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Katherine Blake presented a paper titled "Shareable TTS Components" at the American Association for Machine Translation (AMTA) MT Summit XVIII, held virtually October 6-9, 2020.  

Katherine co-authored the paper with Al Sagheer, Z.,  Iglehart, V., LaRocca, S., Morgan, J., Murray, J.

Katherine Blake presented a paper titled:  "Phonological markedness effects on noun-adjective word order in Italian" at the 2020 Annual Meeting on Phonology (AMP) 2020, a zoom conference organized the the Linguistics Department of the University of California, Santa Cruz, held September 12-20, 2020.

Paper Abstract:

In Italian, word order within a {noun, adjective} pair is often flexible. While the default order is postnominal, for many adjectives, prenominal word order is also available. For example, the pair piccola citta` ∼ citta piccola ` ‘small city’ can occur either order, without a change in meaning.

This work presents a corpus study that aims to determine if this syntactic variation is phonologically conditioned, in other words, whether there’s evidence that speakers exploit flexible word order to avoid phonologically-phenomena. Results indicate that flexible word order is used to avoid stress clash, but not hiatus or light-final constituents.

Rachel Vogel presented a paper titled  "A unified account of two vowel devoicing phenomena: the case of Cheyenne" at the Annual Meeting on Phonology (AMP 2020)  held virtually Sep 18-20, 2020.  

Paper Abstract:  

This paper examines two processes of vowel devoicing (VD) in Cheyenne (Plains Algonquian, spoken in Montana and Oklahoma). The first applies phrase-finally and thus meets cross-linguistic and phonetic expectations for VD, while the second appears to conflict with such expectations.

I propose that with a Stratal OT approach, both can in fact be treated as a single well-motivated phenomenon distributed across different strata.