Typological survey of harmony systems

[Edith A Moravcsik]

A recent crosslinguistic survey of consonant harmony is provided in this book: 

Gunnar Olafur Hansson (2010). Consonant harmony. Long-distance interaction in phonolog y. University of California Press. 

Edith 

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From: "Alexis Dimitriadis" <A.Dimitriadis at UU.NL> 
To: LINGTYP at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG 
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2012 8:02:45 AM 
Subject: Re: Typological survey of harmony systems 

Dear Emily, 

The TDS does have some information on vowel and consonant harmony, which 
comes from the SyllTyp database (van der Hulst & Goedemans). I see data 
on 67 languages: 22 with vowel harmony rules (including a brief 
description of the rules), and 45 without. There's only one language 
listed with consonant harmony, Hungarian. 

Best, 

Alexis 

PS. On the old TDS interface (http://languagelink.let.uu.nl/tds/) you 
can also visualize the data on a map. 


On 21/07/2012 19:03, Emily M. Bender wrote: 
> Dear all, 
> 
> Just a quick summary to the list of what I have received so far. 
> No one has been able to suggest a world-wide survey, but 
> Yvonne Treis pointed out Ursula Drolc's survey in African languages: 
> 
> http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/afrikanistik/forschung/ressourcen/vokalharmonie/index.html 
> 
> with the associated list of languages and references: 
> 
> http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/afrikanistik/forschung/ressourcen/vokalharmonie/literatur/index.html 
> 
> And Harry van der Hulst directed me to his bibliography in Oxford 
> Bibliographies Online: 
> 
> http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199772810/obo-9780199772810-0087.xml 
> 
> Emily 
> 
> On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 5:30 PM, Emily M. Bender 
> <ebender at u.washington.edu> wrote: 
>> Dear all, 
>> 
>> I'm looking for an estimate of prevalence of vowel harmony in the 
>> world's languages. Neither WALS nor TDS has vowel harmony 
>> as a feature (that I can tell). Has anyone done a large scale 
>> survey of harmony phenomena? 
>> 
>> Thanks, 
>> Emily 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Emily M. Bender 
> Associate Professor 
> Department of Linguistics 
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Alexis Dimitriadis 
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Edith A. Moravcsik 
Professor Emerita of Linguistics 
Department of Linguistics 
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 
Milwaukee, WI 53201-0413 
USA 
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