We will be having our first Spring semester Five Colleges Prosody Community get-together this Friday, March 7, 11:30-1pm at UMass in the linguistics department, ILC N400.  We will have lunch available, probably starting around 11:15 or so. Everyone is very welcome to come by! If anyone wants to get on our mailing list, please contact me, Kristine Yu.

On the agenda we have the following:
Mara Breen (MHC) will present a study exploring how children’s prosody when reading The Cat in the Hat out loud predicts their phonological awareness and reading comprehension skills. This work will be presented at the 2025 Human Sentence Processing Conference at the University of Maryland.
Katerina Drakoulaki (MHC) will present current work with the Springfield Museums as an example of a successful scientific partnership that facilitates research participation for participants who are widely diverse with respect to race, ethnicity, and linguistic background.
Kristine Yu (UMass) will present some current work with Charlotte Kaiser, Alessa Farinella, and Seung Suk (Josh) Lee on cross-linguistic evidence for prosodic domains that will be presented at Exploring Boundaries: Phonological Domains in the Languages of the World at the Arctic University of Norway Trømso.