AMP 2020

The 2020 Annual Meeting on Phonology is taking place online from September 18 through 20, hosted by the University of California, Santa Cruz. Note that registration is free but will close on September 13.

Current members of the department who are presenting:

• Koorosh Ariyaee (Ph.D.) and Peter Jurgec (faculty): "Variable hiatus in Persian is affected by suffix length."
  
• Alexei Kochetov (faculty), along with Jason Shaw (Yale University), Sejin Oh (CUNY Graduate Center), and Karthik Durvasula (Michigan State University): "Distinguishing complex segments from consonant clusters using gestural coordination."
• Peter Jurgec (faculty) is also co-presenting a poster with Jesse Zymet (University of California, Berkeley): "Slovenian speakers learn the lexical propensities of individual affixes."

Alumni:

• Fulang Cater Chen (MA 2017, now at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology): "On the left-/right-branching asymmetry in Mandarin Tone 3 sandhi."
• Gloria Mellesmoen (MA 2016, now at the University of British Columbia) and Suzanne Urbanczyk (University of Victoria): "Binarity in prosodic morphology and elsewhere."
• Nicholas Rolle (MA 2010, now at Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft) and John Merrill (Princeton University): "Tone-driven vowel epenthesis is possible: Evidence from Wamey."

In addition, please note that next year's Annual Meeting on Phonology will be co-hosted by the University of Toronto and York University. It will be held online from October 1 through 3, 2021.