30.160, Books: Asymmetries in Vowel Harmony: Hulst

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Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2019 15:21:50
From: Alyssa Russell [Alyssa.Russell at oup.com]
Subject: Asymmetries in Vowel Harmony: Hulst

 


Title: Asymmetries in Vowel Harmony 
Subtitle: A Representational Account 
Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/asymmetries-in-vowel-harmony-9780198813576 


Author: Harry van der Hulst

Hardback: ISBN:  9780198813576 Pages: 528 Price: U.S. $ 110.00


Abstract:

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.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
                     Phonetics
                     Phonology
                     Typology


Written In: English  (eng)

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