Productive phrasal opacity in Gua: A challenge to Stratal Optimality Theory

M Obiri-Yeboah, E Rasin - Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 2024 - Springer
We present new evidence for a special opaque interaction between phonological processes
in Gua, a nearly endangered Guang (Niger-Congo) language spoken in eastern Ghana …

Phrase-Level ATR Vowel Harmony in Anum—A Case of Recursive Prosodic Phrasing

F Kügler - Languages, 2022 - mdpi.com
(1) Like many other Kwa languages, Anum employs a pattern of [ATR] vowel harmony that is
regressive and [+ ATR] dominant (RVH). This paper analyses RVH as a phrasal process …

[HTML][HTML] Impacts of direction and morphological locus of control on learnability of sibilant harmony

J Conklin, E Stork, R Bastimar, X He… - Laboratory …, 2024 - journal-labphon.org
A notable cross-linguistic gap exists in the typology of consonant harmony: Stem-controlled
and suffix-controlled systems are known, but prefix-controlled consonant harmony remains …

[HTML][HTML] On the status of non-iterativity in feature spreading

AG McCollum, D Kavitskaya - Glossa: a journal of general …, 2022 - glossa-journal.org
In the most commonly discussed cases, feature spreading is iterative, applying to all licit
targets within a given domain. Early work within rule-based theories of phonology …

Domains of vowel harmony

P Kiparsky - 2024 - academic.oup.com
This chapter deals with domains of harmony and disharmony, and approaches to their
formal modeling. It furthermore covers cyclic, directional, and dominant harmony, harmony …

Domains and directionality in Kinande vowel harmony: a Correspondence approach

LJ Downing, M Krämer - 2022 - munin.uit.no
The ATR vowel harmony patterns observed in Kinande have received persistent attention for
their combination of stem control and dominance, as well as less familiar phenomena such …