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Workshop on Logical PhonologyCUNY Graduate CenterJanuary 23, 2026 |
The Workshop on Logical Phonology will be held on Friday, January 23 in the Skylight Room (rm. 9100) of the Graduate Center.
Logical Phonology (LP) is a minimalist, substance-free theory of phonology which makes limited ontological commitments and uses set-theoretic representations and a rule interpretation procedure based on subsumption. LP provides a precise definition of possible phonological rules, and thus of possible (i.e., computable) phonological grammars. LP derives locality and long-distance phonological effects using a unified search procedure. LP rejects the stipulation that segments must be fully specified, allowing it to express many generalizations previously analyzed as morphophonological within the narrow phonology. LP reject appeals to phonetic substance, deriving typological tendencies from the diachronic filter. LP seeks to develop a theory of the phonological language acquisition device. LP is a 🚧 work in progress 🚧 and many open questions remain.
We ask that all attendees (online or in-person) register here. Please register by December 15 at the latest.
As per the building entry policy, attendees will be required to show a government-issued photo ID upon entering the building.
Light breakfast and lunch will be provided.
(Always subject to change.)
| 9:00 | (tutti) | Coffee and bagels | |
| 9:30 | Kyle Gorman | Opening remarks | |
| 9:45 | Charles Reiss (Concordia University) | Natural Class (LP tutorial) | Handout |
| 10:45 | (tutti) | Break | |
| 11:00 | Bridget D. Samuels (University of Southern California) | Substance-Free Logical Phonology in Evolutionary Perspective | Slides (and references) |
| 11:30 | Veno Volenec (University of Zagreb) | Logical Phonology carves a path toward the first truly modular account of I-language | Slides |
| 12:00 | (tutti) | Lunch | |
| 1:00 | Daniar Kasenov (New York University) | Partial exceptionality in Logical Phonology | Handout |
| 1:30 | Kyle Gorman (CUNY Graduate Center) | Morpheme structure rules are otiose in Logical Phonology | Handout |
| 2:00 | Fae Hicks (University of Edinburgh) | Exploring the utility of algebraic lattices in modelling syllable structure | Handout |
| 2:30 | (tutti) | Break | |
| 2:45 | Malek Azadegan (CUNY Graduate Center) | Compiling Search & Change Rules into Subsequential Finite-State Transducers | Slides |
| 3:15 | Marjorie Leduc (Rutgers University) | Triggers and Blockers as Domain Edges | |
| 3:45 | (tutti) | Break | |
| 4:00 | All guest faculty | Panel discussion | |
| 5:00 | (all willing) | Happy hour (365 Cafe, 1st floor) | |
| 7:00 | (all willing) | Dinner (Masala King, 64 E. 34th St.) |