Workshop 3 - Diachronic Workings in Phonological Patterns

*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
10:30-10:45		Coffee
10:45-11:30		Sam Steddy (MIT): Palatalisation Across the Italian Lexicon
11:30-12:15		Laurence Voeltzel (Nantes): Geminates: from Old Norse to Scandinavian Languages
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
16:00-16:45		Elan Dresher, Christopher Harvey and Will Oxford (Toronto): Synchronic Systems in Diachronic Change: The Role of Contrast


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