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Vowel Harmony in Romance Languages
Abstract This chapter presents the main features of vowel harmony (VH) patterns in Romance. Virtually all Romance harmonies are unidirectional—that is, they are right-to-left or left-to-right processes. Furthermore, in most Romance vowel harmonies the stress-bearing vowel is either the target (most usually assimilating to the final vowel,Canalis, Stefano +3 more
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Oceanic Linguistics, 1968
5. Conclusion This paper describes the system of vowel harmony in Chamorro,' the existence of which has received passing attention in previous studies, but which until now has not been examined carefully for its determining features. Chamorro shows two distinct types of what can generally be termed vowel harmony. The first of these involves fronting at
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5. Conclusion This paper describes the system of vowel harmony in Chamorro,' the existence of which has received passing attention in previous studies, but which until now has not been examined carefully for its determining features. Chamorro shows two distinct types of what can generally be termed vowel harmony. The first of these involves fronting at
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Abstract This chapter outlines the structure of the volume and reviews the central questions that are posed in the study of vowel harmony with reference to the chapters in the handbook where these questions are addressed. We first consider a possible definition of vowel harmony (VH) and then discuss a variety of aspects of this ...
Nancy A. Ritter, Harry van der Hulst
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Nancy A. Ritter, Harry van der Hulst
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South African Journal of African Languages, 2000
This article studies the vocalic patterns of distribution and alternation in Kikuyu. The phenomenon of distribution manifests itself in morpheme structure constraints imposed on vowel sequencing within the verbal root, while the effect of alternation is seen within the verbal stem, which displays a productive root-controlled suffixal harmony.
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This article studies the vocalic patterns of distribution and alternation in Kikuyu. The phenomenon of distribution manifests itself in morpheme structure constraints imposed on vowel sequencing within the verbal root, while the effect of alternation is seen within the verbal stem, which displays a productive root-controlled suffixal harmony.
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Abstract This chapter outlines the harmony system of the Goris dialect of Armenian. This variety displays a number of interesting features, including variable transparency vs. opacity of neutral vowels, locally optional bidirectional harmony targeting weak (reduced or epenthetic) vowels, with [round] harmony parasitic on [back] harmony ...
Bert Vaux, Ariwan Addy Suhairi
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Bert Vaux, Ariwan Addy Suhairi
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Abstract This chapter deals with domains of harmony and disharmony, and approaches to their formal modeling. It furthermore covers cyclic, directional, and dominant harmony, harmony across word boundaries in compounds, clitics, and phrasal domains. Finally, it discusses a case of discontinuous harmony where phonology interacts cyclically
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Abstract This chapter sets out to review multiple cases of the phenomenon known as laxing harmony—that is, an assimilation process in which two nearby vowels are produced having an identical tense/lax quality. First, the chapter distinguishes between laxing harmony and advanced tongue root (ATR) harmony, limiting the scope of laxing ...
Nicholas Henriksen, Kelly Kendro
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Nicholas Henriksen, Kelly Kendro
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Abstract This chapter describes the distribution of vowels in Ainu, a linguistic isolate of Northeast Asia. Some vocalic suffixes tend to harmonize with a preceding root vowel, although the patterns are complicated by the existence of disharmonic forms.
Hidetoshi Shiraishi, Bert Botma
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Hidetoshi Shiraishi, Bert Botma
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Abstract Yukaghir is a small language family comprising two closely related languages, Kolyma Yukaghir and Tundra Yukaghir, previously analyzed as dialects of one language. Both are spoken in the northeastern part of Siberia. Mainstream linguistics maintains that the Yukaghir family is genetically isolate, but there have been various ...
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