LabPhon 20 was held in Montréal, Canada from June 26–28, 2026, hosted by McGill University, Carleton University, and the University of Ottawa. Several current faculty and students from our department presented, including:
- Ben Eischens (faculty), w/ Ryan Bennett: “Incomplete neutralization for nasality in Mixtec: the role of abstraction”
- Claire Moore-Cantwell (faculty) and Zachary Metzler (PhD student), w/ Yanran Mou: “Stress is represented suprasegmentally, but differently, in words and nonwords”
- Cor Zanda (PhD student) and Sakshi Singh (PhD student): “A preliminary model of Haryanvi intonation”
- Coralie Cram (PhD student): “Cross-linguistic variation in coarticulation in two Australian languages”
- Jae-Eun Jennifer Shin (PhD student), w/ Sahyang Kim (PhD alum) and Taehang Cho (PhD alum): “Phonotactics say no but gestures say yes: Gestural invariance in Korean coda clusters”
- Jian-Leat Siah (PhD student), w/ Feng-Fan Hsieh, Yueh-Chin Chang, and Sam Zukoff: “Gradient overapplication in Malay reduplication: Direct aerodynamic evidence for Base-Reduplicant Correspondence”
- Jian-Leat Siah (PhD student) and Kie Zuraw (faculty), w/ Yu-An Lu and Shih-Chi Stella Yeh: “Investigating the perceptual basis of labial dissimilation in Paiwan”
- John McGahay (PhD student): “A computational model of merger as phonetic dispersion over words”
- Kevin Liang (PhD student), w/ Gemma Repiso Puigdelliura: “Infants learn saltatory alternations: evidence from Catalan”
- Khang Ðinh (PhD student) and Jian-Leat Siah (PhD student): “Syllabification of vocoids in Malay: Evidence from musical text-setting”
- Kie Zuraw (faculty): “Dimensions: looking back, looking forward” [invited]
- Marisabel Cabrera (PhD student) and Megha Sundara (faculty): “The developmental roots of cumulative phonotactic effects mapping”
- Megha Sundara (faculty), w/ Connor Mayer (PhD alum), Canaan Breiss (PhD alum), and Will Chih-Chao Chang: “Modeling the role of stress and prosodic boundaries in infant phonotactic learning”
- Megha Sundara (faculty), w/ Jeremy Steffman (PhD alum) and Seb Segger-Staveley: “Generalisation across talkers but not place of articulation in perceptual learning for phonotactics”
- Sun-Ah Jun (faculty), Jian-Leat Siah (PhD student), Hunter Johnson (PhD student), and Marisabel Cabrera (PhD student): “Boundary tones of the accentual phrase in Paraguayan Guarani”