Consonant Harmony Systems: The Special Status of Coronal Harmony

Shaw, Patricia

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“…Assimilation and dissimilation seem intuitively connected in some way, and a long history of work-going back at least to Kent (1936)-seeks to connect them on the level of analysis (see also Ohala 1981;Shaw 1991;Odden 1994;Nevins 2004, among many, many others). In the heyday of feature geometry, a popular way to connect these processes was to draw on the Obligatory Contour Principle (Leben 1973;Goldsmith 1976:36), a constraint that prohibits identical elements which are adjacent at the melodic level.…”

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Assimilation, dissimilation, and surface correspondence in Sundanese

Bennett

2014

Nat Lang Linguist Theory

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Much recent work has approached long-distance agreement effects using the notion of correspondence between surface segments, driven by relative phonological similarity. This theory of correspondence also has consequences for dissimilatory interactions. Sundanese exhibits a complex [r]∼[l] alternation, which may arise by assimilation or dissimilation. This alternation is analyzed as the result of constraints on surface correspondence, which give rise to both assimilation and dissimilation in complementary distribution, with the choice between them determined by the structural configuration of the interacting liquids. Harmony occurs where surface correspondence between liquids is permitted; dissimilation occurs where such correspondence is prohibited. Dissimilation is argued to emerge from the interaction of constraints that require similar consonants to correspond, and constraints that limit this correspondence, rather than being an effect of anti-similarity constraints.

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Assimilation, dissimilation, and surface correspondence in Sundanese

Bennett

2014

Nat Lang Linguist Theory

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“…But the problem with [±Anterior] as a Coronal dependent is that it adds to the exponence issue in languages like English where / J / can be defined as either [-Anterior] or [+Distributed], on either of these grounds, distinct from /s/. The point also arises in languages with sibilant harmony (See Poser, 1982, Kaisse, 1985, Shaw 1991, for discussion of the various issues in one such language, Chumash).…”

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“…They take the view, widely accepted since SPE, that continuance is a marked property in consonants. (One of the few authors to take the opposite view is Shaw, 1991). H continuance is the marked property, the property of non-continuance (defined in terms of both articulation and the spectral distribution of aperiodic noise) still has to be built by a particular step of structure-building, one that applies only in consonants.…”

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The Price of a Perfect System: Learnability and the Distribution of Errors in the Speech of Children Learning English as a First Language

Nunes

2008

Language Acquisition

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The price of a perfect system: learnability and the distribution of errors in the speech of children learning English as a rst language The full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source• a link is made to the metadata record in Durham E-Theses• the full-text is not changed in any wayThe full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full Durham E-Theses policy for further details. The copyright of this thesis rests with its author. Without the author's permission and full acknowledgement as to the source, there shall be no publication of any part of this thesis exceeding permissible quotation of the text or information contained within the text. ~ ~

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“…In existing surveys of long-distance consonant harmony, no instances of major place harmony have been found (Shaw 1991, Hansson 2010, Rose & Walker 2004, Bennett 2013). In such a case, the agreeing feature between two segments is any of [coronal], [dorsal], or [labial].…”

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Major Place Harmony in ABC and the (Reduced) Role of Representation: Evidence from Ngbaka

Danis

2017

AMP

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Ngbaka (Ubangi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, [nga]) contains place co-occurrences that are best analyzed as instances of major place harmony, a previously unattested process. In roots, labials cannot co-occur with labial-dorsals, and initial dorsals cannot co-occur with medial labial-dorsals. Using the framework of Agreement by Correspondence, labials (and certain dorsals) correspond, and agree for place. These processes interact with an additional process where homorganic segments agree in voicing. Asymmetries in place interaction is captured through constraint ranking and definitions, thus simplifying the representation of complex segments. These processes are supported by a statistical analysis of newly-digitized dictionary data.

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Consonant Harmony Systems: The Special Status of Coronal Harmony

Cited by 70 publications

References 8 publications

Assimilation, dissimilation, and surface correspondence in Sundanese

Assimilation, dissimilation, and surface correspondence in Sundanese

The Price of a Perfect System: Learnability and the Distribution of Errors in the Speech of Children Learning English as a First Language

Major Place Harmony in ABC and the (Reduced) Role of Representation: Evidence from Ngbaka

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