The Oxford Handbook of Vowel Harmony

NOTE EDITORE

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. Vowel harmony has been central in the development of phonological theories thanks to its cluster of remarkable properties, notably its typically 'unbounded' character and its non-locality, and because it forms part of the phonology of most world languages. The five parts of this volume cover all aspects of vowel harmony from a range of theoretical and methodological perspectives. Part I outlines the types of vowel harmony and some unusual cases, before Part II explores structural issues such as vowel inventories, the interaction of vowel harmony and morphological structure, and locality. The chapters in Part III provide an overview of the various theoretical accounts of the phenomenon, as well as bringing in insights from language acquisition and psycholinguistics, while Part IV focuses on the historical life cycle of vowel harmony, looking at topics such as phonetic factors and the effect of language contact. The final part contains 31 chapters that present data and analysis of vowel harmony across all major language families as well as several isolates, constituting the broadest coverage of the phenomenon to date.

SOMMARIO

1 - Themes in vowel harmony2 - The role of consonants in vowel harmony3 - Nasal harmony4 - Palatal harmony5 - Rounding harmony6 - Height harmony7 - Tongue root harmony [ATR]/[RTR]8 - Stress-dependent vowel harmony9 - Laxing vowel harmony10 - Rhotic vowel harmony11 - Minor vowel harmony12 - Epiphenomenal and true non-iterative vowel harmony13 - Phonology that will not harmonize14 - Vowel harmony in the light of contrastive feature theories15 - Tongue-root harmony and vowel inventory structure16 - Vowel harmony and coda, moraic, or geminate consonants17 - Domains of vowel harmony18 - A stratal OT perspective on vowel harmony19 - Morpho-syntactic asymmetries in Serviglianese vowel harmony domains20 - Phrasal vowel harmony21 - Non-alternating, non-participating, and idiosyncratic vowels22 - Revisiting locality in vowel harmony23 - What constitutes privileged positions in vowel harmony?24 - Directionality in vowel harmony systems25 - Vowel harmony in pre-Generative Phonology26 - Vowel harmony in classical Generative Phonology27 - Multi-linear approaches to vowel harmony28 - Vowel harmony in Government Phonology29 - Vowel harmony in dependency-based models30 - Vowel harmony in Optimality Theory31 - Vowel harmony in Optimal Domains Theory32 - Harmony in gesture-based phonology33 - Votic vowel harmony in Substance Free Logical Phonology34 - The computational power of harmonic forms35 - Data-driven approaches to vowel harmony36 - Vowel harmony in Emergent Phonology37 - An exemplar-based approach to vowel harmony38 - Vowel harmony in language acquisition39 - Psycholinguistic approaches to vowel harmony40 - Articulatory and perceptual factors in vowel harmony41 - Phonetic and functional precursors to vowel harmony42 - Vowel harmony in contact situations: The case of the Balkans43 - Vowel harmony in computational models of emergence44 - On how and why vowel harmony decays45 - Examples of diachronic decay of vowel harmony46 - Vowel harmony: Statistical perspectives on typological distribution47 - Vowel harmony in Semitic languages48 - Vowel harmony in Chadic languages49 - Vowel harmony in Nilo-Saharan languages50 - Vowel harmony in Niger Congo languages of the Nuba Mountains51 - Vowel harmony in non-Bantu Niger-Congo languages52 - Vowel harmony in Bantu Niger-Congo languages53 - Vowel harmony in North American languages54 - Vowel harmony in Mesoamerican languages55 - Vowel harmony in South American languages56 - Vowel harmony in languages of India57 - Vowel harmony in the Munda languages58 - Vowel harmony in Sino-Tibetan languages59 - Vowel harmony in Turkic languages60 - Vowel harmony in Mongolic languages61 - Vowel harmony in Tungusic languages62 - Vowel harmony in Nivkh63 - Vowel harmony in Korean64 - Vowel harmony in Ainu65 - Vowel harmony in Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages66 - Vowel harmony in Yukaghir67 - Vowel harmony in Uralic languages68 - Umlaut in Germanic languages69 - Vowel harmony in Romance languages70 - Vowel harmony in Basque71 - Vowel harmony in Greek72 - Vowel harmony in Armenian73 - Vowel harmony in Caucasian languages74 - Vowel harmony in Australian languages75 - Vowel harmony in Papuan languages76 - Vowel harmony in Austronesian languages

AUTORE

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).

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780198826804
• Dimensioni: 254 x 50.0 x 180 mm Ø 1684 gr
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pagine Arabe: 1152