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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 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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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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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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On vowel harmony and vowel reduction
2014This paper examines vowel reduction and vowel harmony in disyllabic nouns of Yukuben, Mòoré and German. Morphologically, all nouns under consideration have a stem and a number + gender marker. The order of these two morphemes, namely stem-final in Yukuben but stem-initial in Mòoré and German, seems to have little effect on the phonological processes ...
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1980
Vowel harmony is a well known phonological phenomenon found in a large number of languages spoken mainly in Eurasia and the African continent. In simple terms, vowel harmony is a law which governs the co-occurrence of vowels within a span of utterance, nearly always the word. The contributions of this volume focus on various (not always uncontroversial)
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Vowel harmony is a well known phonological phenomenon found in a large number of languages spoken mainly in Eurasia and the African continent. In simple terms, vowel harmony is a law which governs the co-occurrence of vowels within a span of utterance, nearly always the word. The contributions of this volume focus on various (not always uncontroversial)
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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 1957
Twi in this paper means Akuapem, Akyem, and Asante. For these three dialects V(owel) H(armony) can be stated in almost identical terms. It is in fact so stated by Christaller in the grammar1 but only briefly under ‘Euphony’. We give below some additional notes, approaching the problem somewhat differently.
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Twi in this paper means Akuapem, Akyem, and Asante. For these three dialects V(owel) H(armony) can be stated in almost identical terms. It is in fact so stated by Christaller in the grammar1 but only briefly under ‘Euphony’. We give below some additional notes, approaching the problem somewhat differently.
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