Venue: H435 (in Humanisthuset)

09:00-12:00

Registration open - Please register

09:45-10:30

• Daniel Silverman (sjsu): On the evolution of heterophony: lexical semantic pressures on phonological alternations (PDF 192 kB)

10:30-10:45

Coffee

10:45-11:30

• Sam Steddy (MIT): Palatalisation Across the Italian Lexicon (PDF 375 kB)

11:30-12:15

• Laurence Voeltzel (Nantes): Geminates: from Old Norse to Scandinavian Languages (PDF 130 kB)

12:15-14:00

LUNCH

14:00-15:00

Invited speaker: Patrick Honeybone (Edinburgh): Frequency effects are not incompatible with formal phonology: how exceptionless should we expect change to be?

15:00-15:15

Coffee

15:15-16:00

• Brandão de Carvailho (Paris 8) & Ali Tifrit (Nantes): Velar/coronal asymmetry in phonemic patterns and change: a unified account (PDF 111 kB)

16:00-16:45

• Elan Dresher, Christopher Harvey and Will Oxford (Toronto): Synchronic Systems in Diachronic Change: The Role of Contrast (PDF 96 kB)

• PDF Version of the programme (PDF 125 kB)