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: (under construction / in progress)
Confirmed participants:
- Jean Lowenstamm (Paris, France)
- 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)
- Kuniya Nasukawa and Hitomi Onuma (Sendai, Japan): Exploring strength asymmetries in single-element consonants
- Florian Breit: “How many licensing constraints are there?” and other open questions in formal Element Theory
- Péter Szigetvári (Budapest, Hungary)
- Artur Kijak (Katowice, Poland): s-retraction in contemporary English
- Nancy Chongo Kula (Leiden, Netherlands)
- John R. Rennison (Vienna, Austria): Principles vs. magic
- Friedrich Neubarth (Vienna, Austria)
- Diana Passino (Nice, France)
- Katalin Balogné Bérces (Ružomberok, Slovakia and 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.