This year’s Montréal-Ottawa-Toronto-Hamilton Phonology/Phonetics Workshop ([motʰ] 2025) was held at the University of Toronto on April 4 and 5.
Presentations by McGill students and faculty included:
- Amanda Doucette, Timothy J. O’Donnell, and Morgan Sonderegger — “Causal discovery of lexical constraints”
- Massimo Lipari, Eleanor Lawson (University of Strathclyde), and Jane Stuart-Smith (University of Glasgow) — “The role of dialect and tongue shape in English /ɹ/ formant dynamics”
- Irene Smith and Meghan Clayards — “Perception of PIN-PEN merger in Southern and non-Southern American-English listeners”
- Alex Zhai and Meghan Clayards — “Variation in lexical bias in speech perception: Individual differences, contrast-specific effects, and the role of L1 background”
- Jeanne Brown — “Gender and age effects of creaky voice acoustics: Mediation by f0”
