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Alex Chabot headlining NAPhCxii

May 08, 2023 Linguistics

Alex Chabot, Lecturer in Linguistics, standing in the forest, looking at a hive-full of bees he is holding in his hand.

On Sardinian and complexity in phonology.

May 12-13 the North American Phonology Conference ([ˌnæ̰ɸˈk]) has its xii'th instance ([ˌnæ̰ɸˈkxî:]) up at Montreal's Concordia University, hosted by its Centre for Cognitive Science and Linguistics, and our postdoc Alex Chabot is one of three invited keynote speakers. The title of Alex's talk is "Sounding phonology: Correlational neurolinguistics and theories of representational and computational complexity," and in it he uses data Campidanese Sardinian to discuss the question of what counts as phonological complexity, and furthermore proposes a possible neural index of it.