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: (as of 10 May 2025)

    Evening of Wed 18 June: Pre-conference dinner at Café Efekt

    Thur 19 June

    8:45 Opening: Dr. Markéta Rusnáková, Vice-Rector of the Catholic University in Ružomberok, and Dr. Samuel Štefan Mahút, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities
    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 in Koromfe suffixes
      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 the empirical content of some tenets of Distributed Morphology

    Coffee break

    14:40-15:30 Friedrich Neubarth (Vienna, Austria): A brief (re-)contemplation of element theories in GP
      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

     

    Other confirmed participants:

    • Eugeniusz Cyran (Lublin, Poland)
    • Péter Szigetvári (Budapest, Hungary)
    • Christian Huber (Vienna, Austria)
    • Erika Sajtós (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.