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MIT @ AMP 2024

MIT folks presented at the 2024 Annual Meeting on Phonology (AMP 2024) which took place November 1-3 at Rutgers University. The following talks and poster were given by our students and visitors: 

Current students and visitors:

  • Alma Frischoff (1st year), Ezer Rasin (Visiting professor, PhD 2018): Unattested opaque interactions are Input Strictly Local (abstract)
  • Bingzi Yu (2nd year), Shuang Zheng, Youngah Do (PhD 2013): Learners’ generalization of alternation patterns from ambiguous data (abstract)
  • Eyal Marco (Visiting student), Ezer Rasin (Visiting professor, PhD 2018): Optimal Paradigms: a challenge from Judeo-Tripolitanian Arabic (abstract)

Alums

  • Jian-Leat Siah, Sam Zukoff (PhD 2017), Feng-fan Hsieh (PhD 2007): Reduplicative Opacity in Malay Revisited: Preliminary Phonetic Evidence for Variable “Recopying” and BRCT (abstract)
  • Klaus Baki, Anthony D. Yates, Sam Zukoff (PhD 2017): A Phonology–Morphosyntax Interface Explanation of the “Nasal Infix” in (Proto-)Indo-European (abstract)
  • Antón de la Fuente, Sarang Jeong, Arto Anttila, and Giorgio Magri (PhD 2009): What do harmony-based grammars exclude? (abstract)
  • Giorgio Magri (PhD 2009): Why phonologists got it right: a principled derivation of OT and HG (abstract)