What do we need to consider in order to understand the innovation and propagation of phonological change, and to reconstruct past phonological states? The Third Edinburgh Symposium on Historical Phonology will offer an opportunity to discuss fundamental questions in historical phonology as well as specific analyses of historical data.

The symposium will be hosted by the Department of Linguistics and English Language and the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh on the 30th November and 1st December, 2017.

Our invited speaker for 2017 is Meredith Tamminga, University of Pennsylvania.

We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the Angus McIntosh Centre for Historical Linguistics and the Linguistics Association of Great Britain.