Charles B. Chang

Charles B. Chang

@cbchang.bsky.social

Linguist & cognitive scientist at CityU of Hong Kong 🇭🇰 PI @pamlab.bsky.social. Phonetics, phonology, speech, bilingualism, multilingualism, DEI. he/him 🇰🇷🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈⛸🤸 Views my own ✌️ More: linktr.ee/charlesbchang

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Charles B. Chang
@cbchang.bsky.social

Recruiting new PhD students for @pamlab.bsky.social! 😅 Prospectives should email me directly to discuss research interests & fit. I'd be happy to nominate someone for HKPFS (HK's NSF GRFP): cerg1.ugc.edu.hk/hkpfs/index.... As LT's PhD Coordinator, I can also answer general ?'s re: admissions.

cerg1.ugc.edu.hkHong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme | Research Grants Council
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Support: Applied Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, General Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Translation: PhD, City University of Hong Kong

dlvr.itSupport: Applied Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, General Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Translation: PhD, City University of Hong KongThe Department of Linguistics and Translation (LT) at City University of Hong Kong (CityU) is currently recruiting creative and motivated postgraduate students interested in pursuing a doctoral degree in language research at CityU. At CityU, we view language as a dynamic and multifaceted system deeply connected to cognition, culture, and society. Our research-driven approach positions us as a global leader in modern linguistic studies and fosters an innovative and interdisciplinary environmen

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PAMLab at CityU
@pamlab.bsky.social

Prof. @cbchang.bsky.social is in Porto Alegre 🇧🇷 this week to give a short course on #LanguageAttrition at UFRGS & a plenary talk at #ICLA5! His plenary: “Drift and attrition as a laboratory for testing perception–production links” www.even3.com.br/icla5/ #langsky 🐦🐦 #PhoneticDrift #Bilingualism

even3.com.br5th International Conference on Language Attrition and BilingualismThe Fifth International Conference on Language Attrition and Bilingualism (ICLA 5) aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from around the wor...

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ICPhS 2027
@icphs2027.bsky.social

✈️ Planning to present at #ICPhS2027? Papers are due Oct 1. We set the deadline early so anyone needing a Canadian entry visa, which can take time to process, has room to prepare before the Congress in Victoria. Questions? icphs-2027@globalplanning.ca ➡️ icphs2027.ca/call-for-pap...

icphs2027.caCall for Papers – ICPHS 2027The organizing committee is pleased to announce the call for papers for the 21st International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, which will take place on August 9–13, 2027, in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, has launched.

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Linguist List
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Jobs: Dravidian, Indo-Aryan; Hindi; Applied Linguistics, General Linguistics, Typology: Senior Learning Designer, Indian Languages, Duolingo

dlvr.itJobs: Dravidian, Indo-Aryan; Hindi; Applied Linguistics, General Linguistics, Typology: Senior Learning Designer, Indian Languages, DuolingoDescription: About the Role: We are looking for a senior language educator and curriculum designer with linguistics training, deep expertise in Hindi, and strong knowledge of cultural and linguistic diversity in India and the whole South Asian region. You will help shape Duolingo’s learning experiences for Indian languages by using your pedagogical expertise, cultural insight, and human-in-the-loop AI workflows. You’ll collaborate closely with product, engineering, and design partners to s

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The MARCS Institute
@marcsinstitute.bsky.social

📢 Applications now open for the Anne Cutler International Visiting Fellowship 2027. Open to researchers in #Linguistics, #SpeechScience, #Developmental & #Experimental Psychology, #Psycholinguistics, #ComputationalLinguistics, & #CommunicationEngineering. Learn more: tinyurl.com/5fy6bmt2

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Linguist List
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Jobs: General Linguistics: Director of the Center for Language Education, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

dlvr.itJobs: General Linguistics: Director of the Center for Language Education, Hong Kong University of Science and TechnologyDescription: Director of the Center for Language Education Hong Kong University of Science and Technology: School of Humanities and Social Science Job Functions: The Director provides leadership and vision to achieve excellence in language education at HKUST. With responsibility for a Center at the cutting edge, this role offers a great opportunity to shape the future of language education particularly in Human-AI interaction for language learning at scale. Reporting to the Dean of t

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Linguist List
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Calls: International Symposium on Monolingual and Bilingual Speech 2027

dlvr.itCalls: International Symposium on Monolingual and Bilingual Speech 2027Call for Papers: The 6th International Symposium on Monolingual and Bilingual Speech (ISMBS 2027) will host original research on the acquisition and use of first language, second or additional language, bilingual, and (bi)dialectal speech, child and adult, typical and atypical. The Symposium encourages a multidisciplinary exchange of ideas across phonology, phonetics, morphology, syntax, psycholinguistics, cognitive linguistics, clinical phonetics and linguistics, speech pathology, acoust

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Mauro Silva Júnior
@maurosilvajunior.bsky.social

Analysis of **110,303 submissions** to two elite journals over 5 years found that institutional prestige, team size, topic, and country strongly influenced editorial decisions. Most biases emerged in editorial review. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #metasci #science

science.orgEditorial and peer review dynamics at elite general science journalsAnalyses of deidentified data reveal complex interactions that quantify success at elite general science journals.

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PAMLab at CityU
@pamlab.bsky.social

Join us in Hong Kong 🇭🇰 next January for #IWoLP2027! Abstract deadline: 30 Sep 2026 Web: lt.cityu.edu.hk/iwolp2027/ Prof. @cbchang.bsky.social is part of a great line-up of speakers spanning all aspects of language production 🤩 🐦🐦 #langsky #languageproduction #psycholinguistics #multilingualism

lt.cityu.edu.hkIWoLP 2027 | EnglishInternational Workshop on Language Production 2027 (IWoLP 2027)
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Confs: International Workshop on Language Production 2027

dlvr.itConfs: International Workshop on Language Production 2027We are proud to announce that the International Workshop on Language Production (IWoLP) 2027 will take place from 6–8 January 2027 at City University of Hong Kong. This marks the first time IWoLP will be hosted in the Asia-Pacific region, and we hope to bring together researchers and practitioners working on language processing, computational linguistics, natural language processing, and related interdisciplinary fields. Our newly launched conference website is now live: https://lt.cityu.edu

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PAMLab at CityU
@pamlab.bsky.social

A feature on "Social perception of creaky voice in Mandarin Chinese" in ClearSkyScience: www.clearskyscience.com/en/10.1057/s... 🐦🐦 #langsky #sociolinguistics #Mandarin #Chinese #voicequality #creakyvoice

clearskyscience.comSocial perception of creaky voice in Mandarin Chinese: everyone’s gender matters · Clear Sky ScienceStudy of how Mandarin speakers perceive creaky voice, showing gender specific effects on perceived age, gender, and warmth.

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Linguist List
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Confs: International Workshop on Language Production 2027

dlvr.itConfs: International Workshop on Language Production 2027We are proud to announce that the International Workshop on Language Production (IWoLP) 2027 will take place from 6–8 January 2027 at City University of Hong Kong. This marks the first time IWoLP will be hosted in the Asia-Pacific region, and we hope to bring together researchers and practitioners working on language processing, computational linguistics, natural language processing, and related interdisciplinary fields. Our newly launched conference website is now live: https://lt.cityu.edu

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Linguist List
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Jobs: Computational Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Neurolinguistics, Phonetics, Psycholinguistics: HK Research Professor, Chosun University

dlvr.itJobs: Computational Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Neurolinguistics, Phonetics, Psycholinguistics: HK Research Professor, Chosun UniversityDescription: The Center for Data Science in Humanities at Chosun University is building a set of multimodal datasets spanning the lifespan. Over the past year, we have been collecting infant-perspective head-mounted video (BabyView Korea) and bilingual daylong audio recordings (LENA) from families in Korea, both still actively growing. We have also completed a dataset of daylong speech recordings from older adults, linked to PET imaging and cognitive test data. Alongside these, the center has

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PAMLab at CityU
@pamlab.bsky.social

Join us in Hong Kong 🇭🇰 next May for #TAI2027! Abstract deadline: 6 December 2026 Conference website: ling.cuhk.edu.hk/tai2027 🐦🐦 #langsky #phonetics #phonology #tone #intonation #prosody #typology #pragmatics

Linguist List@linguistlist.bsky.social

Confs: 4th International Conference on Tone and Intonation

dlvr.itConfs: 4th International Conference on Tone and IntonationWe are delighted to announce a call for papers for the 4th International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI 2027), which will be held in Hong Kong at the Chinese University of Hong Kong on 27-29 May 2027. The TAI conference originated from the International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (TAL) and the Conference on Tone and Intonation in Europe (TIE). TAI 2027 aims to provide an interdisciplinary forum for distinguished scholars, experts, and practitioners to exchange ideas and d
Charles B. Chang
@cbchang.bsky.social

Prof. Bob McMurray delivers the sixth and final invited talk of #LabPhon20: “The dynamic, gradient, idiosyncratic and messy and (in)consistent nature of speech categorization”

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Darin Flynn
@phono-logical.bsky.social

“Dimensions: looking back, looking forward” by Kie Zuraw (June ’26) #LabPhon20

Charles B. Chang@cbchang.bsky.social

Prof. Kie Zuraw (UCLA) delivers the first invited talk at #LabPhon20: “Dimensions: Looking back and looking forward” 🐦🐦 @labphon.bsky.social

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Darin Flynn
@phono-logical.bsky.social

“From Universals to Variation: Phonetic Grammar through Prosody” by Taehong Cho (June ’26) #LabPhon20

Charles B. Chang@cbchang.bsky.social

Prof. Taehong Cho (Hanyang U.) kicks off #LabPhon20 with a pre-conference lecture going “From Universals to Variation: Phonetic Grammar through Prosody” 🐦🐦 @labphon.bsky.social

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Coleen Murphy
@ctmurphy1.bsky.social

one anecdote: I was searching for a link to one of my old papers on Google, and the automated Gemini summary attributed all of my lab's work to my husband

Mel Andrews@bayesianboy.bsky.social

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

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David Soto
@dsotob.bsky.social

RA position open at @BCBL_eu (San Sebastian, Spain)! Work on decoded neurofeedback, fMRI/fNIRS/EEG, and ML to study how subjective experience can be shaped. 2-yr contract, starts Sept. 2026. Deadline: June 30. Apply here shorturl.at/Xw4pn Please RT! @hakwan.bsky.social @meganakpeters.bsky.social

shorturl.atJOB OFFER RESEARCH ASSISTANT - CONSCIOUSNESS Research group (D.S.)at the BCBL- Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language (San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain) www.bcbl.eu The Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language (BCBL) in San Sebastian (Basque Country,...

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Linguist List
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FYI: Online Talk: Phonetic Drift vs. Phonetic Attrition – Same Phenomena, Different Names?

dlvr.itFYI: Online Talk: Phonetic Drift vs. Phonetic Attrition – Same Phenomena, Different Names?The Language Attrition Network meets once a month (from October to June) in a 1-hour online session to discuss projects, papers, and chapters related to Language Attrition. You can see our past and next meetings here: https://languageattrition.org/language-attrition-network/ We would like to invite you to our next session, the last one of this academic year: Friday 12th, June, at 14:00 CET (13:00 UK), entitled "Phonetic Drift vs. Phonetic Attrition – same phenomena, different names?" by Erdin

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Linguist List
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Jobs: General Linguistics: Associate Professor / Assistant Professor / Research Assistant Professor, The Education University of Hong Kong

dlvr.itJobs: General Linguistics: Associate Professor / Assistant Professor / Research Assistant Professor, The Education University of Hong KongDescription: Founded in 1994 and awarded the University title in 2016, The Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK) is a publicly funded university, dedicated to the advancement of teacher education and related disciplines through a diverse offering of academic, professional and research programmes.  The University aspires to become a leading university in the Asia Pacific region and beyond, with a focus on educational and multidisciplinary research, development and innovation. We are commit

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PAMLab at CityU
@pamlab.bsky.social

📣 New paper alert: congratulations to Prof. Yao Yao, PhD student Meixian Li & Prof. @cbchang.bsky.social on publishing "Social perception of creaky voice in Mandarin Chinese: everyone’s gender matters" in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications! 👏👏👏 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #langsky 🐦🐦

nature.comSocial perception of creaky voice in Mandarin Chinese: everyone’s gender matters - Humanities and Social Sciences CommunicationsHumanities and Social Sciences Communications - Social perception of creaky voice in Mandarin Chinese: everyone’s gender matters

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Linguistic Society of America
@lingsocam.bsky.social

Language shapes everything, from how we think to how we connect and innovate. Linguists are essential to understanding communication, and to creating ethical, responsible AI. We need more linguists. #TalkAboutSocialSciences #TalkAboutHumanities

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Efthymia Kapnoula
@effiekapnoula.bsky.social

New paper out on speech perception consistency by @brianwwl.bsky.social! 👏

Brian Wong@brianwwl.bsky.social

📣 New paper in Scientific Reports Does speech perception consistency help us process spoken words more efficiently? With @effiekapnoula.bsky.social and Arthur Samuel, we found that consistency facilitates early lexical activation. 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

doi.orgSpeech perception consistency facilitates initial lexical activation, but not speech perception flexibility - Scientific ReportsSpeech perception consistency refers to the similarity between a listener’s responses to repeated presentations of the same speech sound (e.g., along a /ba/–/pa/ continuum). Although research has demo...