Charles B. Chang is a Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Translation at the City University of Hong Kong.
[1] Chang is an Associate Editor of the journal Second Language Research[2] and a Life Member of the Linguistic Society of America.
[16] In 2019, he was invited to the Distinguished Professors' Lectures Series at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (Poland).
[17] In 2022, he was honored with the Early Career Award by the Linguistic Society of America "for contributions to the understanding of bilingual sound systems and cross-linguistic interactions, phonetic drift, and language learning over the lifespan, and to fostering diversity and inclusion within linguistics"[18] and was named a Fellow of the Psychonomic Society.
[21][22] He is known for discovering changes to the native language sound system occurring at the beginning of second-language acquisition and, more generally, native language phonetic modifications due to recent second-language experience, which he termed phonetic drift.