Slugfest at UCLA

Earlier this quarter, several present and past members of the UC Santa Cruz linguistics community met up at the 2022 American Meeting on Phonology (AMP) at UCLA. The Sunday poster session featured work by current PhD students Dan Brodkin (“Existential Match: Evidence from Mandar”) and Jonathan Paramore (“Toward a uniform moraic quantity principle”), as well as Professor Rachel Walker (“Temporal coordination and markedness in Moenat Ladin consonant clusters,” with Yifan Yang), and the Friday and Saturday sessions saw talks by PhD alumni Aaron Kaplan (“Categorical and gradient constraints on clitic allomorphy,” with Edward Rubin) and Andy Wedel (“The effect of cue-specific lexical competitors on hyperarticulation of VOT and F0 contrasts in Korean stops,” with Cheonkam Jeong) and BA alumnus Eric Bakovic (“Faithfulness and underspecification,” with William Bennett and “SAGUARO: A workbench for phonological theories,” with Eric Meinhardt). The gathering also featured recent PhD alumnus — and now UCLA Assistant Professor — Ben Eischens and first-year grad students Ian Carpick, Duygu Demiray, Larry Lyu, and Richard Wang. A strong showing for the Department, and a memorable event for phonology!