{"id":18292,"date":"2026-10-13T06:01:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T10:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=18292"},"modified":"2026-10-11T14:42:34","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T18:42:34","slug":"mit-linguistics-amp-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2026\/10\/13\/mit-linguistics-amp-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"MIT Linguistics @ AMP 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Annual Meeting on Phonology (<a href=\"https:\/\/amp-2026.github.io\/\">AMP 2026<\/a>) was held October 9-11 at University of Maryland, College Park. Several of our current students and alumns presented their work:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Hani Al Naeem<\/strong> (4th year): The nature of emphasis spread in Jordanian Arabic<\/li>\n<li><strong>Yuen Chun (Chelsea) Tang<\/strong> (4th year): From Denasalization to Backcopying in Nyandarua G?k?y?: Contrast Loss and the Emergence of Base-Reduplicant Identity<\/li>\n<li><strong>Suyeon Yun<\/strong> (PhD 2016)[Chungnam National University]: Gestural transparency in apparent opacity: Lenis stop lenition and vowel devoicing in Seoul Korean<\/li>\n<li>Shuang Zheng and <strong>Youngah Do<\/strong> (PhD 2013)[HKU]: Phonetic substance in the neural network implementation of phonological learning: the case of vowel harmony and vowel disharmony<\/li>\n<li>Shuhao Zhang and <strong>Youngah Do<\/strong> (PhD 2013)[HKU]: Discriminating Allophones: Impacts of Acoustic, Contextual, and Semantic Factors<\/li>\n<li><strong>Giorgio Magri<\/strong> (PhD 2009)[CNRS]: Biases do not help with the problem of maximum entropy\u0092s unrestrictiveness<\/li>\n<li>Stefan Pophristic, <strong>Alec Marantz<\/strong> (PhD 1981)[NYU] and Maria Gouskova: Beyond Wug Tests: Sublexical Phonotactics Affect Real and Nonce Word Processing<\/li>\n<li>Yang Wang and <strong>Bruce Hayes<\/strong> (PhD 1980)[UCLA]: A learning algorithm for phonemicization in Stratal MaxEnt OT<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-news","category-student-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18292"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18295,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18292\/revisions\/18295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}