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Phonology Reading Group Archive

Spring 2022: 

7. February: organizational meeting

14. February: Joachim Kokkelmans and Birgit Alber on “Language drift in Mòcheno, Cimbrian and Hutterisch”

21. February:   Amphichronic Explanation and the Life Cycle of Phonological Processes (Bermúdez-Otero 2015)

28. February:  Analogy and Morphophonological Change (Fertig 2015)

7. March:  Prosodic phrasing and the emergence of phrase structure (Himmelmann 2022)

14. March:  Phonological Evidence in Syntax (Wagner 2015)

21. March:  Tor Håvard Solhaug on “The nature of tonal accent in Norwegian”

28. March:  Syllable Weight: Convergence of Phonology and Phonetics (Broselow et al. 1997)

4. April: Phonotactic restrictions and morphology in Aymara (Gallagher et al. 2019)

11. April: Why Syllable Weight Seems to Work Differently at the Right Edge, and Why It Really Works the Same (Lunden 2020)

25. April: Andrea Brugnoli on “The acoustic correlates of stress in German and Italian”

2. May: A New Look at Onset Transfer in Indo-European Reduplication: Dissimilation of Consonant Clusters (Kim 2020)

9. May: Faded copies: Reduplication as distribution of activity (Zimmermann 2019)

16. May: no meeting 

23: May: no meeting

30. May: Anna Katharina Pilsbacher: “Musings on stress, affixation and  and past participle shape”


Autumn 2021: 

24. August: organizational meeting

30. August: Joachim Kokkelmans on Germanic loanwords in French varieties

6. September: Markedness Relations and Implicational Universals in the Typology of Onset Obstruent Clusters (Morelli 1998) suggested by Eirini Apostolopoulou

13. September:  Paulina Lyskawa and Rodrigo Ranero on Sibilant Harmony in Santiago Tz’utujil

20. September: Is Word-Level Recursion Actually Recursion? (Miller & Sande 2021) suggested by Tor Håvard Solhaug

27. September: Kate Zhakun on a Typological Analysis of the SSP-Violating Onsets

4. Oktober: Morphology-phonology interplay in lexical stress assignment: Ichishkiin Sinwit (Bogomolets 2021) suggested by Anna Katharina Pilsbacher

11. Oktober: The relationship between phonological and geographical distance. Umlaut on the diminutive in Dutch dialects (Sloos and van Oostendorp 2010) suggested by Joachim Kokkelmans

18. Oktober: Rasmus Puggaard-Rode on the synchrony and diachrony of Modern Standard Danish stop-glide alternations

25. Oktober: Olga Urek on the acquisition of onset clusters in Latvian

1. November:  Andrea Brugnoli on the influence of syllable weight on German primary and secondary stress.

8. November:  Tor Havård Sohaug on Tonal accents in Tromsø Norwegian compounds

15. November: Natural classes are not enough: Biased generalization in novel onset clusters (Albright 2007) suggested by Olga Urek

22. November: Eirini Apostolopoulou on Sandhi phenomena in Italiot Greek

29. November: Towards a non-arbitrary account of affricates and affrication (Pöchtrager 2021) suggested by Rasmus Puggaard-Rode

6. December: Anna Katharina Pilsbacher on prefixes and circumfixes  in Bavarian dialects

12. December: Syllabic and trapped consonants in (Western) Slavic: different but still the same (Scheer 2003) suggested by Kate Zhakun

17. December: extraordinary Christmas edition (NB: starts at 20.00)


Spring 2021:

8. February: Organisational Meeting

15. February: Modeling Vowel Quantity Scales in Q Theory (Garvin et al. 2020): suggested by Rasmus Puggaard Hansen

22. February: Tor Håvard Solhaug (progress report)

1. March: Neural network models for phonology and phonetics. (Boersma, Benders &  Seinhorst. 2020) suggested by Joachim Kokkelmans

8. March: Kate Zhakun (progress report)

15. March: Morphology before phonology: A case study of Turoyo (Neo-Aramaic) (Kalin 2020) suggested by Anna Katharina Pilsbacher

22. March: Andrea Brugnoli (progress report)

29. March: Prosody as syntactic evidence (Royer 2020) suggested by Tor Håvard Solhaug

5. April: Easter Monday (no meeting)

12. April: Eirini Apostolopoulou (progress report)

19. April: Ghost Segments in Nonlinear Phonology: Polish Yers (Szpyra 1992) suggested by Kate Zhakun

26.April: Joachim Kokkelmans (progress report)

3. May: A Phonetically Driven Account of Syllable Weight (Gordon 2002) suggested by Andrea Brugnoli

10. May: Rasmus Puggaard Hansen (progress report)

17. May: Obstruent liquid clusters: Locality, projections and percolation (Tifrit 2020) suggested by Eirini Apostolopoulou

24.May: Whit Monday (no meeting)

31. May: Anna Katharina Pilsbacher (progress report)


Fall 2020: 

September 7th:  On the Link Between Onset Clusters and Codas in Mbat (Jarawan Bantu)- Christopher R. Green (2020)

September 14th:  On The Relationship Between Codas And Onset Clusters – Davis & Baertsch (2011)

September 21st: Phonological Representations and the Variable Patterning of Glides –Nevins & Chitoran (2008)

September 28th: Syllabic Consonants – Alan Bell (1978)

October 5th: Compiling sonority scales with obstruent vowels- Matthew Faytak (2012), and Syllabification in Northwest Indian languages, with remarks on the nature of syllabic stops and affricates- James Hoard (1978)

October 12th: Word Minimality in Bella Coola as evidence for moraic onsets – Nina Topintzi (2005) and Syllable structure in Bela Coola (Section 1.1 and Section 2) -Bagemihl (1991)

October 19th: Syllabic and moraic structures in Piro – Yen-Hwei Lin (1997)

October 26th: Vowel deletion as mora usurpation : the case of Yine – Eva Zimmermann (2013)

November 2nd: Metathesis without reordering (Chapter 5.1 and 5.2) – Eva Zimmermann (2009)

November 9th: Vowel-consonant metathesis in Nivaĉle –  Analía Gutiérrez (2020)

November 16th: Excrescent vowels in Lamkang prefix sequences – Mary Burke, Shobhana Chelliah and Melissa Robinson (2019)

November 23rd: Birgit Alber on truncation and Joachim Kokkelmans on Brussels French

November 25th: Eirini Apostolopoulou on long distance metathesis

November 3oth: The Appendix-Vaux & Wolfe (2009)

December 7th: Phonological Representations and the Vaux-Wolfe Proposal- Charles Cairns (2009) and

A Case of Appendicitis- Eric Raimy (2009)

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