Charles B. Chang

A fascinating plenary talk on perception-production link by Prof. Chang at the 5th international conference on heritage/community languages at UCLA @cbchang.bsky.social

Fifth International Conference on Heritage/Community Languages Our quadrennial two-day conference will focus on heritage/ community language studies as a multi-disciplinary field. Papers, posters, and panels relevant to heritage language research, pedagogy, and p...

Prof. @cbchang.bsky.social is giving a plenary address at this week’s 5th International Conference on Heritage/Community Languages: “Implications of heritage language sound systems for understanding perception–production links” ✨

nhlrc.ucla.edu/nhlrc/event/...

#phonetics #phonology 🐦🐦 #langsky

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Sociophonetics This book provides a critical overview of sociophonetic research and considers how the findings of this field illuminate and problematize a range of central issues in phonetics and phonology. The core...

Available today on Google Books! "Sociophonetics: Implications for Phonological and Phonetic Theory" edited by me and @jennycz.bsky.social

books.google.co.uk/books?id=T6m...

New #phonetics & #phonology talk series in 🇭🇰 - CityU Phorum! Our 1st speaker this term: Yao Yao (PolyU), on how "Gender Biases Shape Artificial Word Learning Even with Robot‑Like Voices".

Schedule: thepamlab.github.io/phorum/2526-...

Hong Kong folks: email the lab if you'd like to attend! 🐦🐦

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Check out our own Jupitara Ray at this week’s #LSA2026! Her talk w/ Prof. @cbchang.bsky.social is “L2 accommodation-led drift: Asymmetries between L1 production and perception” & is in the Fri morn “Phonetics: Perception” session 🗣️👂🐦🐦 #langsky @lingsocam.bsky.social @bulinguistics.bsky.social

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We’re excited to announce the launch of the third cohort of our Editor Learning Community!

This ELC will create a space for editors to share strategies, challenges, and opportunities to improve peer review — read more here: go.iu.edu/8wnE

Interested editors can complete our interest survey here:

‘Critical tipping point’ for Cameroon’s indigenous languages — Harvard Gazette Displacement and forced migration trigger alarm about language attrition in Cameroon.

A nice piece in the Harvard Gazette about research my lab has been doing on the impact of political conflict and displacement on language endangerment in Cameroon 🌍 🇨🇲 news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

LINGUIST List 36.3850 Internships: Cognitive Science, General Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Neurolinguistics, Psycholinguistics: 3- to 4-month Fellowships at the University of Potsdam, CRC1287 L... The LINGUIST List, International Linguistics Community Online.

Short-term fellowships for 2026 at the University of Potsdam, Germany (linguistics and psychology): linguistlist.org/issues/36/38...

Individual differences in speech perception This Collection welcomes original research articles on studies that investigate individual differences in speech perception.

Please consider submitting your manuscript to our special issue in Scientific Reports (deadline March 5th, 2026)
www.nature.com/collections/...

We are seeking candidates for two tenured/tenure-track faculty positions:

One in high-level vision, written language and/or conceptual representation apply.interfolio.com/178825

One in language apply.interfolio.com/178813

Please help us spread the word!

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One more week to nominate an outstanding early-career researcher for the Lila R. Gleitman Prize.

Visit cognitivesciencesociety.org/gleitman-pri... to learn more and nominate! #GleitmanPrize

Participants needed! One of my Phonetics students is looking for participants in her study - just requires listening to some voices in a short survey york.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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Deadline 4 Jan: Postdoc, variability and vowel harmony, metaphony (phonetic and psycholinguistic approaches), Potsdam (w/ A. Gafos) docs.google.com/document/d/1...

ASA 190th Meeting | May 11–15, 2026 | Philadelphia
Join us for acoustics sessions, posters, an equipment exhibition, networking events, student activities, and more!

Abstracts due January 12, 2026! Meeting details at https://acousticalsociety.org/philadelphia

MPhil & PhD Research Degrees YouTube video by Dept. of Linguistics and Translation, CityU HK

Just ~10 days left till the application deadline for the '26-'27 PhD student intake at CityU #Linguistics & #Translation! Here's a short video about our PhD program, w/ 🌟 starring roles 🌟 for Profs. Alex Fang, Ashley Lewis, & Jackie Lai 😁

🌲 🧠 🗣️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=puBj...

#langsky 🐦🐦

Applications are now open for the MARCS International Visiting Scholar Program 2026! 🌏

We are pleased to offer scholarships for PhD students and postdocs for visits of 1–3 months before the end of 2026.

📅 Applications close 4 December 2025.

If you are interested, email marcs@westernsydney.edu.au

Title section of Jupitara Ray & Charles B. Chang's poster at BUCLD 50

Our own @jupitararay.bsky.social is presenting at this week's #BUCLD50! Her Fri aft poster w/ Prof @cbchang.bsky.social is: "L2 influence, L1 resilience: Change and stability in early bilingual speakers of Indian English"

www.bu.edu/bucld/

@bulinguistics.bsky.social @bucld.bsky.social #langsky 🐦🐦

LexKO: A quick, reliable lexical test of Korean language proficiency - Behavior Research Methods 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 o...

New paper alert: congrats to Profs. @cbchang.bsky.social, Sunyoung Ahn & Youngjoo Kim on the publication of "LexKO: A quick, reliable lexical test of Korean language proficiency"! 🎉🎉

link.springer.com/article/10.3...

#OpenAccess #Korean #LanguageProficiency #LanguageAssessment #langsky 🐦🐦

LINGUIST List 36.3129 Jobs: Phonetics, Phonology: Assistant Professor in Phonetics and Phonology, University of Georgia The LINGUIST List, International Linguistics Community Online.

#Linguistics at the University of Georgia is hiring a tenure-track faculty member in #phonetics and #phonology. Spread the word and let me know if you have questions!

linguistlist.org/issues/36/31...

🚨🚨 Linguistics & Translation @ CityU is recruiting PhD students for the '26-27 intake! 🚨🚨

Prospectives should contact potential supervisors well before the Dec 1 deadline. Our faculty: lt.cityu.edu.hk/people/acade...

Happy to answer questions re: our programme & application process! #langsky 🐦🐦

📢PhD fellowships

The Spoken Language group at #BCBL (Spain) offers sponsorship for the #INPhINIT Predoctoral Fellowships

Potential PhD projects can be related to:
🗣️Speech perception
🧠Language learning

ℹ️Info about the position and application process: tinyurl.com/2kcfsjr3

📆Deadline: October 30

Mark your calendars! LSA has a lineup of events for linguists at every career stage. From webinars and professional development sessions to the 2026 Annual Meeting, LSA provides opportunities to connect, learn, & share your work.

🔗 Register today: www.lsadc.org/calendar_lis...
#Linguistics #LSA

New book examines language loss among multilingual speakers Penn State Professor of German and Linguistics Michael Putnam has spent a good part of his career thinking about language attrition, or "language loss," among bi- and multilingual speakers. Now, it's ...

New book examines language loss among multilingual speakers

Curious / terrified about peer review? We are here to help! Join @mariamaly.bsky.social and I October 30th!

Assistant Professor in Phonology - Chicago, Illinois (US) job with The University of Chicago | 37894671 The Department of Linguistics invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Phonology with an expected start date of July...

📢 My department is hiring! University of Chicago is hiring an Assistant Professor in Phonology! (EOE/Vet/Disability) See the link for more information. 📢

jobs.chronicle.com/job/37894671...

🚨Open immediately!! (rolling application review)🚨: Postdoc w/ the amazing Tamar Gollan, Uni. Cal. San Diego, bilingual speech production and cognitive control in aging and Alzheimer’s disease psychiatry.ucsd.edu/about/LAB_Go...

PhD Position: Accented Speech Processing | Radboud University Do you want to work as a PhD: Accented Speech Processing at the Faculty of Arts? Check our vacancy!

PhD Position: Accented Speech Processing - Apply now!

Come work with Mirjam Broersma, @davidpeeters.bsky.social, and me at the Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University in the Netherlands.

Application deadline: 19 October 2025

For more information, see
www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

We're seeking the next Director of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics! Lead cutting-edge research in language & cognition. Nominations (incl. self) due 19 Dec 2025.
mpi.nl/career-education/vacancies/vacancy/nominations-and-self-nominations-sought-position-director-max

Postdoc (flexible start): child language development across different populations and contexts, methods including behavioral studies, large-scale data analysis, and/or computational modeling. M. Cychosz, Linguistics, Stanford Univ. postdocs.stanford.edu/prospective/...