The 20th meeting of Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon 20) was held in Montréal, Québec, Canada from June 26–28, 2026, with satellite workshops on June 25 and 29, and a keynote lecture on June 25. MIT linguistics was well represented by the following current students and faculty:
- Edward Flemming (Faculty) & Amy Li (3rd year): Deriving phonetic realizations from the interaction of target constraints and constraints on articulatory dynamics
- Cynthia Zhong (5th year): Predictors of tone sandhi in Mandarin-English bilingual speech
- Bingzi Yu (4th year) & Ezer Rasin (PhD 2018)[Tel Aviv]: Learning attested and unattested opaque interactions in the lab
And by our alumns:
- Suyeon Yun (PhD 2016)[Chungnam National University]: Acquired, not innate: The role of English exposure in sonority sequencing principle sensitivity
- Riccardo Orrico, Bowei Shao & Maria Giavazzi (PhD 2010)[Ecole Normale Supérieure, DEC]: Stress-induced articulation effects on post-tonic consonants
- Maria Giavazzi (PhD 2010)[Ecole Normale Supérieure, DEC] & Riccardo Orrico: Lexical stress and phonemic perception: The roles of acoustics and attention
- Feng-Fan Hsieh (PhD 2007)[National Tsing Hua University], Jian-Leat Siah, Yueh-Chin Chang & Sam Zukoff (PhD 2018)[UC San Diego]: Gradient Overapplication in Malay Reduplication: Direct Aerodynamic Evidence for Base-Reduplicant Correspondence
- Yueh-Chin Chang & Feng-Fan Hsieh (PhD 2007)[National Tsing Hua University]: How Vowel-Like Is a Nucleus?Ultrasound Evidence for Gradient Articulatory Vowelhood
- Chao Han, Yoonjung Kang (PhD 2000)[University of Toronto], Juhyung Cho, Tae-Won Lim, Say Young Kim & Philip
Monahan: The functional status of f0 shapes the neural encoding of English stop voicing contrasts: Evidence from Korean and English listeners - Hassan Khan, Yoonjung Kang (PhD 2000)[University of Toronto] & Dave Kush: Gender perception varies with consonant sonority in Urdu nonce copy
- Juhyung Cho & Yoonjung Kang (PhD 2000)[University of Toronto]: Clear speech effect on the perception of English /i-ɪ/ by English and Korean listeners
- Xinyu Liao, Hironori Katsuda & Yoonjung Kang (PhD 2000)[University of Toronto]: Do long vowels lead sound change? Perceptual learning of vowel shifts in Japanese
- Jack Mahlmann, Samuel Akinbo, Yoonjung Kang (PhD 2000)[University of Toronto] & Agnes Legbeti: Iconicity of tonal and vowel disharmony in English and Yoruba
