PhD student Danielle Dionne will be presenting results from the Asian Americans in Boston project in a poster (co-authored with Prof. Chang) entitled “Sociophonetic variation among Asian Americans: The role of ethnicity and style” at the 182nd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) on May 23. Danielle was also admitted to the 2022 ASA School: Living in the Acoustic Environment that will be taking place before the conference. Congratulations to Danielle!
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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”.
