THE GOVERNMENT PHONOLOGY ROUND TABLE (GPRT) IS THE SEMI-INFORMAL MEETING OF ALL THE GP-ISTS OF THE WORLD. More info at the GPRT website >> Wikipedia on Government Phonology >>
GPRT 2025 will be held between 19-20 June 2025, at the Catholic University in Ružomberok, Slovakia, organised by the Department of English Language and Literature.
Programme: (first draft)
Evening of Wed 18 June: Pre-conference dinner at Café Efekt
Thur 19 June
| 8:45 | Opening |
| 9:00-10:15 | Markus Pöchtrager (Vienna, Austria): Neutralisation as integration: The case of Korean |
| Kuniya Nasukawa, Hitomi Onuma & Masatoshi Koizumi (Sendai, Japan): The phonological status of schwa in the vocalic system of Truku | |
| László Kristó (Eger, Hungary): Welsh vowel length and the North-South Divide: The case of the (in)famous lateral fricative |
Coffee break
| 10:30-11:45 | John R. Rennison (Vienna, Austria): Principles vs. magic |
| Krisztina Polgárdi (Budapest, Hungary): The beginning of the word and the direction of proper government | |
| Florian Breit (Freiburg, Germany): “How many licensing constraints are there?” and other open questions in formal Element Theory |
Lunch break
| 13:30-14:45 | Anna Poĺomská (Brno, Czechia): Deriving Czech palatalization in a recursive model of phonology |
| Edoardo Cavirani & Guido Vanden Wyngaerd (Leuven, Belgium): A representational analysis of Czech palatalization | |
| Sławomir Zdziebko (Lublin, Poland): Schrödinger's (Affri)cate Palatalization: An autosegmental account of lexical exceptionality |
Coffee break
| 15:00-15:50 | Edoardo Cavirani (Leuven, Belgium) & Ora Matushansky (Paris, France & Utrecht, Netherlands): The morphophonology of Russian declensions |
| Nicola Lampitelli (Paris, France) & Marko Simonović (Graz, Austria): Balancing the wobbly a in BCMS: The role of epenthesis, infixation, and inhibited slots |
"Sightseeing" walk to the city centre + dinner
Fri 20 June
| 9:00-10:15 | Lawrence Sandow (Szeged, Hungary): Vowel harmony in Kusaal: An Element Theory analysis |
| Isaac Nyarko (Budapest, Hungary): On the phonology of circumfixation in Akan | |
| Nancy Chongo Kula (Leiden, Netherlands): Representing tone--segment interaction |
Coffee break
| 10:30-11:45 | Diana Passino (Nice, France): On stress and templates in Italo-Romance |
| Sofia Alexei (Vienna, Austria): On diphthongs and metaphony in Romanian | |
| Bálint Huszthy (Budapest, Hungary): Despite its weirdnesses, Italian is still a well-behaved voice language after all |
Lunch break
| 13:30-14:30 | Plenary: Jean Lowenstamm (Paris, France): On Distributed Morphology |
Coffee break
| 14:40-15:30 | Friedrich Neubarth (Vienna, Austria): t.b.a. |
| Artur Kijak (Katowice, Poland): On the status of C+yod clusters in Present-day English |
Coffee break
| 15:45-16:35 | Péter Őri (Budapest, Hungary): What do dissimilatory patterns suggest about laryngeal markedness? |
| Katalin Balogné Bérces (Ružomberok, Slovakia & Budapest, Hungary): t.b.a. |
Dinner at Camino
Confirmed participants:
- Jean Lowenstamm (Paris, France): On Distributed Morphology
- Markus Pöchtrager (Vienna, Austria): Neutralisation as integration:
The case of Korean - Anna Poĺomská (Brno, Czechia): Deriving Czech palatalization in a recursive
model of phonology - Krisztina Polgárdi (Budapest, Hungary): The beginning of the word and the direction of proper government
- László Kristó (Eger, Hungary): Welsh vowel length and the North-South Divide: The case of the (in)famous lateral fricative
- Sławomir Zdziebko (Lublin, Poland): Schrödinger's (Affri)cate Palatalization: An autosegmental account of lexical exceptionality
- Sofia Alexei (Vienna, Austria): On diphthongs and metaphony in Romanian
- Kuniya Nasukawa, Hitomi Onuma & Masatoshi Koizumi (Sendai, Japan): The phonological status of schwa in the vocalic system of Truku
- Florian Breit (Freiburg, Germany): “How many licensing constraints are there?” and other open questions in formal Element Theory
- Péter Szigetvári (Budapest, Hungary)
- Artur Kijak (Katowice, Poland): t.b.a.
- Nancy Chongo Kula (Leiden, Netherlands): Representing tone--segment interaction
- John R. Rennison (Vienna, Austria): Principles vs. magic
- Friedrich Neubarth (Vienna, Austria): t.b.a.
- Diana Passino (Nice, France): On stress and templates in Italo-Romance
- Edoardo Cavirani (Leuven, Belgium) & Ora Matushansky (Paris, France & Utrecht, Netherlands): The morphophonology of Russian declensions
- Edoardo Cavirani & Guido Vanden Wyngaerd (Leuven, Belgium): A representational analysis of Czech palatalization
- Nicola Lampitelli (Paris, France) & Marko Simonović (Graz, Austria): Balancing the wobbly a in BCMS: The role of epenthesis, infixation, and inhibited slots
- Bálint Huszthy (Budapest, Hungary): Despite its weirdnesses, Italian is still a well-behaved voice language after all
- Lawrence Sandow (Szeged, Hungary): Vowel harmony in Kusaal: An Element Theory analysis
- Erika Sajtós (Budapest, Hungary)
- Isaac Nyarko (Budapest, Hungary): On the phonology of circumfixation in Akan
- Péter Őri (Budapest, Hungary): What do dissimilatory patterns suggest about laryngeal markedness?
- Katalin Balogné Bérces (Ružomberok, Slovakia & Budapest, Hungary)
Supported by The Van Riemsdijk Foundation. 
Local organisers: Katalin Balogné Bérces (KU Ružomberok & PPCU Budapest) & Jela Kehoe (Head of Dept. of English Language and Literature, KU Ružomberok). Special thanks to Shanti Ulfsbjorninn, Viktor Varga, Katarína Labudová.