October 1, 2026
Several current and former Berkeley linguists are presenting at the Annual Meeting on Phonology, October 9-11 at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Talks:
- A synchronic scalar vowel shift in Lobi (Gur/Mabia) plural formation (Prof. Hannah Sande and Berkeley undergraduate student Dylan Worden)
Posters:
- Modeling segment strength in Q Theory: A case study of Ticuna (Myriam Lapierre (PhD 2021), Karee Garvin (PhD 2021))
- Prosodically-conditioned contour/register alternations in Northern Toussian (Anthony Struthers-Young, Nicholas Rolle (PhD 2018))
- Integrating nominals into a metrical analysis of Kuria tone (Berkeley PhD student Kai Schenck)
- Domain-Specific Phonology of Shekgalagari Diminutives (Berkeley PhD student Rebecca Everson)
- From Denasalization to Backcopying in Nyandarua Gĩkũyũ: Contrast Loss and the Emergence of Base-Reduplicant Identity (Chelsea (Yuen Chun) Tang (BA 2022))