Several SPOT members recently participated in the Annual Meeting on Phonology 2020, virtually hosted by UC Santa Cruz, which offered many opportunities for interesting conversations about prosody. Presentations by SPOT members were:

• A talk by Nick Kalivoda and Jenny Bellik on “Matching overtly-headed XPs in Irish phrasing Irish.”
  • We resolve a ranking paradox discovered by Elfner 2012 for the phrasing of four-word Irish sentences using classical OT (rather than Harmonic Grammar as in Elfner 2012), by introducing Match(Overtly-headed Phrase) alongside Match(XP), and also motivate a revised version of StrongStart
  • [abstract] [handout]
• A poster by Richard Bibbs: “Align-driven clitic movement in Chamorro” [poster]
• A poster by Netta Ben-Meir: “The prosodic structure of Construct State nominals in Modern Hebrew”