The Berkeley Phonetics, Phonology and Psycholinguistics Forum ("Phorum") is a weekly talk and discussion series featuring presentations on all aspects of phonetics, phonology, and psycholinguistics. We meet on Mondays from 12(:10)-1pm (unless specified otherwise below), in Dwinelle 1229 (Zoom link shared upon request). Phorum is organized by Kai Schenck. My email is "kai_schenck" @berkeley.edu.
Schedules from previous semesters can be found here.
Fall 2026
August 31
Round robin
September 14
Fabián Leonardo Malaver Chaparro (UC Berkeley): Stress-conditioned allomorphies in Korebajʉ
This talk examines two prosodically conditioned allomorphic alternations in Korebajʉ, a Western Tukanoan language of the Colombian Amazon: a copular morpheme (-a ~ ∅) sensitive to the stress of the preceding syllable, and a negation morpheme (-ma ~ -mane) sensitive to the parity of syllables following it within its phase. Both patterns seem to require phonology and morphology to see across their usual boundary, a problem for modular grammars. Using corpus data from Cook & Criswell (1993) and Cook (1999), I show both alternations follow naturally within Cophonologies by Ph(r)ase, where exponent selection depends only on the metrical structure of the immediately preceding phase. The negation pattern additionally motivates a high syntactic base for the morpheme, in tension with the Mirror Principle. The results argue that Korebajʉ's iambic stress system is synchronically active, not a fossilized historical residue.
September 21
Gašper Beguš (UC Berkeley)
September 28
AMP 2026 Practice Presentations
November 2
Hanyoung Byun
November 9
Niko Schwartz-Acosta
November 16
Aditi Lahiri
November 23
Jordan Crowley
November 30
Ian Carpick
December 7
Marie Tano