Organized by Jochen Trommer and Eva Zimmermann.
We meet every week to discuss recent and/or important work in phonology. Most of the time we agree on a paper that we all read and then discuss, but we also include talks/discussions about our own work in progress.
Starting with the summer term of 2021, the reading group is exclusively organized via Moodle.
We meet every week to discuss recent and/or important work in phonology. Most of the time we agree on a paper that we all read and then discuss, but we also include talks/discussions about our own work in progress.
Starting with the summer term of 2021, the reading group is exclusively organized via Moodle.
Winter term 2020/2021 (Mondays, 17:15)
We'll meet on zoom.
More organizatorial details are distributed via E-Mail: Please let me know (Eva.Zimmermann[at]uni-leipzig[dot]de) if you want to be added to the mailing list and get all relevant informations!
***Voting results for this semester: List of papers we will (probably) read***
01.02.2021
25.01.2021
18.01.2021
11.01.2021
14.12.2020
07.12.2020
30.11.2020
23.11.2020
16.11.2020
09.11.2020
02.11.2020
26.10.2020
Summer term 2020 (Mondays, 17:15)
We'll meet on zoom (at least until May 4th). More organizatorial details are distributed via E-Mail/can be found on Moodle. Please write me an E-Mail if you have any questions about the concrete organization.
***Voting results for this semester: List of papers we will (probably) read***
13.07.2020
06.07.2020
29.06.2020
22.06.2020
15.06.2020
08.06.2020
01.06.2020
<no reading group: It's pentecost>
25.05.2020
18.05.2020
11.05.2020
04.05.2020
27.04.2020
20.04.2020
13.04.2020 (we'll meet despite it being Easter Monday!)
06.04.2020
Winter term 2019/2020 (Mondays, 17:15, H1 5.16, GWZ)
03.02.2020
27.01.2020
20.01.2020
13.01.2020
06.01.2020
16.12.2019
09.12.2019 02.12.2019
no meeting: It's interactivity workshop (homepage)
26.11.2019
18.11.2019
11.11.2019
04.11.2019
28.10.2019
21.10.2019
14.10.2019
no meeting (many of us are still at AMP)
07.10.2019
We'll meet on zoom.
More organizatorial details are distributed via E-Mail: Please let me know (Eva.Zimmermann[at]uni-leipzig[dot]de) if you want to be added to the mailing list and get all relevant informations!
***Voting results for this semester: List of papers we will (probably) read***
01.02.2021
- Kalin, Laura (2020) Morphology before phonology: A case study of Turoyo (Neo-Amaraic), Morphology 30:135–184
25.01.2021
- Dolatian, Hossep (2020) Computational locality of cyclic phonology in Armenian. PhD thesis, Stony Brook University.
18.01.2021
- Hammond, Michael, et al. 2020. Category-specific effects in Welsh mutation. Glossa 5(1):1–26
11.01.2021
- Paster, Mary (2019) Phonology Counts. Radical 1-59.
14.12.2020
- talk by Ksenia Bogomolets (The University of Auckland)
07.12.2020
- Laura J. Downing (2014) Melodic verb tone patterns in Jita. Africana Linguistica 20:101-119.
30.11.2020
- Edward Flemming (2001) Scalar and categorical phenomena in a unified model of phonetics and phonology.Phonology 18 7–44.
23.11.2020
- Paula talks about her dissertation (Fenger, Paula (2020) Words within Words: The Internal Syntax of Verbs, PhD dissertation, UConn.)
16.11.2020
- Juliet Stanton and Donca Steriade (2014). Stress windows and Base Faithfulness in English suffixal derivatives. Talk at mfm 22.
09.11.2020
- John Mansfield (2017) Prosodic words in cyclic derivation: the strange case of Murrinhpatha compound verbs. Morphology 27:359–382
02.11.2020
26.10.2020
- presentation by Razieh on Japanese accent
- discussion of this semester's program
Summer term 2020 (Mondays, 17:15)
We'll meet on zoom (at least until May 4th). More organizatorial details are distributed via E-Mail/can be found on Moodle. Please write me an E-Mail if you have any questions about the concrete organization.
***Voting results for this semester: List of papers we will (probably) read***
13.07.2020
- presentation by Katja on Russian stress
06.07.2020
29.06.2020
22.06.2020
- Godfrey, Ross (2020) Morphemes without Morphs. A Theory of Syntactic Arrangements and Phonological Processes. PhD thesis University of Toronto. (pp. 7- 24, pp. 72-77, pp. 134-137, pp. 141-152)
15.06.2020
08.06.2020
01.06.2020
<no reading group: It's pentecost>
25.05.2020
18.05.2020
11.05.2020
04.05.2020
- Shwayder (2015), Words and Subwords: Phonology in a Piece-Based Syntactic Morphology. PhD thesis, Upenn. pp.10-38 (+ optionally: pp. 39-72)
27.04.2020
- presentation by Sebastian Bredekamp (Goethe University Frankfurt), The role of phonology in Vata adjectival agreement (abstract)
20.04.2020
- Zukoff, Sam (2020) The Mirror Alignment Principle. Morpheme Ordering at the Morphosyntax-Phonology Interface, ms.
13.04.2020 (we'll meet despite it being Easter Monday!)
06.04.2020
- discussing the voting results for this semester's papers
- GLOW `poster' presentations (15+5min)
- Daniel on `Theoretical implications of word-final fragile vowels in C’Lela’
- Eva on `Gradient activity results in gradient markedness: A representational account of phonological exceptions''
Winter term 2019/2020 (Mondays, 17:15, H1 5.16, GWZ)
03.02.2020
27.01.2020
20.01.2020
- Siri Gjersøe practices her dissertation defense
13.01.2020
06.01.2020
- discussion of our mfm abstracts (mfm deadline: 09.01.)
16.12.2019
- Asante Twi vowel harmony (papers will be announced)
09.12.2019 02.12.2019
no meeting: It's interactivity workshop (homepage)
26.11.2019
18.11.2019
- Odden, David (1993) Interaction Between Modules in Lexical Phonology. in Sharon Hargus & Ellen Kaisse (eds.) Studies on Lexical Phonology. San Diego Academic Press, 111-144.
11.11.2019
04.11.2019
28.10.2019
21.10.2019
- discussing and agreeing on a list of papers we want to read
14.10.2019
no meeting (many of us are still at AMP)
07.10.2019
- AMP practice presentations by Daniel and Sören
Summer term 2019 (Mondays, 17:15, H1 5.16, GWZ)
08.07.2019
01.07.2019
24.06.2019
17.06.2019
10.06.2019 -- no reading group: It's Pentecost.
03.06.2019
27.05.2019
20.05.2019 (exceptionally starting at 17:00/5pm s.t.!)
15.05.2019, 17:15 -- an exceptional Wednesday meeting!
13.05.2019
06.05.2019
29.04.2019
22.04.2019
15.04.2019
08.04.2019
01.04.2019
08.07.2019
- Orgun, C. O. & Inkelas, S. (2002) Reconsidering bracket erasure. Yearbook of morphology 2001:115-46.
01.07.2019
- IGRA talk: Adam Albright
24.06.2019
- Katie talks about her BA-thesis
17.06.2019
10.06.2019 -- no reading group: It's Pentecost.
03.06.2019
27.05.2019
20.05.2019 (exceptionally starting at 17:00/5pm s.t.!)
- mfm practice talks:
- 17:00 Bilal
- 17:35 Daniel and Hyunjung
- 18:10 Ezer and Jochen
15.05.2019, 17:15 -- an exceptional Wednesday meeting!
- mfm practice presentations
13.05.2019
06.05.2019
29.04.2019
22.04.2019
- no meeting: Easter Monday
15.04.2019
08.04.2019
01.04.2019
- making a plan for this semester
Winter term 2017/2018 (Mondays, 17:15, H1 5.16, GWZ)
29.01.2017
22.01.2017
15.01.2017
08.01.2017, 17:00 (s.t.!)
18.12.2017
11.12.2017
04.12.2017
27.11.2017
20.11.2017
13.11.2017
06.11.2017
30.10.2017
23.10.2017
16.10.2017
Summer term 2017 (Mondays, 17:15 in H1 5.16, GWZ)
03.07.2017
26.06.2017
19.06.2017
12.06.2017
07.06.2017, 11:15 (Wednesday!)
29.05.2017
22.05.2017
15.05.2017
08.05.2017
03.05.2017, 11:15 (Wednesday!)
24.04.2017
19.04.2017, 11:15 (Wednesday!)
10.04.2017, 16:50 !
03.04.2017
Winter term 2016/2017
30.01.2017
23.01.2017
16.01.2017
09.01.2017
19.12.2016
12.12.2016
05.12.2016
28.11.2016
21.11.2016
14.11.2016
07.11.2016
02.11.2016, 11:15 (Wednesday!)
31.10.2016
24.10.2016
17.10.2016
10.10.2016
Summer term 2016
11.07.2016, 9:15!!!
27.06.2016
20.06.2016
13.06.2016
06.06.2016
30.05.2016
23.05.2016
16.05.2016 (no meeting: Pfingsten)
09.05.2016
02.05.2016
25.04.2016
18.04.2016
11.04.2016
Winter term 2015/2016
01.02.2016
25.01.2016
18.01.2016
11.01.2016
04.01.2016
14.12.2015
07.12.2015
30.11.2015
16.11.2015
09.11.2015
02.11.2015
26.10.2015
Summer term 2015
13.07.2015
05.07.2015
29.06.2015
22.06.2015
15.06.2015
08.06.2015
11.05.2015
04.05.2015
27.02.2015
20.04.2015
Winter term 2014/2015
09.02.2015
02.02.2015
12.01.2015
05.01.2015
15.12.2014
08.12.2014
01.12.2014
24.11.2014
17.11.2014
10.11.2014
03.11.2014
27.10.2014
13.10.2014
Summer term 2014
25.06.2014
18.06.2014 , 15:15, H1 5.16
11.06.2014 , 17:15 (!), H1 5.16
04.06.2014
28.05.2014
21.05.2014 , 15:00, H1 5.16
14.05.2014
07.05.2014, 15:00, H1 5.16
30.04.2014, 15:00, H1 5.16
17.04.2014 (a Thursday!), 13:30, H1 5.16
Winter term 2013/2014
03.04.2014, 14:00, H1 5.16
19.03.2014 (Wed!), 14:00, H1 5.16
13.03.2014, 14:00, H1 5.16
06.03.2014, 14:00 (!!!), H1 5.16
27.02.2014, 15:00, H1 5.16
13. + 20.02.2014 : No reading group
06.02.2014, 15:00, H1 5.16
30.01.2014, 15:00, H1 5.16
23.01.2014: No reading group (OCP 11 in Leiden)
16.01.2014, 15:00, H1 5.16
09.01.2014, 15:00, H1 5.16
19.12.2013, 15:00, H1 5.16
12.12.2013, 15:00, H1 5.16
28.11.2013, 15:15, H1 5.16
21.11.2013, 15:15, H1 5.16
14.11.2013, 15:15, H1 5.16
07.11.2013, 15:15, H1 5.16
30.10.2013, (wednesday!) 9:15am, H1 5.09
Summer term 2013
18.07.2013, 15:00, H1 5.09
04.07.2013, 15:00, H1 5.16
20.06.2013, 15:00, H1 5.16
(no meetings since Jochen and Eva are visiting researchers at UC Berkeley)
Summer term 2012
27.06.2012, 11:00am, H1 5.16
20.06.2012, 11:00am, H1 5.16
06.06.2012, 11:00am, H1 5.16
30.05.2012, 2:00pm, H1 5.09
16.05.2012, 1:30pm, H1 5.09
02.05.2012, 11:00am, H1 5.16
18.04.2012, 11:00am, H1 5.16
29.01.2017
22.01.2017
15.01.2017
- No reading group since many are still in London at the OCP
08.01.2017, 17:00 (s.t.!)
- OCP practice talks by Christine, Jelena, and Johanna
18.12.2017
11.12.2017
04.12.2017
27.11.2017
20.11.2017
13.11.2017
06.11.2017
- Daniel and Jochen's presentation on Bari vowels
30.10.2017
23.10.2017
16.10.2017
Summer term 2017 (Mondays, 17:15 in H1 5.16, GWZ)
03.07.2017
- Ludger's presentation on reduplication
26.06.2017
- Jereon Breteler (U Amsterdam) `Prosodic variation in Japanese dialects'
19.06.2017
- Daniel's presentation on epenthesis-tone-interactions
12.06.2017
07.06.2017, 11:15 (Wednesday!)
- Savio presents his work
29.05.2017
22.05.2017
15.05.2017
08.05.2017
- Hyunjung talks about her current work
03.05.2017, 11:15 (Wednesday!)
24.04.2017
19.04.2017, 11:15 (Wednesday!)
- Pulleyblank, D. (1986) Tone in Lexical Phonology. Dordrecht: Reidel. -- chapters 1-3, but mainly/only focussing on Tiv
10.04.2017, 16:50 !
- Pitch Talk `Tone allomorphy in Bari' by Daniel and Jochen
- Kiparsky, Paul (2015) Stratal OT: A synopsis and FAQs. 2015. In Yuchau E. Hsiao and Lian-Hee Wee (eds.) Capturing Phonological Shades. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
03.04.2017
- making a program for this semester
- pitch talks by Asia and Eva
Winter term 2016/2017
30.01.2017
23.01.2017
- Jude finishes his presentation on Babanki
- Jochen presents work in progress on Nilotic
16.01.2017
- Jude's presentation on Babanki
Hyman, L. M. (1979) Tonology of the Babanki Noun, Studies in African Linguistics 10(2):159-178.
09.01.2017
19.12.2016
- Spahr, Christopher (2016) Contrastive representations in non-segmental phonology, PhD thesis, University of Toronto.
(mainly chapter 4)
12.12.2016
05.12.2016
28.11.2016
- Jelena's presentation
Zec (2002) on syllable sonority
21.11.2016
14.11.2016
07.11.2016
- Yuriy's presentation on Lithuanian
Blevins, J. (1993) A Tonal Analysis of Lithuanian Nominal Accent, Language 69(2):237-273.
02.11.2016, 11:15 (Wednesday!)
31.10.2016
- no meeting (Reformationstag)
24.10.2016
17.10.2016
- making a plan for the upcoming semester: bring your ideas and suggestions for topics/papers!
10.10.2016
- NO meeting (since there is a workshop on shrinking trees at the department)
Summer term 2016
11.07.2016, 9:15!!!
- Iren and Yuriy talk about Hocank
27.06.2016
20.06.2016
13.06.2016
06.06.2016
30.05.2016
23.05.2016
- Siri talks about her fieldwork on Nuer .
16.05.2016 (no meeting: Pfingsten)
09.05.2016
02.05.2016
25.04.2016
18.04.2016
11.04.2016
- discussing/deciding on the program for this semester
- Talk by Sören Worbs and Eva Zimmermann `Exceptional and derived environments in Assamese vowel harmony'
Winter term 2015/2016
01.02.2016
- Talk by Peter Staroverov `Tundra Nenets consonant alternations as coalescence'
25.01.2016
18.01.2016
11.01.2016
04.01.2016
14.12.2015
07.12.2015
30.11.2015
16.11.2015
09.11.2015
02.11.2015
26.10.2015
Summer term 2015
13.07.2015
05.07.2015
- Rose, Sharon and Rachel Walker (2011) Harmony Systems, In: The Handbook of Phonological Theory.
29.06.2015
22.06.2015
15.06.2015
08.06.2015
- Daniel Gleim talks about opaque tone-epenthesis-interaction in Buli
11.05.2015
- Struijke (2000) Existential faithfulness. A Study of Reduplicative TETU, Feature Movement, and Dissimilation, PhD Dissertation, University of Maryland at College Park.
(especially ch. 3 on dissimilation; without the Sanskrit case study)
04.05.2015
27.02.2015
20.04.2015
Winter term 2014/2015
09.02.2015
02.02.2015
12.01.2015
05.01.2015
15.12.2014
08.12.2014
- Jun (21014) Prosodic Typology II, Oxford University Press.
(chapter on Tamil)
01.12.2014
24.11.2014
17.11.2014
- Andy talks about Kikuyu Downstep
10.11.2014
03.11.2014
27.10.2014
13.10.2014
Summer term 2014
25.06.2014
- no reading group (since Eva defends her dissertation at 1pm)
18.06.2014 , 15:15, H1 5.16
- Peter talks about Washo
Suggested background reading:
11.06.2014 , 17:15 (!), H1 5.16
- Johannes Hein talks about vowel harmony in Phuthi
04.06.2014
- no reading group since Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero gives a guest talk in the IGRA colloquium
28.05.2014
- no reading group: mfm 22 in Manchester
21.05.2014 , 15:00, H1 5.16
- practise talks for the mfm: Nina and Eva
14.05.2014
- no reading group since Tobias Scheer gives a guest talk in the IGRA colloquium
07.05.2014, 15:00, H1 5.16
30.04.2014, 15:00, H1 5.16
- the introduction (chapter 1) of Bennett (2013): Dissimilation, Consonant Harmony, and Surface Correspondence
17.04.2014 (a Thursday!), 13:30, H1 5.16
- Jochen talks about tone polarity
Winter term 2013/2014
03.04.2014, 14:00, H1 5.16
19.03.2014 (Wed!), 14:00, H1 5.16
13.03.2014, 14:00, H1 5.16
- Steriade (2012): The cycle without containment: Latin perfect stems
06.03.2014, 14:00 (!!!), H1 5.16
27.02.2014, 15:00, H1 5.16
13. + 20.02.2014 : No reading group
06.02.2014, 15:00, H1 5.16
30.01.2014, 15:00, H1 5.16
23.01.2014: No reading group (OCP 11 in Leiden)
16.01.2014, 15:00, H1 5.16
09.01.2014, 15:00, H1 5.16
19.12.2013, 15:00, H1 5.16
12.12.2013, 15:00, H1 5.16
28.11.2013, 15:15, H1 5.16
21.11.2013, 15:15, H1 5.16
- Cormac talks about his work on Irish (Vowel-/Consonant Alternations)
14.11.2013, 15:15, H1 5.16
- Buckley, Eugene (1994): Theoretical aspects of Kashaya phonology and morphology, ch. 6
07.11.2013, 15:15, H1 5.16
30.10.2013, (wednesday!) 9:15am, H1 5.09
- Buckley, Eugene (2012): Global effects in Kashaya prosodic structure.
Summer term 2013
18.07.2013, 15:00, H1 5.09
- Berit Anne Bals Baal, David Odden, and Curt Rice (2012) An analysis of North Saami gradation, Phonology 29:165-212.
(especially pp. 165-188 and 204-212)
04.07.2013, 15:00, H1 5.16
- Odden, David (2011) The representation of vowel length, In: Marc van Oostendorp, C. Ewen, E. Hume, and K. Rice (eds.), The Blackwell Companion to Phonology, ch. 20.
20.06.2013, 15:00, H1 5.16
- a longer and unpublished version of
Davis, Stuart and Gina Torretta (1998) An Optimality-Theoretic Account of Compensatory Lengthening and Geminate Throwback in Trukese, Proceedings of NELS 28
(please mail me (Eva.Zimmermann[at]uni-leipzig.de) for the unpublished manuscript) - also interesting:
Hart, Michele (1991) The moraic status of initial geminates in Trukese, Proceedings of BLS 7, pp.107-120
(no meetings since Jochen and Eva are visiting researchers at UC Berkeley)
Summer term 2012
27.06.2012, 11:00am, H1 5.16
20.06.2012, 11:00am, H1 5.16
06.06.2012, 11:00am, H1 5.16
- Wilson (2006) Experimental investigation of phonological naturalness
- Finley&Badecker (to appear) Right-to-Left Biases for Vowel Harmony
30.05.2012, 2:00pm, H1 5.09
16.05.2012, 1:30pm, H1 5.09
02.05.2012, 11:00am, H1 5.16
- Bruce Hayes (1989) Compensatory lengthening in moraic phonology.
- Bruce Hayes&Abad, M. (1989) Reduplication and syllabification in Ilokano
18.04.2012, 11:00am, H1 5.16