Consonant Harmony: Long-Distance Interactions in PhonologyThis extensive survey of consonant harmony in the world’s languages reveals surprising diversity in the featural dimensions involved, and uncovers new empirical generalizations and tendencies. Striking parallels with phonological speech errors suggest a connection to the psycholinguistic domain of speech planning. An Optimality Theory analysis of consonant harmony as long-distance featural agreement, rather than feature spreading, is developed in detail. |
Contents
INTRODUCTION 13 | 1 |
A CROSSLINGUISTIC TYPOLOGY OF CONSONANT HARMONY | 29 |
A CONSTRAINTBASED ANALYSIS OF CONSONANT HARMONY | 209 |
BEYOND THE BASICS | 295 |
SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS | 373 |
Consonant Harmony Database | 381 |
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affix affricates agreement alternations alveolar articulatory assimilation assimilatory asymmetry Athapaskan attested Aymara Bantu Bantu languages Bukusu C₁ candidate CC correspondence Chiosáin & Padgett co-occurrence co-occurrence restrictions consonant harmony systems contexts contrast coronal harmony sibilants CORR-C↔C correspondence relation dental dialect discussed disharmonic dissimilation domain dorsal consonant example fact fricatives Gafos Hansson harmonic ordering homorganic Hyman IDENT[ant]-CC IDENT[F]-CC identical Ineseño input interaction intervening segments involve labial languages laryngeal harmony liquid harmony long-distance markedness Misantla Totonac mony morpheme morpheme-internal morphological nasal consonant harmony Ndebele Ngizim Ní Chiosáin Nkore-Kiga obstruent opacity effects opaque output pairs Palatal Bias Päri patterns perseveratory pharyngealization phonological place of articulation postalveolar prefix relevant retroflex retroflexion right-to-left root root-final root-initial root-internal Rose & Walker sequences similar speech errors spreading stem control stops stricture harmony structure suffix syllable Tahltan Tepehua transparent transvocalic trigger harmony Tsilhqot'in typological uvular velar voiceless voicing harmony vowel harmony vowel-consonant harmony Yabem Zayse