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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 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 This chapter examines harmony processes in Greek, a non-harmonic language that exhibits two intriguing yet somewhat marginal patterns of vowel assimilation in specific dialects. The first pattern, documented in Inner Asia Minor Greek, involves the spreading of features from a suffixal vowel to a root/stem vowel.
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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 Processes involving minimal leftward harmony are sometimes referred to as umlaut, although this term often implies that the trigger of the harmony is not visible (on the surface at least). One thing the two processes dealt with here have in common is that the harmonic effects proceed one syllable rightward—a kind of rightward ...
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