SPF 2019

This year's Summer Phonology Forum will be taking place on Tuesday, July 30, from 11 AM through 4:30 PM, in SS 2106. The registration form is available here.

• Lisa Sullivan (Ph.D.) is giving the B. Elan Dresher Phonology Prize Talk: "Allomorphy and morphophonology: Where do we draw the line?"

Other speakers from our department are:

• Koorosh Ariyaee (Ph.D.): "Hiatus resolution strategies in Persian."
• Heather Yawney (Ph.D.): "The Kazakh velar and uvular distribution."
• Lisa Sullivan (Ph.D.): "The effects of cognitive processing style on the perceptual compensation of stop voicing for place of articulation."
• Andrei Munteanu (Ph.D.): "Emotional phonetics cues in the speech of chess grandmasters."
• Ekaterina Prigaro (MA): "Interaction of stress shift and palatalization in Russian nominal systems."
• Gajathree Ananthathurai (BA), Laurestine Bradford (BA), Araz Derohan (BA), Siobhan Galeazzi (BA), Khadija Jagani (BA) and Yoonjung Kang (Ph.D.): "Sound symbolism of gender in personal names: Western Armenian and Kutchi."
• Patricia A. Shaw (Ph.D. 1976, now at the University of British Columbia) with colleagues Emily Elfner (York University) and Nicoline Butler (York University): "Guess who? Game-play, questions, and intonation in Kwak’wala."

Thanks to the organizational committee - Alessandro Jaker (postdoc), Peter Jurgec (faculty), Yoonjung Kang (faculty), Phil Monahan (faculty), Keren Rice (faculty), Nathan Sanders (faculty), and Jessamyn Schertz (faculty).