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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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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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, 2011 Abstract The subject of this article is vowel harmony. In its prototypical form, this phenomenon involves agreement between all vowels in a word for some phonological property (such as palatality, labiality, height or tongue root position).
Harry van der Hulst
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Vowel Harmony in Papuan Languages [PDF]
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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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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, 2020 Noon vowel harmony shows the remarkable property of invariance in the affixes while exposing ATR variation in roots only. We show that the ATR harmony is no longer active and that the variation in stems due to dominant suffixes is best analysed as lexical stem variants for different derivational suffixes.
Wane, M.H., Mous, M.P.G.M.
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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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Feature specifications and contrast in vowel harmony: the orthography and phonology of Old Norwegian height harmony [PDF]
, 2019 In this thesis, I provide a new approach to the role of phonological patterning in determining the featural content of phonological relations and the size and shape of sound inventories. The empirical scope of this project has particular focus on vowel
Sandstedt, Jade Jørgen Michael
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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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