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)
Posters:
“Awareness of glottalization among American English speakers”
Sarah Holmstrom (Language Sciences)
“Cross-linguistic development of laryngeal gestures in acquisition”
Luke Annear, Joe Salmons, Charlotte Vanhecke (Language Sciences)
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)
“Pursuing a rule-based approach to English intonation”
Joseph Moran (English)
Wonderful to see so much exciting phonetics and phonology research coming from UW!
