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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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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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Transparency and locality in Piveronese vowel harmony [PDF]
IsoglossThe Piedmontese dialect of Piverone exhibits a peculiar vowel height harmony process, in which word-final vowels alternate between high and mid depending on the height of the stressed vowel.
Stefano Canalis
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Change in Buchan vowel harmony
Papers in Historical Phonology, 2022 English is not typically considered to be a vowel harmony language, and yet one of its cousins, Buchan Scots, clearly shows vowel-harmonic patterns. This involves a type of height harmony which is blocked by certain consonants and consonant clusters ...
Debbie Schindelman
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Linguistic Discovery, 2002 A problem set that focuses on vowel harmony in Oroqen, a Tungusic language.
Lindsay J. Whaley
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Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2018 Vowels in Ateso, an Eastern Nilotic language, are subject to Advanced Tongue Root (ATR) harmony. Accordingly, the vowels are divided into two harmony sets which differ in terms of tongue root position.
Barasa, David
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, 2011 We speak of vowel harmony when there is a general condition that demands that all vowels within a certain domain, usually the word, must agree in one or more than one phonological property. This condition is manifested in the facts that vowels within morphemes display agreement and that, when morphemes are combined into complex words, all vowels of ...
Harry van der Hulst
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Vowel Harmony in Papuan Languages
Abstract This chapter reflects the current descriptive and typological asymmetry of vowel harmony (VH) in Papuan languages by presenting two cases of ‘unbounded’ VH: Amele and Umbu-Ungu, and four cases where harmony is more local: Mian, Ngkolmpu, Komnzo, and Kaera.
Klamer, M.A.F.
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uds-lsv/vowel-harmony-from-word-lists: Published Version
, 2023 Code for our paper "Information-Theoretic Characterization of Vowel Harmony: A Cross-Linguistic Study on Word Lists" @ SIGTYP ...
Julius Steuer
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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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