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Welcome to Dr. Sungmi Kwon, Associate Professor in the Department of Korean Language and Literature at Pukyong National University (부경대학교) in Korea, who will be a Visiting Researcher in the lab for 2016-17. Dr. Kwon’s area of specialty is interlanguage Korean phonetics and phonology. During her visit, she will be working on research projects investigating L2 perception and production of Korean.
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Congratulations to Prof. Chang, along with Profs. Amelia Tseng, Tania Leal, Jin Sook Lee, and Belem G. López, on the publication of their book Research in Heritage Speaker Bilingualism: Theories, Methods, and Designs with Routledge!
Abstract: Research in Heritage Speaker Bilingualism unites diverse methodological perspectives on heritage language research, offering insights into key research questions, experimental designs, research techniques, and instruments used to investigate heritage languages. This ambitious volume covers a variety of linguistic, affective, social, and educational perspectives, all related to heritage language research. Each chapter provides a state-of-the-art overview of the topic under discussion with examples from a variety of heritage languages, is written in a highly accessible way featuring activities, and leads to further research literature. Readers are guided through theoretical background, research justification, creation, use, and the possible outcomes of key research methods. This exciting text is an invaluable resource for graduate as well as advanced undergraduate students in second language acquisition, language learning, and heritage languages.
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Congratulations to Meixian (Vicky) Li, whose abstract with Profs. Yao and Chang was accepted to the 19th International Conference on the Processing of East Asian Languages (ICPEAL 2025), to be held this coming December in Guangzhou! The title of their poster is “Cross-linguistic social perception of creaky voice by Mandarin-English bilinguals”.
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The PAMLab has moved: we’re now based in the Department of Linguistics and Translation at City University of Hong Kong!
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This spring, Prof. Chang has been busy talking about work in the lab!
