Meetings this semester will be on Mondays from 11:00-11:50 am, the Linguistics Conference Room, GFS 330, except where otherwise noted.
Link to more information on The Phonetics and Phonology Group at USC.
Organizational Meeting
Labor Day - No meeting
Rachel Walker - Coronal unmarkedness and gradient symbolic representations
No meeting - Jason Shaw colloquium
Hayeun Jang - Learning hidden gradient features: from muscular activation to featural representation; Yifan Yang - Surface correspondence in reduplication
Charlie O'Hara - Learning prevents MaxEnt from giving probability to harmonically bounded candidates
Stephanie Shih - The contribution of sound symbolism to phonological theory
Reed Blaylock - Breaking down the beat: beatboxing for speech scientists
Charlie O'Hara - Language-specific factors influence learnability: case study from contour tone licensing; Rachel Walker - Gradient feature activity in Korean place assimilation
ASA practice posters: Mairym Llorens Montesérin: 3aSC5: Distribution of Tourette's verbal tics produced during active speech; Reed Blaylock: 5aSC4: Beatrhyming probes the nature of the interface between phonology and beatboxing; Sarah Harper: 5aSC17: Variability is variable: Individual differences in articulatory variation
ASA practice posters: Samantha Gordon Danner: 5aSC8: Co-speech movement behavior in conversational turn-taking; Eve Perkins Booker and Cheyenne Laroque: 5aSC9: Co-speech laughter in a conversational speech task; Miran Oh: 4aSC20: Oral-velum actions in the articulation of nasal juncture geminates and singletons
Joint USC/UCLA Phonology Meeting (JUMP) - Claire Moore-Cantwell (UCLA): Cognitive load impairs access to the phonological grammar
Yifan Yang - Surface correspondence in reduplication
Yijing Lu – Relating acoustic similarity and perceptual similarity: a case study using computational methods
LSA practice presentations: Mairym Llorens Montesérin: Sklled orchestration of speech and tics in adults with Tourette syndrome; Charlie O'Hara - Frequency matching behavior in in-line MaxEnt learners.