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| Title: | A Correspondence Approach to Vowel Harmony and Disharmony |
| Authors: | Martin Krämer |
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| Length: | 41 |
| Abstract: | A Correspondence Approach to Vowel Harmony and Disharmony Martin Kraemer University of Duesseldorf In the paper, it will be argued that both harmony and dissimilatory OCP effects on vowels are best analyzed as correspondence relations between output segments within certain domains, rather than as featural alignment as proposed in the literature for analyses of harmony. The presented approach allows for a unitary treatment of harmony and disharmony effects and predicts that disharmony is to be found more rarely. Furthermore, it will be shown that the prosodic domains mora and syllable play a crucial role for harmony. Under this assumption, the fact that consonants can block vowel harmony will be explained straightforwardly. Following Inkelas' (1994) theory of underspecification, the approach allows a division of harmony systems into structure changing (i.e., all overriding) and structure filling (i.e., morpheme-specific) harmony types. My argumentation is based mainly on data from Ainu, Turkish, and Yucatec Maya. You can order a hardcopy of this paper as 'Theorie des Lexikons. Arbeiten des Sonderforschungsbereichs 282 Nr. 107' via sfblex@mail.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de |
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| Article: | Version 1 |