PAMLab at City University of Hong Kong

05/25/2026

Kpogo to Wayne State! 🎉

We're thrilled to hear that lab alum Felix Kpogo (PhD 2024), currently Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at Brown University, has accepted a new job in the Linguistics Program at Wayne State University this coming fall. He will start as a Pre-Faculty Fellow and then transition to a tenure-track Assistant Professorship. Congratulations to Felix!

https://www.felixkpogo.com/

Wayne State Linguistics BU Linguistics

Kpogo CV [email protected]

05/22/2026

New paper alert: congratulations to Prof. Yao Yao, PhD student Meixian (Vicky) Li, and Prof. Chang on the publication of their article "Social perception of creaky voice in Mandarin Chinese: everyone’s gender matters" in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications! 👏👏👏

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-026-07108-z

Department of Language Science and Technology, HKPolyU LT.CityU Nature Portfolio

Recent years have witnessed increasing interest in the social meanings of non-modal voice qualities, but most existing studies focus on English, especially in the North American context. This paper reports a perceptual study of the social meanings of creaky voice in Mandarin Chinese for mainland Chi...

05/18/2026

Congratulations to PhD student Meixian (Vicky) Li, who will present a talk entitled "Gender effects in creaky voice production in English and Mandarin: Men are creakier" (coauthored with Profs. Yao & Chang) at in Seoul 🇰🇷 later this week 👏👏 Well-done, Vicky!

https://site.hanyang.ac.kr/web/hisphoncog

한양대학교 Hanyang University LT.CityU

HISPhonCog 2026 | HIPCS, Hanyang University | Official Website

05/13/2026

Congratulations to Jupitara Ray on successfully defending her PhD dissertation, "Phonetic plasticity in Indian English bilinguals: How L2 accommodation alters L1 production and perception"! Well-done, Jupitara! 👏👏👏

Here is Jupitara post-defense with her dissertation committee: Profs. Kate Lindsey, Charles Chang, and Esther de Leeuw (not pictured).

BU Linguistics Boston University Graduate School of Arts & Sciences

05/04/2026

Abstract deadline for extended to May 15! 😅

The Fifth International Conference on Language Attrition and Bilingualism (ICLA 5) aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from around the wor...

05/01/2026

New paper alert: congratulations to lab alum Dr. Felix Kpogo and Prof. Chang on the publication of their article entitled "Age, gender, and locality effects on innovation in the Twi vowel harmony system" in Language Variation and Change! 🤩

This article is the first paper from Felix's PhD dissertation. It argues for "the importance of local social context for the manifestation of variation and the unique insights of non-Western communities for sociolinguistic theory."

https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954394526100672

LT.CityU Brown University

Age, gender, and locality effects on innovation in the Twi vowel harmony system

04/10/2026

Congratulations to Prof. Chang on being named a recipient of the 2026 Yuen Ren Chao Prize in Language Science! The Chao Prize is awarded by the Faculty of Humanities, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and "recognises distinguished contributions to language science research".

https://www.polyu.edu.hk/fh/news-and-events/news/2026/2026-yuen-ren-chao-prize-in-language-science-announced/

LT.CityU

The Faculty of Humanities of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) is pleased to announce the laureates of the 2026 Yuen Ren Chao Prize in Langua...

04/08/2026

Kudos to PhD students Jupitara Ray and Meixian Li on their presentations at the upcoming conference of the Association for Laboratory Phonology ( ) in Montreal 🇨🇦:

- "Perception and production change out of sync: A study of Indian English bilinguals" (Jupitara Ray & Charles Chang)
- "Cross-language variation in sociophonetic perception reflects language effects" (Meixian Li, Yao Yao, & Charles Chang)

https://labphon.org/labphon20/home

Come by and say hello! 👋

UQAM | Université du Québec à Montréal LT.CityU BU Linguistics

 Welcome to LabPhon 20!LabPhon 20 will be held in Montréal, Québec, Canada from June 26–28, 2026, with satellite workshops on June 25 and 29, and a keynote lecture on June 25. This 20th anniversary meeting will take place at Coeur des Sciences at UQAM, located in downtown Montreal, and is being...

03/21/2026

The call for papers is now out for the 5th International Conference on Language Attrition and Bilingualism ( ), to be held at UFRGS - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul 🇧🇷 this October!

https://www.even3.com.br/icla5/

Check out the list of invited speakers, including Prof. Chang!

LT.CityU

The Fifth International Conference on Language Attrition and Bilingualism (ICLA 5) aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from around the wor...

03/03/2026

The lab is excited to welcome Dr. Miquel Llompart to LT.CityU the week of 16-20 March! During his visit, Dr. Llompart will deliver lectures (including the below LT Research Forum), meet with our faculty and students, and learn about teaching and research in Hong Kong.

LT CityUHK will host the fourth seminar at the LT Research Forum this March. Prof. Miquel Llompart (University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona) will present preliminary findings from his ongoing research using novel experimental designs to disentangle experiential and cognitive factors. This lecture explores how bilinguals process phonological variability in spoken word recognition under societal bilingualism, with a focus on the Catalan mid‑vowel contrasts /e/–/ɛ/ and /o/–/ɔ/, which are absent in Spanish and variably realized across speakers. The talk provides a valuable opportunity for academics and students to engage with cutting‑edge research in speech perception and second language acquisition. All are welcome!

Title: Between uncertainty and flexibility: Spoken word recognition under mid‑vowel variation in Catalan
Date: Monday, 16 March 2026, 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Venue: LI-6376 (6/F, Li Dak Sum Yip Yio Chin Academic Building), City University of Hong