The 6th installment of the Annual Meeting on Phonology, AMP 2018, took place at UCSD from October 5th to 7th. Presentations by current MIT students and faculty included:
- Erin Olson (5th year): Pitch and vowel duration make schwa invisible to Passamaquoddy stress
- Adam Albright (faculty): English vowel reduction is conditioned by duration, not stress
- Edward Flemming (faculty): Systemic markedness in sibilant inventories
Several recent alums also presented: Gillian Gallagher (NYU), Sam Zukoff (Princeton University), and Feng-fan Hsieh (Chang National Tsing Hua University).