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Vowel harmony and vowel merger in Agoi
Studies in African Linguistics, 2003 This paper describes the vowel harmony system and patterns of vowel merger in Agoi, an Upper Cross language. Data indicate that a once fully operative system of vowel harmony has now been generally restricted to the non-high vowels, with a few residual ...
Shirley Yul-Ifode
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Vowel Harmony in the Kihnu Variety of Estonian: A Corpus Study [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2023 This paper investigates back/front vowel harmony in the Kihnu variety of Estonian. Data from the Estonian Dialect Corpus are analyzed to inform the description of harmony in this dialect, a phenomenon that has been understudied in the literature ...
Kaili Vesik
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Vowel Phonotactics in Modern Korean Phonology: A Corpus-Based Approach
Languages, 2023 Ideophones are believed to exhibit distinct phonotactic patterns compared to regular language, in their expressiveness. Vowel harmony can be observed in ideophones in Modern Korean.
Tae-Jin Yoon
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Vowel harmony in Klao linear and nonlinear analyses
Studies in African Linguistics, 1983 Klao, a Kru language spoken in Liberia, has a nine-vowel system. Like most other Kru languages, it displays harmony sensitive to pharyngeal constriction (tongue-root retraction).
John Victor Singler
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Studies in African Linguistics, 1999 This paper presents a description of the vowel harmony system of Akposso (Uwi), a Kwa language of Ghana and Togo, one of only a handful of Kwa languages with a complete ten vowel system with ATR harmony. However, the tenth vowel, hi, does not function as
Coleen G. Anderson
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Vowel harmony decay in Old Norwegian
Papers in Historical Phonology, 2020 Vowel harmony involves the systematic correspondence between vowels in some domain for some phonological feature. Though harmony represents one of the most natural and diachronically robust phonological phenomena that occurs in human language, how and ...
Jade J. Sandstedt
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Linguistic Issues in Language Technology, 2010 This paper deals with vowel harmony from a cross-linguistic perspective, with the aim of visualizing the distribution of vowels in corpora so that languages with vowel harmony can be distinguished from those lacking it. For this purpose vowel successions within words are statistically analyzed and visualized in a quadratic matrix whose rows and columns
Mayer, Thomas +4 more
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Vowel harmony and vowel alternation in Mayak
Studies in African Linguistics, 1999 Like several other Western Nilotic languages, the Mayak variety of Northern Burun has two sets of vowels distinguished by the feature [ATR], the [-ATR] vowels [I, E, a, i, u] and the [+ATR] vowels [i, e, A, 0, u].
Torben Andersen
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Not crazy after all these years? Perceptual grounding for long-distance vowel harmony
Laboratory Phonology, 2017 Long-distance (or ‘transparent’) vowel harmony systems have frequently been considered ‘unnatural’ and analyzed as ‘crazy rules’ (Bach & Harms, 1972) because they violate the principle of strict locality.
Wendell Kimper
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Studies in African Linguistics, 2023 Yeyi (Bantu, R41) is an endangered language spoken in northwestern Botswana and northeastern Namibia. Yeyi exhibits two peculiar processes of regressive vowel harmony.
Hilde Gunnink
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