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Hungarian Vowel Harmony

open access: yes, 2003
In this paper I will be discussing the Hungarian Vowel Harmony System. First I will give a brief\ud discussion of the Hungarian Suffix System, then introduce the Vowel Harmony System.
Dunbar-Hester, Anna
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Oroch vowel harmony [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
In this paper I examine vowel harmony in Oroch, a recently extinct Manchu-Tungusic language. Oroch vowels are subject to the interplay of retracted tongue root (RTR) harmony and rounding harmony.
Tolskaya, Inna Konstantinovna
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Vowel Harmony in Chadic Languages [PDF]

open access: yes
This chapter focuses on Chadic languages, which typically demonstrate feature spreading within a word. The result can be partial or total agreement between the vowels of a word, as well as palatalization or labialization of consonants across the word. In
Pearce, Mary, Lovestrand, Joseph
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Vowel Harmony as a Distributional Learning Problem [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Vowel harmony is a class of phonotactic restrictions in which vowels in a language are divided into two or moresubclasses, and words must contain only vowels from only one such subclass regardless of intervening consonants.
Kodner, Jordan, Caplan, Spencer
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Infants' sensitivity to vowel harmony and its role in segmenting speech. [PDF]

open access: yesCognition, 2018
Mintz TH, Walker RL, Welday A, Kidd C.
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Vowel harmony in Maasai

open access: yes, 2013
This dissertation focuses on vowel harmony in Maasai, an Eastern Nilotic language spoken in Kenya and Tanzania. The main goal of this dissertation is to determine whether an adequate account of the Maasai pattern of Advanced Tongue Root (ATR) harmony can
Quinn-Wriedt, Lindsey Taylor
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Xinkan Vowel Harmony Revisited

open access: yes, 2018
The Xinkan languages have been described as exhibiting a unique type of vowel harmony within the Mesoamerican linguistic area. However, these analyses have not considered the phonologically complementary distribution of vowels, leading to proposals ...
Rogers, Chris, Ph.D.
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ATR vowel harmony in Ateso

open access: yes, 2019
Vowels in Ateso, an Eastern Nilotic language, are subject to Advanced Tongue Root (ATR) harmony. Accordingly, the vowels are divided into two harmony sets which differ in terms of tongue root position.
Barasa, David
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