Utah Phonologists Present Research at AMP 2026 - Department of Linguistics

Students and faculty from the University of Utah's Department of Linguistics presented their research at the 2026 Annual Meeting on Phonology (AMP), held October 9–11 at the University of Maryland.

Olalekan Malik Adebayo (PhD student) and Aniello De Santo (faculty) presented a poster titled “Modeling Stem-Internal ATR Harmony in Ì̩yí̩nnó̩ with Tier-Based Strictly Local Grammar.”
Sara Fong (post-bac researcher) and Yang Wang (faculty) delivered an oral presentation titled “Why reduplication, not reversal? A phonological memory account.”
Yang Wang (faculty) and Bruce Hayes (UCLA) presented a poster titled “A learning algorithm for phonemicization in Stratal MaxEnt OT.”

Beyond the presentations, the conference offered valuable opportunities for scholarly exchange, including research conversations with prominent phonologists, including Arto Anttila (Stanford University) and Jason Shaw (Yale University).