Lang Sci at MidPhon 28

The 28th Midcontinental Phonetics & Phonology Conference (MidPhon) was held at Purdue University on October 20-21, 2023, and Lang Sci as usual had a strong showing at this annual meeting.

*Thank you to Eric Raimy, Charlotte Vanhecke, and Joe Salmons for contributing the photos for this post!*

Lang Sci members presenting at this year’s conference were:

“Representing exceptions to Turkish vowel harmony”
Jae Weller (Language Sciences) & Eric Raimy (English & Language Sciences)

Linguistics PhD student Jae Weller

Posters:

“Awareness of glottalization among American English speakers”
Sarah Holmstrom (Language Sciences)

Linguistics PhD student Sarah Holmstrom

“Cross-linguistic development of laryngeal gestures in acquisition”
Luke Annear, Joe Salmons, Charlotte Vanhecke (Language Sciences)

Linguistics PhD students Lucas Annear and Charlotte Vanhecke

There were also linguistics students from other UW–Madison programs giving posters:

“Colombian Spanish intonation: A comparison between Colombian Caribbean Spanish
intonation in cities and towns”
Estefanía Galindo (Spanish)

Spanish PhD student Estanfania Galindo

“Pursuing a rule-based approach to English intonation”
Joseph Moran (English)

English PhD student Joseph Moran

Wonderful to see so much exciting phonetics and phonology research coming from UW!

Linguistics PhD student Sarah Holmstrom at the poster session