The Symposium on Vowel Harmony is a two-day international conference to be held at the HUN-REN Research Centre for Linguistics, Budapest. The language of the conference is English. Papers are invited on empirical, theoretical and diachronic aspects of vowel harmony in any language.
Abstract submission is now closed.
Programme:
16 November, Thursday
13:00--14:00 Registration
13:50 Opening
14:00--16:20 Session 1 (Chair: Péter Szigetvári)
14:00--14:35 Markus Pöchtrager (University of Vienna): Yoruba vowel harmony, openness, and [–ATR]
14:35--15:10 Greeshma Joseph (Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi): Vowel Harmony in Malayalam: Native v/s Borrowed
15:10--15:45 Ivo Boers (Károli Gáspár Református Egyetem & Universidade de Vigo): Hungarian vowel harmony in code-switched nouns
15:45--16:20 András Cser (HUN-REN Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics & Pázmány Péter Catholic University) & Zsuzsa Várnai (HUN-REN Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics): The vowels that almost harmonized. On Old Hungarian long vowels.
16:20--16:50 Coffee break
16:50--17:50 Plenary talk -- James White (University College London): Factors in vowel harmony learning: Insights from artificial language experiments
17 November, Friday
9:00--10:00 Plenary talk -- Miklós Törkenczy (Eötvös Loránd University & HUN-REN Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics): (What we Thought we Knew &) What we Think we Know Now about Hungarian Vowel Harmony
10:00--10:30 Coffee break
10:30--12:50 Session 2 (Chair: András Cser)
10:30--11:05 László Fejes (HUN-REN Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics): Patterns in Erzya suffixes: a case of vowel-consonant harmony
11:05--11:40 Péter Rebrus (HUN-REN Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics) & Péter Szigetvári (Eötvös Loránd University): Either templatic or harmonic
11:40--12:15 Malgorzata Cavar & Steven Lulich (Indiana University): What can harmonize and how consonantal harmonies are like vowel harmonies
12:15--12:50 Jesus Jiménez (Universitat de València) & Maria-Rosa Lloret (Universitat de Barcelona): Asymmetries between enclitics and proclitics in the scope of vowel harmony in Eastern Andalusian Spanish
12:50: Closing of the symposium
Practical information: Coffe and snacks will be provided for the coffee breaks. There is no organized conference dinner but there will be a pay-your-own-way dinner at a friendly place nearby on the 16th for all who wish to join.
Invited speakers: James White, Miklós Törkenczy
Venue: HUN-REN Research Centre for Linguistics, Benczúr u. 33, Budapest, Hungary (click for map). The venue is best reached from the city centre with M1 (the vintage underground); the closest stop is Bajza utca.
To reach from the airport, take 100E (Airport to Deák Ferenc tér), then take M1 from there to Bajza utca. Note that for the airport bus 100E you need a separate ticket, day tickets or other ordinary tickets are not valid for it.
Important dates:
Abstract submission deadline: 21 August (closed)
Notification of acceptance: 15 September (closed)
Registration deadline: 15 October
Conference fee: 80 EUR, to be paid at registration; this covers the conference package (stationery) and the coffee breaks.
Registration can be made by paying the registration fee (80 EUR) to the following account and simultaneously sending us an email saying that you have made the payment.
Magyar Államkincstár, 1054 Budapest, Hold utca 4.
BIC (SWIFT) code: HUSTHUHB
Account number : HU40 1003 2000 0173 1732 0000 0000
in the comment box, please write "VHSymp2023"
Contact:
The main organizers of the symposium are Zsuzsa Várnai, András Cser and Péter Rebrus. If you have any questions, please write to vhsymposium@gmail.com.