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 […]
Welcome to the six students who will be joining the lab this semester to work on various research projects: Hye Youn Jo is a second-year graduate student in the TESOL EdM program (SED). Her interests are in phonology, psycholinguistics, second language acquisition, and bilingualism. William Longerbeam is a senior majoring in Linguistics. His interests are in […]
Welcome to the twelve students, and two recent graduates, who will be joining the lab this summer: Kun Cao is a rising senior majoring in Biomedical Engineering. Her interests are in the linguistics and acquisition of Chinese. Juno Dong (interning from May 23 to August 4) is a rising senior majoring in Global Studies and French at […]
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: […]
Welcome to the five students who will be working on research in the lab this semester: Megan Brown is a first-year graduate student in the Applied Linguistics MA program. Her interests are in second language acquisition, bilingualism, syntax, and second language education. I Lei (Vicky) Chan is a second-year graduate student in the Applied Linguistics […]
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 […]
Jimmy Sbordone (CAS ’18) with his e-poster (“Comparison of Northern Pomo and Southeastern Pomo Sound Inventories”) at the Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium, hosted by the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP). Jimmy worked in the PAMLab on Southeastern Pomo audio analysis in Spring 2016 and with mentor Cathy O’Connor in Summer 2016. Great job, Jimmy!
Welcome to the three visiting students who will be interning in the lab over the summer: Solveig Olson-Strom (interning from May 30 to August 8) is a Linguistics and Cognitive Science major at Pomona College (Class of 2018). She found the field of linguistics because of an interest in learning other languages, sparked by living […]
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 […]