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, 2018 This paper discusses vowel harmony; a type of assimilatory process in Gurenε (Mabia language), within the Autosegmental phonology framework (Goldsmith 1976, 1990, Clements 1977).
Atipoka, Helen Adongo, Nsoh, Avea E.
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Vowel harmony shift in Mongolian
, 1985 It has generally been assumed that Mongolian has vowel harmony of the palatal (front-back) type, but in this article I will present acoustic data from several Mongolian dialects, which show that there has been a shift in the phonetic basis of vowel ...
Svantesson, Jan-Olof,, Lund University.
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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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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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Comparing human and machine vowel classification [PDF]
, 2007 In this study we compare human ability to identify vowels with a machine learning approach. A perception experiment for 14 Hungarian vowels in isolation and embedded in a carrier word was accomplished, and a C4.5 decision tree was trained on the same ...
Reichel, Uwe D. +3 more
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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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Vowel duration issue in Civili [PDF]
, 2009 The main goal of this article is to define the problem of vowel duration in Civili (H12a). It shows that the so-called Civili vowel-length desperately needs to be re-examined, because previous works on the sound system of this language hardly explain a ...
Ndinga-Koumba-Binza, Hugues Steve
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Vowel Harmony in Mbili Verbs [PDF]
, 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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