Charles B. Chang

University of California, Berkeley
Department of Linguistics
1203 Dwinelle Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720
USA

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Welcome! I'm a final-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, specializing in phonetics and second language acquisition.

My research is concerned with the phonetics and phonology of "speaker-internal" language contact (i.e. sound-related phenomena arising from the interaction of two or more languages in multilinguals) as a window onto the nature of general linguistic competence. More specifically, I am interested in the extent and limits of first-language effects on the acquisition and mental representation of second-language phonological categories, as well as the factors that mediate effects of within-speaker interaction between different phonologies on the perception and production of phonetic categories in multiple languages.

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