Jaye Padgett Speaks at New York University

Jaye Padgett visited New York University last week, presenting a colloquium talk entitled “Explaining Dispersion Effects”, as well as a presentation to the phonetics lab on his joint work with Ryan Bennett and Grant McGuire on an ultrasound study of Irish palatalization. He and a friend happened upon the David Letterman studio (see photo) Thursday afternoon and joined the waiting list on a whim. They were 56th and 57th on the list, but only 55 waitlisters were let in.