Oroch vowel harmony

Tolskaya, Inna

doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2013.10.012

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“…It has also been argued that RTR is the original harmonic feature in Tungusic . However, this thesis makes new contributions that can be summarized as follows: (i) first, I argue that Manchu is better analyzed as an RTR, not an ATR, language (contra Zhang and Dresher, 2004); second, I will show that Oroch has the same contrastive hierarchy as Manchu, contra the view of Tolskaya (2008) and Nevins (2010), who claim that Oroch cannot be analyzed in a contrastive hierarchy approach; third, I also present contrastive hierarchy analyses of other Tungusic languages and argue that RTR, not ATR, is indeed the original contrast in all Tungusic languages.…”

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“…Section 0 turns to the Southeast Tungusic languages such as Udihe, Oroch, Ulch, Uilta (Orok), and Nanai, and shows that an RTR-based contrastive hierarchy analysis is a viable option for all of these languages. Oroch will receive our particular attention since it has been analyzed within various frameworks other than the contrastive hierarchy approach such as a phonetics-based OT approach by Kaun (1995), a Stratal OT approach by Tolskaya (2008), and a Search-and-Copy model of vowel harmony in Nevins (2010). Contra those specific claims that it is impossible to give a proper CHbased treatment for Oroch (Nevins, 2010;Tolskaya, 2008), I will specifically demonstrate that Oroch vowel harmony patterns can be better analyzed with the same RTR-based contrastive hierarchy as in Written Manchu.…”

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“…Oroch will receive our particular attention since it has been analyzed within various frameworks other than the contrastive hierarchy approach such as a phonetics-based OT approach by Kaun (1995), a Stratal OT approach by Tolskaya (2008), and a Search-and-Copy model of vowel harmony in Nevins (2010). Contra those specific claims that it is impossible to give a proper CHbased treatment for Oroch (Nevins, 2010;Tolskaya, 2008), I will specifically demonstrate that Oroch vowel harmony patterns can be better analyzed with the same RTR-based contrastive hierarchy as in Written Manchu. I will also show that Udihe, which has been analyzed as a height harmony language (Nikolaeva & Tolskaya, 2001), can be better analyzed under a similar approach.…”

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“…(125) Proto-Tungusic vowel system: a palatal analysis (Benzing, 1956) (126) Basic vowel correspondences ) Lebedeva, 1978Comrie, 1981;Kaun, 1995;Tolskaya, 2008), Ulch (Kaun, 1995;Sunik, 1985), Udihe (Nikolaeva & Tolskaya, 2001, p. 72). Labial harmony in these languages are confined to low vowels.…”

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“…These examples are (perhaps mistakenly) cited as tŋɡo-v -d , t ŋɡo-dʊ-da, t ŋɡo-ɲi-d in Nevins (2010, p. 140). They are corrected here based onTolskaya (2008).…”

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Tongue Root Harmony and Vowel Contrast in Northeast Asian Languages

Ko¹

2018

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Roughly speaking, the above ten languages can be divided into two groups: the socalled "Paleosiberian" and "Altaic" language groups. Ainuic, Amuric, Kamchukotic, Yeniseic, and Yukaghiric belong to the first group (Comrie, 1981;Vajda, 2009) and Japonic, Koreanic, Monglic, Tungusic, and Turkic belong to the second group. This thesis focuses on the second group, especially Koreanic, Mongolic, and Tungusic languages, which have (or once had) a vowel harmony based on tongue root contrast.Turkic languages, another major member of the "Altaic" language group, are widely understood to have a different type of vowel harmony, namely, palatal harmony. They will not be extensively investigated per se, but their vowel systems and harmony patterns will be introduced where a comparison is necessary. Japonic (Japanese-Ryukyuan) languages, on the contrary, will be ignored simply because there is no clear evidence of the existence of vowel harmony in the history of the Japanese language.Note that, although I use the term "Altaic" thoughout the thesis, it is not to be understood as suggesting a genetic relationship among them. 1 Rather, I will use it as a bik-i 'beakie' biʧ-i 'beachie' hus-i 'housie' bin-i 'beanie' ʍil-i 'wheelie' snut-i 'snooty' b. non-high vowel stems gem-e 'gamie' hɜl-e 'hilly' got-e 'goatie' her-e 'hairy' hʌrt-e 'hurtie' post-e 'postie' nel-e 'nailie' bʌk-e 'Buckie' mom-e 'mommy' hel-e 'hailie' baʧ-e 'batchie' tost-e 'toasty' nɛs-e 'Nessie' man-e 'mannie' sɔs-e 'saucy' mɛs-e 'messy' las-e 'lassie' rɔk-e 'rocky' Tongue root harmonyTongue root harmony, also rather inadequately called tenseness harmony, horizontal harmony, relative height harmony, and cross-height harmony in the literature, is based on the opposition between the advanced vs. retracted position of the tongue root.A well-known, or arguably the first known example of a canonical tongue root harmony system (cf. Cenggeltei, 1959) is Igbo, a Niger-Congo language spoken in Nigeria (Ladefoged, 1964). As shown in ( 7), the eight simple vowels in Igbo fall into 9 Palatalized and plain consonants contrast only in words with RTR vowels (Svantesson et al., 2005, p. 28).

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“…These examples are (perhaps mistakenly) cited as tŋɡo-v -d , t ŋɡo-dʊ-da, t ŋɡo-ɲi-d in Nevins (2010, p. 140). They are corrected here based onTolskaya (2008).…”

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