Transparency, locality, and contrast in Uyghur backness harmony

Theories of vowel harmony have wrestled with the formal challenges of transparency, notably the increased expressivity resulting from non-local dependencies. However, experimental work has demonstrated on a number of occasions that ‘transparent’ vowels actually undergo harmony (e.g., Gick, Pulleybla...

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Main Author: Adam G. McCollum
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2021-05-01
Series:Laboratory Phonology
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Online Access:https://www.journal-labphon.org/articles/239

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