Phonetics grad student Robin Karlin successfully defended her dissertation
"The timing of tone gestures and tone-bearing units: a cross-linguistic investigation".

Robin is shown here with members of her thesis committee - from left to right: External Committee member Elizabeth Zsiga (Georgetown University); committee chair Dr. Draga Zec, and committee members Dr. Abby Cohn and Dr. Mats Rooth. Robin has accepted a position at Rutgers University, where she will teach phonology.

Draga Zec (with Dr. Elizabeth Zsiga, Georgetown University) presented a paper titled “Dialectal Variation in the Realization of Serbian Pitch Accent: Evidence for a Domain- Generalization Effect" at LabPhon 16, Lisbon, Portugal, held June 19-22, 2018

Draga Zec presented a paper titled “Loanword specific prosody as minimal constraint re-ranking”  at the 26th Manchester Phonology Meeting, Manchester, England, held May 24-26, 2018

Draga Zec (with Dr. Martin  Krämer, UiT) gave an Invited Talk titled "Syllable codas, consonantal manner and the sonority hierarchy” at the SALT Workshop: A cross-disciplinary workshop on syllable structure and sonority, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, held May 11-12, 2018