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.