GPRT

THE GOVERNMENT PHONOLOGY ROUND TABLE IS THE SEMI-INFORMAL MEETING OF ALL THE GP-ISTS OF THE WORLD. 

GPRT 2025

Planned to be held in May/June 2025, at the Catholic University in Ružomberok, Slovakia

GPRT 2023

was held on Friday, June 23, 2023 at the Department of Comparative and General Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, organised by Sašo Živanović, Ema Štarkl and Miha Sušnik. Website.

A short history of the GPRT and chronicles of (more recent) previous editions

The GPRT originally started out in 1997 as a bilateral forum for discussion between Government Phonologists in Vienna and Budapest. Then in the years 2002–2004, it developed into a regular gathering characterised by a relaxed atmosphere. It was organised each spring by the local teams of either Vienna or Budapest, who took it in turns to host. It ended up attracting speakers and an audience from all over Europe and inspiring discussions both inside and outside the conference room. The rebirth of this tradition was witnessed by the participants in Nova Gorica in 2008.

GPRT 2003

The Budapest--Vienna Government Phonology Round Table III was organized by the English Linguistics Department of Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest.

Webpage: http://seas3.elte.hu/olddelg/events/bvgprt3.html

Date: 5-6 April 2003, Saturday and Sunday

Venue: the Research Institute for Linguistics, Benczúr utca 33, 1068 Budapest, Hungary

schedule

Friday, 4 April

20-- Stigma Festival (Merlin Theatre, Budapest V, Gerlóczy utca 4) dance performances, jazz & Moroccan music, pub &c.

Saturday, 5 April

10--11 Attila Starcevic (Budapest), Closed domains in Croatian or what to do with a cluster?
11--12 Friedrich Neubarth & John Rennison (Vienna), An x-bar theory of Government Phonology
12--14 lunch
14--15 Dániel Huber (Budapest), On some velar and palatal interactions
15--16 Markus A. Pöchtrager (Helsinki/Vienna), Bits and pieces of length
16--18 discussion

20-- party

Sunday, 6 April

10--11 Tobias Scheer (Nice), Sonorants in positional plight
11--12 László Kristó (Budapest), Proto-Slavonic palatalisations: UPs and DOWNs
12--14 lunch
14--15 Saso Zivanovic (Ljubljana/Vienna), Manner as a skeletal relation?
15--16 discussion

the topics of the discussions

1. The status of coronals and velars with respect to unmarkedness: Which are unmarked and why? Does it matter at all? (To what extent can we establish markedness relations between these two sets based solely on phonological consideration?)
2. Universal phonetic interpretation of elements vs arguments based on alternations taken from languages where the interpretation IS different: can we have both, don't we "cheat'' here? If it is not universal we lose the strength of the theory too...
3. Let us suppose all forces are right-to-left: what do we do to phenomena like vowel harmony and progressive voice assimilation.
4. Can GP and CV and the related thoeries handle stress or it is sent to Metrical Phonology? What is stress then phonologically: a CV? Harris 1997 does speak about such issues, how are those or other insights incorporated into CVCV or VC?

participants

• Fouad M. Asfour, Vienna
• Reinhard Bachmaier, Vienna
• Katalin Balogné Bérces, Budapest
• Sylvia Blaho, Leiden/Budapest
• Monik Charette, London
• Csaba Csides, Budapest
• Alja Ferme, Ljubljana/Vienna
• Ágnes Gyarmati, Budapest
• Dániel Huber, Budapest
• Zoltán Kiss, Budapest
• Pál Kovács, Budapest
• László Kristó, Budapest
• Klaus Kühnhammer, Vienna
• Ádám Nádasdy, Budapest
• Friedrich Neubarth, Vienna
• Kevin Perner, Vienna
• Krisztina Polgárdi, Szeged
• Markus A. Pöchtrager, Helsinki/Vienna
• Péter Rebrus, Budapest
• John Rennison, Vienna
• Katalin Romeisz, Budapest
• Tobias Scheer, Nice
• Péter Siptár, Budapest
• Attila Starcevic, Budapest
• Regula Sutter, Vienna
• Péter Szigetvári, Budapest
• Marianna Tóth, Budapest
• Miklós Törkenczy, Budapest
• Saso Zivanovic, Ljubljana/Vienna

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GPRT 2008

The homepage of the 2008 meeting in Nova Gorica, Slovenia is (was :( ) at http://sabotin.ung.si/~aferme/gprt/.

GPRT 2009

GPRT'09 was held at the Piliscsaba campus of Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Hungary, on 25 April 2009, organized by the local phonological team of the English Department.

Special issue of Acta Linguistica Hungarica: proceedings of the Government Phonology Round Table held at PPKE University in 2009, edited by Katalin Balogné Bérces. Appeared as Issue 4 of 2010. Click.

Photo album :-)

GPRT programme: Pázmány Room, Stephaneum, PPKE Campus, Piliscsaba

11.30 Ben Si Said Samir (Nice): Association under control: the case of Kabyle
12.00 Jonathan Kaye (Ljubljana) & Markus Pöchtrager (Istambul): GP 2.0

12.30 Lunch break

(Hot sandwiches and pizza + food/drink hoarding :-) university buffet closes at 1.00!!)

1.00 Markus Pöchtrager (Istambul): Does Turkish Diss Harmony?
1.30 Shanti Ulfsbjorninn (London): Locality, Length and Licensing Domains: [li::v] and [li:və] ('leave' and 'lever') map onto identical structure

2.00 Coffee break

2.30 Sean Jensen (Shanghai), Jonathan Kaye (Ljubljana), Markus Pöchtrager (Istambul) and Saṧo Zivanović (Ljubljana) (aka "The Gang of Four"): G.P. 2.0 and Putonghua too
3.00 László Kristó (Piliscsaba): Old English Pre-Cluster Lengthening as Compensatory Lengthening?
3.30 Geoff Schwartz (Poznan): Onset Prominence – A GP-inspired account of the phonetics-phonology interface. The primacy of onsets

4.00 Coffee break

4.30 Markéta Ziková (Brno) & Tobias Scheer (Nice): The Coda Mirror v2 (but not exactly 2.0)
5.00 Dániel Huber (Paris) & Katalin Balogné Bérces (Piliscsaba): On [voice] and/versus [spread glottis] in Element Theory
5.30 GPRT business meeting (next year's GPRT, publication in Acta), discussion of further programme :-)

5.40 Concluding remarks

5.51 Train back to Budapest

Information for presenters:
We (well, at least one of the organizers :-)) strongly encourage slideshow presentations with no handouts (full presentations can be uploaded to this website in any format after the roundtable!). Nevertheless, if you want to distribute handouts, we recommend that you bring about (25?) copies. There are photocopiers in the senior common room of the Department, so we may be able to make further copies for you. The Department also has a data projector and a laptop, but please note that no new font or software can be installed on that laptop, so it is safer if you bring yours, or if you send us your presentation in advance so that we can check whether it is compatible with the existing setup of the laptop. (Unfortunately there will not be a technician available during the conference to help with computer-assisted presentations.)

Internet:
On the whole day of the roundtable, there will be free internet access in the lecturers' computer room of the Department (Rm.131 in Ambrosianum, with three PCs).

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GPRT 2010

The homepage of the 2010 meeting in Ljubljana, Slovenia is (was :( ) at http://spj.ff.uni-lj.si/gprt7/.

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GPRT 2011

The homepage of the 2011 meeting in Vienna, Austria (again) is (was :( ) at http://www.univie.ac.at/linguistics/conferences/gprt8/.

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GPRT 2013

The venue

The venue is the Budapest building of PPKE/PPCU university, in the centre of the city, 1 Mikszáth tér ("Sophianum", Floor 1, Room 109), close to the National Museum and the (new) campus of ELTE (and just a few steps away from KRE, for that matter), with excellent facilities nearby and all the public transport one can ask for (incl. metro line 3 ("Kálvin tér"), metro line 2 ("Astoria" or "Blaha Lujza tér") and tram no. 4-6 ("Harminckettesek tere"))

Participants and programme

GPRT 2013 on LinguistList

Programme:

Session 1: 10.00--12.00

• Fortuna, Marcin (LMU Munich): Vowel length in Icelandic (abstract)
• Kristó, László (PPCU/PPKE Budapest/Piliscsaba): Long vowels and trapped consonants in English
• Passino, Diana (Teramo, Italy): Is strict CV just a notational variant of ordinary syllable theory? A contribution from the Italian peninsula

Session 2: 13.30--14.50

• Zdziebko, Slawomir (KUL Lublin): The morpho-phonology of Polish masculine personal declensions
• Polgárdi, Krisztina (HAS Budapest): The representation of /ju:/ in English

Session 3: 15.00--16.20 (17.00)

• Rennison, John (U Vienna): Vowel reduction and vowel harmony: on canonical word-shapes in Yukuben, Mòoré and German
• Szigetvári, Péter (ELTE Budapest): Consequence of sounds: The consonants and vowels

Organisers: the local phonology team at the English Dept. of PPCU/PPKE (Katalin Balogné Bérces [main organiser/contact], András Cser, László Kristó)

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GPRT 2015

GPRT 2015 was held in Vienna. Homepage.

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GPRT 2017

Photo album               "GP is Back on the Table"

Held in Budapest, organised by PPCU/PPKE University.

[As it is customary, it will be a one-day event, with a welcome dinner on the Friday and a farewell dinner on the Sat. There is no registration fee (i.e., no fancy promo pens will be given away in the registration package so you'd better bring your own ;) ), and you'll have to pay your own bill at the welcome dinner. However, during the day there will be coffee and snacks, and a cold sandwich lunch provided. At the end of the day, all participants will be invited to a three-course farewell dinner. Each speaker will be given an official certificate of participation (if you do not present but need one, let us know).]

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Registration and abstract submission

[Abstract submission was closed on 30 September 2017. We are still accepting audience-only registrations here (we need you to register for reasons of catering).

In the form, you are asked to indicate if you plan to present (in which case you are asked to add a title and a brief, max. 1-page abstract) or to attend as audience only (in which case we need you to register for reasons of catering). As is traditional, talks will be assigned on a "first come first served" basis (based on the receipt of the full abstract). Abstract submission is possible either directly in the form, or in email (to bbkati@yahoo.com).]

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Programme
Abstracts folder  -  Slides and handouts

The venue

The venue is the Budapest building of our university, in the centre of the city, 1 Mikszáth tér ("Sophianum"), close to the National Museum and the (new) campus of ELTE University (and just a few steps away from KRE University, for that matter), with excellent facilities nearby and all the public transport one can ask for (incl. metro lines 3 and 4 ("Kálvin tér"), metro line 2 ("Astoria" or "Blaha Lujza tér") and tram no. 4-6 ("Harminckettesek tere")).

Both dinner venues are in the close vicinity of Sophianum.

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GPRT 2019

was organised jointly by Institut für Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Wien (main organiser: Markus Pöchtrager) and Institute of English and American Studies, PPCU (main organiser: Katalin Balogné Bérces). The three-day event kicked off on 13 June 2019 in Budapest, with a fringe event / roundtable discussion, while the main, conference-style meeting was held in Vienna, on 14-15 June 2019.

Photo album.

The theme of the fringe: "The representation of long vowels, diphthongs, and feet"
Convenors: Shanti Ulfsbjorninn, Markus Pöchtrager and Katalin Balogné Bérces.
Discussants: Krisztina Polgárdi, Diana Passino, András Cser, Sašo Živanović, Xiaoliang Luo, Péter Siptár, Carmen Savu, Filiz Mutlu, Péter Őri, László Fejes. Comments by Markus Pöchtrager and Péter Szigetvári were presented electronically.

It started at 4pm on 13 June, and the venue was Room 111 in the Sophianum building of PPCU, in Mikszáth tér, Budapest.

• The website of the Vienna GPRT
• The website of the fringe event in Budapest

The venue of the fringe is the Budapest building of our university, in the centre of the city, 1 Mikszáth tér ("Sophianum"), close to the National Museum and the campus of ELTE University (and just a few steps away from KRE University, for that matter), with excellent facilities nearby and all the public transport one can ask for (incl. metro lines 3 and 4 ("Kálvin tér"), metro line 2 ("Astoria" or "Blaha Lujza tér") and tram no. 4-6 ("Harminckettesek tere")).

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Funded by KAP19-14018-1.9-BTK.