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MIT Linguistics @ AMP 2026

The Annual Meeting on Phonology (AMP 2026) was held October 9-11 at University of Maryland, College Park. Several of our current students and alumns presented their work:

  • Hani Al Naeem (4th year): The nature of emphasis spread in Jordanian Arabic
  • Yuen Chun (Chelsea) Tang (4th year): From Denasalization to Backcopying in Nyandarua G?k?y?: Contrast Loss and the Emergence of Base-Reduplicant Identity
  • Suyeon Yun (PhD 2016)[Chungnam National University]: Gestural transparency in apparent opacity: Lenis stop lenition and vowel devoicing in Seoul Korean
  • Shuang Zheng and Youngah Do (PhD 2013)[HKU]: Phonetic substance in the neural network implementation of phonological learning: the case of vowel harmony and vowel disharmony
  • Shuhao Zhang and Youngah Do (PhD 2013)[HKU]: Discriminating Allophones: Impacts of Acoustic, Contextual, and Semantic Factors
  • Giorgio Magri (PhD 2009)[CNRS]: Biases do not help with the problem of maximum entropy’s unrestrictiveness
  • Stefan Pophristic, Alec Marantz (PhD 1981)[NYU] and Maria Gouskova: Beyond Wug Tests: Sublexical Phonotactics Affect Real and Nonce Word Processing
  • Yang Wang and Bruce Hayes (PhD 1980)[UCLA]: A learning algorithm for phonemicization in Stratal MaxEnt OT