Bert Vaux is Professor of Phonology and Morphology at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge. He is primarily interested in phenomena that shed light on the structure and origins of the phonological component of grammar, especially in the realms of psychophonology, historical linguistics, and sociolinguistics. He also enjoys working with native speakers to document endangered languages, especially dialects of Armenian, Abkhaz, and English.
Lusine Yeghiazaryan: Possui graduação em Letras Romano-Germânicas pela Yerevan State University (1994), mestrado em Semiótica e Linguística Geral pela Universidade de São Paulo (2005), mestrado em Letras Inglês – Yerevan State University (1996) e doutorado em Linguística pela Universidade de São Paulo (2010), na qual é professora do Departamento de Letras Orientais. Tem experiência na área de Letras, com ênfase em Armênio, atuando principalmente nos seguintes temas: língua e cultura armênia e gramática gerativa.
The development of vowel harmony in Armenian and Turkish
This talk surveys the wide range of vowel harmony systems found in modern Armenian dialects, investigates the historical evidence for when, how, and why they developed, and considers the evidence and arguments for and against the harmony systems in Turkish and Azeri playing a role in this process. As part of this investigation I will set out the evidence for the development of back and round harmony in Turkish that we find in Armeno-Turkish (Turkish in Armenian script) sources from the fourteenth to twentieth centuries, which have not previously been considered in the turkological or phonological literature.
