37.2522, Confs: What African Languages Can Teach Us About (Synchronic and Diachronic) Phonology (USA)

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Subject: 37.2522, Confs: What African Languages Can Teach Us About (Synchronic and Diachronic) Phonology (USA)

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Date: 29-Jul-2026
From: Florian Lionnet [flionnet at princeton.edu]
Subject: What African Languages Can Teach Us About (Synchronic and Diachronic) Phonology


What African Languages Can Teach Us About (Synchronic and Diachronic)
Phonology

Date: 17-Sep-2026 - 18-Sep-2026
Location: Berkeley, CA, USA
Contact: Florian Lionnet
Contact Email: flionnet at princeton.edu

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

The historical relation between African languages and general
phonology has been a mutually beneficial one: African languages have
contributed to the development of phonology in quite central ways, and
developments in phonological theory have in turn improved our
understanding of the many fascinating complexities of African
phonological systems.
This conference brings together 13 specialists of African linguistics
and phonology to discuss the many contributions of African languages
to the field of phonology. The perspective is both typological and
theoretical, both synchronic and diachronic. The phonological
phenomena discussed will include (but will not be limited to) tone,
vowel harmony, reduplication, prosodic constituency, and diachronic
morphophonological change.
The conference is open to the public.
A tentative schedule as well as information about the venue can be
found on the conference website:
https://sites.google.com/berkeley.edu/africanlinguistics/home
Speakers:
- Carlos Gussenhoven (Radboud)
- Dmitry Idiatov (CNRS-LLACAN)
- Florian Lionnet (Princeton)
- Galen Sibanda (Michigan State)
- Hannah Sande (UC Berkeley)
- Jack Merrill (Princeton)
- Jeff Good (Buffalo)
- Laura McPherson (Dartmouth)
- Mark van de Velde (CNRS-LLACAN)
- Aditi Lahiri (Oxford)
- Nik Rolle (Princeton)
- Paul Kiparsky (Stanford)
- Sharon Rose (UC San Diego)
- Will Leben (Stanford)
- Peter Jenks (UC Berkeley)
Conference organizers:
- Hannah Sande
- Florian Lionnet



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