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PHONETIC CHANGES CAUSED BY VOWEL HARMONY
Uluslararası Türk Lehçe Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2017 There are various reasons for vowel and consonant changes in languages. Some of these changes are related to ‘the external history’ of a language such as contacted languages, climate and geography. The other reasons are related to ‘internal history’ of
Ahmet Buran
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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.
Blaho, Sylvia, Szeredi, Dániel
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Cross-modal associations in synaesthesia: vowel colours in the ear of the beholder [PDF]
, 2014 Human speech conveys many forms of information, but for some exceptional individuals (synaesthetes), listening to speech sounds can automatically induce visual percepts such as colours.
Miller, Sam R. +3 more
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Iconicity correlated with vowel harmony in Korean ideophones
Laboratory Phonology, 2018 This paper aims to establish connections between the following phenomena pertaining to Korean ideophonic vowel harmony: A set of vowel patterns classified (phonologically) as ‘harmonic,’ ‘neutral,’ and ‘disharmonic’; a set of ideophones classified ...
Nahyun Kwon
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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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, 2011 We speak of vowel harmony when there is a general condition that demands that all vowels within a certain domain, usually the word, must agree in one or more than one phonological property. This condition is manifested in the facts that vowels within morphemes display agreement and that, when morphemes are combined into complex words, all vowels of ...
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Establishing the Three-Way Voicing Contrast in Madurese Stops [PDF]
, 2017 Madurese, a Western Malayo-Polynesian language spoken on the Indonesian island of Madura, has been described as having a three-way voicing contrast (i.e. voiced, voiceless unaspirated and voiceless aspirated) in its stops.
Misnadin, M. (Misnadin)
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A large-scale investigation of vowel co-occurrence patterns in the world’s lexicons
GlossaThis paper explores whether there are universal trends for vowels that co-occur to share featural properties. The existence of various productive featural vowel harmony systems across the world’s languages suggests that the factors underlying harmony may
Bruno Ferenc Segedin
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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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Abstractness or complexity? The case of Hungarian /a:/ [PDF]
, 2015 The purpose of this paper is to see if Hungarian /aː/, a well-behaved back vowel in terms of vowel harmony and of its phonological properties in general, is indeed a proper back vowel phonetically, too.
Gósy, Mária, Siptár, Péter
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