Workshop on Phonological Voicing Variation

Location: Amsterdam and Leiden

Dates: September 11 and 12, 2008


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The phonetic difference between b and p, or z and s has been described as a difference in (timing of) vocal fold vibration, but it well-known that there are subtle differences in the precise implementation of 'voicing', as well as its function in the phonologies of the world's languages. This workshop brings together researchers who study the phenomenon from a variety of perspectives, both theoretical and empirical, and both synchronic and diachronic. What's the right phonological interpretation of voicing? How does it interact with other phonological features? How do phonological processes involving voice --- such as intervocalic voicing, devoicing and voicing assimilation --- interact with other phonological processes?

The workshop took place in Amsterdam and Leiden. The last talk was a Dutch-style inaugural address, followed by a party, which was open to participants in the workshop.

THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 11, 2008
(Meertens Instituut, Amsterdam)

10.00-10.35 Harry van der Hulst (University of Connecticut, US): Final devoicing: Tertium datur
10.35-11.10 Berit Anne Bals, David Odden and Curt Rice (University of Tromsø, Norway): Voicing and Other Laryngeal Properties in North Saami
11.20-11.55 Bert Botma (Leiden University, Netherlands): Aspiration, fricatives and the multiple feature hypothesis in Icelandic
11.55-12.30 Alja Ferme and Saso Zivanovic (University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia): La double vie de V[éronique]: now dubbed in Slovenian

12.30-14.00 Lunch

14.00-14.35 Roland Noske (Université de Lille 3, France): 'Verner's law' as a result of the interplay of intervocalic voicing and coda retraction
14.35-15.10 Jochen Trommer (University of Leipzig, Germany): Voicing Polarity as Opaque Licensing Intervention
15.30-16.05 Maria-Rosa Lloret & Jesús Jiménez (Universitat de Barcelona & Universitat de València, Spain): Segmental similarity and voice assimilation in Catalan
16.05-16.40 Eric Bakovic and Bozena Pajak (UC San Diego, US): Why and how not to counterbleed

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 12, 2008
(University of Leiden, Lipsius Building; Room 227)

10.00-10.35 Ben Hermans (Meertens Instituut, Netherlands): Non-obvious ways to repair non-licensed Voice
10.35-11.10 Daniel Currie Hall (University of Toronto, Canada): On the voicing system of Île de Groix Breton
11.25-12.00 Nina Topintzi (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece): Beyond tonogenesis: voicing effects on stress
12.00-12.35 Janet Grijzenhout (University of Konstanz, Germany): Stricture and voicing

16.00-17.00 Marc van Oostendorp (University of Leiden and Meertens Instituut): De duivel zit in het verschil tussen d en t (The devil is in the difference between d and t)

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