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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"vowel harmony"”.
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Stress and vowel harmony in Telugu
This thesis presents a study of vowel harmony in Telugu, a Dravidian language. Vowel harmony in this language is manifest primarily in the form of vowel alternations in paradigms triggered by suffixes. I present a robust factual generalization that holds true of alternations in different types of …
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Vowel harmony in Nez Perce and Korean.
In this study, I will try to show that vowel harmony in Nez Perce and Korean can be described as a (-ATR) spreading rule. The assumption that the harmonizing feature is (-ATR) is based on Hall and Hall (1980) in the case of Nez Perce, and on Hwang's formant analysis (1983) in the case of Korean. By …
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The Clause Structure of the Shimaore Dialect of Comorian (Bantu)
… functional projections that are represented by vowel harmony between the vowel in the verb stem and the ""final vowel"". I demonstrate that when this vowel harmony is blocked, it is because the verb is no longer in a local relation with the head of the projection in question (namely, a …
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TURKISH TO GO: TEACHING INTELLECTUAL SKILLS ONLINE
… the e-learning resource is the rules of Turkish vowel harmony, a fundamental phonological feature of the Turkish language. The purpose of the e-learning resource is to provide novice learners with a set of tools and strategies with which to approach the future study of Turkish.</p> <p>A …
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Advanced Tongue Root harmony in Setswana.
… in the analysis of Advanced Tongue Root (ATR) vowel harmony in Setswana, a language spoken in South Africa and Botswana. Setswana presents a particularly interesting problem as regards the analysis of harmonic patterns since there exists in the language evidence on the one hand that: (a) all …
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Phonetic Grounding and Phonology: Vowel Backness Harmony and Vowel Height Harmony
… that phonological approaches that model vowel harmony as spreading or agreement of features are inadequate. Within those models, there is no prediction that VBH and VHH should be fundamentally different. Typological patterns of harmony are influenced by phonetic processes of speech. It is …
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Phonemic inventory of the Shor language
… is characterized by agglutinative morphology, vowel harmony, and consonant assimilation typical of Turkic languages, which are discussed in the project. The main phonological processes, morphotactics, and some aspects of grammar are described and discussed in this thesis. Along with the …
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Aspects of Pulaar Non-Linear Phonology
… and general notions about Pulaar. We give the vowel as well as consonant inventory of the language and a general review of the morphology and syntax of Pulaar. Because many processes discussed in this dissertation make reference, in one way or another to the syllable, chapter two is going to …
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Thodisiso ya tshanduko dza mibvumo dzi bveledzwa nga pfalandothe kha Tshivenda
… phonological processes involving Tshivenḓa vowels. The Tshivenḓa phonological processes involving vowels under this study include vowel elision/deletion, vowel epenthesis, vowel coalescence, vowel nasalisation, vowel harmony, vowel raising and glide formation. In this regard, consonants are …
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Assimilation in classical Arabic: a phonological study
… sounds upon others when these occur adjacently. Vowels are then discussed in detail, particularly with respect to the best-known phenomena associated with them: im{= a}lah, vowel harmony, lengthening and shortening, and tafkhim. Under im{= a}lah, we consider whether the alif al-im{= a}lah is an …
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Topics in the Grammar of Koryak
… a similar conclusion regarding the language’s vowel harmony system. Both of these chapters there- fore argue for a phonological architecture that includes the morpheme as a domain of to which phonology can apply, as in early generative phonology (Halle 1959; Chomsky and Halle 1968), but unlike …
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The morphophonemics of the Idaacha dialect of Yoruba
… /j/, /k/, /g/, /kp/, /gb/, /w/, /h/, and twelve vowels, /i/, /u/, /e/, /o/, /c/, /o/, /a/, r/, /u/, /E /, /o/, /a/.Particular attention is paid to vowel harmony (VH) and tones. It is argued that the high vowels, /i/, r/, /u/, and /u/ do not participate in this process. As one would expect, VH …
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A Phonological Study of the Tegem Language
… features of consonants, consonant sequences, vowels, syllables, and tones in Tegem. The description includes a brief account of relevant morphophonemic phenomena such as the voicing assimilation, consonant labialization and noun class sound alternations. Tegem consonants and vowels phonemes …
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On natural and probabilisic effects during acquisition of morphophonemic alternations
… In one language the alternation is natural (vowel harmony); in the other language the alternation is arbitrary (a vowel alternation depends on the sonorancy of the first consonant of the stem). The participants were divided in two groups, one group listened to the natural alternation and the …
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Tongue Root Harmony And Vowel Contrast In Northeast Asian Languages
… history by demonstrating that the original vowel harmony in these languages was in fact based on an RTR, rather than a palatal, contrast, and provides a formal account for the development of individual vowel systems within the framework of Contrastive Hierarchy (Dresher, 2009). Following the …
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A grammar of Awtuw
… Awtuw has eleven phonemic consonants and seven vowels isolated on the basis of minimal pairs. Morphophonemic rules simplify geminates and certain other consonant clusters, elide vowels, assimilate nasals to following stops, and insert epenthetic vowels. There are also a number of vowel harmony …
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A grammar of Awtuw
… Awtuw has eleven phonemic consonants and seven vowels isolated on the basis of minimal pairs. Morphophonemic rules simplify geminates and certain other consonant clusters, elide vowels, assimilate nasals to following stops, and insert epenthetic vowels. There are also a number of vowel harmony …