17 May 2015

ETAP 3

The third meeting of Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody is being hosted by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign May 28-30. Kristine Yu will be giving a talk with Ed Stabler entitled “A parsing model for crowding, speech rate and syntax of tone.” Mt. Holyoke professor Mara Breen will also be giving a talk, with Johanna Kneifel, entitled “Rhythmic context affects on-line ambiguity resolution in silent reading.” And UMass alumna Emily Elfner will be giving her talk “Prosodic juncture strength and syntactic constituency in Connemara Irish.” For more information, go here.