A big congratulations to two of our wonderful undergraduate lab members, Sam Lyczowski and Lexi Williams, for their awarded January term travel grants through the Harvard University Center for African Studies! These funds will allow each student the opportunity to accompany Dr. Kathryn Franich on a fieldwork trip to Cameroon where they will spend time…
Dr. Kathryn Franich (PI) and Melody Wang (PhD. student) both had the opportunity to present their individual work at the Annual Meeting on Phonology (AMP) 2024, which took place November 1 – 3 at Rutgers University. Dr. Franich was invited to give a plenary talk titled ‘Co-Speech Gestures as a Window into Phonological Knowledge.’ Melody…
The PhonLab had a successful pilot run for our new study investigating articulatory timing in Medumba. Dr. Kathryn Franich, PI, and Eliana Spradling, lab manager, were joined by Dr. Jason Shaw (Yale) to lead a mini tutorial on EMA data collection for Harvard and MIT students interested in the field. Students were instructed on the…
Welcome back! We are so excited for the start of a new semester in the PhonLab. We had a wonderful first meeting of the Fall 2024 semester, where we shared our summer highlights and discussed plans for this semester’s projects over breakfast of bagels and coffee. We are so happy to be back in the…
We are so proud of PhD student Jacob Kodner for presenting at the 26th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar and the 18th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (SICOGG26/WAFL18). Jacob presented his work on the syntax-prosody interface in Korean, titled “Matching Intonational Phrases in Korean: A Flexible Approach.” Way to go, Jacob!…
The PhonLab celebrated all the hard work our students did this summer with a fun lab social! We enjoyed Boba and pastries together as we sat outside and enjoyed the warm summer weather. We are so grateful for all the hard work of our students!…
Postdoc Karee Garvin and PI Katie Franich attended the 19th Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon) at Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, where Karee was able to present our latest project: Effects of co-speech gesture on magnitude and stability of oral gestures….
Congratulations to Sam Lyczkowski and Mariela Rodriguez! We are so proud to announce that two of our students, Sam and Mariela, were awarded funding for the Summer of 2024. Each student plans to use this funding to pursue personal research projects within the PhonLab. Summer Humanities and Arts Research Program (SHARP) Mariela’s funding was awarded…
The Harvard PhonLab celebrated another end to a semester with a lab brunch. We had the wonderful opportunity to celebrate the hard work all our RAs put into the lab this semester, as well as the graduation of our senior, Clarissa Briasco-Stewart. We are so proud of you, Clarissa, and can’t wait to see what…
Congratulations to Vincent for presenting his work on Phonetic Correlates of Igbo Storytelling at the 55th Annual Conference on African Languages (ACAL55)!…
This past weekend our PI Kathryn Franich and PhD. student Jacob Kodner had the opportunity to present their individual research at the 9th Workshop on Turkic Languages in Contact with Turkic, hosted by Cornell University Dr. Franich and her collaborators Travis Major (USC), Connor Mayer (UCI), and Gülnar Eziz (Harvard) presented their work titled ‘An investigation…
