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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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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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, 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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Studies in African Linguistics, 1991 Igede is a language that operates a nine vowel system. It displays harmony system constraint by pharyngeal constriction. Vowels fall into two harmonic sets of [+ATR] and [-ATR] with no overlap. Where we have disharmonic morphemes, our analysis shows that
Michael Abiodun
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, 2023 Vowel harmony is a phonological phenomenon common in many languages (e.g., Finnish, Turkish, and others) in which some vowels cannot be together with others in (monomorphemic) words. The reason for vowel harmony in these languages is that, because of how
Zeynep Gunes Ozkan +3 more
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A feature geometric approach to Bondu-so vowel harmony
Glossa, 2019 Bondu-so (Dogon; Mali) vowel harmony exhibits both typologically and theoretically interesting properties. The language’s vocalic system displays surface patterns that implicate a ten-vowel system with an underlying [ATR] contrast at three vowel heights ...
Abbie E. Hantgan, Christopher Ryan Green
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Progressive Vowel Harmony in Gomoa
, 2021 Previous studies on Akan ATR vowel harmony, including Berry (1957), Stewart (1967), Schachter & Fromkin (1968), Dolphyne (1988) have centered on the concepts of regressive (anticipatory) directionality.
Odoom, John, Adomako, Kwasi
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Neutral vowels in Lokaa harmony [PDF]
The Canadian Journal of Linguistics / La revue canadienne de linguistique, 2009 AbstractThis paper discusses the four neutral vowels in Lokaa harmony, [i, u, ə, a]. Crosslinguistically, neutral segments are either transparent or opaque. Lokaa harmony is important in three crucial respects. First, languages with both transparent and opaque vowels are not common; Lokaa has both.
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