{"id":694,"date":"2018-03-26T09:00:18","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T13:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pamlab\/?p=694"},"modified":"2018-03-25T22:34:05","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T02:34:05","slug":"congrats-to-urop-recipient-sharmaine-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pamlab\/2018\/03\/26\/congrats-to-urop-recipient-sharmaine-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Congrats to UROP recipient Sharmaine Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Sharmaine Sun, who was awarded an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/urop\/\">Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>(UROP) grant to continue working on research in the lab in Summer\u00a02018! Below\u00a0is a\u00a0brief description of the project\u00a0she will be working on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sharmaine Sun: \u201cLanguage use and perceptions of Asian Bostonians\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Sharmaine will be working on a sociophonetic research project with two components: (1) examining features of English and heritage languages spoken by Asian Americans, across a range of ethnicities and life histories in the U.S., and (2) testing the perception, by both Asian and non-Asian American listeners, of Asian racial\/ethnic identity in the speech of Asian American English users. In Summer 2018, Sharmaine will be involved in<span>\u00a0analyzing speech recordings\u00a0from a pilot corpus of interviews as well as conducting a perception experiment to e<\/span>xamine\u00a0the social evaluation of\u00a0Asian American males by straight female and gay male listeners<span>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Sharmaine Sun, who was awarded an\u00a0Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program\u00a0(UROP) grant to continue working on research in the lab in Summer\u00a02018! Below\u00a0is a\u00a0brief description of the project\u00a0she will be working on: Sharmaine Sun: \u201cLanguage use and perceptions of Asian Bostonians\u201d Sharmaine will be working on a sociophonetic research project with two components: (1) examining [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10698,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,5,8,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pamlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pamlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pamlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pamlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10698"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pamlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pamlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":695,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pamlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions\/695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pamlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pamlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pamlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}