Anges Vu
PhD Student
Hi! I am a PhD student in the Department of Linguistics at Northwestern University interested in bilingualism, speech production and perception, and language acquisition. My current research explores how switched-dominance heritage speakers (in particular, Vietnamese-English bilinguals) produce and perceive speech sounds that are either shared between or unique to each language.
At Northwestern, I am affiliated with the Sound Lab and the Speech and Communication Group and am advised by Matt Goldrick and Ann Bradlow.
Before coming to Northwestern, I completed my BA in Linguistics and minors in Computer Science, Psychology, and Cognitive Science from UC San Diego.
Teaching
Sound Patterns in Human Language
[Fall 2024] Department of Linguistics, Northwestern University
Instructor: Jennifer Cole
Research
My current study seeks to understand how bilingual individuals manage two distinctive languages by investigating vowel productions in each language. The research objective of this project is to develop an empirical resource for research on L1 and L2 vowel speech sound productions of Vietnamese-English heritage bilinguals, which will then be used to investigate the separate and combined effects of language-specific and language-general influences on speech production. This approach capitalizes on current corpus phonetics techniques, namely, speech elicitation tasks. The specific aims of the proposed research are to develop a Vietnamese-English L1-L2 corpus from multiple talkers and to acoustically analyze and document the spectral shaping and duration of vowels produced by Vietnamese-English heritage bilinguals.