Oxford Handbook of Vowel Harmony

This handbook provides a detailed account of the phenomenon of vowel harmony, a pattern according to which all vowels within a word must agree for some phonological property or properties. The volume explores all aspects of vowel harmony from a range of theoretical and methodological perspectives.

List of contents

• Part I. Types of vowel harmony


• 1: Nancy A. Ritter and Harry van der Hulst: Themes in vowel harmony


• 2: Gunnar Ólafur Hansson: The role of consonants in vowel harmony


• 3: Bert Botma: Nasal harmony


• 4: Charles W. Kisseberth and Michael J. Kenstowicz: Palatal harmony


• 5: Abigail Kaun and Adam G. McCollum: Rounding harmony


• 6: Heather Goad: Height harmony


• 7: Roderic F. Casali: Tongue root harmony [ATR]/[RTR]


• 8: Joan Mascaró: Stress-dependent vowel harmony


• 9: Nicholas Henriksen and Kelly Kendro: Laxing vowel harmony


• 10: Norval Smith: Rhotic vowel harmony


• 11: Norval Smith: Minor vowel harmony


• 12: Adam G. McCollum: Epiphenomenal and true non-iterative vowel harmony


• 13: Larry M. Hyman: Phonology that will not harmonize


• Part II. Structural issues in vowel harmony


• 14: B. Elan Dresher and Sara Mackenzie: Vowel harmony in the light of contrastive feature theories


• 15: Roderic F. Casali: Tongue-root harmony and vowel inventory structure


• 16: David Odden: Vowel harmony and coda, moraic, or geminate consonants


• 17: Paul Kiparsky: Domains of vowel harmony


• 18: Paul Kiparsky: A stratal OT perspective on vowel harmony


• 19: Andrea Calabrese: Morpho-syntactic asymmetries in Serviglianese vowel harmony domains


• 20: Laura J. Downing and Martin Krämer: Phrasal vowel harmony


• 21: Martin Krämer: Non-alternating, non-participating, and idiosyncratic vowels


• 22: Phillip Burness, Kevin McMullin, and Andrew Nevins: Revisiting locality in vowel harmony


• 23: Aaron Kaplan and Rachel Walker: What constitutes privileged positions in vowel harmony?


• 24: Shakuntala Mahanta: Directionality in vowel harmony systems


• Part III. Approaches to vowel harmony


• 25: Michael J. Kenstowicz: Vowel harmony in pre-Generative Phonology


• 26: Charles W. Kisseberth and Michael J. Kenstowicz: Vowel harmony in classical Generative Phonology


• 27: Peter Jurgec: Multi-linear approaches to vowel harmony


• 28: Krisztina Polgárdi: Vowel harmony in Government Phonology


• 29: Harry van der Hulst and Jacques Durand: Vowel harmony in dependency-based models


• 30: Sara Finley: Vowel harmony in Optimality Theory


• 31: Charles W. Kisseberth: Vowel harmony in Optimal Domains Theory


• 32: Caitlin Smith: Harmony in gesture-based phonology


• 33: Marjorie Leduc, Charles Reiss, and Veno Volenec: Votic vowel harmony in Substance Free Logical Phonology


• 34: Alëna Aksënova, Jonathan Rawski, Thomas Graf, and Jeffrey Heinz: The computational power of harmonic forms


• 35: Rebecca Knowles and Nathan Sanders: Data-driven approaches to vowel harmony


• 36: Diana Archangeli and Douglas Pulleyblank: Vowel harmony in Emergent Phonology


• 37: Jeroen van de Weijer: An exemplar-based approach to vowel harmony


• 38: Heather Goad and Avery Ozburn: Vowel harmony in language acquisition


• 39: Anne Pycha and Sara Finley: Psycholinguistic approaches to vowel harmony


• Part IV. Genesis, evolution, and decay of vowel harmony


• 40: Adamantios Gafos: Articulatory and perceptual factors in vowel harmony


• 41: Amanda Rysling and John Kingston: Phonetic and functional precursors to vowel harmony


• 42: Victor A. Friedman and Brian D. Joseph: Vowel harmony in contact situations: The case of the Balkans


• 43: Mark Dras and K. David Harrison: Vowel harmony in computational models of emergence


• 44: Adam G. McCollum: On how and why vowel harmony decays


• 45: Andrey Nikulin: Examples of diachronic decay of vowel harmony


• Part V. Vowel harmony across languages


• 46: Matthew K. Gordon and Michael Fiddler: Vowel harmony: Statistical perspectives on typological distribution


• 47: Geoffrey Khan: Vowel harmony in Semitic languages


• 48: Mary Pearce and Joseph Lovestrand: Vowel harmony in Chadic languages


• 49: Constance Kutsch Lojenga: Vowel harmony in Nilo-Saharan languages


• 50: Abeer M. A. Bashir and Sharon Rose: Vowel harmony in Niger Congo languages of the Nuba Mountains


• 51: Nicholas Rolle and Olanike Ola Orie: Vowel harmony in non-Bantu Niger-Congo languages


• 52: Virginia Boyd: Vowel harmony in Bantu Niger-Congo languages


• 53: Keren Rice: Vowel harmony in North American languages


• 54: Chris Rogers: Vowel harmony in Mesoamerican languages


• 55: Andrey Nikulin: Vowel harmony in South American languages


• 56: Shakuntala Mahanta and Paul Arsenault: Vowel harmony in languages of India


• 57: Gregory D. S. Anderson, Luke Horo, and K. David Harrison: Vowel harmony in the Munda languages


• 58: Katia Chirkova: Vowel harmony in Sino-Tibetan languages


• 59: Jonathan North Washington: Vowel harmony in Turkic languages


• 60: Jan-Olof Svantesson: Vowel harmony in Mongolic languages


• 61: Bing Li and Norval Smith: Vowel harmony in Tungusic languages


• 62: Bert Botma and Hidetoshi Shiraishi: Vowel harmony in Nivkh


• 63: Seongyeon Ko: Vowel harmony in Korean


• 64: Hidetoshi Shiraishi and Bert Botma: Vowel harmony in Ainu


• 65: Michael J. Kenstowicz: Vowel harmony in Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages


• 66: Irina Nikolaeva: Vowel harmony in Yukaghir


• 67: László Fejes, Péter Siptár, and Robert M. Vago: Vowel harmony in Uralic languages


• 68: Gunnar Ólafur Hansson and Richard Wiese: Umlaut in Germanic languages


• 69: Stefano Canalis, Jesús Jiménez, Maria-Rosa Lloret, and Margaret E. L. Renwick: Vowel harmony in Romance languages


• 70: José Ignacio Hualde: Vowel harmony in Basque


• 71: Anthi Revithiadou: Vowel harmony in Greek


• 72: Bert Vaux and Ariwan Addy Suhairi: Vowel harmony in Armenian


• 73: Marika Butskhrikidze: Vowel harmony in Caucasian languages


• 74: Rob Pensalfini: Vowel harmony in Australian languages


• 75: Marian Klamer: Vowel harmony in Papuan languages


• 76: Emily Gasser: Vowel harmony in Austronesian languages

About the author

Nancy A. Ritter is Adjunct Professor of Linguistics at the University of Connecticut. Her research has focused on exploring phonological phenomena from a cognitive perspective and she is currently developing an approach to analysing classical ballet using methods of linguistic analysis and concepts from cognitive science. She is managing and review editor for The Linguistic Review.

Harry van der Hulst is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Connecticut, where he specializes in phonology. He has been Editor-in-Chief of The Linguistic Review since 1990 and is co-editor of the Mouton de Gruyter series 'Studies in Generative Grammar'. He is the author of Asymmetries in Vowel Harmony (OUP, 2018), and co-editor of The Oxford History of Phonology (with B. Elan Dresher; OUP, 2022) and Word Prominence in Languages with Complex Morphologies (with Ksenia Bogomolets; OUP, 2023).

Summary

This handbook provides a detailed account of the phenomenon of vowel harmony, a pattern according to which all vowels within a word must agree for some phonological property or properties. The volume explores all aspects of vowel harmony from a range of theoretical and methodological perspectives.

Product details

• Authors: Nancy A. (Adjunct Professor of Linguistics Ritter
• Assisted by: Ritter (Editor), van der Hulst (Editor), Nancy A. Ritter (Editor), Ritter Nancy A. (Editor), Harry van der Hulst (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.08.2024
• EAN: 9780198826804
• ISBN: 978-0-19-882680-4
• No. of pages: 1152
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Phonetics, phonology, Grammar, syntax and morphology