About
Charles B. Chang is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Boston University, where he directs the Phonetics, Acquisition & Multilingualism Lab (PAMLab) and holds affiliations with the Center for Innovation in Social Science, the Center for the Study of Asia, and the Hearing Research Center. He received a joint AB/AM in Linguistics from Harvard University, an MPhil in English and Applied Linguistics from the University of Cambridge, and an MA and PhD in Linguistics from the University of California, Berkeley.
A Fellow of the Psychonomic Society and a past recipient of the Linguistic Society of America's Early Career Award, Dr. Chang studies phonetic and phonological aspects of language learning, bilingualism and multilingualism, and language attrition. His research has been funded by Boston University, the University of California, Berkeley, the Gates Cambridge Trust, Trinity College (Cambridge), the University of Maryland, and the National Science Foundation.
Current Work
Dr. Chang's research focuses on the intersection of language sound systems (phonetics and phonology), language learning, and use of more than one language (multilingualism) over the lifespan. He has a special interest in first- and second-generation immigrant groups, including heritage language speakers and learners. Using a variety of techniques including sociolinguistic interviews, listening experiments, and acoustic analysis, his current projects examine interactions among languages in novice learners and advanced users of a third language; language variation among Asian Americans of diverse ethnicities; and effects of alcohol intoxication on speech production in bilinguals.