A5040846694- Multilingual Education and Policy
- Linguistic Variation and Morphology
- Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
- Phonetics and Phonology Research
- Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
- Language Development and Disorders
- Speech and dialogue systems
- Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Gender Studies in Language
- Career Development and Diversity
- Second Language Learning and Teaching
University of Michigan
2018-2025
Michigan United
2021
Though the term NATIVE SPEAKER/SIGNER is frequently used in language research, it inconsistently conceptualized. Factors, such as age, order, and context of acquisition, addition to social/cultural identity, are often differentially conflated. While ambiguity harmful consequences SPEAKER have been problematized across disciplines, much this literature attempts repurpose order include and/or exclude certain populations. This paper problematizes within psycholinguistics, arguing that both...
Individual variation is key to understanding phenomena in phonetic and change, including the production-perception link. To test generalizability of this relationship, study compares community- individual-level across three long-standing consonant mergers Hong Kong Cantonese speakers: [n]→[l], [ŋ̩]→[m̩], [ŋ]↔Ø. Concurrently, we document these understudied a community that has undergone rapid social change recent decades. Younger (college-aged) older (middle-aged) Kongers completed reading...
ABSTRACT Little consistency exists in how individuals enter scholarly publishing, let alone advance their careers. More transparency and documentation can help increase diversity an industry that wrestles with its privilege. In this article, we report on a project initiated by three publishing associations to aggregate, normalise, analyse public job postings internal position descriptions publishing. After gathering more than 1000 unique descriptions, group of knowledgeable volunteers...
Though the term NATIVE SPEAKER/SIGNER is frequently used in language research, it inconsistently conceptualized. Factors such as age, order, and context of acquisition, addition to social/cultural identity, are often differentially conflated. While ambiguity harmful consequences SPEAKER have been problematized across disciplines, much this literature attempts repurpose order include and/or exclude certain populations. This paper problematizes within psycholinguistics, arguing that both...
Abstract Within sociolinguistic research on English variation, Asian and Pacific Islander North Americans (APINAs) are frequently described as an “understudied population” due to the relative lack of published studies that analyze these speakers or communities. This structured literature review systematically characterizes state field from a variationist perspective. We find while APINAs have become more common in last decade, different groups represented unevenly existing literature; for...
This article details a correction to the article: Cheng, L. S. & Babel, M. Yao, Y., (2022) “Production and perception across three Hong Kong Cantonese consonant mergers: Community- individual-level perspectives”, Laboratory Phonology 13(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/labphon.6461
Bilingual speakers are typically unbalanced in their vocabularies each language, with language’s lexicon being representative of the experiences and domains which bilingual uses that language. This can create a challenge creating word lists for speech experiments, as frequency counts from publicly available corpora do not represent appropriate vocabulary domains. In this paper, we report on familiarity rating task Cantonese English was designed to pretest stimuli both languages confirm items...
Although the effects of social priming-where information about a speaker influences linguistic decisions-have long been accepted (e.g., Niedzielski, 1999; Strand, Hay et al., 2006), recent studies call attention to lack generalizability across contexts Lawrence, 2015; Chang, 2017; Walker 2019). The current study finds that priming, in case /a℧/-raising Michigan and Canadian English, is primarily observed for individuals who scored high on both stereotype awareness cognitive...