The Annual Meeting on Phonology (AMP) 2017 took place at New York University over the weekend and MIT was well represented by students, faculty, and alumni.
Current MIT-ers:
- Edward Flemming (faculty): Stochastic harmonic grammars as random utility models (poster)
- Ezer Rasin (5th-year) and Roni Katzir (TAu and MIT): Minimum description length subsumes free ride effects in UR learning (poster)
- Ezer Rasin (5th-year), Iddo Berger (Tel Aviv), Nur Lan (Tel Aviv), and Roni Katzir (TAU and MIT): Acquiring opaque phonological interactions using minimum description length (poster)
- Sam Zukoff (Postdoc, PhD ‘17): Segmental ordering and alignment in Arabic nonconcatenative morphology (poster)
Alumni:
- Arto Antilla (Stanford) and Giorgio Magri (CNRS/Paris 8, PhD ‘09): T-orders across categorical and probabilistic constraint-based phonology (talk)
- Heather Campbell (NYU), Doug Whalen (CUNY) & Tara McAllister (NYU, PhD ‘09): Quantifying complexity of children’s tongue contours using ultrasound imaging (workshop)
- Benjamin Storme (PhD ‘17): A theory of phonologically-derived environment effects (poster)
- Suyeon Yun (Toronto, PhD ‘16) and Yoonjung Kang (Toronto, PhD ‘00): Allophonic variation of the word-initial liquid in North and South Korean dialects (poster)