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Asymmetries in Vowel Harmony - A Representational Account (Hardcover) Loot Price: R3,627
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Asymmetries in Vowel Harmony - A Representational Account (Hardcover): Harry van der Hulst

Asymmetries in Vowel Harmony - A Representational Account (Hardcover)

Harry van der Hulst

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This book deals with the phenomenon of vowel harmony, a phonological process whereby all the vowels in a word are required to share a specific phonological property, such as front or back articulation. Vowel harmony occurs in the majority of languages of the world, though only in very few European languages, and has been a central concern in phonological theory for many years. In this volume, Harry van der Hulst puts forward a new theory of vowel harmony, which accounts for the patterns of and exceptions to this phenomenon in the widest range of languages ever considered. The book begins with an overview of the general causes of asymmetries in vowel harmony systems. The two following chapters provide a detailed account of a new theory of vowel harmony based on unary elements and licensing, which is embedded in a general dependency-based theory of phonological structure. In the remaining chapters, this theory is applied to a variety of vowel harmony phenomena from typologically diverse languages, including palatal harmony in languages such as Finnish and Hungarian, labial harmony in Turkic languages, and tongue root systems in Niger-Congo, Nilo-Saharan, and Tungusic languages. The volume provides a valuable overview of the diversity of vowel harmony in the languages of the world and is essential reading for phonologists of all theoretical persuasions.

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: September 2018
Authors: Harry van der Hulst (Professor of Linguistics)
Dimensions: 242 x 163 x 37mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 524
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-881357-6
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Phonetics, phonology, prosody (speech)
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LSN: 0-19-881357-0
Barcode: 9780198813576

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