The 12nd meeting of the Old World Conference in Phonology (OCP) was held last week in Barcelona, Spain. The following MIT faculty and students gave talks there:
- Adam Albright: Faithfulness to non-contrastive phonetic properties in Lakhota
- Fifth-year student Gretchen Kern: Syntactically unjustified morphs and other strategies for hiatus resolution in Irish prepositions
- Third-year student Benjamin Storme: Closed Syllable Vowel Laxing: A strategy to enhance coda consonant place contrasts
Two MIT alumni were present as well:
- Andrew Nevins (PhD 2004; University College of London): Undergoers are harmony sources: Maintaining iterative harmony in Oroqen dialects (co-authored with Elan Dresher (University of Toronto))
- Giorgio Magri (PhD 2009; CNRS, Université Paris 8): Idempotency and the early acquisition of phonotactics