The Annual Meeting on Phonology 2025 took place on September 25-26, 2025, at UC Berkeley, with a special session on “Deep Phonology: Doing phonology with deep learning” on September 27. The following current and former UCLA linguists presented:
- Ben Eischens (faculty) and Jian-Leat Siah (current PhD student): “Non-generalization of a phonetically natural pattern in Mixtec tone sandhi”
- Canaan Breiss (PhD alum): “What have we learned about naturalness in vowel patterns from 20 years of AGL experiments? A Bayesian meta-analysis” (with Anna Runova)
- Canaan Breiss: “Emergent morpho-phonological patterning in a model of spoken word recognition” (with Jon Gauthier, Matthew Leonard, and Edward Chang)
- Canaan Breiss: “Emergent feature structure in self-supervised speech models’ phone representations” (with Jon Gauthier)
- Connor Mayer (PhD alum): “Stress patterns in intra-word code-switching” (with Moldir Baidildinova and Gregory Scontras)
- Edward Flemming (PhD alum): “Gang effects: the perspective from variation” (with Giorgio Magri)
- Hironori Katsuda (PhD alum), Kie Zuraw (faculty), and Jinyoung Jo (PhD alum): “Applying phonological rules in code-mixed contexts: the effect of dominance in rule application” (with Gemma Repiso-Puigdelliura)
- Jennifer Kuo (PhD alum): “Abstractness and opacity-avoidance in Maga Rukai”
- Jinyoung Jo: “Can large language models predict English phrasal stress” (with Sean Choi and Arto Anttila)
- Jonah Katz (faculty): “Boundary conditions on a theory of English footing”
- Kevin Ryan (PhD alum): “Stress-tone-weight interaction in poetic meter: South Slavic folk meter revisited” (with Aljosa Milenkovic)
- Kie Zuraw: “Korean word-level prominence: evidence from K-pop text-setting” (with Suzy Ahn)