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  • The Oxford Handbook of Vowel Harmony

    The Oxford Handbook of Vowel Harmony by Ritter, Nancy A.; van der Hulst, Harry;

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    • Publisher OUP Oxford
    • Date of Publication 10 October 2024

    • ISBN 9780198826804
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages1152 pages
    • Size 254x180x50 mm
    • Weight 1684 g
    • Language English
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    Short description:

    This handbook provides a detailed account of the phenomenon of vowel harmony, a pattern according to which all vowels within a word must agree for some phonological property or properties. The volume explores all aspects of vowel harmony from a range of theoretical and methodological perspectives.

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    Long description:

    This handbook provides a detailed account of the phenomenon of vowel harmony, a pattern according to which all vowels within a word must agree for some phonological property or properties. Vowel harmony has been central in the development of phonological theories thanks to its cluster of remarkable properties, notably its typically 'unbounded' character and its non-locality, and because it forms part of the phonology of most world languages. The five parts of this volume cover all aspects of vowel harmony from a range of theoretical and methodological perspectives. Part I outlines the types of vowel harmony and some unusual cases, before Part II explores structural issues such as vowel inventories, the interaction of vowel harmony and morphological structure, and locality. The chapters in Part III provide an overview of the various theoretical accounts of the phenomenon, as well as bringing in insights from language acquisition and psycholinguistics, while Part IV focuses on the historical life cycle of vowel harmony, looking at topics such as phonetic factors and the effect of language contact. The final part contains 31 chapters that present data and analysis of vowel harmony across all major language families as well as several isolates, constituting the broadest coverage of the phenomenon to date.

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    Table of Contents:

    Part I. Types of vowel harmony
    Themes in vowel harmony
    The role of consonants in vowel harmony
    Nasal harmony
    Palatal harmony
    Rounding harmony
    Height harmony
    Tongue root harmony [ATR]/[RTR]
    Stress-dependent vowel harmony
    Laxing vowel harmony
    Rhotic vowel harmony
    Minor vowel harmony
    Epiphenomenal and true non-iterative vowel harmony
    Phonology that will not harmonize
    Part II. Structural issues in vowel harmony
    Vowel harmony in the light of contrastive feature theories
    Tongue-root harmony and vowel inventory structure
    Vowel harmony and coda, moraic, or geminate consonants
    Domains of vowel harmony
    A stratal OT perspective on vowel harmony
    Morpho-syntactic asymmetries in Serviglianese vowel harmony domains
    Phrasal vowel harmony
    Non-alternating, non-participating, and idiosyncratic vowels
    Revisiting locality in vowel harmony
    What constitutes privileged positions in vowel harmony?
    Directionality in vowel harmony systems
    Part III. Approaches to vowel harmony
    Vowel harmony in pre-Generative Phonology
    Vowel harmony in classical Generative Phonology
    Multi-linear approaches to vowel harmony
    Vowel harmony in Government Phonology
    Vowel harmony in dependency-based models
    Vowel harmony in Optimality Theory
    Vowel harmony in Optimal Domains Theory
    Harmony in gesture-based phonology
    Votic vowel harmony in Substance Free Logical Phonology
    The computational power of harmonic forms
    Data-driven approaches to vowel harmony
    Vowel harmony in Emergent Phonology
    An exemplar-based approach to vowel harmony
    Vowel harmony in language acquisition
    Psycholinguistic approaches to vowel harmony
    Part IV. Genesis, evolution, and decay of vowel harmony
    Articulatory and perceptual factors in vowel harmony
    Phonetic and functional precursors to vowel harmony
    Vowel harmony in contact situations: The case of the Balkans
    Vowel harmony in computational models of emergence
    On how and why vowel harmony decays
    Examples of diachronic decay of vowel harmony
    Part V. Vowel harmony across languages
    Vowel harmony: Statistical perspectives on typological distribution
    Vowel harmony in Semitic languages
    Vowel harmony in Chadic languages
    Vowel harmony in Nilo-Saharan languages
    Vowel harmony in Niger Congo languages of the Nuba Mountains
    Vowel harmony in non-Bantu Niger-Congo languages
    Vowel harmony in Bantu Niger-Congo languages
    Vowel harmony in North American languages
    Vowel harmony in Mesoamerican languages
    Vowel harmony in South American languages
    Vowel harmony in languages of India
    Vowel harmony in the Munda languages
    Vowel harmony in Sino-Tibetan languages
    Vowel harmony in Turkic languages
    Vowel harmony in Mongolic languages
    Vowel harmony in Tungusic languages
    Vowel harmony in Nivkh
    Vowel harmony in Korean
    Vowel harmony in Ainu
    Vowel harmony in Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages
    Vowel harmony in Yukaghir
    Vowel harmony in Uralic languages
    Umlaut in Germanic languages
    Vowel harmony in Romance languages
    Vowel harmony in Basque
    Vowel harmony in Greek
    Vowel harmony in Armenian
    Vowel harmony in Caucasian languages
    Vowel harmony in Australian languages
    Vowel harmony in Papuan languages
    Vowel harmony in Austronesian languages

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