NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF IRISH ULTRASOUND

Work continues on An Ultrasound Investigation of Irish Palatalization, a project funded by the National Science Foundation, whose PI’s are alum Ryan Bennett, Grant McGuire, Máire Ní Chiosáin (Head of Linguistics, University College Dublin), and Jaye Padgett. In May, Ryan collected new data from 5 speakers of Ulster Irish. Two UCSC Linguistics majors who had been working on the project doing sound file labeling, Abigail Katz and Eileen O’Neill, have graduated and will be missed. Meanwhile, grad student Jenny Bellik joined the project last Spring. In addition to her work doing data analysis, Jenny created this wonderful web site, a public face for the project.