June 14, 2012 - Congratulations, Graduates!
Five of our former and current lab members graduated with their BAs in Linguistics and Psychology today. Congratulations to Nisha Banga, Daniel Chang, Keren Hernandez, Alison Kumpula, and Beverly Wu! We wish you all the best for your future studies and careers.

June 14th, 2012 - New Papers Published
We just received word that not one, but TWO papers got published today! A. Cooper & Y. Wang (2012) "The Influence of Linguistic and Musical Experience on Cantonese Word Learning" PDF has been published in the latest issue of the Journal of the Acoustic Society of America, and X. Wu, J. Tu, & Y. Wang (2012) "Native and Non-native Processing of Japanese Pitch Accent" was published in the latest issue of Applied Psycholinguistics PDF.

May 30, 2012 - Daniel Chang IJAS 2012 & JALTCALL 2012
Congratulations to LABlab member Daniel Chang, who presented a poster at the International Journal of Arts and Sciences Conference 2012 (IJAS 2012) this week at Ryerson University, entitled “Integration of Facebook in Schools: Innovation or Danger?”

That's not all! Next, Daniel will be hopping on a plane to present at the JALTCALL 2012 conference in Konan University in Nishinomiya, Japan, June 1-3. The poster is entitled, “The Integration of Second Life in ESL Instruction: a Community-Practice Approach”.

Daniel is a promising young undergraduate researcher majoring in Linguistics and minoring in Education. He is interested in second language acquisition, non-native speech production and perception, and bilingual education.

May 25, 2012 - Xianghua Wu PhD Defense
Congratulations to Xianghua Wu, who successfully defended her PhD thesis on May 24, 2012! She presented an interesting summary of her research entitled "A cross-language investigation of phonetic and phonological processing of lexical tone". You can read the abstract at http://www.sfu.ca/content/sfu/lablab/news/2012-may.html

June 8, 2012 - Saya Kawase & Yue Wang Interspeech 2012 Paper
We are happy to announce that Saya Kawase and Yue Wang have had a paper accepted for oral presentation at the Interspeech 2012 conference taking place in Portland, Oregon, September 9-13, 2012! The paper is entitled "Effects of visual speech information on native listener judgments of L2 consonant intelligibility" and is a partial data report of Saya's MA thesis project being conducted in the LABlab. Congratulations!