We’re so pleased for Fridah Gam, part of our Cameroon-based lab team, who has just completed 2 weeks of study at the LSA Summer Institute at the University of Oregon. Her next stop? University of British Columbia as a PhD student! Congratulations, Fridah!…
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…
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…
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.”…
