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Prof. Chang is giving a plenary address at this week’s 5th International Conference on Heritage/Community Languages (ICHCL 5)! The title of his plenary is “Implications of heritage language sound systems for understanding perception–production links”. Prof. Ji Young Kim (UCLA) will be the discussant for this plenary.
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Our own Jupitara Ray is presenting a poster (co-authored with Prof. Chang) at this week’s 50th Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 50)! The title of their presentation, scheduled for the Friday afternoon poster session, is “L2 influence, L1 resilience: Change and stability in early bilingual speakers of Indian English”.
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Prof. Chang gave two colloquium talks this fall about recent work in the lab.
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Congratulations to Jupitara Ray, whose abstract with Prof. Chang was accepted to the 189th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, the sixth Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the Acoustical Society of Japan, to be held this December in Honolulu, HI! The title of their poster is “Greater L2 phonetic accommodation does not predict greater L1 phonetic drift in early bilinguals”.
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Prof. Chang, along with Profs. Sunyoung Ahn and Youngjoo Kim, just published a new open-access article entitled “LexKO: A quick, reliable lexical test of Korean language proficiency” in Behavior Research Methods!
Abstract: To facilitate objective measures of proficiency for language users of diverse backgrounds, recent research in second language acquisition and multilingualism has developed short, yet reliable, tests of lexical knowledge in a wide range of languages. In this paper, we describe the development of LexKO, a brief lexically based test of Korean language proficiency, including its underlying logic, composition, intended use, and limitations. Three rounds of pilot and validation testing with first- and second-language Korean users resulted in a highly reliable Korean test comprising 60 items that can be completed in a few minutes. Freely available for other researchers to use, LexKO produces scores that correlate significantly with both first- and second-language Korean users’ scores on a standardized proficiency test (an abridged version of the Test of Proficiency in Korean) and may thus be helpful in multi-part studies for obtaining a quick, valid measure of proficiency in Korean, one of the world’s fastest-growing foreign languages.
