Recent news
Yao et al. at Speech Prosody
Prof. Chang is a coauthor on a paper with Prof. Yao Yao, PolyU PhD student Meixian (Vicky) Li, and Shiyue Li at this week's 12th International Conference on Speech Prosody (Speech Prosody 2024) in Leiden. Their paper, entitled "Perceiving the social meanings of creaky voice in Mandarin Chinese", will be presented in the "Individual and social variation" oral thematic session on Thursday morning (July 4).
Yao et al. at LabPhon 19
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 3 (Saturday).
Chang at Osmania U.
This week, Prof. Chang will be giving a talk at Osmania University's Department of Linguistics. The title of his talk is "Aspects of bilingual speech and bilingual development".
Chang at PolyU, CityU
Next week, Prof. Chang will be giving talks at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University's Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies and at the City University of Hong Kong's Department of Linguistics and Translation. The titles of his talks are "Bilingual speech control under intoxication" and "Examining language knowledge through the multilingual repertoire".
Welcome to the Summer 2024 labbies!
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. '26) is a rising third-year undergraduate at Yale University majoring in Cognitive Science, with a focus in linguistics. Her research interests include multilingual speech, L2 language acquisition, and natural language processing.
- Jaiden (Mengan) Li (Andover High School '25) is a high school junior. She is interested in second language acquisition, East Asian languages (including lesser-known dialects like Hmong and Fukienese), and natural language processing.
- Nick Tanner (UPenn '26) is a third-year student studying Linguistics and Mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania. He's interested in the linguistics of American Sign Language and multilingualism.
And a warm welcome back to Jupitara, Felix, and Sara!
Kpogo at ACAL, ASA
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 poster was entitled "Harmony in transition: Exploring the perception-production relationship in sound change".
Kpogo defends
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"!
Chang at MoS
Prof. Chang is one of the guest scientists speaking at this weekend's AAPI Month celebration at Boston's Museum of Science:
https://mos.org/events/asian-american-pacific-islander-heritage-month
Chang at MARCS, Macquarie
Last week, Prof. Chang gave talks at The MARCS Institute and at Macquarie University's Center for Language Sciences. The titles of his talks were "Understanding bilingual speech control: Insights from intoxication" and "Examining language knowledge through the multilingual repertoire".
Awards for Kellogg, Kpogo, Ray
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 (GRAF) from the BU Graduate School of Arts & Sciences to support her summer dissertation research.
Kudos to all!