Recent news
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) on "Laboratory phonology without the lab: Evaluating articulatory specification change in a Papuan language" in the Languages on the Margins session.
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 variation in the South Fly: Evidence from Ende", and is also giving a talk on "Capturing breadth and depth in the documentation of Ende".
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?".
Barnes at SP2020
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.
Welcome to this summer’s labbies!
Welcome to the three students who will be joining the lab this summer (virtually):
- Nolan Holley (interning from June 8 to August 21) is a rising junior double-majoring in Mathematics and Russian at Williams College. His interests are in phonetics, pronunciation, sound change, language evolution, and language acquisition.
- Lena Venkatraman (interning from May 18 to August 21) is a rising junior majoring in Linguistics at Yale University. Her interests are in phonetics and phonology, second (and additional) language acquisition, and the multilingual mind.
- Yanwan Zhu (interning from June 1 to July 31) is a rising senior double-majoring in Linguistics and Statistical & Data Sciences at Smith College. Her interests are in language acquisition, bilingualism, phonetics, language attrition, and language change.
And a warm welcome back to Michael, Felix, and Kevin!
Congrats to UROP recipient Michael Fang
Congratulations to Michael Fang, who was awarded an Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) grant -- specifically, a Humanities Scholars Award -- to continue working on research in Summer 2020! Below is a brief description of the project he will be working on:
- Jiangnan (Michael) Fang: “De-linking between words in conversational English by native speakers of Mandarin”
In Summer 2020, Michael will acoustically analyze speech recordings from interviews with native Mandarin speakers who learned English as a second language, with a focus on their production of connected speech phenomena such as resyllabification and glottalization.
Prof. Chang at CUNY
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".
Prof. Lindsey at St. Mark’s School
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!
PAMLab at LSA 2020
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 (2:30pm, Royal).
Prof. Lindsey is on the poster "Investigating the phonetics-phonology interface with field data: Assessing phonological specification through acoustic trajectories" (with Christian Brickhouse) in the Friday afternoon plenary poster session (10:30am-12:00pm, St. James' Ballroom).
Michael Fang at UROP Symposium
Summer RA Michael Fang (CAS '21) will present a poster ("Investigating first-language interference in linking and de-linking English words for native Mandarin speakers") at the 22nd annual Boston University UROP Symposium this Friday, October 18 (11am-1pm, GSU Metcalf Ballroom).