[Lingtyp] Call for Papers: Issues in Phonological Typology, UiT, 27–28 November 2025

[Jenna Therese Conklin]

Hello all,

As the new semester begins, we write to remind you of the upcoming workshop Issues in Phonological Typology, which will take place in person at UiT in Tromsø on 27–28 November 2025. Abstract submissions for 30min talks are open until 31 August 2025. You may find more details below as well as on the workshop website<https://phontyp.github.io/>. We look forward to reviewing your submissions!

All the best,
Jenna, Eirini, Deepthi, & Martin

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Workshop Issues in Phonological Typology
Place: Tromsø
Date: 27–28 November 2025
Submission deadline: 31 August 2025
Website: https://phontyp.github.io/

CfP
Virtually all phonological theorizing references phonological typology in some respect. For example, cross-linguistic tendencies are routinely invoked in support of claims about markedness and the constraint set. At the same time, there remain major divides in the field with respect to evidential and explanatory standards. Researchers often operate under distinct formal assumptions about levels of representation, the nature of phonological alternations, and the relationship between phonetics and phonology. A persistent question concerns how well a theory can accommodate only and all the attested patterns: formal accounts often face issues of over-generation or under-generation, and the nature of typological gaps remains elusive.

This workshop seeks to bring together researchers whose work connects phonological theory and phonological typology across a broad range of theoretical, methodological, and empirical domains and approaches. We welcome contributions that
·       develop explanatory accounts of typological patterns and gaps that are grounded in acquisition, historical change, or system-internal factors;
·       apply experimental methods such as Artificial Grammar Learning or other laboratory-phonological approaches to typological questions;
·       use novel sources of empirical data beyond traditional descriptive materials;
·       bridge formal and functional approaches;
·       address methodological challenges in establishing and interpreting generalizations across different types of empirical evidence.

Invited speakers:
Joachim Kokkelmans (Free University of Bozen/Bolzano)
Sara Finley (Pacific Lutheran University)

Submission guidelines:
We invite submissions for 30-minute oral presentations (followed by 10 minutes of discussion). Abstracts should be no longer than 500 words, including data, figures, and tables, but excluding references.
Please submit your anonymous PDF abstract to phontyptromso at gmail.com<mailto:phontyptromso at gmail.com> by 31 August 2025.

Organizers:
Eirini Apostolopoulou (UiT)
Jenna Conklin (UiT)
Deepthi Gopal (Uppsala University)
Martin Krämer (UiT)

Important dates:
Abstract deadline: 31 August 2025
Notifications of acceptance: 30 September 2025
Workshop: 27-28 November 2025

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