Phonetics and Phonology in the North East (PhPhoNE) 2026

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PhPhoNE (Phonetics and Phonology in the NorthEast) is the current incarnation of a series of annual graduate student conferences in Phonology that rotate between Yale, MIT, UMASS, NYU, Rutgers, and Johns Hopkins. Yale last hosted in 2019. For a list of past meetings, see this list of previous meetings) compiled by Maria Gouskova.

General information

Date: April 25, 2026

Venue:  Kline Tower (Room 205), 219 Prospect St, New Haven, CT 06511

Talks will be 20 minutes long, followed by a 10 minute question period.

Schedule

  • Breakfast: 11:15-12:00 pm (Kline Tower, Room 205)

  • Session 1: 
    • 12:00-12:30pm: Yanran Mou (UMass), Clash, Shift, and Expectation Violation: is Rhythm Rule Active in English Sentence Processing? 
    • 12:30-1:00pm: Brady Dailey (BU), From Accent to Tone: Lexicalization and Prosodic Change in Northern Pomo
    • 1:00-1:30pm: Kaustubh Ghoshal (NYU), Computational Learning Perspectives on Syllable Weight

  • Coffee Break: 1:30-2:00pm

  • Session 2: 
    • 2:00-2:30pm: Marjorie Leduc (Rutgers), How is Dominance Reversal Possible? An Investigation into OT Constraint Interactions
    • 2:30-3:00pm: Cynthia Zhong (MIT), Patterns of Coronal Obstruent Neutralization in Japanese
    • 3:00-3:30pm: Elnaz Azimi (Stony Brook), Glottal Coda Deletion in Colloquial Modern Persian: Phonological Process or Phonetic Adjustment?

  • Coffee Break: 3:30-4:00pm

  • Session 3: 
    • 4:00-4:30pm: Xiaotian (Alice) Wang (Harvard), The Interaction between Contrastive Focus and Code-Switching in Bilingual Language Production
    • 4:30-5:00pm: Alessandra Pintado-Urbanc (Yale), Bilingual Phonotactics as a Window into Morphological Learning

Parking

Several Yale-owned lots close to the venue offer free parking on weekends. Those closest to the venue include the OISS parking lot (455 Temple St.) and the Trumbull St visitor lot (84 Trumbull St.). More information on parking(Link is external) is available here.