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CHANG, Charles B.
Biography
Prof. Charles B. Chang is Professor of Linguistics at the Department of Linguistics and Translation. He received a joint AB/AM degree in Linguistics from Harvard University, an MPhil in English and Applied Linguistics from the University of Cambridge, and a PhD in Linguistics from the University of California, Berkeley. Funded in part by the U.S. National Science Foundation, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong, his research focuses on phonetic and phonological aspects of language learning, multilingualism, and language attrition in diverse populations of language users, including novice learners, heritage speakers, and long-term expatriates. Links to publications can be found on his website at cbchang.com.
Research Interests
- phonetics and phonology
- language acquisition, drift, and attrition
- bilingualism and multilingualism
- sociolinguistics
- psycholinguistics
Key Publications
- Tseng, A., Chang, C. B., Leal, T., Lee, J. S., & López, B. G. (2025). Research in heritage speaker bilingualism: Theories, methods, and designs. New York, NY: Routledge. ISBN 9781032403212.
- de Leeuw, E., & Chang, C. B. (2024). Phonetic and phonological L1 attrition and drift in bilingual speech. In M. Amengual (Ed.), The Cambridge handbook of bilingual phonetics and phonology (pp. 721–745). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
- Chan, I. L., & Chang, C. B. (2019). Perception of nonnative tonal contrasts by Mandarin-English and English-Mandarin sequential bilinguals. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 146(2), 956–972.
- Chang, C. B. (2019). Language change and linguistic inquiry in a world of multicompetence: Sustained phonetic drift and its implications for behavioral linguistic research. Journal of Phonetics, 74, 96–113.
- Chang, C. B. (2016). Bilingual perceptual benefits of experience with a heritage language. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 19(4), 791–809.