36.1067, Confs: Princeton Phonology Forum 2025 (USA)

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Date: 26-Mar-2025
From: Florian Lionnet [flionnet at princeton.edu]
Subject: Princeton Phonology Forum 2025


Princeton Phonology Forum 2025
Short Title: PɸF 2025

Date: 18-Apr-2025 - 19-Apr-2025
Location: Princeton, NJ, USA
Contact: Florian Lionnet
Contact Email: flionnet at princeton.edu
Meeting URL: https://linguistics.princeton.edu/pphf/pphf-2025/

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Phonology; Typology

Meeting Description:
The fourth meeting of the Princeton Phonology Forum (PɸF 2025) will be
held at Princeton University on April 18-19, 2025. The theme for PɸF
2025 is “Sound Patterns and Human History”.
The program of the workshop is now posted on
https://linguistics.princeton.edu/pphf/pphf-2022/pphf-2025-schedule/ .
Registration is free, but we would appreciate it if those who are
planning to attend would complete the following registration form,
ideally by by April 1, 2025: https://forms.gle/Nfh5HgdVUASWqucR7 .
A Zoom link will be communicated upon registration to those who are
unable to attend in person. This will be a passive Zoom room, i.e. it
will only be possible to watch the talks, but not to participate in
the discussions. Registration is neccessary to obtain the Zoom link.
Invited speakers for PɸF 2025:
 - Laura Arnold (ANU, Australia)
 - Rosemary Beam de Azcona (ENAH, Mexico)
 - Koen Bostoen (Ghent)
 - Claire Bowern (Yale)
 - Marc Brunelle (Ottawa)
 - Shelece Easterday (Hawai’i)
 - Jeff Good (Buffalo)
 - Harald Hammarström (Uppsala)
 - Dmitry Idiatov (LLACAN, France)
 - Steven Moran (Neuchâtel)
 - Sara Pacchiarotti (Ghent)
 - Bonny Sands (Northern Arizona)
 - Mark Van de Velde (LLACAN, France)
 - Kofi Yakpo (Hong Kong)
The workshop brings together scholars whose research examines the
connection between human history, events, and migration (as evidenced
from oral history, archeology, genetics, etc.) and large-scale areal
zones of sound system convergence. Some of the questions that will be
addressed are:
 • Where are the established phonological zones of convergence, and
what are the plausible historical events which can explain this
convergence?
 • Are there linguistic echoes in modern sound patterns of major human
migrations and major historical events? Can we establish phonological
"founder effects" for the major areas of the world? (Nichols 2024)
 • What explanations are there for languages which do not pattern
areally? Historical, linguistic, social isolation, ideology?
 • How much of phonological typology can be explained by areal
patterning (as opposed to Universal Grammar or other cognitive and
functional sources)? Which sound changes are more often than not due
to contact/convergence, and which are not?
 • Which properties of sound systems are more likely to spread via
contact/convergence, and which ones not? Which ones are stable and
which ones are not?
 • How do we properly evaluate evidence for environmental factors
affecting sound systems?
 • How do we hypothesize the time depth of areal features?
Workshop organizers:
Florian Lionnet (flionnet at princeton.edu)
Nicholas Rolle (nrolle at princeton.edu)



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