This year’s Annual Meeting on Phonology (AMP) will be hosted by Rutgers University November 1–3. The Annual Meetings on Phonology began as Phonology 2013 here at UMass.

Andrew Lamont (PhD 2022) will give a keynote address: Optimality Theory with lexical insertion is not computable. Abstract: This talk examines the computational consequences of introducing lexical insertion, i.e., the ability to copy morphemes or insert them from the lexicon, as an operation into Optimality Theory. I demonstrate that this operation makes OT not computable: in other words, it is impossible to determine the output of a given input in a finite amount of time. This result is derived by modeling the Post Correspondence Problem in an OT grammar that uses only representations and mechanisms attested in the literature.

Presentations from current students, faculty, and alumni included:

• Claire Moore-Cantwell (PhD 2016): Balancing type and token frequency matching with lexically indexed constraints
• Ali Nirheche: Variable Assimilation of the Definite Article l- in Moroccan Arabic
• Seung Suk Lee, Joe Pater, & Brandon Prickett (PhD 2021): Representing and learning stress in a MaxEnt framework