Ariel Chan

Ariel Chan is a Stanford Provostial Fellow and Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics at Stanford University. She will join UC Santa Cruz as an Assistant Professor of Languages and Applied Linguistics in July 2025. She directs the Bilingualism, Sociolinguistics, and Cognition (BiSoN) lab.

Education: Ph.D. in East Asian Linguistics (UCLA, 2023), advised by Shoichi Iwasaki and Judith Kroll. Mellon/ACLS and NSF-funded dissertation explored code-switching in Cantonese-English bilinguals.

Research focuses on bilingualism, sociolinguistics, and psycholinguistics, emphasizing how cultural identity and language experience influence language processing and cognitive control. Key projects include voice onset time in code-switched speech, word predictability in code-switching, and N400 effects in bilingual language processing.

Awards: Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Fellowship, NSF BCS-2042479, and Koret Neurosciences Pilot Grant.

Teaching includes courses on sociolinguistics, bilingualism, and languages/cultures of Asia at Stanford, UCLA, and Hong Kong Polytechnic University.