Focus of research

Canadian English; Pacific Northwest dialects; Asian Canadian speech 

Interests

Phonetics; phonology; language variation; sociolinguistics

Education  

HBA in English and Linguistics, University of Toronto, 2022

About

I’m a graduate student in Linguistics, working on phonetics and sociolinguistics. My research interests involve looking at the variations within languages, and their relationships with speakers. My primary focus includes the dialectology in Canadian/American English and its Asian Canadian/American variant. My thesis focuses on studying the front vowel space of Asian Canadians in BC English.

Publications

Chan, N. (2024). The Front Vowel Space of Asian Canadians: Raising of /æ/ allophones in British Columbia English. Paper presented at the Northwest Linguistics Conference, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. 

Babayode, A., Bosman, L., Chan, N., Ehret, K., Fong, I., Harris, N., ... & Wong, R. Structural linguistic characteristics of podcasts as an emerging register of computer-mediated communication. 14–15 September 2023, University of Mannheim, Germany, 3.