REVOLUPHON - Rational Evolutionary Phonology
Outputs
Software
Round, Erich R. 2025. GlottoTrees: Phylogenetic Trees in Linguistics. (version 0.1.12). Link.
Publications
Round, Erich R. 2025. ‘Models, Morphomes, Emergence and the Mind’. In Comparative and Dialectal Approaches to Analogy: Inflection in Romance and Beyond, edited by Xavier Bach, Louise Esher, and Sascha Gaglia. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780191995231.003.0011.
Round, Erich R, Louise Esher, and Sacha Beniamine. 2024. The Natural Stability of Autonomous Morphology: How an Attraction–Repulsion Dynamic Emerges from Paradigm Cell Filling. Morphology 35(1):1-49. Open Access article.
Invited presentations
Round, Erich R, and James Elhindi. 2025. ‘Deep-Time Hypothesis Testing with Both Phonological & Semantic Divergence’. Presented at Cross-Linguistic Explorations in Space, Time and Evolution, Frankfurt, June 6 2025. Link.
Presentations
Round, Erich R, and James Elhindi. 2025. ‘Deep-Time Hypothesis Testing with Both Phonological & Semantic Divergence’. Presented at Annual Meeting of Societas Linguistica Europaea 2025, Bordeaux, August 26 2025. Link.
Nyhuis, Peter. 2025. ‘Variable deletion of velars in Wubuy: Evidence for sound change by lexical diffusion’. Presented at Usage-Based Approaches to Phonology conference, Eugene, Oregon, 13 July 2025. Link.
Nyhuis, Peter. 2025. ‘Opacity without underlying representations: Empty morphs, neutralisation and paradigm predictability in Wubuy’. Presented at Manchester Phonology Meeting, Manchester, May 2025. Link.
Round, Erich R, Louise Esher, and Sacha Beniamine. 2024. ‘Modelling the Evolution of Inflection Systems’. Presented at the Complexity in Language Variation and Change 2024, Exeter, September 3 2024. Link.
Round, Erich R, Sacha Beniamine, and Louise Esher. 2024. ‘How Details of Analogy Shape Inflectional Typology’. Presented at the 21st International Morphology Meeting, Vienna, August 29 2024. Link.
International workshops
Future directions in Word and Paradigm morphology. Held at the 1st annual conference Langues & Langage à la croisée des Disciplines, Paris, September 10, 2024. Organised by Erich Round and Sacha Beniamine. Link.
Project members
Prof Erich Round
Dr Peter Nyhuis
Dr Tom Ennever
Alison Stubley
Period of award:
August 2024–July 2029
Funder
UKRI Horizon Europe Guarantee (selected by the European Research Council)
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