In January 2020, shortly before the (inter)national shutdown due to the novel coronavirus, Junko Ito, Armin Mester, Jennifer Bellik, Nick Kalivoda, graduate students Richard Bibbs and Nick Van Handel, and undergraduate Max Tarlov all traveled to Eckerd College in St. Petersberg, Florida, for the fourth meeting of the Society for Typological Analysis (SOTA IV), organized by Naz Merchant, Birgit Alber, and Alan Prince. The conference combined workshops and tutorials on creating a Property Analysis (PA), with presentations of typological analyses (including many new PAs).

Junko Ito & Armin Mester gave an invited talk, entitled “Issues in Recursive Prosody”.

Jennifer Bellik & Nick Kalivoda also presented a tutorial on SPOT, along with a talk comparing property analyses for branch-counting and leaf-counting binarity. [handout][slides]

Nick Van Handel, Richard Bibbs, and Max Tarlov also gave presentations of work developed at SOTA.