Conference | Workshop
OCP Workshop on Vowel Harmony
- Date
- Tuesday 4 February 2025
- Address
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Gorlaeus Building
Einsteinweg 55
2333 CC Leiden - Room
- BE0.08
This one-day workshop is part of the Old world Conference on Phonology organized by the University of Amsterdam.
The programme is available here, along with instructions on how to get to the workshop venue and dining recommendations.
Invited speakers
- Harry van der Hulst (University of Connecticut)
- Alexander Martin (University of Groningen)
Programme
Download the programme here.
| 9:00– | Registration |
| 09:15–09:20 | Opening remarks |
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First invited speaker Chaired by: Bert Botma |
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| 9:20–10:10 |
Harry van der Hulst (University of Connecticut) |
| 10:10–10:40 | Coffee break |
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Session 1 Chaired by: Nancy Kula |
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| 10:40-11:10 | Clemens Poppe (Waseda University) & Jeroen van de Weijer (Shenzhen University) The representation of neutral vowels in Korean and Turkish: a dependency-based perspective |
| 11:10-11:40 | Mehmet Can Dadan (Boğaziçi University), Alper Canberk Balcı, Furkan Dikmen (Université Côte d’Azur) & Stefano Canalis (Boğaziçi University) Syllabic harmony in Turkish. |
| 11:40-12:10 | Joshua Sims (Indiana University) Khalkha Mongolian RTR harmony and ATR palatalization in ultrasound imaging. |
| 12:10-13:10 | Lunch |
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Second invited speaker Chaired by: Benjamin Storme |
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| 13:10-14:00 |
Alexander Martin (University of Groningen) Probing substantively biased learning: The test case of vowel harmony versus disharmony |
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Session 2 Chaired by: Clemens Poppe |
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| 14:00–14:30 |
András Cser (HUN-REN Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics / Pázmány Péter Catholic University), Beatrix Oszkó (HUN-REN Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics / University of Novi Sad) & Zsuzsa Várnai (HUN-REN Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics) The phonological effects of grammaticalization: a case study from Old Hungarian. |
| 14:30–15:00 | Deepthi Gopal (Uppsala), Stephen Nichols (Edinburgh), László Károly (Uppsala) & Pavel Iosad (Edinburgh) Length and gradience in Dolgan rounding harmony. |
| 15:00–15:30 | Stefano Canalis (Boğaziçi University), Penbenur Yücel (University of Helsinki) & Mehmet Can Dadan (Boğaziçi University) Vowel harmony and vowel neutralization in Kayseri Turkish. |
| 15:30–16:00 |
Coffee break |
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Session 3 Chaired by: Benjamin Storme |
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| 16:00–16:30 |
Jarry Chia-Wei Chuang (University of Connecticut) Locality of vowel harmony in Igbo. |
| 16:30–17:00 | Alan Avdagić (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg) Vowel harmony and stress in Old Assyrian. |
| 17:00–17:30 | Péter Rebrus (HUN-REN Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics / Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest), Péter Szigetvári (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest) & Miklós Törkenczy (HUN-REN Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics / Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest) Morphology causing nonuniformity in Hungarian backness harmony. |
| 17:30 | Closing remarks by Nancy Kula |
Contact
If you have questions, please send an email to ocp2025workshop@hum.leidenuniv.nl.