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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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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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Igbo Root-outward Vowel Harmony in Feature Spreading and Stem-affixed Form Faithfulness Proposals
, 2022 This paper explores the viability of using feature spreading and stem-affixed form faithfulness approaches to account for the attested patterns in Igbo root-outward vowel harmony.
Ihemere, K.
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Hungarian neutral vowels [PDF]
, 2013 In Hungarian, stems containing only front unrounded (neutral) vowels fall into two groups: one group taking front suffixes, the other taking back suffixes in vowel harmony. The distinction is traditionally thought of as purely lexical.
Szeredi, Dániel, Blaho, Sylvia
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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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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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