Variation […]
Profs. Erker and Lindsey are headed to the University of Oregon for presentations at this week’s New Ways of Analyzing Variation conference (NWAV 48)! Prof. Erker is giving a talk in the Friday morning Constraints session: “Is lexical frequency overrated?” (9:45am, EMU Cedar & Spruce). Prof. Lindsey is on two presentations: the first is part of the Thursday […]
Welcome to Prof. Kate Lindsey, a new faculty affiliate of the lab. Prof. Lindsey is a phonologist who specializes in the study of Ende and other languages of southern New Guinea. Her research interests are in underspecification and variation in phonological systems, vowel harmony and phonological reduplication, fieldwork and language documentation, and language typology. Please […]
A research article entitled “Language change and linguistic inquiry in a world of multicompetence: Sustained phonetic drift and its implications for behavioral linguistic research” (Chang, 2019) has been published in the “Plasticity of Native Phonetic and Phonological Domains in the Context of Bilingualism” special issue of Journal of Phonetics, guest-edited by Drs. Esther de Leeuw and Chiara […]