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 Patrick Honeybone:  an English linguists that has graduated at the University of Edinburgh in the department of Linguistics and English Language. He teaches and researches a number of things, but they mainly group around these three areas:


 * historical phonology
 * phonological theory
 * phonological variation and dialectology

He deals in all kinds of linguistic systems, but mostly he concentrates on the languages and dialects such as: dialects of English from the North of England, English (and Scots) more generally, in all its/their glory other West Germanic languages South Slavic languages

Experience
He was the main organizer of the UK's annual phonology conference, the Manchester Phonology Meeting, as well as a participant of the instigator of the biennial Edinburgh Symposium on Historical Phonology. In fact, he has organised quite a few conferences. In the past, he was the Meetings Secretary of the Linguists Association of Great Britain (from 2003 to 2009), additionally a Member of Council of the Philological Society (from 2007 to 2013). He was the representative for Edinburgh and for Linguistics on the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities doctoral funding panel (from 2015 to 2018). Here at Edinburgh, he convened the Historical Phonology Reading Group, and he co-convened the P-Workshop and English Language Research Group. With Joe Salmons, he was able to edit the Handbook of Historical Phonology or Oxford UniversE edge Hill University Press in 2015, which has been judged "an enduring resource", "indispensable" (Hall 2017) and "an essential resource to generations of students and scholars interested in and working on any and all aspects of historical phonology" (Meyer 2018). With Bernd Kortmann and Laurel Brinton,he edited the journal English Language and Linguistics (since 2014), and he has also lead editor for Papers in Historical Phonology (since 2016). He is a co-editor, with Jacques Durand, of OUP's book series The Phonology of Word's Languages(since 2016), and, with Bettelou Los and Graeme Trousdale, of EUP's book series Edinburgh Studies in Historical Linguistics (since 2019). From 2003-2010, Honeybone was one of the editors, with Joan Beal and April McMahon, of the 'Dialects of English' book series. Before coming to Edinburgh, he taught at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, where I received a BA, MA and PhD degrees. He has also taught courses on phonology and historical linguistics at linguistics summer schools such as the New York-St Petersburg Institute, the Nordic Language Variation Network PhD Seminar and the Eastern European Generative Grammar School.

Development
He has worked on topics like: obstruent lenition, laryngeal specifications, debuccalization, the causes of phonological change, constraints on change, diachronic typology, Liverpool English, the phonological interpretation of dialect literature, representational phonological theory, the history of phonology, the interpretation of frequency effects in phonological change, the philosophy of historical linguistics, the interpretation of phonological variation,privativity in phonological theory, positional effects in phonology, opacity, phonotactics, and specific issues in the phonology of English.Patrick Honeybone that ' the connection between all of these may not be immediately obvious, but I'm also not sure that I can understand any of them without understanding them all (and I think they're all interesting, anyway...).'

Publications

 * 'Representation-based models in the current landscape of phonological theory.' To appear in Acta Linguistica Academica. [With Katalin Balogné Bérces].

This publication is mostly concerned about the healthy placing the diversity of current -early 21-st century- phonological theory under scrutiny, and identify the four fundamental approaches that make it up: Rule Based Phonology, Representation-Based Phonology, Constraint-Based Phonology, and Usage-Based Phonology. Trying to focus on the key aspects of and recent developments in Representation-Based Phonology they separate out hybrid models and purely representational ones and at the same time identify Government Phonology (GP) as the most popular form of the latter (and show that it is even present in what we call ‘GP-friendly’ analyses). Finally, the work discusses and illustrates recent innovations in both subsegmental structures in the two strands that it is identified as ‘hyper hierarchical’ (or ‘vertical’) and ‘flat’ (or ‘horizontal’). ( http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/homes/patrick/bbk-honeybone.pdf )


 * 2019 -'Editorial' English Language and Linguistics 23.1, i–ii. [With Laurel J. Brinton, Bernd Kortmann & Elena Seoane].

This articles show the importance of each publication that has been successfully gone through the press. He says about the development of each work and how does to work to have a chance being published in most common magazines like 'Ell'. ( http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/homes/patrick/ell-editorial.pdf )


 * 2017- (On realism in phonological reconstruction.) Comment on 'Reality in a soft science: the metaphonology of historical reconstruction' by Roger Lass (Papers in Historical Phonology, vol. 2).

In this paper there is discussed if all disciplines that deal with (apparent) recovery of objects from the past are faced by a fundamental question: what is the metaphysical status of these objects? It is a summarize of the advantages of having an ontology, and the disadvantages of assuming that reconstructed linguistic objects are not real. It is also touched the uniformitarian position that makes this an unproblematic claim. As well as he deals with the neo-Saussurean claim that reconstructed items have no reality in themselves, but solely in terms of the systems they are in; and he suggests that this position (held by Meillet and Kuryłowicz among others), is fundamentally perverse. ( http://journals.ed.ac.uk/pihph/article/view/2506 )


 * 2016 -'Are there impossible changes? θ > f but f θ' Papers in Historical Phonology 1, 316-358.

This publication tries to answer a question that historical phonology should reasonably seek to answer is: are there impossible changes? In this paper he seeks to spell out what it really means to consider this question and what people need to do in order to answer it for any specific case. This will require a consideration of some fundamental issues in historical phonology, including the distinction between exceptionless and lexically-specific/sporadic changes (which they call ‘N-changes’ and ‘A-changes’), and the connection between that distinction and the ‘misperception’ model of phonological change. It will involve an analysis of aspects of the phonological history of Pulo Annian, Arabic, Italic, Spanish and several varieties of English. It is argued that the current state of evidence indicates that there are indeed impossible changes (which they symbolise using ‘x ≯ y’ to represent that ‘x cannot change into y’) in a very specific but phonologically real way, and that f ≯ θ is one. (http://journals.ed.ac.uk/pihph/article/view/1705 )


 * 2014	'Structuralist historical phonology: systems in segmental change.' Oxford Handbooks Online. [With Joseph Salmons]

This chapter continues Murray’s survey of early work on historical phonology (this volume) through structuralism in both narrow and broad senses. They argue that the inheritance from twentieth century structuralists still shapes our contemporary landscape in many ways, whether they are building on structuralist insights, sharpening them, or challenging them. ( https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199232819.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199232819-e-029?rskey=rcNvnt&result=1 )


 * 2013 'Salience and the sociolinguistics of Scouse spelling: exploring the phonology of the Contemporary Humorous Localised Dialect Literature of Liverpool.' English World-Wide 34, 305-340. [With Kevin Watson].

In this article they investigate a phenomenon in which non-standard spelling is normal in professionally produced, published English. Specifically, they discuss the literary genre of Contemporary Humorous Localised Dialect Literature (CHLDL), in which phonological spellings are used to represent aspects of non-standard varieties. They claim that their 'aims are twofold: 1) they try to provide, by example, a framework for the quantitative analysis of such types of dialect orthography, which treats respellings as linguistic variables, and 2)  they argue that this type of analysis of CHILD can shed light on which phonological features are sociolinguistically salient'. They explore these issues by investigating a main body of ‘folk phrasebooks’ which represent the variety of English spoken in Liverpool (Scouse), in the north-west of England. ( http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/homes/patrick/chldl.pdf)

Publications :

 * 2011 - 'Variation and linguistic theory.' In Maguire, W. & McMahon, A. (eds.) Analysing variation in English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 151-177.


 * 2010 - 'How symmetrical are English vowels?' Yazyk i rechevaya deyatelnost' (Language and Language Behavior). Journal of the Linguistic Society of St. Petersburg 9 (issue dated 2006), 33-63.


 * 2009 - 'Optimality Theory.' In Chapman, S. & Routledge, C. (eds) Key Ideas in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 145-149.


 * 2009 - 'Distinctive Features.' In Chapman, S. & Routledge, C. (eds) Key Ideas in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 65-66.


 * 2007 - 'New-dialect formation in nineteenth century Liverpool: a brief history of Scouse.' In Grant, A. & Grey, C. (eds) The Mersey Sound: Liverpool’s Language, People and Places. Liverpool: Open House Press, 106-140


 * 2007 - 'English phonology and linguistic theory: an introduction to issues, and to "Issues in English Phonology".' Language Sciences 29, 117-153. [With Philip Carr].


 * 2005 - 'J.R. Firth.' In Chapman, S. & Routledge, C. (eds) Key Thinkers in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 80-86.


 * 2005 - 'Karl Brugmann.' In Chapman, S. & Routledge, C. (eds) Key Thinkers in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 45-48


 * 2002 - Germanic Obstruent Lenition: some mutual implications of theoretical and historical phonology. PhD thesis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Submitted and defended 2001, graduation 2002.


 * 2001 - 'Lenition Inhibition in Liverpool English.' English Language and Linguistics 5, 213-249.


 * 1996 - 'Does phonology change? Language, speech and representation.' Papers in Linguistics from the University of Manchester 1, 75-90.


 * 1995 - 'Explanation, Government Phonology, and the history of velarity in German.' Newcastle & Durham Working Papers in Linguistics 3, 77-104.

Presentations:


 * 2019 - 'Does fortition exist? Reasons to be doubtful.' Presented as a poster at the Fourth Edinburgh Symposium on Historical Phonology, University of Edinburgh.


 * 2019 - 'Diachronic phonological typology: a plea for detail.' Keynote speaker in the Workshop on phonological (in)stability and language evolution, at the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Leipzig University.


 * 2017 - 'Lern yerself dialect writing: The written representation of non-standard phonology.' Presented as an invited talk in the Language and Linguistics Research Seminar series, Edge Hill University.


 * 2016 - 'The phonology, diachrony and dialectology of Northern English T-to-R: corpora are not enough.' Presented as an invited talk at the 14th meeting of the French Phonology Network (Réseau Français de Phonologie), Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis.


 * 2014 - 'The origins of Northern English T-to-R: categorical frequency effects through multiple lexicalisation.' Presented at the Symposium on Historical Phonology, University of Edinburgh.


 * 2013 - 'Phonemicization vs. phonologization: voiced fricatives in Old English and Brythonic.' Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain.

Contact Details:
phone: +44 (0)131 651 1838

email: patrick.honeybone@ed.ac.uk

fax: +44 (0)131 650 6883 (please mark for my attention)

room: 3.06 (3rd floor of Dugald Stewart Building)

address: Linguistics and English Language, University of Edinburgh, Dugald Stewart Building, 3 Charles Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AD, UK.