Congratulations to Jupitara Ray on receiving a National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement (DDRI) Grant! Her dissertation project, advised by Prof. Chang, is entitled “Phonetic Accommodation and Drift: A Study of Hindi-English and Telugu-English Early Sequential Bilinguals”. Well-done, Jupitara!
A paper entitled “Coarticulation and coordination in phonological development: Insights from children’s and adults’ production of complex–simplex stop contrasts in Gã” (Kpogo & Chang, 2025) has been published in the Journal of Phonetics. Abstract: Achieving adult-like coarticulation, which relies on precise gestural coordination, is known to be a challenging aspect of phonological development. Unique coordination challenges are […]
Kudos to our own Jupitara Ray on successfully defending her dissertation prospectus! Her project is entitled “Phonetic accommodation and drift: A study of Hindi-English and Telugu-English early sequential bilinguals”.
A paper entitled “Expressing diminutive meaning in heritage Twi: The role of complexity and language-specific preferences” (Kpogo, Kohut, & Chang, 2024) has been published by Language Science Press in the edited volume Formal Approaches to Complexity in Heritage Language Grammars. Abstract: Twi (Akan) and English can both express diminutive meaning using a morphological strategy (diminutive suffix) or […]
This week, Prof. Chang, along with Prof. Yao Yao and PolyU PhD student Meixian (Vicky) Li, will be attending the 19th Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon 19) in Seoul! They will be presenting a poster, entitled “Gender effects in the social perception of creaky voice in Mandarin Chinese”, in the afternoon poster session on Day […]
Welcome to the four new students who will be joining the lab this summer: Serena Agarwal (Brown U. ’27) is a second-year undergraduate student at Brown University. She is interested in the intersection of Linguistics, Computer Science, and Neuroscience, and she is particularly interested in language acquisition, computational linguistics, and psycholinguistics. Maryam Elbenni (Yale U. […]
Felix Kpogo was busy this month giving presentations at the 55th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 55) in Montreal and at the 186th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Ottawa (joint with Acoustics Week in Canada). His ACAL talk was entitled “Locality effects in [æ] vowel production in Twi”, and his ASA […]
Congratulations to Felix Kpogo on the successful defense of his PhD dissertation, “Investigating sound change in Twi vowel harmony: A sociophonetic study of age, gender, and locality effects”!
Congratulations to PhD students Jackson Kellogg, Felix Kpogo, and Jupitara Ray on their recent awards and fellowships! Jackson received a 2024-25 Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship to support his study of Amharic. Felix received a 2024 Graduate Student Award from the BU Center for the Humanities. Jupitara received a Graduate Research Abroad Fellowship […]
We’re thrilled to announce that our own Felix Kpogo has accepted a two-year Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship at Brown University, where he will be based in the Linguistics Program. Congratulations, Felix! We’re so proud!