Events

Upcoming events

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  • Fri
    03
    Oct
    2025

    Lorenzo Maselli (Ghent University) - "Documenting the implosives and labial-velars of the Ubangi River Basin"

    1:30 pmBlandijn 2 1.91
    Documenting the implosives and labial-velars of the Ubangi River Basin

    This contribution reports on a recent field mission carried out in the Ubangi River Basin (Central African Republic). Work focused on 31 varieties belonging to the Bantu, Ubangi, and Central Sudanic subfamilies of Niger-Congo and Nilo-Saharan. The primary objective was to document implosive and labial-velar consonants. To this end, acoustic, electroglottographic, and aerodynamic (pneumotachographic) data were collected. In the context of this presentation: I will present a detailed report on activities within the framework of this mission; I will illustrate the quality and typology of the data and exemplify the usefulness of integrated phonetic research with instances from Central Sudanic Bagiro; I will present a few general remarks on the merit of instrumental data collection for phonetic typology and phonological theory. The hope is that this will serve as a handy reference for fellow researchers interested in instrumental work in the field.

     

    Joint talk with BantUGent.

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Past events

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  • Mon
    29
    Apr
    2019

    IV Cambridge-Ghent Colloquium on the Histories of the Ibero-Romance Languages

    2:30 pmGrote Vergaderzaal (Blandijnberg 2, 3rd floor)

    Programme:

    • 14:30-15:30 Plenary Talk - Manuel Leonetti Complutense University of Madrid: 'Orden de palabras y estructura informativa en la evolución del español'
    • 15:30-16:00 Miriam Bouzouita & Antoine Primerano Ghent University: 'La influencia oriental en la gramaticalización del futuro y condicional en español'
    • 16:00-16:30 Rocío Díaz Bravo & Miriam Bouzouita University of Granada & Ghent University: 'Usos innovadores de los clíticos de OD y OI en el Retrato de la Loçana andaluza'
    • 16:30-17:00 COFFEE
    • 17:00-17:30 Plenary Talk - Javier Rodríguez Molina University of Granada / Ghent University: 'Alomorfia IE - IA en los pluscuamperfectos de indicativo medievales'
    • 17:30-18:00 Montserrat Batllori & Ioanna Sitaridou University of Girona & University of Cambridge: 'Fronting in the history of Spanish'
    • 18:00-18:30 Álvaro Octavio de Toledo y Huerta Autonomous University of Madrid / Ghent University: 'Dislocaciones y doblados: elementos para un álgebra de los objetos clíticos en el primer español moderno'
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