Key Objectives

• With a variety of empirical methods we develop and scrutinize phonological theories that can account for the phonetics-phonology interface, the mapping of phonological onto orthographical representations, and contact phenomena such as loanword adaptations and L2 acquisition
• We collaborate with descriptive and/or fieldwork linguists in order to
  - Co-develop methodologies of phonological and phonetic descriptions
  - Obtain access to new data for typological studies
  - Detect and discuss relevant developments in the field, in a way that is inclusive and welcoming to students and staff alike

Impact

An important goal for our group is to be able to contribute to the development of language learning and documentation tools that can be directly relevant to speech communities, as evidenced by our interest in for example the phonological underpinning of orthographies.

Events

The group meets every three weeks and aims to provide one ACLC lecture per year.

Group Composition

ACLC members:
Silke Hamann (coordinator)
Marijn van ’t Veer
Daan van Soeren
Michaela Watkins
Rui Cai
Nour Tamim
Cesko Voeten
Titia Benders
Sam Ahmed

ACLC collaborations:
DeepFon group (formalization of phonetics/phonology)
LLLM group (acquisitional theories for non-sound domain; literacy)

External affiliates:
Camilla Horslund, Aalborg University
Rasmus Puggaard-Rode, LMU Munich
Francesc Torres-Tamarit, UAB Barcelona
Chao Zhou, University of Lisbon
Mishko Bozhinoski, Ghent University
Hamza Khwaja, Leiden University
Roland Noske, guest researcher
Chengjia Ye, Radboud University
Nancy Kula, Leiden University
Benjamin Storme, Leiden University
Alexei Nazarov, Utrecht University
Reza Falahati Ardestani, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Edoardo Cavirani, KU Leuven
Andrew Lamont, University College London
Alexia Leonidou, University of Marburg