Nina Topintzi's guest lectures on modern phonology

Nina Topintzi will give two lectures at the University of Tartu on important controversial issues in contemporary phonology. She will demonstrate that even in major languages there are phenomena that do not fit into the framework of current standard theories. The lectures will take place on 10-11 June in Jakobi 2 auditorium 106.

Schedule

On the suprasegmental phonology of onsets
Tuesday, 10 June at 14:15-16:00

Phonology meets poetry: insights from antepenultimate rhymes
Wednesday, 11 June at 10:15-12:00

Nina Topintzi is a Professor in Phonology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of English. Her research focuses on phonology (mostly from a typological point of view) and in particular on issues relevant to syllable weight, moraic structure, geminates, stress placement and onsets. She is also interested in the morphology-phonology and the phonetics-phonology interfaces, poetic metre, Greek and its dialects (esp. glides, vowel deletion, rhythm).

Her book Onsets (Cambridge University Press) was published in April 2010 as hardback (and in April 2014 as paperback). The book received very positive reviews by Brett Hyde for Phonology (2011), by Jeroen van de Weijer for Lingua (2011) and by Tracy Alan Hall for Language (2012).