<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: courier new,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000'>A recent crosslinguistic survey of consonant harmony is provided in this book:<br><br>Gunnar Olafur Hansson (2010). <i>Consonant harmony. Long-distance interaction in phonolog</i>y. University of California Press.<br><br>Edith<br><br><hr id="zwchr"><b>From: </b>"Alexis Dimitriadis" <A.Dimitriadis@UU.NL><br><b>To: </b>LINGTYP@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG<br><b>Sent: </b>Thursday, July 26, 2012 8:02:45 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: Typological survey of harmony systems<br><br>Dear Emily,<br><br>The TDS does have some information on vowel and consonant harmony, which <br>comes from the SyllTyp database (van der Hulst & Goedemans). I see data <br>on 67 languages: 22 with vowel harmony rules (including a brief <br>description of the rules), and 45 without. There's only one language <br>listed with consonant harmony, Hungarian.<br><br>Best,<br><br>Alexis<br><br>PS. On the old TDS interface (http://languagelink.let.uu.nl/tds/) you <br>can also visualize the data on a map.<br><br><br>On 21/07/2012 19:03, Emily M. Bender wrote:<br>> Dear all,<br>><br>> Just a quick summary to the list of what I have received so far.<br>> No one has been able to suggest a world-wide survey, but<br>> Yvonne Treis pointed out Ursula Drolc's survey in African languages:<br>><br>> http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/afrikanistik/forschung/ressourcen/vokalharmonie/index.html<br>><br>> with the associated list of languages and references:<br>><br>> http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/afrikanistik/forschung/ressourcen/vokalharmonie/literatur/index.html<br>><br>> And Harry van der Hulst directed me to his bibliography in Oxford<br>> Bibliographies Online:<br>><br>> http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199772810/obo-9780199772810-0087.xml<br>><br>> Emily<br>><br>> On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 5:30 PM, Emily M. Bender<br>> <ebender@u.washington.edu> wrote:<br>>> Dear all,<br>>><br>>> I'm looking for an estimate of prevalence of vowel harmony in the<br>>> world's languages. Neither WALS nor TDS has vowel harmony<br>>> as a feature (that I can tell). Has anyone done a large scale<br>>> survey of harmony phenomena?<br>>><br>>> Thanks,<br>>> Emily<br>><br>><br>> --<br>> Emily M. Bender<br>> Associate Professor<br>> Department of Linguistics<br>> Check out CLMS on facebook! http://www.facebook.com/uwclma<br><br>-- <br>_____________________________________________<br><br>Alexis Dimitriadis<br>A.Dimitriadis@uu.nl<br>+31-30-253-6568<br><br>Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS<br>Trans 10<br>3512 JK Utrecht<br>The Netherlands<br><br><br>-- <br><div><span name="x"></span>Edith A. Moravcsik<br>Professor Emerita of Linguistics<br>Department of Linguistics<br>University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee<br>Milwaukee, WI 53201-0413<br>USA<span name="x"></span><br></div></div></body></html>