2024

• In search of (lost?) contact-induced change in phonology
  2 December 2024, Fourth AMC Symposium, University of Edinburgh  handout
• The moraic mess that is Danish: Dual weight criteria and mora recursion (with Yonatan Goldshtein)
  23 February 2024, Fonologi i Norden 2024, Stockholm University, Sweden.

2023

• Length in strange places: Qualitative enhancement of sonorant quantity in Celtic and beyond
  5 December 2023, Sixth Edinburgh Symposium on Historical Phonology  handout
• A metrical approach to ternarity in Northern European accentual contrasts
  27 May 2023, 30th Manchester Phonology Meeting, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK  handout

2022

• Livssyklusmodellen for fonologiske mønster i norsk og nordisk
  24 November 2022, 19. møte om norsk språk (MONS 19), UiT Norges arktiske universitet, Tromsø, Norway  handout
• Linguistics puzzles in the university curriculum (with Graeme Trousdale, Robert Truswell)
  14 September 2022, 2022 Annual Conference of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain. Ulster University, Belfast, Northern Ireland.  handout
• Historical linguistics in schools: A problem-based learning approach (with Benjamin Goddard, Francesca Iezzi, Graeme Trousdale)
  2 August 2022, 25th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. Workshop on Historical linguistics at school: An ever-pressing need?
• The life cycle of phonological patterns explains drift in sound change
  1 August 2022, 25th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK  handout
• Metrical structure and Stratal Phonology provide a complete account of Danish stød (with Yonatan Goldshtein)
  25 May 2022, 29th Manchester Phonology Meeting, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK  handout

2021

• The origin of West Jutland stød
  15 December 2021, Jutland Prosody Workshop, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark  handout
• Acoustic correlates of the fortis/lenis distinction in early 20th century Donegal Irish (with David Wheatley)
  25 November 2021, Tionól 2021, School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute of Advanced Study, Dublin, Ireland
• Acoustic correlates of the fortis/lenis distinction in early 20th century Donegal Irish (with David Wheatley)
  30 October 2021, 13th Forum for Research on the Languages of Scotland and Ulster conference, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany  handout
• Phonological convergence in north-western Europe: Language contact or drift?
  16 June 2021, 12th International Conference of Nordic and General Linguistics, University of Oslo  handout
• Жизненный цикл морфонологических процессов в русском языке
  31 March 2021, Коллоквиум ОТиПЛа  handout

2020

• Конвергенция фонологических систем в Северной Европе: Языковые контакты или дрейф?
  30 October 2020, Звегинцевские чтения. Москва, МГУ
• Rebooting Slavic phonology: A view from Russian
  22 October 2020, Abralin ao Vivo  handout

2019

• Drift revisited: Phonological convergence in northern Europe
  10 December 2019, Fourth Edinburgh Symposium on Historical Phonology  handout
• Bringing it all together: Russian palatalization and the e~’o alternation in Stratal Phonology
  6 April 2019, Formal Approaches to Russian Linguistics 3, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia  handout
• English epenthesis in sonorant-consonant clusters in areal perspective (with Warren Maguire)
  27 March 2019, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
• Variation and (presumed) change in Norwegian preaspiration: And what does it tell the (historical) phonologist?
  20 February 2019, Linguistics Seminar, University College London, London, UK
• Can language areas arise by drift?: Evidence from Northern Europe
  13 February 2019, Languages and Literatures Research Seminar, University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland

2018

• Evidence for Stratal Phonology: Stem-level phonology and morphological structure
  23 October 2018, University of Manchester  handout
• English epenthesis in lC and rC clusters: Areal effect or drift? (with Warren Maguire)
  30 August 2018, 20th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.  handout
• A metrical analysis of Scottish Gaelic tonal accent
  30 August 2018, Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.  handout
• The influence of Norse on Scottish Gaelic, 85 years on
  23 August 2018, 12th Forum for Research on the Languages of Scotland and Ulster conference, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK  handout
• There is no problem of /v/ in Russian phonology
  24 May 2018, 26th Manchester Phonology Meeting, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.  handout
• Norwegian preaspiration in traditional and modern sources
  12 January 2018, 13th Forum of Germanic Language Studies, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK  handout

2017

• Towards a history of the tenseness contrast in Brythonic vowels
  30 November 2017, The Third Edinburgh Symposium on Historical Phonology  handout
• Pre-sonorant voicing and language contact
  29 November 2017, 3rd Edinburgh Symposium on Historical Phonology: Laryngeal Phonology Fringe Session  handout
• Bridging the gap: Tenseness and length in Brythonic vowels
  30 August 2017, New Approaches to Brittonic Historical Linguistics, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Dublin, Republic of Ireland.  handout
• Microvariation in laryngeal realism: Preaspiration in North Germanic
  27 May 2017, 25th Manchester Phonology Meeting, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK  handout
• Variation in North Germanic preaspiration
  25 February 2017, Fonologi i Norden (FiNo), University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway  handout

2016

• Making sense of consonant palatalization vowel backness in Irish (with Máire Ní Chiosáin)
  3 December 2016, Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory 5, SOAS University of London, London, UK  handout
• Short vowel allophones in Modern Irish (with Máire Ní Chiosáin)
  19 November 2016, Tionól 2016, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Dublin, Republic of Ireland  handout
• The northwest European phonological area: New approaches to an old problem
  29 September 2016, Linguistic Circle, University of Edinburgh  handout
• Problems of phonemicization: Irish short vowels revisited (with Máire Ní Chiosáin)
  1 September 2016, 9th Celtic Linguistics Conference, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales  handout
• Morphology and dialectology: A quantitative approach (with Will Lamb)
  24 June 2016, Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig 2016, Sabhal Mòr Ostaig  handout
• Vowel length in Shetland Norn: Contact, change, and competing systems (with Remco Knooihuizen)
  9 June 2016, First AMC Symposium, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland  handout
• The northwest European linguistic area: New approaches to an old problem
  20 April 2016, UiT — The Arctic University of Norway (local talk)
• Backness in Irish and Scottish Gaelic short vowels: phonology and/or coarticulation (with Máire Ní Chiosáin)
  19 February 2016, Fonologi i Skandinavien (FiSK), University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
• Vowel backness and palatalization in Irish and Scottish Gaelic: A study in rule scattering (with Máire Ní Chiosáin)
  14 January 2016, 13th Old World Conference in Phonology, Eötvös Loránd University and the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary  handout

2015

• Phonetic (non-)explanation in historical phonology: Duration, harmony, and dissimilation (with Bert Botma and Hidetoshi Shiraishi)
  4 December 2015, The Second Edinburgh Symposium on Historical Phonology, The University of Edinburgh, Scotland  handout
• Preaspiration in North Argyll Gaelic and its contribution to prosodic structure (with Michael Ramsammy and Patrick Honeybone)
  13 August 2015, Forum for Research on the Languages of Scotland and Ulster, University of the West of Scotland, Ayr  handout
• Preaspiration and tonal accents as Northern Gaelic features: Reconsidering contact origins
  16 July 2015, 15th International Congress of Celtic Studies, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland  handout
• Free and not so free: Dialect variation and quantity-quality interactions in Welsh vowels
  5 July 2015, 22nd Welsh Linguistics Seminar, Plas Gregynog, Wales  handout
• Quantity-quality interactions in Welsh vowels: Phonologization across dialects
  30 May 2015, 23rd Manchester Phonology Meeting, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK  handout
• An echoing tone: Pitch accent parallels in Scandinavia and Scotland
  19 February 2015, Nordic Research Network 2015, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland  handout

2014

• Length and tenseness across Welsh dialects
  19 July 2014, Amrywiaeth Ieithyddol yng Nghymru / Linguistic Diversity in Wales, National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, Wales  handout
• Stress and consonant length in Welsh revisited
  16 July 2014, 21st Welsh Linguistics Seminar, Plas Gregynog, Wales
• Ареальные схождения в фонологии языков Северной Европы: Языковые контакты или типология? [Areal similarities in the phonology of Northern European Languages: Contact or typology?]
  19 May 2014, Phonology Seminar, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
• Phonologization of redundant contrasts and the Contrastivist Hypothesis
  9 May 2014, Eighth North American Phonology Conference, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada  handout
• The [ATR]/laryngeal connection and emergent features
  5 April 2014, GLOW Workshop on Phonological Specification and Interface Interpretation, KU Leuven HUBrussel, Brussels, Belgium  handout
• Nordeuropäische Lautgeographie revisited: The view from theoretical phonology
  11 February 2014, Invited talk, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
• Connecting the dots: The phonologization of redundant tenseness across Welsh dialects
  13 January 2014, Symposium on Historical Phonology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland  handout

2013

• In search of lost phonology: Svarabhakti, metathesis and stem allomorphy in South Welsh
  16 October 2013, Invited talk at the SELLL Linguistics Seminar, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
• Phonemicization vs. phonologization: Voiced fricatives in Old English and Brythonic (with Patrick Honeybone)
  29 August 2013, 2013 Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, UK  handout
• Non-contrastive epenthetic segments as surface prosodic structure
  23 May 2013, 21st Manchester Phonology Meeting, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK  handout
• Glottal stop insertion in Scottish Gaelic and contrastive syllabification
  19 April 2013, Teangeolaíocht na Gaeilge / Cànanachas na Gàidhlig / The Linguistics of the Gaelic Languages XV. University College Dublin, Dublin, Republic of Ireland  handout

2012

• The phonological endgame: Welsh svarabhakti revisited
  3 November 2012, New Researchers Forum in Linguistics, University of Manchester and University of Salford, UK  handout
• Phonetic realization is irrelevant for phonological representation: The case of Celtic laryngeal features
  5 October 2012, Research Seminar in Language and Linguistics, University of Ulster, Jordanstown, Northern Ireland
• In defence of Richness of the Base: Context-free weight in Welsh
  14 September 2012, CASTL Decennium Conference, University of Tromsø/CASTL, Tromsø, Norway  handout
• A unified account of the behaviour of high vowels in Bothoa Breton
  23 June 2012, 7th Celtic Linguistics Conference, University of Rennes 2, Rennes, France  handout
• Deconstructing mutation in Breton
  8 June 2012, Workshop on the Selection and Representation of Morphological Exponents, University of Tromsø/CASTL, Tromsø, Norway  handout
• Laryngeal realism revisited: Voicelessness in Breton
  26 May 2012, 20th Manchester Phonology Meeting, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK  handout
• ‘Pitch accent’ and prosodic structure in Scottish Gaelic: Historical implications
  24 April 2012, 11th International Conference of Nordic and General Linguistics, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany  handout

2011

• Explaning licensing mismatches in Welsh
  20 January 2011, Old World Conference in Phonology 8, Marrakech, Morocco  handout
• On (some) dimensions of headship in phonology
  10 January 2011, The PJ Workshop, University of Tromsø/CASTL, Tromsø, Norway

2010

• Final devoicing and vowel lengthening in the north of Italy: A representational approach
  13 December 2010, Going Romance 24, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands  handout
• A bad case of excessive computation: The rôle of morphology in palatalization-related alternations in Russian"
  12 December 2010, Workshop on Morphosyntax – Phonology Interface Theories, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands  handout
• How good is the internal evidence for multiple-level phonological computation? A view from Russian
  15 September 2010, “What’s in a word? Exploring the relationship between syntax and phonology”. University of Tromsø/CASTL, Tromsø, Norway  handout
• Incomplete neutralization and unorthodox markedness in Breton laryngeal phonology
  12 September 2010, 6th Celtic Linguistics Conference, University College Dublin, Dublin, Republic of Ireland  handout
• Feature geometry meets contrastive specification: Incomplete neutralization reloaded
  24 May 2010, 18th Manchester Phonology Meeting, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK  handout
• A good old-fashioned approach to Russian palatalization
  30 April 2010, Invited talk, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
• Russian palatalization: The true(r) story (with Bruce Morén-Duolljá)
  27 January 2010, Old World Conference in Phonology 7, University of Nice, Nice, France
• Structure versus prominence: Evidence from Munster Irish
  26 January 2010, Old World Conference in Phonology 7, University of Nice, Nice, France  handout

2009

• Russian (morpho)phonological palatalization: a holistic approach
  15 December 2009, Formal Description of Slavic Languages 8, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
• Cuique suum: vowel reduction in Russian
  14 December 2009, Formal Description of Slavic Languages 8, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
• Tre problemer i russisk fonologi: Vokaler, palatalisering og nivåer [Three problems in Russian phonology: vowels, palatalization, and levels]
  15 November 2009, Novemberseminaret i russisk, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway
• Russian palatalization in substance-free phonology
  15 October 2009, CASTL Colloquium series, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway
• Sandhi, mutation, and contrast: laryngeal phonology in Plougrescant Breton
  10 October 2009, Toronto – Tromsø Phonology Workshop, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada  handout
• Russian vowel reduction without functional motivation
  15 June 2009, Third Scandinavian PhD Conference in Linguistics and Philology. University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
• Cuique suum: vowel reduction in Russian
  25 May 2009, Laboratory Phonology course workshop. University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway

2008

• Fonetikk versus fonologi: Den ubehagelige sannheten om vokalreduksjon i russisk [Phonetics vs. phonology: The inconvenient truth about vowel reduction in Russian]
  15 November 2008, Novemberseminaret i russisk, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway  handout
• Too many levels, too few solutions: Mutations and postlexical phonology in Breton
  25 May 2008, 16th Manchester Phonology Meeting, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK  handout
• All that glistens is not gold: Against autosegmental approaches to initial consonant mutation
  30 April 2008, GLOW 31 Colloquium, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK  handout
• Liquids and spirants: A phonological perspective
  29 April 2008, GLOW workshop on “Categorical phonology and gradient facts”, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK  handout
• Against autosegmental approaches to initial consonant mutation
  15 April 2008, CASTL Colloquium series, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway
• Initial consonant mutation and information flow in Mende
  28 January 2008, Old World Conference in Phonology 5, University of Toulouse II – Le Mirail, Toulouse, France  handout

2007

• Лексикализованные вершины в валлийском синтаксисе [Lexicalized heads in Welsh syntax]
  15 April 2007, Syntactic Structures 1, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia  handout
• Phonological processes as lexical insertion: more evidence from Welsh and elsewhere
  19 January 2007, Old World Conference in Phonology 4, University of the Aegean, Rhodes, Greece

2006

• Валлийский язык и типология чередований начальных согласных [Welsh and the typology of initial consonant mutations]
  15 October 2006, Third Conference on Typology and Grammar for Young Researchers, Institute of Linguistic Studies (Russian Academy of Sciences), St. Petersburg, Russia  handout
• Brythonic ‘second lenition’ revisited
  15 September 2006, Second Colloquium of Societas Celto-Slavica, Moscow State University & Institute of Linguistics (Russian Academy of Sciences), Moscow, Russia  handout
• Грамматикализация начальных чередований в валлийском языке: Некоторые наблюдения [Some observations on the grammaticalization of initial consonant mutations in Welsh]
  15 April 2006, Moscow Student Conference in Linguistics, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia  handout
• Right at the left edge: Initial consonant mutations in the world’s languages
  30 March 2006, Rara & Rarissima: Collecting and interpreting unusual characteristics of human languages, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

2005

• К морфонологической типологии: «рерадикализация» в языках мира [On morphophonological typology: ‘reradicalization’ in the world’s languages]
  15 October 2005, Second Conference on Typology and Grammar for Young Researchers, Institute of Linguistic Studies (Russian Academy of Sciences), St. Petersburg, Russia
• Типологически значимые параметры глагольной лексики: имперфективирующие деривации ненецкого языка [Typological parameters in the verbal lexicon: Imperfectivizing derivations in Nenets] (with Anna Pazelskaya and Maria Tsyurupa)
  10 April 2005, Fourth International School in Linguistic Typology and Anthropology, Yerevan, Armenia