PAMLab at CityU

PAMLab at CityU

A research cluster in the Department of Linguistics and Translation

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The CityU Phorum has been established!

The CityU Phonetics and Phonology Forum (“Phorum”) has been officially established! We are a research and discussion group centered around all phonetic and phonological aspects of speech: articulation, acoustics, aerodynamics, processing, perception, sociophonetics, speech learning, multilingual speech, speech disorders, etc. Comprising CityU LT’s academic staff and students in phonetics and phonology, we meet on a roughly biweekly basis to present our ongoing work, hear from outside speakers, and discuss recent papers of interest.

2025-26 Semester B schedule

Here is the Semester B meeting schedule for the CityU Phorum. Unless otherwise indicated, all meetings take place on Wednesdays, 11am-12pm, in LI-5405 (Room 5405, 5/F, Li Dak Sum Yip Yio Chin Academic Building on the CityU campus at 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon Tong). If you are a non-CityU affiliate who would like to attend, please email Prof. Chang in advance to arrange visitor access to campus.

2026-27 Semester A schedule

Here is the Semester A meeting schedule for the CityU Phorum. Unless otherwise indicated, all meetings take place on Wednesdays, 11am-12pm, in LI-5405 (Room 5405, 5/F, Li Dak Sum Yip Yio Chin Academic Building on the CityU campus at 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon Tong). If you are a non-CityU affiliate who would like to attend, you should be able to enter campus with your JULAC Card. If you do not have a JULAC Card, please email Prof. Chang in advance to arrange visitor access to campus.

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Charles B. Chang, Director

Charles B. Chang (Professor of Linguistics) is the director of the PAMLab. His research interests are in phonetics and phonology, language acquisition (especially L2 and L3/Ln learning), and the psycholinguistics of bilingualism and multilingualism.

Zhuangcheng Gao, PhD student

Zhuangcheng Gao is a first-year PhD student in Linguistics at City University of Hong Kong. A graduate of Hunan Normal University and Wuhan University, he is broadly interested in phonetics and phonology, pragmatics, bilingualism, cognitive linguistics, and sociolinguistics. Currently, he is working on aspects of code-switching between Mandarin and English.

Tianqi Ju, PhD student

Tianqi Ju is a first-year PhD student in Language Science and Technology at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, co-supervised by Profs. Yao Yao and Charles Chang. Her previous work looked at cross-linguistic influence in Chinese multilingual speakers, with a focus on both speech production and perception. Her research interests include phonetics, multilingualism, and language acquisition.

Meixian (Vicky) Li, PhD student

Meixian (Vicky) Li is a third-year PhD student in Language Science and Technology at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University co-supervised by Profs. Yao Yao and Charles Chang. Her interests are in phonetics, sociolinguistics, and bilingualism. She is working on a Hong Kong GRF-funded project with Profs. Yao and Chang examining the social meanings of creaky voice in Mandarin Chinese.

Alumni and Former Interns

Many (92 so far!) doctoral students, master’s students, undergraduate students, and interns have joined us over the years. They have moved on to academic positions at places such as Brown University and University of Nebraska; master’s and PhD programs at Brown, Cornell, LSE, MIT, NYU, Stanford, UCLA, UCL, UChicago, UDel, University of South Carolina, and Vanderbilt; and jobs in industry (e.g., Amazon, Duolingo), education, international affairs, law, marketing, medicine, and publishing.

Collaborators

Excellent people have collaborated with us over the years, from all over the world: Canada, Germany, Hong Kong, South Korea, Switzerland, the UK, and the US.

publications

On activation and suppression in the dual-route model of reading: bass the fish or bass the guitar?

Published in Proceedings of the Seoul International Conference on Linguistics, 2006

Are all meanings of a homograph accessed even when only one is appropriate in context? Priming data collected in this study suggest…

Recommended citation: Chang, C. B. (2006). On activation and suppression in the dual-route model of reading: bass the fish or bass the guitar? In Proceedings of SICOL 2006: The Seoul International Conference on Linguistics (pp. 521–530). Seoul, South Korea: Linguistic Society of Korea.
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Tense consonants in Korean revisited: A crosslinguistic perceptual study

Published in Proceedings of the University of Cambridge Postgraduate Conference in Language Research, 2006

The well-described laryngeal system of Korean has most often been analyzed as a typologically unique contrast among three…

Recommended citation: Chang, C. B. (2006). Tense consonants in Korean revisited: A crosslinguistic perceptual study. In C. Chang, E. Dugarova, I. Theodoropoulou, E. Vilar Beltrán, & E. Wilford (Eds.), CamLing 2006: Proceedings of the 4th University of Cambridge Postgraduate Conference in Language Research (pp. 35–42). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Institute of Language Research.
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Tone production in whispered Mandarin

Published in Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 2007

Acoustic analyses of normal voiced and whispered Mandarin Chinese reveal significant differences in duration and intensity among…

Recommended citation: Chang, C., & Yao, Y. (2007). Tone production in whispered Mandarin. In J. Trouvain & W. J. Barry (Eds.), Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 1085–1088). Dudweiler, Germany: Pirrot.
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The acoustics of Korean fricatives revisited

Published in Harvard Studies in Korean Linguistics, 2008

This study examined the production of the two-way laryngeal contrast in Korean sibilant fricatives in two experiments covering…

Recommended citation: Chang, C. B. (2008). The acoustics of Korean fricatives revisited. Harvard Studies in Korean Linguistics, 12, 137–150.
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Variation in palatal production in Buenos Aires Spanish

Published in Selected Proceedings of the Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics, 2008

This study of palatal production in Argentina confirms that there are three types of speakers (voicers, devoicers, and…

Recommended citation: Chang, C. B. (2008). Variation in palatal production in Buenos Aires Spanish. In M. Westmoreland and J. A. Thomas (Eds.), Selected Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics (pp. 54–63). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
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A web-accessible dictionary of Southeastern Pomo

Published in Current Issues in Unity and Diversity of Languages, 2009

In recent years, building web-accessible dictionaries has become a new way of organizing and publishing data from linguistic fieldwork…

Recommended citation: Yao, Y., Chang, C. B., Katseff, S., Lee-Goldman, R., & Piqueras-Brunet, M. (2009). A web-accessible dictionary of Southeastern Pomo. In M. Pak (Ed.), Current issues in unity and diversity of languages (pp. 2824–2835). Seoul, South Korea: Linguistic Society of Korea.
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Convergence and divergence in language obsolescence

Published in Current Issues in Unity and Diversity of Languages, 2009

Previous research on language attrition has distinguished between internally and externally motivated change and between convergent…

Recommended citation: Chang, C. B. (2009). Convergence and divergence in language obsolescence. In M. Pak (Ed.), Current issues in unity and diversity of languages (pp. 933–952). Seoul, South Korea: Linguistic Society of Korea.
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A tale of five fricatives: Consonantal contrast in heritage speakers of Mandarin

Published in University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, 2009

This study investigated the production of five Mandarin and English sibilant fricatives by heritage speakers of Mandarin…

Recommended citation: Chang, C. B., Haynes, E. F., Yao, Y., & Rhodes, R. (2009). A tale of five fricatives: Consonantal contrast in heritage speakers of Mandarin. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, 15(1), 37–43.
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English loanword adaptation in Burmese

Published in Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 2009

This paper provides a descriptive account of the main patterns found in the adaptation of English loanwords in Burmese…

Recommended citation: Chang, C. B. (2009). English loanword adaptation in Burmese. Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 1, 77–94.
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The status of voicing and aspiration as cues to Korean laryngeal contrast

Published in Proceedings from the Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, 2009

Previous research on language attrition has distinguished between internally and externally motivated change and between convergent…

Recommended citation: Chang, C. B. (2009). The status of voicing and aspiration as cues to Korean laryngeal contrast. In M. Elliott, J. Kirby, O. Sawada, E. Staraki, & S. Yoon (Eds.), Proceedings from the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society: The Main Session (pp. 31–45). Chicago, IL: Chicago Linguistic Society.
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Short-term phonetic drift in an L2 immersion environment

Published in Current Issues in Linguistic Interfaces, 2009

This paper investigates the nature and time course of phonetic drift in L1 by examining the very first weeks of…

Recommended citation: Chang, C. B. (2009). Short-term phonetic drift in an L2 immersion environment. In Y.-S. Kang, S.-W. Tang, C. Kim, J.-Y. Yoon, Y.-S. Kang, K.-A. Kim, H. Yoo, Y. Jang, & H.-K. Kang (Eds.), Current issues in linguistic interfaces, Volume 2 (pp. 31–46). Seoul, South Korea: Linguistic Society of Korea.
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The implementation of laryngeal contrast in Korean as a Second Language

Published in Harvard Studies in Korean Linguistics, 2010

Research on how second-language (L2) learners acquire L2 laryngeal categories has focused on languages with “voiced” and “voiceless”…

Recommended citation: Chang, C. B. (2010). The implementation of laryngeal contrast in Korean as a Second Language. Harvard Studies in Korean Linguistics, 13, 91–104.
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The phonetic space of phonological categories in heritage speakers of Mandarin

Published in Proceedings from the Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, 2010

In two experiments, we investigated the production of Mandarin and English by heritage speakers of Mandarin in comparison to native…

Recommended citation: Chang, C. B., Haynes, E. F., Yao, Y., & Rhodes, R. (2010). The phonetic space of phonological categories in heritage speakers of Mandarin. In M. Bane, J. Bueno, T. Grano, A. Grotberg, & Y. McNabb (Eds.), Proceedings from the 44th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society: The Main Session (pp. 31–45). Chicago, IL: Chicago Linguistic Society.
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Learning to produce a multidimensional laryngeal contrast

Published in Proceedings of the International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech, 2010

Research on how second-language (L2) learners acquire L2 laryngeal categories has focused on languages with “voiced” and “voiceless”…

Recommended citation: Chang, C. B. (2010). Learning to produce a multidimensional laryngeal contrast. In K. Dziubalska-Kołaczyk, M. Wrembel, & M. Kul (Eds.), New Sounds 2010: Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech (pp. 89–94). Poznań, Poland: Adam Mickiewicz University.
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Production of phonetic and phonological contrast by heritage speakers of Mandarin

Published in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2011

This study tested the hypothesis that heritage speakers of a minority language, due to their childhood experience with…

Recommended citation: Chang, C. B., Yao, Y., Haynes, E. F., & Rhodes, R. (2011). Production of phonetic and phonological contrast by heritage speakers of Mandarin. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 129(6), 3964–3980.
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Systemic drift of L1 vowels in novice L2 learners

Published in Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 2011

Studies of proficient second-language (L2) learners have often noted phonetic drift of their native language (L1) vis-à-vis…

Recommended citation: Chang, C. B. (2011). Systemic drift of L1 vowels in novice L2 learners. In W.-S. Lee & E. Zee (Eds.), Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 428–431). Hong Kong, SAR: City University of Hong Kong.
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Phonetics vs. phonology in loanword adaptation: Revisiting the role of the bilingual

Published in Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 2012

Following phonological and phonetic models of loanword adaptation, I present evidence from Burmese in favor of an intermediate model…

Recommended citation: Chang, C. B. (2012). Phonetics vs. phonology in loanword adaptation: Revisiting the role of the bilingual. In S. Berson, A. Bratkievich, D. Bruhn, A. Campbell, R. Escamilla, A. Giovine, L. Newbold, M. Perez, M. Piqueras-Brunet, & R. Rhomieux (Eds.), Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on Information Structure (pp. 61–72). Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Linguistics Society.
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Evidence for language transfer leading to a perceptual advantage for non-native listeners

Published in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2012

Phonological transfer from the native language is a common problem for non-native speakers that has repeatedly been shown to result…

Recommended citation: Chang, C. B., & Mishler, A. (2012). Evidence for language transfer leading to a perceptual advantage for non-native listeners. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 132(4), 2700–2710.
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A novelty effect in phonetic drift of the native language

Published in Journal of Phonetics, 2013

Previous findings on adult second-language (L2) learners showed systematic phonetic changes in their production of the…

Recommended citation: Chang, C. B. (2013). A novelty effect in phonetic drift of the native language. Journal of Phonetics, 41(6), 520–533.
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Relationships of attitudes toward homework and time spent on homework to course outcomes: The case of foreign language learning

Published in Journal of Educational Psychology, 2014

In previous studies of homework in core academic subjects, positive student attitudes toward homework were linked to higher…

Recommended citation: Chang, C. B., Wall, D., Tare, M., Golonka, E., & Vatz, K. (2014). Relationships of attitudes toward homework and time spent on homework to course outcomes: The case of foreign language learning. Journal of Educational Psychology, 106(4), 1049–1065.
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Determining cross-linguistic phonological similarity between segments: The primacy of abstract aspects of similarity

Published in The Segment in Phonetics and Phonology, 2015

Although the general notion of “phonological similarity” has figured prominently in linguistic scholarship, the manner in which…

Recommended citation: Chang, C. B. (2015). Determining cross-linguistic phonological similarity between segments: The primacy of abstract aspects of similarity. In E. Raimy & C. E. Cairns (Eds.), The segment in phonetics and phonology (pp. 199–217). Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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The effect of semantic predictability on vowel production with pure word deafness

Published in Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 2015

Vowels tend to be reduced in words that are semantically predictable from context, an effect amenable to talker- or…

Recommended citation: Chang, C. B., & Fischer-Baum, S. (2015). The effect of semantic predictability on vowel production with pure word deafness. In The Scottish Consortium for ICPhS 2015 (Ed.), Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (paper number 0350). Glasgow, UK: University of Glasgow.
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Context effects on second-language learning of tonal contrasts

Published in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2015

Studies of lexical tone learning generally focus on monosyllabic contexts, while reports of phonetic learning benefits…

Recommended citation: Chang, C. B., & Bowles, A. R. (2015). Context effects on second-language learning of tonal contrasts. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 138(6), 3703–3716.
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Pitch ability as an aptitude for tone learning

Published in Language Learning, 2016

Tone languages such as Mandarin use voice pitch to signal lexical contrasts, presenting a challenge for second/foreign language…

Recommended citation: Bowles, A. R., Chang, C. B., & Karuzis, V. P. (2016). Pitch ability as an aptitude for tone learning. Language Learning, 66(4), 774–808.
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Toward an understanding of heritage prosody: Acoustic and perceptual properties of tone produced by heritage, native, and second language speakers of Mandarin

Published in Heritage Language Journal, 2016

In previous work examining heritage language phonology, heritage speakers have often patterned differently from native speakers…

Recommended citation: Chang, C. B., & Yao, Y. (2016). Toward an understanding of heritage prosody: Acoustic and perceptual properties of tone produced by heritage, native, and second language speakers of Mandarin. Heritage Language Journal, 13(2), 134–160.
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Bilingual perceptual benefits of experience with a heritage language

Published in Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2016

Research on the linguistic knowledge of heritage speakers has been concerned primarily with the advantages conferred by…

Recommended citation: Chang, C. B. (2016). Bilingual perceptual benefits of experience with a heritage language. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 19(4), 791–809.
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LEXTALE_CH: A quick, character-based proficiency test for Mandarin Chinese

Published in Proceedings of the Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, 2018

Research in second language acquisition suggests that objective performance-based assessments may provide more reliable and…

Recommended citation: Chan, I. L., & Chang, C. B. (2018). LEXTALE_CH: A quick, character-based proficiency test for Mandarin Chinese. In A. B. Bertolini & M. J. Kaplan (Eds.), Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 114–130). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
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The phonetics of second language learning and bilingualism

Published in The Routledge Handbook of Phonetics, 2019

This chapter provides an overview of major theories and findings in the field of second language (L2) phonetics and…

Recommended citation: Chang, C. B. (2019). The phonetics of second language learning and bilingualism. In W. F. Katz & P. F. Assmann (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of phonetics (pp. 427–447). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
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Language change and linguistic inquiry in a world of multicompetence: Sustained phonetic drift and its implications for behavioral linguistic research

Published in Journal of Phonetics, 2019

Linguistic studies focusing on monolinguals have often examined individuals with considerable experience using another…

Recommended citation: Chang, C. B. (2019). Language change and linguistic inquiry in a world of multicompetence: Sustained phonetic drift and its implications for behavioral linguistic research. Journal of Phonetics, 74, 96–113.
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Production of neutral tone in Mandarin by heritage, native, and second language speakers

Published in Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 2019

This study examined the properties of neutral tone (T0) in Mandarin as produced by three groups…

Recommended citation: Chang, C. B., & Yao, Y. (2019). Production of neutral tone in Mandarin by heritage, native, and second language speakers. In S. Calhoun, P. Escudero, M. Tabain, & P. Warren (Eds.), Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 2291–2295). Canberra, Australia: Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc.
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Perception of nonnative tonal contrasts by Mandarin-English and English-Mandarin sequential bilinguals

Published in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2019

This study examined the role of acquisition order and crosslinguistic similarity in influencing transfer…

Recommended citation: Chan, I. L., & Chang, C. B. (2019). Perception of nonnative tonal contrasts by Mandarin-English and English-Mandarin sequential bilinguals. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 146(2), 956–972.
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Phonetic drift

Published in The Oxford Handbook of Language Attrition, 2019

This chapter provides an overview of research on the phonetic changes that occur in one’s native language (L1) due to…

Recommended citation: Chang, C. B. (2019). Phonetic drift. In M. S. Schmid & B. Köpke (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of language attrition (pp. 191–203). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
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Phonetics and phonology of heritage languages

Published in The Cambridge Handbook of Heritage Languages and Linguistics, 2021

This chapter provides an overview of research on heritage language (HL) sound systems, with a focus on areas of…

Recommended citation: Chang, C. B. (2021). Phonetics and phonology of heritage languages. In S. Montrul & M. Polinsky (Eds.), The Cambridge handbook of heritage languages and linguistics (pp. 581–612). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
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Cultural factors weaken but do not reverse left-to-right spatial biases in numerosity processing: Data from Arabic and English monoliterates and Arabic-English biliterates

Published in PLoS ONE, 2021

Directional response biases due to a conceptual link between space and number, such as a left-to-right hand bias for…

Recommended citation: Lopiccolo, D., & Chang, C. B. (2021). Cultural factors weaken but do not reverse left-to-right spatial biases in numerosity processing: Data from Arabic and English monoliterates and Arabic-English biliterates. PLoS ONE, 16(12), e0261146.
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Unity and diversity in Asian American language variation: Data from Chinese, Filipino, Korean, and Vietnamese Americans

Published in Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 2022

The present study examined sociophonetic variation in a small sample of Asian Americans in Boston, Massachusetts…

Recommended citation: Chang, C. B., & Dionne, D. (2022). Unity and diversity in Asian American language variation: Data from Chinese, Filipino, Korean, and Vietnamese Americans. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 46, 060002.
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Intoxication and pitch control in tonal and non-tonal language speakers

Published in JASA Express Letters, 2022

Alcohol intoxication is known to affect pitch variability in non-tonal languages. In this study…

Recommended citation: Tang, K., Chang, C. B., Green, S., Bao, K. X., Hindley, M., Kim, Y. S., & Nevins, A. (2022). Intoxication and pitch control in tonal and non-tonal language speakers. JASA Express Letters, 2(6), 065202.
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On the auditory identifiability of Asian American identity in speech: The role of listener background, sociolinguistic awareness, and language ideologies

Published in Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, 2023

The current study examined the auditory identifiability of Asian American ethnoracial identity, including the role of…

Recommended citation: Chang, C. B., & Fraser, K. (2023). On the auditory identifiability of Asian American identity in speech: The role of listener background, sociolinguistic awareness, and language ideologies. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, 8(1), 5558.
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Individual differences in vowel compactness persist under intoxication across first and second languages

Published in Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 2023

Alcohol intoxication facilitates inhibition of one’s first language (L1) ego, which may lead to reduced individual differences…

Recommended citation: Chang, C. B., Tang, K., & Nevins, A. (2023). Individual differences in vowel compactness persist under intoxication across first and second languages. In R. Skarnitzl & J. Volín (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 1182–1186). Prague, Czechia: Guarant International.
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Regressive cross-linguistic influence in multilingual speech rhythm: The role of language similarity

Published in L3 Development After the Initial State, 2023

While previous work on multilingual speech rhythm has found evidence of progressive cross-linguistic influence…

Recommended citation: Brown-Bousfield, M. M., & Chang, C. B. (2023). Regressive cross-linguistic influence in multilingual speech rhythm: The role of language similarity. In M. M. Brown-Bousfield, S. Flynn, & É. Fernández-Berkes (Eds.), L3 development after the initial state (pp. 49–71). Amsterdam, The Netherlands: John Benjamins Publishing.
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An individual-differences perspective on variation in heritage Mandarin speakers

Published in The Phonetics and Phonology of Heritage Languages, 2024

This chapter takes an individual-differences perspective on the dual sound systems of American heritage speakers (HSs) of…

Recommended citation: Chang, C. B., & Yao, Y. (2024). An individual-differences perspective on variation in heritage Mandarin speakers. In R. Rao (Ed.), The phonetics and phonology of heritage languages (pp. 208–236). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
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Perceiving the social meanings of creaky voice in Mandarin Chinese

Published in Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody, 2024

While there is a growing literature on the social meanings of nonmodal voice qualities, most of the existing studies…

Recommended citation: Yao, Y., Li, M., Li, S., & Chang, C. B. (2024). Perceiving the social meanings of creaky voice in Mandarin Chinese. In Y. Chen, A. Chen & A. Arvaniti (Eds.), Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Speech Prosody (Speech Prosody 2024) (pp. 652–656). Leiden, The Netherlands: International Speech Communication Association.
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Expressing diminutive meaning in heritage Twi: The role of complexity and language-specific preferences

Published in Formal Approaches to Complexity in Heritage Language Grammars, 2024

Twi (Akan) and English can both express diminutive meaning using a morphological strategy (diminutive suffix) or…

Recommended citation: Kpogo, F., Kohut, A., & Chang, C. B. (2024). Expressing diminutive meaning in heritage Twi: The role of complexity and language-specific preferences. In M. Polinsky & M. T. Putnam (Eds.), Formal approaches to complexity in heritage language grammars (pp. 15–41). Berlin, Germany: Language Science Press.
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Phonetic and phonological L1 attrition and drift in bilingual speech

Published in The Cambridge Handbook of Bilingual Phonetics and Phonology, 2024

This contribution presents an overview of what is currently known about phonetic and phonological first language (L1)…

Recommended citation: de Leeuw, E., & Chang, C. B. (2024). Phonetic and phonological L1 attrition and drift in bilingual speech. In M. Amengual (Ed.), The Cambridge handbook of bilingual phonetics and phonology (pp. 721–745). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
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Coarticulation and coordination in phonological development: Insights from children’s and adults’ production of complex–simplex stop contrasts in Gã

Published in Journal of Phonetics, 2025

Achieving adult-like coarticulation, which relies on precise gestural coordination, is known to be…

Recommended citation: Kpogo, F., & Chang, C. B. (2025). Coarticulation and coordination in phonological development: Insights from children's and adults' production of complex–simplex stop contrasts in Gã. Journal of Phonetics, 108, 101378.
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Research in Heritage Speaker Bilingualism: Theories, Methods, and Designs

Published in Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2025

Research in Heritage Speaker Bilingualism unites diverse methodological perspectives on heritage language research…

Recommended citation: Tseng, A., Chang, C. B., Leal, T., Lee, J. S., & López, B. G. (2025). Research in heritage speaker bilingualism: Theories, methods, and designs. New York, NY: Routledge.
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LexKO: A quick, reliable lexical test of Korean language proficiency

Published in Behavior Research Methods, 2025

To facilitate objective measures of proficiency for language users of diverse backgrounds, recent research in second language…

Recommended citation: Chang, C. B., Ahn, S., & Kim, Y. (2025). LexKO: A quick, reliable lexical test of Korean language proficiency. Behavior Research Methods, 57, article number 317.
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Social perception of creaky voice in Mandarin Chinese: Everyone’s gender matters

Published in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 2026

Recent years have witnessed increasing interest in the social meanings of non-modal voice qualities, but most existing studies focus on English…

Recommended citation: Yao, Y., Li, M., & Chang, C. B. (2026). Social perception of creaky voice in Mandarin Chinese: Everyone's gender matters. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 13, article number 703.
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