LabPhon 17

The 17th biennial conference of the Association for Laboratory Phonology was held online from July 6 through 8, hosted by the University of British Columbia.

Two of our faculty members gave invited talks:

• Keren Rice (faculty): "Languages on the margins: Sounds and the impact of sound-based research for language (re)vitalization."
• Elizabeth Johnson (faculty): "Building a lexicon (on the margins)."

One Ph.D. student was part of a presentation:

• Angelika Kiss (Ph.D.) was part of a talk with colleagues Maxime Tulling (New York University) and Roger Yu-Hsiang Lo (University of British Columbia):"Individual variation in the prosody of Cantonese rhetorical questions."

And there were a whole lot of current departmental members and alumni to be found in the poster sessions!

• Laura Colantoni (faculty), Alexei Kochetov (faculty), and Jeffrey Steele (faculty, Department of French): "EPG insights into first-language influence on second language gestural timing."
• Phil Monahan (faculty), Rachel Soo (MA 2018, now at the University of British Columbia), Monica Shah (BSc 2017) and Abdulwahab Sidiqi (BSc 2017): "Lexical bias in second language sibilant perception: The role of language proficiency and phonotactic context."
• Madeleine Yu (BA) and Elizabeth Johnson (faculty): "Re-evaluating the Other Accent Effect in talker recognition."
• Jessamyn Schertz (faculty): "Imitation and perception of individual accented features."
• Avery Ozburn (faculty) with Gunnar Hansson (University of British Columbia) and Kevin McMullin (University of Ottawa): "Learning vowel harmony with transparency in an artificial language."
• Zoe McKenzie (Ph.D.): "The perceptual basis of length co-occurrence restrictions."
• Andrei Munteanu (Ph.D.): "Using chess metrics to measure the effect of emotion on formants."
• Phil Howson (Ph.D. 2018, now at the University of Oregon) and Melissa Redford (University of Oregon): "Context effects on schwa production in 'gotta' distinguish 'got to' from 'got a'.
• Phil Howson (Ph.D. 2018, now at the University of Oregon) and Madathodiyil Irfana (All India Institute of Speech and Hearing): "What does cross-linguistic perception tell us about phonological categories?"
• Richard Compton (Ph.D. 2012, now at l'Université du Québec à Montréal) with Emily Elfner (York University) and Anja Arnhold (University of Alberta): "Stressless languages on the margins? An acoustic study of Inuktitut."
• Rachel Soo (MA 2018, now at the University of British Columbia) and Molly Babel (University of British Columbia): "Lexical competition affects Cantonese tone mergers in word recognition."
• Gloria Mellesmoen (MA 2016, now at the University of British Columbia): "Modularity and the allophone in the Comox-Sliammon (Salish) vowel system."