Utrecht Theoretical Linguistics

phonology

CRISSP/TCC talk: Heather Newell

CRISSP is happy to announce a new installment in the CRISSP TCC Seminar Series: Lecturer: Heather Newell (Université du Québec à Montréal) Title: English Theme Vowels are Syntactic Heads Date & time: Tuesday 22 October 2024, 15.30-17.00 CET Location: Zoom (contact us to get the link)

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Workshop About the interaction of structure and sound

The workshop aims to make theoretical advances in research on the syntax-prosody interface, that is, the point of interaction between sentence structure (syntax) and sound (phonology). We want to give the floor to various (theoretical) approaches to the syntax-prosody interface, in order to discuss different ways of modeling the relationship, the matches and mismatches between…

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GLOWing lectures: Andrew Nevins

Speaker: Andrew Nevins Discussant: Jonathan Bobalijk Title: Minoritized languages guiding linguistic theory Date/Time: 11 October, 15:00 CEST Place: Zoom If you are not a GLOW member, sign up HERE to get free access to the lecture.

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1st online Summer School On Iranian Linguistics (SSOIL)

The first online Summer School On Iranian linguistics (SSOIL) will be held on August 5-8, 2024.  The program is below. Shahriar Hormozi is the principal organizer of this summer school. This event is hosted by the Department of Linguistics and the Iranian Linguistics research team at the University of Arizona. Please send your questions to…

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NYI lecture: Markus Pöchtrager, Phonology Goes Syntax

TODAY (10 January) ay 5:30 pm Markus Pöchtrager will give an NYI Distinguished Linguist talk with the title “Phonology Goes Syntax”. Attendance is free but registration is required. You can register here. Abstract To what extent do the individual modules of grammar share a similar architecture? In this talk we will ask that question about…

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Workshop: The phonology-phonetics mapping and related issues in Substance-Free Phonology

On the 14th of December there will be a workshop on Substance-free phonology in Nice. Program 9:00 am Elan Dresher Some issues raised by Paolo Danesi’s thesis: Trade-offs between representation, computation, and transduction 9:40 Charles Reiss The unnaturalness of natural classes suggests that they come from nature not nurture 10:20 coffee break 10:40 Tobias Scheer…

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