Vowel Harmony and Correspondence Theory

Vowel Harmony and Correspondence Theory covers the major issues in the generative analysis of vowel harmony and vowel harmony typology. The book offers an economical account of the most prominent features of vowel harmony systems (root control, affix control, dominance, vowel opacity, and neutrality) within the framework of optimality theory, extending the notion of correspondence to the syntagmatic dimension.The book contains a typological overview of vowel harmony patterns, an introduction to the basics of optimality theory including some of its most recent extensions and detailed studies of harmony systems in 10 languages from a variety of language families.

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Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
The phenomenon and the theoretical background
An introduction to vowel harmony	p. 3
Optimality Theory and the formalism of harmony	p. 49
Cyclicity and phonological opacity as constraint coordination and positional faithfulness	p. 89
Case Studies
Edge effects and positional integrity	p. 113
Vowel transparency as balance	p. 157
Trojan vowels and phonological opacity	p. 187
General conclusion	p. 247
Notes	p. 263
App. I: Constrains	p. 271
App. II: Languages	p. 277
References	p. 283
Index	p. 299
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