Vowel Harmony and Correspondence Theory
Vowel Harmony and Correspondence Theory

Author: Martin Krämer

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2008-08-22

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 3110197316

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Vowel Harmony and Correspondence Theory covers the major issues in the generative analysis of vowel harmony and vowel harmony typology. The book offers an economical account of the most prominent features of vowel harmony systems (root control, affix control, dominance, vowel opacity, and neutrality) within the framework of optimality theory, extending the notion of correspondence to the syntagmatic dimension.The book contains a typological overview of vowel harmony patterns, an introduction to the basics of optimality theory including some of its most recent extensions and detailed studies of harmony systems in 10 languages from a variety of language families.

Issues in Vowel Harmony
Issues in Vowel Harmony

Author: Robert M. Vago

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 1980-01-01

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 9027283184

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Vowel harmony is a well known phonological phenomenon found in a large number of languages spoken mainly in Eurasia and the African continent. In simple terms, vowel harmony is a law which governs the co-occurrence of vowels within a span of utterance, nearly always the word. The contributions of this volume focus on various (not always uncontroversial) aspects of vowel harmony that include typological investigations, phonetic/acoustic experimental studies, descriptions of individual systems, genetic and historical ramifications, and implications for a variety of theoretical models. This volume will prove to be a useful guide to the multifaceted issues posed by an often discussed and quite significant phonological process. This volume will stimulate further discussion and better understanding of the issues raised by the intricate process called vowel harmony.

The Phonology of Consonants
The Phonology of Consonants

Author: Wm G. Bennett

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-03-30

Total Pages: 415

ISBN-13: 1107073634

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The most comprehensive work on dissimilation to date, this book surveys over 150 dissimilation patterns drawn from over 130 languages.

Asymmetries in Vowel Harmony
Asymmetries in Vowel Harmony

Author: Harry van der Hulst

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2018-08-23

Total Pages: 524

ISBN-13: 0192543067

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This book deals with the phenomenon of vowel harmony, a phonological process whereby all the vowels in a word are required to share a specific phonological property, such as front or back articulation. Vowel harmony occurs in the majority of languages of the world, though only in very few European languages, and has been a central concern in phonological theory for many years. In this volume, Harry van der Hulst puts forward a new theory of vowel harmony, which accounts for the patterns of and exceptions to this phenomenon in the widest range of languages ever considered. The book begins with an overview of the general causes of asymmetries in vowel harmony systems. The two following chapters provide a detailed account of a new theory of vowel harmony based on unary elements and licensing, which is embedded in a general dependency-based theory of phonological structure. In the remaining chapters, this theory is applied to a variety of vowel harmony phenomena from typologically diverse languages, including palatal harmony in languages such as Finnish and Hungarian, labial harmony in Turkic languages, and tongue root systems in Niger-Congo, Nilo-Saharan, and Tungusic languages. The volume provides a valuable overview of the diversity of vowel harmony in the languages of the world and is essential reading for phonologists of all theoretical persuasions.

Locality in Vowel Harmony
Locality in Vowel Harmony

Author: Andrew Nevins

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 0262140977

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This work offers phonologists new evidence that viewing vowel harmony through the lens of relativized minimality has the potential to unify different levels of linguistic representation and different domains of empirical inquiry in a unified framework.

Optimality Theory
Optimality Theory

Author: Rene Kager

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1999-06-28

Total Pages: 472

ISBN-13: 9780521589802

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This is an introduction to Optimality Theory, whose central idea is that surface forms of language reflect resolutions of conflicts between competing constraints. A surface form is 'optimal' if it incurs the least serious violations of a set of constraints, taking into account their hierarchical ranking. Languages differ in the ranking of constraints; and any violations must be minimal. The book does not limit its empirical scope to phonological phenomena, but also contains chapters on the learnability of OT grammars; OT's implications for syntax; and other issues such as opacity. It also reviews in detail a selection of the considerable research output which OT has already produced. Exercises accompany chapters 1-7, and there are sections on further reading. Optimality Theory will be welcomed by any linguist with a basic knowledge of derivational Generative Phonology.