Towards a typology of disharmony
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20344126 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul Kiparsky, Karl Pajusalu (0000-0001-5554-5049) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 2-4 |
| Publication date | 2003-01-19 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Linguistic Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0167-6318 • E-ISSN: 1613-3676 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/tlir.2003.009 |
| OpenAlex | W2029450805 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 21 |
| References cited | 9 |
We propose an OT-theoretic typology of vowel harmony systems based on a comparative study of front/back harmony. Harmony processes are governed by a general constraint that imposes feature agreement on neighboring segments. Disharmonic (“neutral”) segments arise when this constraint is dominated by markedness constraints and/or by faithfulness constraints that govern segment inventories. These constraint interactions determine whether disharmonic segments are opaque or transparent, and fix the cross-linguistically diverse behavior of the latter. We make crucial use of two modes of local constraint conjunction, which are already implicit in the current theory. Our proposal restricts this theory by eliminating the possibility of freely stipulating the domain of local conjunction. 1 Harmony 1.1 Balto-Finnic vowel harmony The scope of a harmony process in a language is determined by its phonological inventory in two respects. 1 First, harmony spreads a feature to the fullest extent that the inventory allows: morphological restrictions aside, all lexically contrastive vowels participate in vowel harmony unless some constraint on the distribution of the harmonic feature prevents it. Secondly, only
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| Unique citing works | 21 |
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| Citations per year | 1,05 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2026 (21) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |