The Oxford Handbook of Vowel Harmony - Ritter, Nancy A.; van der Hulst, Harry; (ed.) - Prospero Internet Bookshop
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ISBN13:9780198826804
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The Oxford Handbook of Vowel Harmony

 
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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. The volume explores all aspects of vowel harmony from a range of theoretical and methodological perspectives.

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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.
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