Talk at the 2023 CLA Conference

In May 2023, Karen Jesney, Anne-Michelle Tessier, and Marie-Eve Bouchard gave a talk at the 2023 CLA conference. The talk was titled “The acceptability of exceptional and innovative liaison in Canadian varieties of French.”

Congratulations Alex Ayala on winning the UBC Linguistics Departmental TA Award!

In April 2023, Alex Ayala won the UBC Linguistics Departmental TA Award for 2022/2023. Congratulations!

New Publication: The Development of Left Hemisphere Lateralization for Sentence-Level Prosodic Processing

On Christmas Eve 2022 (!) a paper on prosodic processing in kids and adults by Rennie Pasquinelli, Anne-Michelle Tessier, Ioulia Kovelman, and others at UMichigan was accepted by the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research! The paper, published in March 2023, can be found here!

Poster presentation by Kaili at the 2022 Annual Meeting of Phonology

In October 2022, Kaili Vesik gave a poster presentation at the 2022 Annual Meeting of Phonology. Her presentation was titled: “Necessary biases for algorithmic learning of Kihnu Estonian vowel harmony.”

Talk at the 2022 Annual Meeting of Phonology

In October 2022, Anne-Michelle Tessier, Karen Jesney, Roger Lo, and Marie-Eve Bouchard gave a talk at the 2022 Annual Meeting of Phonology. The talk was titled “The Productive Status of French Liaison in Canada: Variation across Words and Grammar.”

Congratulations Kaili Vesik on advancing to candidacy!

Kaili Vesik has advanced to candidacy as of August 2022. Congratulations!

Virtual talk by Sijia Zhang at LabPhon18

In June 2022, Sijia Zhang and Michael Wagner presented at the Biennial Conference on Laboratory Phonology on Mandarin tone sandhi and speech segmentation.

New Publication: One Model to Pronounce Them All

In May 2020, Kaili Vesik submitted a deep-learning model to a grapheme-to-phoneme conversion task as part of the 17th SIGMORPHON (ACL Special Interest Group on Computational Morphology and Phonology) workshop.

Virtual Talk by Anne-Michelle at the Annual Meeting of Phonology

Anne-Michelle gave an invited talk at the virtual Annual Meeting of Phonology in September, 2020, reporting recent and ongoing work with Karen Jesney  on French liaison, nonce word judgments and gradient symbolic representations (Smolensky and Goldrick, 2016).

Congratulations Kaili Vesik CGS-M Award Winner

Congratulations to Kaili Vesik (Ph.D. student in Linguistics), who was awarded a CGS-M award from SSHRC to study how gradual learning algorithms can model the process of acquiring the phonology of a second dialect of a given language (specifically, a Standard Estonian speaker learning Kihnu Estonian). We look forward to seeing how many unrelated projects she can move […]