P-Side Research Group

The P-side research group is for students with interests in research in phonetics and phonology. The group meets once a week during the fall and spring semesters.

About P-side

A typical P-side meeting might consist of:

one or two members giving an informal presentation of the current state of their research projects, followed by discussion and feedback from the group
a practice talk or practice poster session by someone who is preparing to go to a conference
group discussion of an article exploring a topic in phonetics or phonology

Participants

P-side participants are faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students. If you are interested in joining the email list for P-side meetings and announcements, contact Elliott Moreton or Jen Smith.

Publications and presentations by P-side members

UNC student author names are bolded. (Update of this list currently in progress — January 2020.)

Brinkerhoff, Mykel (2019). On subcategorization and Priority: Evidence from Welsh allomorphy. MA thesis, UNC Chapel Hill.
Carter, William J. T. (2019). Explicit and implicit acquisition of opacity: initial evaluations of a dual-system model of grammar. MA thesis, UNC Chapel Hill.
Hsu, Brian (2019). Exceptional prosodification effects revisited in Gradient Harmonic Grammar. Phonology 36: 225-263.
Boone, Haley (2018). Phonetic motivation for diachronic sound change in Bantu languages as evidenced by voiceless prenasalized stop perception by native Somali Chizigula speakers. MA thesis, UNC Chapel Hill.
Eisenbarth, Brent (2018). Reading lips and learning sounds: the effect of visual cue saliency on phonological production in a second language. MA thesis, UNC Chapel Hill.
Hsu, Brian, and Karen Jesney (2018). Weighted scalar constraints capture the typology of loanword adaptation. In Proceedings of the 2017 Annual Meeting on Phonology, ed. by Gillian Gallagher, Maria Gouskova & Sora Yin. Washington, DC: Linguistic Society of America.
Moeng, Emily (2018). The acquisition of phonetic categories. PhD dissertation, UNC Chapel Hill.
Reynolds, Amy (2018). Evidence for increasing sensitivity to phonetic environments over time? The development of Karen refugee English. 92nd Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, January 6th.
Muratani [Tashiro], Yuka (2017). Influence of poor-fit vowels on perception of consonants. MA thesis, UNC Chapel Hill.
Reynolds, Amy (2017). Karen English: Refugee Life and Language in America. 91st Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), January 7th.
Boehm, Jennifer and Amy Reynolds (2017). Generational Language Shift and the Linguistic Landscape: Refugee Language and Vitality. Southeastern Conference of Linguistics (SECOL) 84, March 6–10th.
Moeng, Emily, Jennifer Boehm, and Amy Reynolds (2017). Defining ‘high quality’ tokens of tone in Mandarin Infant-Directed Speech. 91st Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), January 6th.
Andino, Emily (2016). Grapheme-to-phoneme mapping in L2 and L3: Lexical and sublexical processing in reading aloud. MA thesis, UNC Chapel Hill.
Moeng, Emily, Jennifer Boehm, and Amy Reynolds (2016). Modeling the interlanguage: The effect of frequency in the L2 acquisition of English consonant clusters. Proceedings of the Seventh Meeting of the Illinois Language and Linguistics Society (ILLS).
Boehm, Jennifer, Emily Moeng, and Amy Reynolds (2015). Modeling English phonological structures: A case study of frequency effects in S’gaw Karen speakers. Southeastern Conference of Linguistics (SECOL) 82, April 9-11th.
Broad, Rachel (2015). Accent placement in Japanese blends. MA thesis, UNC Chapel Hill.
Moeng, Emily, Jennifer Boehm, and Amy Reynolds (2015). Modeling Frequency Effects in L2 Acquisition of English Consonant Clusters. Illinois Language and Linguistics Society (ILLS) 7, April 17-18th.
Prickett, Brandon (2015). Complexity and naturalness in first language and second language phonotactic learning. MA thesis, UNC Chapel Hill.
Reynolds, Amy (2015). Karen English: An emergent language community in the American South. Linguistics Society of the University of Georgia (LSUGA) 2, October 9th.
Reynolds, Amy (2015). Karen English: A new American Southern Language Community. Southeastern Conference of Linguistics (SECOL) 82, April 9-11th.
Powers, Anna (2014). Effects of the Weight-to-Stress Principle on English speakers learning Japanese prosody. MA thesis, UNC Chapel Hill.
Prickett, Brandon (2014). The effect of complexity versus the effect of naturalness on phonotactic learning. Poster presented at the 22nd Manchester Phonology Meeting; University of Manchester, May 30.
Smith, Jennifer L., Elliott Moreton, Katya Pertsova, and Rachel Broad (2014). Emergent noun faithfulness in novel English blends. Paper presented at the 22nd Manchester Phonology Meeting; University of Manchester, May 31. [handout]
Reynolds, Amy (2014). Learning and Variability: A study into the role of variation in child language acquisition and learning models. North American Phonology Conference 8 (NAPhC 8), May 19–20th.
Moeng, Emily (2014). Acquiring phonemes: Is frequency or the lexicon the primary cue? Paper presented at the 38th Annual Penn Linguistics Conference; University of Pennsylvania, March 28-30. To be published in the Proceedings of the PLC. [handout]
Griffin [Boehm], Jennifer (2014). Modeling phonological variation across lexical categories: The case of Spanish –s aspiration. Paper presented at the 6th Illinois Language and Linguistics Society Conference; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, April 4.
Zhu, Siyun (2014). A study on Mandarin focus produced by English L2 learners. MA thesis, UNC Chapel Hill.
Fischer, Lucia Lopes (2013). Sgaw Karen as spoken by a member of the local North Carolina community: A phonetic analysis and phonemic transcription. MA thesis, UNC Chapel Hill.
Fuller, Matthew. (2013). On the special role of faithfulness constraints in morphology-sensitive phonology: The M-Faithfulness model. MA thesis, UNC Chapel Hill.
Kohn, Mary E. (2013). Adolescent ethnolinguistic stability and change: a longitudinal study. PhD dissertation, UNC Chapel Hill.
Pinta, Justin (2013). Lexical strata in loanword phonology: Spanish loans in Guarani. MA thesis, UNC Chapel Hill.
Shaw, Katherine E. (2013). Head faithfulness in lexical blends: a positional approach to blend formation. MA thesis, UNC Chapel Hill.
Moreton, Elliott, and Katya Pertsova (2012). Pastry phonotactics: Is phonological learning special? Paper presented at NELS 43; CUNY, October 19. [handout]
Smith, Jennifer L. (2012). The obstruent sonority paradox as a markedness interaction effect. Paper presented at the 20th Manchester Phonology Meeting; University of Manchester, May 24. [handout]
Griffin [Boehm], Jennifer (2012). Tying perception data and production frequencies together: The relationship between Puerto Rican Spanish in North Carolina and Panama City Spanish. Paper presented at 2012 Spanish Linguistics in North Carolina (SLINKI); UNC Wilmington, January 21.
Moeng, Emily (2012). Do phonologically active classes warp the perceptual space? MA thesis, UNC Chapel Hill.
Bakken, Anne (2011). Scandinavian interference on the /s~z/ voicing contrast in American English. MA thesis, UNC Chapel Hill.
Drozdiak, Alice (2011). Identifying and describing prosodic domain interaction with duration and hyperarticulation. MA thesis, UNC Chapel Hill.
Griffin [Boehm], Jennifer (2011). Variation and gradience in a noisy harmonic grammar with lexically-indexed constraints: The case of Spanish –s deletion and aspiration. MA thesis, UNC Chapel Hill.
Kohn, Mary, and Charlie Farrington (2011). The socio-regional distribution of African American vowel systems in Piedmont, North Carolina. Paper presented at NWAV 40: New Ways of Analyzing Language Variation; Georgetown, October 29. [abstract]
Reynolds, Amy (2011). Competing factors in phonological learning models: The acquisition of English consonant clusters. MA thesis, UNC Chapel Hill.