The PhonLab is thrilled to have provided support for two language schools which ran during the summer holidays in Douala and Yaounde, Cameroon, in which Kejom language and literacy courses were taught to children and teens. As many families have been displaced from the Northwest and Southwest regions due to ongoing conflict, children do not have…
To celebrate the beginning of the holiday season, and the near-end of the semester, the PhonLab got together for a fun and festive cookie decorating party. We had a blast getting our hands messy and bonding as a lab. Happy holidays from the PhonLab!…
Aljoša Milenković gave two recent talks. On November 29, he gave the talk titled “Metrical incoherence in Neoštokavian Serbian: Synchrony and diachrony” at the Formal Descriptions of Slavic Languages (FDSL 16) at the University of Graz, Austria. On December 4, he gave a talk titled “Sonority thresholds and phonological change: Presonorant Lengthening in BCMS revisited” at the 6th Edinburgh…
Katie Franich gave a plenary talk at the International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI) in Singapore titled “Exploring the Relationship Between Gesture and Pitch ‘Prominence’ From the Perspective of African Tonal Languages.”…
PhonLab members Walter Dych, Karee Garvin, Jojo Hu, and Katie Franich represented the PhonLab at the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences in Prague this August. Wonderful presentations by all!…
We wish our summer intern Vitor Lacerda Siqueira all the best on his semester abroad in Korea and his final semester at Pitzer. Thank you for spending time with us this summer, Vitor!…
We had a fun and productive two weeks with postdoc Karee Garvin leading EMA trainings and data collection on a new project on kinematics of speech and manual gesture. Thank you, Karee!…
Jian Cui presented her work titled “Front-Back Asymmetry in Bantu Vowel Harmony: Representations and Constraints” at the 30th Manchester Phonology Meeting this past May….
Second-year graduate student, Aljoša Milenković, presented a talk titled “Superadditive cumulativity in categorical prosodic patterns: The minimal foot in Serbian”, at the Formal Approaches to Slavic Languages 2023 conference at the University of Chicago this past May….
Katie gave a plenary for the Annual Conference on African Linguistics at UConn entitled “Co-Speech Gesture and Prosodic Structure: What African Languages Can Tell Us.”…
Melody Wang presented her work on experimentally testing learnability bias on opaque patterns at the 20th Old World Conference in Phonology. The conference took place in Tours, France between 25th and 27th of January. Well done, Melody!…
Katie and her team kicked off the new year with some incredible fieldwork in Cameroon. During this trip, the team was able to collect data that will contribute to the rhythm and gesture research that the PhonLab is dedicated to investigating….
[coming soon]…
