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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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Author:   Nancy A. Ritter (Adjunct Professor of Linguistics, Adjunct Professor of Linguistics, University of Connecticut) ,  Harry van der Hulst (Professor of Linguistics, Professor of Linguistics, University of Connecticut)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 18.00cm , Height: 5.00cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   1.684kg
ISBN:  

9780198826804

ISBN 10:   019882680
Pages:   1152
Publication Date:   10 October 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Part I. Types of vowel harmony 1: Nancy A. Ritter and Harry van der Hulst: Themes in vowel harmony 2: Gunnar Ólafur Hansson: The role of consonants in vowel harmony 3: Bert Botma: Nasal harmony 4: Charles W. Kisseberth and Michael J. Kenstowicz: Palatal harmony 5: Abigail Kaun and Adam G. McCollum: Rounding harmony 6: Heather Goad: Height harmony 7: Roderic F. Casali: Tongue root harmony [ATR]/[RTR] 8: Joan Mascaró: Stress-dependent vowel harmony 9: Nicholas Henriksen and Kelly Kendro: Laxing vowel harmony 10: Norval Smith: Rhotic vowel harmony 11: Norval Smith: Minor vowel harmony 12: Adam G. McCollum: Epiphenomenal and true non-iterative vowel harmony 13: Larry M. Hyman: Phonology that will not harmonize Part II. Structural issues in vowel harmony 14: B. Elan Dresher and Sara Mackenzie: Vowel harmony in the light of contrastive feature theories 15: Roderic F. Casali: Tongue-root harmony and vowel inventory structure 16: David Odden: Vowel harmony and coda, moraic, or geminate consonants 17: Paul Kiparsky: Domains of vowel harmony 18: Paul Kiparsky: A stratal OT perspective on vowel harmony 19: Andrea Calabrese: Morpho-syntactic asymmetries in Serviglianese vowel harmony domains 20: Laura J. Downing and Martin Krämer: Phrasal vowel harmony 21: Martin Krämer: Non-alternating, non-participating, and idiosyncratic vowels 22: Phillip Burness, Kevin McMullin, and Andrew Nevins: Revisiting locality in vowel harmony 23: Aaron Kaplan and Rachel Walker: What constitutes privileged positions in vowel harmony? 24: Shakuntala Mahanta: Directionality in vowel harmony systems Part III. Approaches to vowel harmony 25: Michael J. Kenstowicz: Vowel harmony in pre-Generative Phonology 26: Charles W. Kisseberth and Michael J. Kenstowicz: Vowel harmony in classical Generative Phonology 27: Peter Jurgec: Multi-linear approaches to vowel harmony 28: Krisztina Polgárdi: Vowel harmony in Government Phonology 29: Harry van der Hulst and Jacques Durand: Vowel harmony in dependency-based models 30: Sara Finley: Vowel harmony in Optimality Theory 31: Charles W. Kisseberth: Vowel harmony in Optimal Domains Theory 32: Caitlin Smith: Harmony in gesture-based phonology 33: Marjorie Leduc, Charles Reiss, and Veno Volenec: Votic vowel harmony in Substance Free Logical Phonology 34: Alëna Aksënova, Jonathan Rawski, Thomas Graf, and Jeffrey Heinz: The computational power of harmonic forms 35: Rebecca Knowles and Nathan Sanders: Data-driven approaches to vowel harmony 36: Diana Archangeli and Douglas Pulleyblank: Vowel harmony in Emergent Phonology 37: Jeroen van de Weijer: An exemplar-based approach to vowel harmony 38: Heather Goad and Avery Ozburn: Vowel harmony in language acquisition 39: Anne Pycha and Sara Finley: Psycholinguistic approaches to vowel harmony Part IV. Genesis, evolution, and decay of vowel harmony 40: Adamantios Gafos: Articulatory and perceptual factors in vowel harmony 41: Amanda Rysling and John Kingston: Phonetic and functional precursors to vowel harmony 42: Victor A. Friedman and Brian D. Joseph: Vowel harmony in contact situations: The case of the Balkans 43: Mark Dras and K. David Harrison: Vowel harmony in computational models of emergence 44: Adam G. McCollum: On how and why vowel harmony decays 45: Andrey Nikulin: Examples of diachronic decay of vowel harmony Part V. Vowel harmony across languages 46: Matthew K. Gordon and Michael Fiddler: Vowel harmony: Statistical perspectives on typological distribution 47: Geoffrey Khan: Vowel harmony in Semitic languages 48: Mary Pearce and Joseph Lovestrand: Vowel harmony in Chadic languages 49: Constance Kutsch Lojenga: Vowel harmony in Nilo-Saharan languages 50: Abeer M. A. Bashir and Sharon Rose: Vowel harmony in Niger Congo languages of the Nuba Mountains 51: Nicholas Rolle and Olanike Ola Orie: Vowel harmony in non-Bantu Niger-Congo languages 52: Virginia Boyd: Vowel harmony in Bantu Niger-Congo languages 53: Keren Rice: Vowel harmony in North American languages 54: Chris Rogers: Vowel harmony in Mesoamerican languages 55: Andrey Nikulin: Vowel harmony in South American languages 56: Shakuntala Mahanta and Paul Arsenault: Vowel harmony in languages of India 57: Gregory D. S. Anderson, Luke Horo, and K. David Harrison: Vowel harmony in the Munda languages 58: Katia Chirkova: Vowel harmony in Sino-Tibetan languages 59: Jonathan North Washington: Vowel harmony in Turkic languages 60: Jan-Olof Svantesson: Vowel harmony in Mongolic languages 61: Bing Li and Norval Smith: Vowel harmony in Tungusic languages 62: Bert Botma and Hidetoshi Shiraishi: Vowel harmony in Nivkh 63: Seongyeon Ko: Vowel harmony in Korean 64: Hidetoshi Shiraishi and Bert Botma: Vowel harmony in Ainu 65: Michael J. Kenstowicz: Vowel harmony in Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages 66: Irina Nikolaeva: Vowel harmony in Yukaghir 67: László Fejes, Péter Siptár, and Robert M. Vago: Vowel harmony in Uralic languages 68: Gunnar Ólafur Hansson and Richard Wiese: Umlaut in Germanic languages 69: Stefano Canalis, Jesús Jiménez, Maria-Rosa Lloret, and Margaret E. L. Renwick: Vowel harmony in Romance languages 70: José Ignacio Hualde: Vowel harmony in Basque 71: Anthi Revithiadou: Vowel harmony in Greek 72: Bert Vaux and Ariwan Addy Suhairi: Vowel harmony in Armenian 73: Marika Butskhrikidze: Vowel harmony in Caucasian languages 74: Rob Pensalfini: Vowel harmony in Australian languages 75: Marian Klamer: Vowel harmony in Papuan languages 76: Emily Gasser: Vowel harmony in Austronesian languages

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Nancy A. Ritter is Adjunct Professor of Linguistics at the University of Connecticut. Her research has focused on exploring phonological phenomena from a cognitive perspective and she is currently developing an approach to analysing classical ballet using methods of linguistic analysis and concepts from cognitive science. She is managing and review editor for The Linguistic Review. Harry van der Hulst is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Connecticut, where he specializes in phonology. He has been Editor-in-Chief of The Linguistic Review since 1990 and is co-editor of the Mouton de Gruyter series 'Studies in Generative Grammar'. He is the author of Asymmetries in Vowel Harmony (OUP, 2018), and co-editor of The Oxford History of Phonology (with B. Elan Dresher; OUP, 2022) and Word Prominence in Languages with Complex Morphologies (with Ksenia Bogomolets; OUP, 2023).

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