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Infants' sensitivity to vowel harmony and its role in segmenting speech. [PDF]
Cognition, 2018 Mintz TH, Walker RL, Welday A, Kidd C.
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Typological Asymmetries in Round Vowel Harmony: Support from Artificial Grammar Learning. [PDF]
Lang Cogn Process, 2012 Finley S.
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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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Learning phonological categories [PDF]
, 2009 This paper describes in detail several explicit computational methods for approaching such questions in phonology as the vowel/consonant distinction, the nature of vowel harmony systems, and syllable structure, appealing solely to distributional ...
Goldsmith, J., Xanthos, A.
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A reanalysis of abstract contrasts and opacity in Bondu-so tongue root harmony
Glossa, 2020 This paper explores a number of controversial consequences of previous abstract analyses of Bondu-so (Dogon) vowels and vowel harmony, particularly for the explanation of phonological opacity.
Jade J. Sandstedt
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On the Origin of Philippine Vowel Grades [PDF]
, 2006 The concept of vowel grade by which morphological features in some Indo- European languages are signaled by change in the quality of the vowel of a given form has long been recognized.
Reid, Lawrence A.
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ON the high non-expanded vowels of Yoruboid
Studies in African Linguistics, 1985 A current debate going on among Yoruba linguists is the existence and phonological status of the high non-expanded vowels. Indeed while Igala, Isekiri and many Yoruba dialects exhibit a seven-vowel system, other Yoruba dialects exhibit a ·nine-vowel ...
Hounkpati B. Capo
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, 2019 Vowel harmony refers to the phonological phenomenon that requires vowels in certain morphological or prosodic domains to agree in specific phonological features. This chapter presents a thorough revision of vowel harmony in southeastern peninsular Spanish, where the loss of some final consonants is compensated by opening the preceding vowel and the lax
Jiménez, Jesús, Lloret, Maria-Rosa
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Studies in African Linguistics, 2001 The vowel harmony systems of the Bantu A.60 languages of Cameroon provide an extraordinary wealth of uncommon properties not yet exploited by linguistic theory.
Larry M. Hyman
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A target-oriented approach to neutrality in vowel harmony: Evidence from Hungarian
Glossa, 2019 This paper provides a novel perspective on neutrality in vowel harmony, using evidence from Hungarian. Despite the extensive study of Hungarian vowel harmony, the intermediate neutrality of [e:], which can alternate harmonically with [a:], is rarely ...
Avery Ozburn
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