In person workshop! SPF on August 8

We are getting back to in-person events. Many members of the department, undergrads, grads, faculty and staff, got to see each other for SPF, the Summer Phonetics/Phonology Forum, 2022 edition. 

One highlight was lunch together in the lounge:

 

Some of the organizers: Alexei, Phil and Jessamyn (faculty at StG, UTSC and UTM, respectively) 

 

More organizers: Nathan and Keren, plus Naomi and the beautiful window garden 

Koorosh Ariyaee (PhD student) and Gideon Mehna (UTM undergrad presenter)

 

 Mary and Yoonjung (organizer) catch up. Kiranpreet and Jessica do the same, with Greg's dog Mochi.

Great food from Cumin Kitchen

 

Presentations were really interested and diverse. They included:

Martin Renard
Stem and Initial Segment Faithfulness in Kanien’kéha Dresher Prize Winner

Simon LiVolsi, Angela Cristiano, Naomi Nagy
Modeling Italian variable apocope

Jessica Yeung
How not to learn an ATR harmony pattern: Results from two pilot experiments

Song Jiang and Alexei Kochetov
An ultrasound study of English rhotic allophones produced by L1 and L2 speakers

Abram Clear and Naomi Nagy
Identifiably Italian: Acoustic features of the Toronto Italian Ethnolinguistic Repertoire

Yi-Ting Deng, Gianna Giovio Canavesi, Ji Whan Kim, Gideon Mehna, and Avery Ozburn
A preliminary investigation of the tone system of Keiyo Hafza Nuh, Aman Sakhardande, and Avery Ozburn
Plosive voicing in Keiyo

Radu Craioveanu
A prosodic typology of preaspiration


Thank you, Organizing committee (Peter Jurgec, Yoonjung Kang, Alexei Kochetov, Philip Monahan, Avery Ozburn, Keren Rice, Nathan Sanders, Jessamyn Schertz)!

 And thanks to Simon LiVolsi, recent grad from St. George, for taking these photos!



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