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Introduction
Felix is a young researcher of linguistics with particular interest in first language acquisition - phonological acquisition, speech production and perception, and bilingual language acquisition. I use experimental designs in doing all my research, with the aim of producing results which have implications for speech language pathology, and education.
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September 2016 - August 2024
August 2016 - April 2018
August 2010 - May 2014
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![Figure 1: Waveforms and spectrograms of [pɛ́]pɛ́pɛ́] 'only' (left) and...](profile/Charles-Chang/publication/386144437/figure/fig1/AS:11431281292713541@1732676964437/Waveforms-and-spectrograms-of-pepepe-only-left-and-k-pe-sew-right_Q320.jpg)
![Figure 2: Waveforms and spectrograms of [bɛíìbɛíì] 'mattress' (left)...](profile/Charles-Chang/publication/386144437/figure/fig2/AS:11431281292722443@1732676964605/Waveforms-and-spectrograms-of-beiibeii-mattress-left-and-g-be-road-right_Q320.jpg)
Achieving adult-like coarticulation, which relies on precise gestural coordination, is known to be a challenging aspect of phonological development. Unique coordination challenges are posed by doubly articulated stops, typologically uncommon complex consonants that show crosslinguistic variation in their acoustic contrast with simplex (singly artic...
Twi (Akan) and English can both express diminutive meaning using a morphological strategy (diminutive suffix) or a syntactic strategy (adjectival construction), but they differ with respect to native-speaker preferences -- morphological in Twi, syntactic in English. Each strategy in Twi, moreover, is associated with different types of complexity (m...
This study investigates the perception-production dynamics of [æ] and [e] in an ongoing merger in Asante Twi’s Advanced Tongue Root (ATR) harmony system. Traditional descriptions state that [-ATR] /a/ is realized as [+ATR] [æ] before [+ATR] vowels /i, u, o/. Yet, recent acoustic evidence points to an ongoing sound change in different Twi-speaking c...
This study examines whether speaker age and sex predict production of Advanced Tongue Root (ATR) vowel harmony by urban Twi (Niger-Congo, Kwa) speakers in Ghana. Traditional descriptions of the ATR harmony system state that [-ATR] /a/ is phonetically realized as [ + ATR] [æ] before [ + ATR] vowels /i, u, o/ and palatal segments. However, recent res...
This poster provides a description of how Asante Twi speakers differing in place of residence produce the [æ] vowel which is the [+ATR] counterpart of [-ATR] /a/.
This study investigates the acquisition of labio-velar stops by Ga-speaking children in Ghana. Such stops were elicited in initial, intervocalic, and pre-lateral positions through a picture naming task. Sixty Ga-dominant and Ga-English children at 5-, 6 1/2 -, and 8-years of age were tested. All age groups showed some difficulty with the doubly art...
Aims and Objectives
This study examined how age of acquisition, immersion in a native English-speaking environment, and phonological environment influence Akan-English bilinguals’ production of English inter-dental fricatives.
Design/Methodology
Forty-five Akan-English bilinguals who immigrated to the USA between the ages of 10 and 64 participated...
The social act of conversation passes through routine procedures before it is achieved. This paper tries to find out the structure of face-to-face casual conversation openings and closings among the Akans. It also seeks to juxtapose the structure of face-to-face conversation to that of telephone conversation as proposed by Coronel-Molina (1998). 20...
