The Seventh Edinburgh Symposium on Historical Phonology
Talks
Monday 1st December
Programme
9:30–10:00
➤ Learning from loss: when the life cycle reverses.
Chenming Gao
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10:00–10:30
➤ The Middle Hungarian raising and merger of long front vowels: phonological change vs. paradigmatic effects.
András Cser, Beatrix Oszkó & Zsuzsa Várnai
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10:30–11:00
➤ The typology of contrastive nasality: the case of Kwa.
Katherine Russell
· Abstract (PDF)
11:00–11:30
➤ Rule crossing in the lexical variation period.
Tobias Scheer
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11.45–12.45
Poster Session 1
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14:00–14:30
➤ Reconstructing Proto-Northern-Jê coronal obstruents: evidence for a pull-chain in Suyá.
Han Lee & Myriam Lapierre
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14:30–15:00
➤ Initial geminates and pertinacity.
Joshua Booth & Aditi Lahiri
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15:00–15:30
➤ The diachronic stability of syllable weight in Scottish Gaelic.
Donald Alasdair Morrison
· Abstract (PDF)
16:00–16:30
➤ Synchronic phonetic variation drives diachronic sound change: further evidence from pre-nasal raising in Young Avestan.
Muhammad Rehan
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16:30–17:00
➤ Northern Pomo tonogenesis and steps towards a diachronic typology of 'lexical pitch-accent'.
Brady A. Dailey
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17:00–18ish
➤ Plenary Talk - Part 1
David Natvig (University of Stavanger)
Tuesday 2nd December
Programme
9:30–10:30
➤ Plenary Talk - Part 2
David Natvig (University of Stavanger)
10:30–11:00
➤ The paradox of cyclicity in Syriac.
Dominique Bobeck
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11:00–11:30
➤ Does coarticulation play a role at the end of a sound change? A real-time acoustic-phonetic study of historical Polish ł-vocalisation.
Juliusz Cęcelewski, Cédric Gendrot & Jane Stuart-Smith
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11.45–12.45
Poster Session 2
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14:00–14:30
➤ Georgian pre-sonorant syncope is no longer phonological.
Deepthi Gopal
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14:30–15:00
➤ Final Vowel Lowering as final strengthening.
Yury Makarov & Bert Vaux
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15:00–15:30
➤ The emergence of the geminate affricate *cc in Proto-Finnic as a problem of historical phonology.
Sampsa Holopainen
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16:00–16:30
➤ West Nordic umlaut, Old Norwegian vowel harmony, and the life cycle.
Jade Sandstedt & Patrik Bye
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16:30–17:00
➤ On the edge: procedural vs. representational analyses of Ancient Greek.
Adèle Jatteau
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17:00–17:30
➤ Stress and cyclicity in Hittite and its diachronic development.
Anthony Yates
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Posters
Monday 1st December
➤ Proto-Mayan *ŋ was a voiced dorsal fricative /ʁ/: a typological approach to reconstruction
Alan Avdagic
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➤ Walker revisited: stress preservation from Latin to Present-Day English
Arlind Fazliu & Brikena Liko
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➤ Inheritance, change and diffusion at the Margins of Gallo-Romance
Fabian Zuk
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➤ A probabilistic typology of Proto-Indo-European stops
Jahnavi Narkar
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➤ The chronology of Indo-European *wr → *ru metathesis
John Clayton
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➤ The diachronic asymmetry of nasal apocope between nominal and verbal paradigms in Nganasan
Juan D. Cancel
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➤ Navigating the labyrinth of Proto-Albanian: evidence from an isolated dialect region
Lindon Dedvukaj
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➤ It's not historical: a Logical Phonology analysis of the Scottish Vowel Length Rule
Nicholas Hardie Lawrence & Fae Hicks
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➤ A templatic account of three Middle Scots alliterative poems
Patrik Bye
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➤ When opacified allophony creates rule inversion and variable derived-environment effects: velar-palatal alternations in Sanskrit
Ryan Sandell & Hang Liu
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➤ Echoes of lost segments: the evolution of floating prosodic units in Nuer (West Nilotic)
Tatiana Reid
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Tuesday 2nd December
➤ [k]-allomorphs in Mapudungun
Aldo Berríos Castillo
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➤ The devil’s in the difference: tracking phonological change in witch trial papers
Christa Schneider
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➤ Litteral evidence of the vanishing Old English [ɣ] in Middle English
Élisa Marcadet
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➤ The fates of Latin ille: a tale of syntax and phonology
Fae Hicks
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➤ Feminine plural -a in Italo-Romance: phonological, syntactic, and diachronic evidence for structural transparency over allomorphy
Michela Russo
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➤ The grammar of Old English alliterative verse: verb-second in metrical contexts
Monique Tangelder
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➤ Delaryngealisation
Patrick Honeybone
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➤ The life cycle of Slavic mid vowel alternations
Pavel Iosad
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➤ Listening to the broken record: enregisterment, discursive evidence, and the 'bad data' problem in historical phonology
Richard West-Soley
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➤ Vowel raising in a contact-linguistic and typological context: evidence from Egyptian Greek iotacism
Sonja Dahlgren
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➤ East Germanic is a valid subgrouping
Vendela Ruby
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➤ Subtypes of unconditioned tonal merger in historical Viet-Muong phonology
Ziche Chen
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