SPF 2018

This year's Summer Phonology Forum took place on Thursday, August 2 and drew participants from every level in our department – as well as a couple of visitors. Worthy of note was that a large number of undergraduate students took part this year.

Fiona Wilson (Ph.D.) gave the B. Elan Dresher Phonology Prize Talk:
"Hiatus resolution cross-linguistically: A Harmonic Serialism approach."

The other speakers were:

Wenxuan Chen (BA) and Peter Jurgec (faculty):
"ATR harmony in Slovenian."

Nazia Mohsin (BA) and Yoonjung Kang (faculty):
"Gender phonology of Urdu first names."

Rachel Soo (MA) and Phil Monahan (faculty):
"Lexical-phonological interactions in Cantonese: Investigating tone merger in native and heritage speakers."

Nathan Sanders (faculty):
"Articulation versus perception in sign language movement."

Connie Ting (MA), Rachel Soo (MA), and Jessamyn Schertz (faculty):
"Investigating the use of visual gender cues in English stop voicing perception."

Gauri Chaudhari (BA), Crystal Chow (BA), Sarah Khan (BA), Anna Lyashenko (BA), and Jessamyn Schertz (faculty):
"Perception of Hindi and Urdu voiced aspirates."

Alex Jaker (postdoc):
"Consonant-vowel and sonority-prosody interactions in Dëne Su̢łiné optative paradigms."

Koorosh Ariyaee (Ph.D.):
"Pre-nasal raising in Vernacular Tehrani Persian (VTP)."

Andrei Munteanu (Ph.D.):
"OT and diachrony: Applications and implications."

Kiranpreet Nara (Ph.D.):
"Imitation of Mandarin tones by L2 learners."

Na-Young Ryu (Ph.D.):
"Training Mandarin listeners to produce and perceive Korean vowels: The role of explicit and implicit phonetic instruction."

Lisa Sullivan (Ph.D.):
"Phonology of gender in French and English given names."

Heather Yawney (Ph.D.):
"Velars and uvulars in Kazakh."

Daniel Currie Hall (Ph.D. 2007, now at St. Mary's University) and Avery Ozburn (MA 2014, now at the University of British Columbia):
"Uyghur vowel harmony and derived transparency revisited."

Binny Abraham (Central University of Kerala) and Paul Arsenault (Ph.D. 2012, now at Tyndale University College/Canadian Institute of Linguistics):
"Mud. uga vowels: Preliminary results of an acoustic and historical-comparative study."

Eon-Suk Ko (Chosun University):
"Mothers would rather speak clearly than spread innovation: The case of Korean VOT."

Geoff Nathan (Wayne State University):
"How are sounds stored? On UG, emergence, embodiment, and phonemes."

The workshop was organized by Alessandro Jaker (postdoc), Peter Jurgec (faculty), Yoonjung Kang (faculty), Alexei Kochetov (faculty), Phil Monahan (faculty), Keren Rice (faculty), Nathan Sanders (faculty), and Jessamyn Schertz (faculty). Well done to everyone involved!