Introduction
Introduction
The first Diachronic Phonotactics Workshop (dpt17) will be held on 7-8 September 2017 at the Department of English Studies of Vienna University.
The focus of the workshop is on diachronic phonotactics. It will address questions such as
- How are changes in stem-level, word-level and phrase level phonotactics best described and accounted for?
- Do phonological constituents larger than segments (segment clusters, syllables, feet, prosodic words, etc.) represent units with histories of their own?
- How does phonotactic complexity arise, and under what circumstances does it achieve historical stability?
- Are there constraints or preferences concerning the mapping of phonological structure on morpho-syntactic structure, and are the effects of such constraints visible in diachronic developments?
- What roles do the perception and the production of phonotactic structures play for their diachronic development?
- What are the roles of acquisition and usage in the emergence and the evolution of phonotactic patterns?
Invited Speakers
- Andrew Wedel (University of Arizona)
- Basilio Calderone (Université de Toulouse Jean Jaurès)
- Donka Minkova (University of California, Los Angeles)
- Elissa Pustka (University of Vienna)
- Elzbieta Adamczyk (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań)
- Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań)
- Patrick Honeybone (University of Edinburgh)
- Rhona Alcorn (University of Edinburgh)
- Julia Schlüter (University of Bamberg)
- Wolfgang U. Dressler (University of Vienna)
Organizing team
The workshop is hosted by the Evolution of Consonant Clusters in English (ECCE) project:
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