The 4th International Conference “Prominence in Language” (ICPL IV) took place April 23-24, 2026, hosted by the University of Cologne. The following current and former members of the department presented:
- Evan Hochstein (PhD student) and Jesse Harris (faculty): “Cognitive animacy perceptions and the animacy hierarchy”
- Jeremy Steffman (PhD alum), with Fabian R. Eckert, Aviad Albert, T. Mark Ellison, Petra B. Schumacher, Martine Grice: “The quality of prosodic quantity: Sonority is driving length illusions in perception”