"Phonetics of Palatalization in O'dam"

“Overflow of the phonological planning window: Mandarin Tone 3 Sandhi reanalyzed”

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”...

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...

“OT Analysis of Consonant Cluster Resolution in Aśokan Prakrits”

When Number Agreement Acts Like a Polarity Item: Disjunctive Agreement Across Semantic Environments Do context or semantic environment ever affect agreement morphology? Yes, I argue in this talk. Examining number agreement with disjoined subjects in English — e.g., the difference between 'Ann doubts that Bob or Cal is coming' and 'Ann doubts that Bob or...

A weekly meeting group to discuss practical and theoretical issues in fieldwork and language documentation.

“Infants construct phonemes from early phonetic categories: Evidence from the acquisition of phonotactics, morphology and word recognition” - Megha Sundara “Phonetic variability minimally degrades word segmentation in infant-directed speech” - Gabriel Scharff & Megha Sundara (HISPhonCog Poster)

perception of syllable onsets

Parts and wholes in children’s understanding of plural expressions Languages differentially mark whether reference is made to individuals (singulars) or to collections of individuals (plurals). While the core distinction is acquired early (e.g. Kouider et al., 2006; Barner et al., 2007), plural expressions introduce substantial additional semantic complexity in how atomic individuals contribute to their...

A weekly meeting group to discuss practical and theoretical issues in fieldwork and language documentation.

Isa Cabrera and Megha Sundara, “The developmental roots of cumulative phonotactic effects”

“A Preliminary Model of Haryanvi Intonation” - Cor Zanda & Sakshi Singh “Cross-linguistic variation in coarticulation in two Australian languages” - Coralie Cram “Investigating the Perceptual Basis of Labial Dissimilation in Paiwan”  - Jian-Leat Siah, Yu-An Lu (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University), Shih-Chi Stella Yeh (National Kaohsiung Normal University), & Kie Zuraw “A Computational Model...

Kevin Liang and Gemma Repiso Puigdelliura, “Infants learn saltatory alternations: evidence from Catalan” Jian-Leat Siah and Khang Ðinh, “Syllabification of Vocoids in Malay: Evidence from Musical Text-Setting

A case for iterative morphophonological learning: the morpheme-boundedness of Arabic OCP Acquisition research shows that the timelines of early phonotactic learning and morphological learning largely overlap. This conflicts with a common simplification in computational modeling of phonological learning, where phonotactic generalizations are learned from input with complete morphological information. I demonstrate a case of discrepancy...

A weekly meeting group to discuss practical and theoretical issues in fieldwork and language documentation.