July 23, 2021

Summer Phonetics / Phonology Forum Program

On Tuesday, July 27th the Department of Linguistics will be hosting the Summer Phonetics / Phonology Forum! This informal workshop gives UofT graduate students the opportunity to present their phonetics /phonology related research they have be working hard on!  

The program has been released and is jam-packed with innovative research from familiar names within the department (bolded). 

9:25 Welcome 


9:30 Emily J. Clare (Postdoc), EJ Guerrero, Anna Kravchuk, Ishika Mroke, Devmini Rodrigo, & Jessamyn Schertz (Faculty) 

    Perception and production of prevoicing 


9:50 Koorosh Ariyaee (Graduate Student), Chahla Ben-Ammar (MA Alumni), Talia Tahtadjian (Graduate student), & Alexei Kochetov (Faculty) 

    The acoustics of guttural fricatives in three languages


Break (10:10-10:20) 


10:20 Anissa Baird (Graduate Student) 

    Gender expression and its representations in video games 


10:40 Lisa Schlegl (Graduate Student)  & Jessamyn Schertz (Faculty)

    Production and perception of mock speech 


Break (11:00-11:10) 


11:10 Photini Coutsougera (Faculty) 

    The syllable structure of Arcadian Greek 


11:30 Yi-Ting Deng, Kailea Edmonds, Madeline Glover, & Avery Ozburn (Faculty)  

    ATR and ATR harmony in Keiyo (Kalenjin)  


Lunch Break (11:50-1:00) 


1:00 Christopher Legerme (Graduate Student) 

    Creole on the cusp: Phonological variation and change in Haitian determiners 


1:20 Pedro Mateo Pedro (Faculty) 

    Acquisition of status suffixes in Chuj 


Break (1:40-1:50) 


1:50 Andrei Munteanu (Graduate Student), Lauren Bigelow (Graduate Student), & Ilia Nicoll (Graduate Student)

    Quick onset dialect accommodation in Marmora Ontario 


2:10 Lisa Sullivan (Graduate Student) 

    Beg, bag or bEYg? Reliability of self-reported /æg/-raising in North American English 


Break (2:30-2:40) 


2:40 Zhanao Fu (Graduate Student) & Ewan Dunbar (Faculty)

    Discovering features from production and perception errors 


3:00 Wei Wang 

    The orthography effect in loanword adaptation: Variable adaptation of English VNV sequences into Mandarin Chinese 


3:20 Rasha Al-Rammahi, Dalainey Gervais, Gianna Giovio Canavesi, Alexei Kochetov (Faculty), & Avery Ozburn (Faculty)  

    A preliminary investigation of sibilant harmony in Panoan 


3:40 Concluding Remarks


A massive thank you goes out to the Organizing committee for putting together this amazing event. Committee members include Yoonjung Kang, Alexei Kochetov, Philip Monahan, Nathan Sanders, Avery Ozburn, Keren Rice and Jessamyn Schertz.

 

We wish the best of luck to all our presenters! We cannot wait to see what you have been working on!  



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