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Lexical strata and vowel (dis)harmony: the Turkish transformation of a Balkan hypocoristic
Linguistica, 2016 In this study I explore the phonological behavior of the hypocoristic suffix /-oʃ/-/iʃ/ in Turkish. Such a suffix is common to many of the Balkan languages.
Mary Ann Walter
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Prosody and melody in vowel disorder
, 1999 The paper explores the syllabic and segmental dimensions of phonological vowel disorder. The independence of the two dimensions is illustrated by the case study of an English-speaking child presenting with an impairment which can be shown to have a ...
Watson, J, Bates, S, Harris, J
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Vowel harmony in Buchan Scots English
, 2002 In this article, I discuss vowel reduction, stress, and vowel harmony in Buchan Scots English, a dialect spoken in Aberdeenshire in northern Scotland. Work by Wölck (1965) describes Buchan Scots English as having vowel harmony.
Colleen M. Fitzgerald
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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 We show that the ATR harmony is no longer active and that the variation in stems due to dominant suffixes is best analysed as ...
Wane, M.H., Mous, M.P.G.M.
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An outline of Lulubo phonology
Studies in African Linguistics, 1987 This article outlines the phonology of Lulubo, a little known Central Sudanic language spoken in the southern Sudan. An account is given of the phonemic inventory (vowels, consonants, and tones), vowel harmony, syllable structure, special features of ...
Torben Andersen
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A view of the locality conditions on vowel harmony, aligning empirical phenomena within phonology with the principles of the Minimalist program.Intro -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1 What Is Vowel Harmony, How Does ...
Nevins, Andrew., Keyser, Samuel Jay.
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, 2012 This paper investigates Vowel Harmony (VH) in the verbs of Mbili, a Grassfield Bantu Language spoken in the North West province of Cameroon. I show that the vowel harmony in both the root and derived verbs can be analyzed in a simple and straightforward ...
Jia, Zenghong
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Mid-vowels and vowel harmony in Civili
, 2012 This article highlights the phenomenon of vowel harmony in Civili. The distinctive features of vowels are determined in order to analyze the vowel harmony system, and later to explain the distinction between respective problematic vowels in the vowel ...
Steve Ndinga-Koumba-Binza, Hugues
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ATR Vowel Harmony: new patterns and diagnostics
, 2018 This paper presents a large-scale typological study of over 500 Nilo-Saharan and Niger-Congo vowel inventories, both with and without ATR harmony. The survey reveals: i) ATR contrasts in high vowels correlate with a strong likelihood of ATR harmony; ii ...
Sharon Rose, Rose, Sharon
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