Maya Wax Cavallaro and Mykel Brinkerhoff at SSLA 4

PhD students Maya Wax Cavallaro and Mykel Brinkerhoff recently presented at the 4th Sound Systems of Latin America (SSLA 4) held at the University of Washington. Myke’s talk focused on “Measuring voice quality in Zapotec,” while Maya presented on “Final sonorant consonant devoicing in Mayan and Zapotec.”

At the conference, Maya and Myke also had a chance to reconnect with some UCSC alumni. Ben Eischens (PhD 2022), now an assistant professor at UCLA, presented joint research with graduate student Jahnavi Narkar on “The production of phonation type in San Martín Peras Mixtec” and chaired a session on voice quality. Andrew Hedding (PhD 2022), now an assistant professor at UW, attended the conference and chaired a session on verbal morphology and phonology.