A number of current students/faculty and alumni presented at the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS) held in Prague, August 7-11, 2023. ICPhS is held only every four years and is sometimes called the Phonetics Olympics—it’s the largest meetings of phoneticians.
Presenters from UMass past and present included: current graduate students Alessa Farinella, Cerys Hughes, and Seung Suk (Josh) Lee; faculty members John Kingston and Kristine Yu; former graduate students Ivy Hauser (PhD 2019, now at UT Arlington), Amanda Rysling (PhD 2017, now at UCSC), and Shayne Sloggett (PhD 2017, now at University of York) ; visiting lecturer Sang-Im Lee-Kim (2014-2015, now at Hanyang University).
The talks and posters given by UMass affiliates included:
- Alessa Farinella, Constantijn Kaland & Daniel Kaufman: Gesture and Prosodic Prominence in Ambonese Indonesian
- Cerys Hughes, Seung Suk Lee, Alessa Farinella and Kristine Yu: Phonetic Implementation of Phonologically Different High Tone Spans in Luganda [links: paper, note: presentation included significant updates from paper!]
- John Kingston and Amanda Rysling: When is enough, enough? VOT judgments vary by voicing intensity, aspiration intensity, voice quality, and rate of change
- Seung Suk Lee: Detecting the Accentual Phrase boundaries in Seoul Korean using tonal and segmental cues [links: paper, poster]
- Sang-Im Lee-Kim and Hsiang-Yu Tong: Sibilant perception by merged speakers: the case of Taiwan Mandarin
- Liang Zhao, Eleanor Chodroff, and Shayne Sloggett: Conditions on adaptation to an unfamiliar lexical tone system: the role of quantity and quality of exposure
