Peter Jurgec

About

I am a researcher at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. My research interests fall within theoretical phonology. I am particularly interested in feature theory, assimilation, loanwords, tone, and Slavic languages.

You can take a look at my Publications or my CV.

The most convenient way to reach me is by email at myname@mysurname.net

News

• Starting in January 2014, I will be an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto Department of Linguistics. Read about it on the department blog.
• I will present Lapsed Derivations: Ternary Stress in Harmonic Serialism at the upcoming Manchester Phonology Meeting (with Francesc Torres Tamarit).
• My paper Two types of parasitic assimilation appeared in the current issue of Nordlyd.
• My review of Rachel Walker's Vowel Patterns in Language appeared in the current issue of Phonology.
• On March 4, 2013, I presented my current project, The Phonology of Slovenian, in the Linguistic Circle at the University of Ljubljana.
• I have been awarded a Rubicon grant by The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). I just started working on the project The Phonology of Slovenian at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. Read about it here, here, and here. The project page is available here.

Recent

• On October 25, 2012, I presented Licensed Alignment at the University of Chicago.
• On October 19, 2012, I presented Morphology Affects Loanword Phonology at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS), which is organized by the City University of New York (CUNY).
• On September 12, 2012, I presented my work at the CASTL Decennium Event in Tromsø.
• On September 8, 2012, I gave a talk at the 2012 Morphology Meeting at Leiden University.
• I coorganized (with Marko Simonović) the workshop Loanwords as Evidence in Formal Linguistics at the 45th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea in Stockholm [August 31­–September 1].
• On May 24, 2012, I presented Morphological Locality at the 20th Manchester Phonology Meeting. [handout] [poster]
• On May 5, 2012, I presented Autosegmental Phonology 2.0 at the 7th North American Phonology Conference (NAPhC7) in Montreal.
• On January 21, 2012, I presented Two types of parasitic assimilation at the 9th Old World Conference in Phonology (OCP9) in Berlin.
• I taught two courses (Intro to OT and Assimilation) at the 2011 EGG Summer School. The handouts are available here.
• My dissertation Feature Spreading 2.0: A Unified Theory of Assimilation is now available on Lingbuzz.
• My squib Disjunctive Lexical Stratification appeared in the Winter 2010 issue of Linguistic Inquiry.

Teaching

• In the Spring 2013 semester, I am teaching a graduate course in Phonology at the University of Nova Gorica. More information is available on the course website (Slovenian).
• I have previously taught at Leiden University, Rutgers, University of Tromsø, University of Nova Gorica, and Indiana University Bloomington. For details, see my CV.

Pages

You can take a look at my Publications page or my CV.