UCSC AT AMP
From Oct. 5-7, UCSC phonologists gathered at our minimal pair neighbor UCSD for the 2018 Annual Meeting on Phonology. Presentations given by current faculty and students included:
- Junko Ito & Armin Mester (plenary talk): “Kattobase: The linguistic structure of Japanese baseball chants” [slides]
- Jennifer Bellik & Nick Kalivoda (workshop): “SPOT: an application for automatic generation and evaluation of trees” [workshop slides]
- Jennifer Bellik & Nick Kalivoda: “Binarity, branchingness and size effects” [poster]
- Ryan Bennett, Jaye Padgett, Grant McGuire (UCSC) & Máire Ní Chiosáin (UCD): “Contrast enhancement and cue trading in Irish consonant articulations” [poster]
The event was co-organized by UCSC undergraduate alum Eric Baković.
Pictured from left to right, top to bottom: Maho Morimoto, Nick Kalivoda, Armin Mester, Ryan Bennett, Eric Baković, Rachel Walker, Jennifer Bellik, Amanda Rysling, Junko Ito, Nick Van Handel, and Netta Ben-Meir. Not pictured in the photo are UCSC undergrad alums Eileen Blum and Sara Finley, who were also in attendance.