Abstract
This chapter focuses on the typology of palatal harmony: phonotactic restrictions and phonological alternations for the feature [back]. The first half reviews the parameters for target, trigger, and directionality, as well as neutral, opaque, and transparent vowels in the better-documented Finnish, Turkish, Hungarian, Tuvan, and Uyghur. The second half summarizes the more restricted palatal harmonies in various dialects of Mari (Cheremis). Local harmony primarily affects reduced non-high central vowels. Non-local harmony arises from strengthening a word-final reduced vowel to a full vowel whose palatality (and roundness) is assimilated from a preceding vowel depending on factors of stress, distance, and the full versus reduced status of the trigger. The chapter concludes with a palatal harmony found in the first two syllables of the word in Lezgian; here pre-verbs harmonize with a following stem vowel, demonstrating that palatal harmony can function bidirectionally like the better-known cases of advanced tongue root harmony.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | The Oxford Handbook of Vowel Harmony |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 49-60 |
Number of pages | 12 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9780191865718 |
ISBN (Print) | 9780198826804 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 22 Oct 2024 |
Keywords
- Canonical vs. non-canonical harmony
- Disharmonic word
- Local vs. non-local harmony
- Neutral vowel
- Stress in harmony
- Target vs. trigger