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2018
AbstractThis book deals with the phenomenon of vowel harmony, a phonological process whereby all the vowels in a word are required to share a specific phonological property, such as front or back articulation. Vowel harmony occurs in the majority of languages of the world, though only in very few European languages, and has been a central concern in ...
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AbstractThis book deals with the phenomenon of vowel harmony, a phonological process whereby all the vowels in a word are required to share a specific phonological property, such as front or back articulation. Vowel harmony occurs in the majority of languages of the world, though only in very few European languages, and has been a central concern in ...
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Abstract In this chapter a description of four cases of rhotic harmony is provided. These are: (a) Kalasha, a language with a rhotic vowel for each non-rhotic vowel; (b) Serrano, a language with half the number rhotic vowels as it has non-rhotic vowels; (c) Yurok, a language with a single rhotic vowel, in a different place to all the non-
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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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Abstract Korean is an East Asian language spoken mainly in the Korean peninsula, which is generally classified as a language isolate. Korean vowel harmony (VH) has been a topic of interest and debate that still has many unresolved issues from both theoretical and empirical perspectives.
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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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Vowel harmony and phonological phrasing in Gua
Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 2021Sharon Rose
exaly
Infants’ sensitivity to nonadjacent vowel dependencies: The case of vowel harmony in Hungarian
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2019Judit Gervain +2 more
exaly
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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