Prosodic Boundaries as Windows into Speech Planning: Timing, Meaning, and the Role of Focus Prosodic boundaries are systematically marked through temporal modulations in articulation, most prominently phrase-final (pre-boundary) lengthening. While this phenomenon is widely attested and often treated as a universal marker of prosodic structure, its scope and functional basis remain poorly understood. In particular,...

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“Perceptual salience of phonetic contrasts predicts their typological prevalence: Evidence from infant discrimination studies” - Rehan Muhammad & Megha Sundara “A Bayesian Account of Perceptual Asymmetries in Confusion Matrix Data” - John McGahay (ASA Poster)

definite (?) enclitics in Tsotsil

“14-month-old English-learning infants encode positional variants of word-final /t/” - Kevin Liang, Ekaterina Khlystova, & Megha Sundara “Realization of Serudung Murut word-final voiced stop alternation across prosodic contexts” - Jennifer Shin, Baichen Du, & Jian-Leat Siah (HISPhonCog Poster)

“OT Analysis of Consonant Cluster Resolution in Aśokan Prakrits”