Issa and Alruwais present at MidPhon 2024

Doctoral students Sara Issa and Amirah Alruwais presented their research last weekend at the 2024 Mid-Continental Phonetics and Phonology Conference at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign.

Sara Issa’s poster, co-authored with faculty member Anne Pycha, was titled “Artificial Intelligence Realization of Morphemic Word-Final s in English: Phonetic Evidence for Voiceless Clitic -s and Plural -s”.

Amirah Alruwais’s talk was titled “Phonological Transfer and Markedness Effects in Saudi Arabic Speakers’ English Obstruent Production”.

Congratulations, Sara and Amirah!

 

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