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Prof. Chang will be in Norway next week to give a colloquium at the University of Oslo’s Center for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan. The title of his talk is “Similarity and order effects in multilingual speech perception and production”.
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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!
