{"id":18138,"date":"2026-09-09T06:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T10:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=18138"},"modified":"2026-09-09T09:51:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T13:51:06","slug":"mit-linguistics-labphon-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2026\/09\/09\/mit-linguistics-labphon-20\/","title":{"rendered":"MIT Linguistics @ LabPhon 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 20th meeting of Laboratory Phonology (<a href=\"https:\/\/labphon.org\/labphon20\/home\">LabPhon 20<\/a>) was held in Montr\u00e9al, Qu\u00e9bec, Canada from June 26\u009628, 2026, with satellite workshops on June 25 and 29, and a keynote lecture on June 25. MIT linguistics was well represented by the following current students and faculty:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Edward Flemming<\/strong> (Faculty) &amp; <strong>Amy Li<\/strong> (3rd year): Deriving phonetic realizations from the interaction of target constraints and constraints on articulatory dynamics<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cynthia Zhong<\/strong> (5th year): Predictors of tone sandhi in Mandarin-English bilingual speech<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bingzi Yu<\/strong> (4th year) &amp; <strong>Ezer Rasin<\/strong> (PhD 2018)[Tel Aviv]: Learning attested and unattested opaque interactions in the lab<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And by our alumns:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Suyeon Yun<\/strong> (PhD 2016)[Chungnam National University]: Acquired, not innate: The role of English exposure in sonority sequencing principle sensitivity<\/li>\n<li>Riccardo Orrico, Bowei Shao &amp; <strong>Maria Giavazzi<\/strong> (PhD 2010)[Ecole Normale Sup\u00e9rieure, DEC]: Stress-induced articulation effects on post-tonic consonants<\/li>\n<li><strong>Maria Giavazzi<\/strong> (PhD 2010)[Ecole Normale Sup\u00e9rieure, DEC] &amp; Riccardo Orrico: Lexical stress and phonemic perception: The roles of acoustics and attention<\/li>\n<li><strong>Feng-Fan Hsieh<\/strong> (PhD 2007)[National Tsing Hua University], Jian-Leat Siah, Yueh-Chin Chang &amp; <strong>Sam Zukoff <\/strong>(PhD 2018)[UC San Diego]: Gradient Overapplication in Malay Reduplication: Direct Aerodynamic Evidence for Base-Reduplicant Correspondence<\/li>\n<li>Yueh-Chin Chang &amp; <strong>Feng-Fan Hsieh<\/strong> (PhD 2007)[National Tsing Hua University]: How Vowel-Like Is a Nucleus?Ultrasound Evidence for Gradient Articulatory Vowelhood<\/li>\n<li>Chao Han, <strong>Yoonjung Kang<\/strong> (PhD 2000)[University of Toronto], Juhyung Cho, Tae-Won Lim, Say Young Kim &amp; Philip<br clear='none'\/>\nMonahan: The functional status of f0 shapes the neural encoding of English stop voicing contrasts: Evidence from Korean and English listeners<\/li>\n<li>Hassan Khan, <strong>Yoonjung Kang<\/strong> (PhD 2000)[University of Toronto] &amp; Dave Kush: Gender perception varies with consonant sonority in Urdu nonce copy<\/li>\n<li>Juhyung Cho &amp; <strong>Yoonjung Kang<\/strong> (PhD 2000)[University of Toronto]: Clear speech effect on the perception of English \/i-?\/ by English and Korean listeners<\/li>\n<li>Xinyu Liao, Hironori Katsuda &amp; <strong>Yoonjung Kang<\/strong> (PhD 2000)[University of Toronto]: Do long vowels lead sound change? Perceptual learning of vowel shifts in Japanese<\/li>\n<li>Jack Mahlmann, Samuel Akinbo, <strong>Yoonjung Kang<\/strong> (PhD 2000)[University of Toronto] &amp; Agnes Legbeti: Iconicity of tonal and vowel disharmony in English and Yoruba<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_6168.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18139\" src=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_6168.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 20th meeting of Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon 20) was held in Montr\u00e9al, Qu\u00e9bec, Canada from June 26\u009628, 2026, with satellite workshops on June 25 and 29, and a keynote lecture on June 25. 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