Programme

Thursday

9:00-9:30

Welcome coffee

9:30-10:00

Introduction

 

10:00-11:00

Patrick Honeybone

Can phonotactic constraints inhibit segmental change? And if so, how?

11:00-12:00

Basilio Calderone

Decomposing and composing phonemes: a distributional approach to phonotactics

12:00-13:30

Lunch break

13:30-14:30

Andrew Wedel

Signal evolution within the word

14:30-15:30

Elissa Pustka

Initial Sibilant-Obstruent Clusters in Romance: Explanations for Increasing and Decreasing Phonotactic Complexity

15:30-16:00

Coffee break

16:00-17:00

Julia Schlüter

Tracing the (re-)emergence of onset consonants through 500 years of books: Big data on a detail of historical English phonetics and phonology

17:00-18:00

Andreas Baumann, Christina Prömer & Nikolaus Ritt

Peter Andorfer, Daniel Schopper & Tanja Wissik

 

Presentation of the ECCE database 

18:15

Welcome drinks at the Department of English

 

Friday

9:00-10:00

Wolfgang U. Dressler, Paulina Zydorowicz, Laura Kamandulytė-Merfeldienė, Sabine Sommer-Lolei & Katharina Korecky-Kröll

Morphological richness and transparency and the genesis of morphonotactic patterns

10:00-10:30

Coffee break

10:30-11:30

Donka Minkova & Michael Lefkowitz

The history of –n loss in English: phonotactics, lexical, and grammatical specificity

11:30-12:30

Nikolaus Ritt, Christina Prömer, Andreas Baumann, Kamil Kazmierski

Phonotactic word form shapes are selected to be morphotactically indicative

12:30-14:00

Lunch break

14:00-15:00

Elzbieta Adamczyk & Arjen Versloot

Phonological constraints on morphology: Evidence from Old Germanic nominal inflection

15:00-16:00

Rhona Alcorn & Warren Maguire

Charting the rise and demise of a phonotactic change

16:00-16:30

Coffee break

16:30-17:30

Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kolaczyk

NAD (Net Auditory Distance) and morphonotactics: Accomplishments and challenges

17:30-18:00

Round-up session

 

19:30

Workshop dinner at Martin Sepp (Viennese Heuriger)