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.
Meixian (Vicky) Li is a second-year PhD student in Chinese and Bilingual Studies at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She is working on a Hong Kong GRF-funded project with Profs. Yao Yao and Charles Chang examining the social meanings of creaky voice in Mandarin Chinese.
Jupitara Ray is a sixth-year PhD student in Linguistics at Boston University, broadly interested in phonetics and phonology, sociolinguistics, bi/multi-lingualism in the diasporic community, etc. A research fellow in the lab in Spring 2024, she is currently working on her dissertation examining phonetic accommodation and drift of Indian English speakers in India and the US.
Excellent people have collaborated with us over the years.
Many (94 so far!) undergraduate students, postgraduate students, and interns have joined us over the years.
We have been able to welcome some external researchers as well.