What is it about?
In this article I propose an alternative to the model that Péter Rebrus and Miklós Törkenczy develop in their article “Monotonicity and the typology of front/back harmony. I briefly discuss the data that their model is designed to account for. I then present an alternative, which is much simpler (it can be stated in four lines of text), while accounting for the same empirical findings and generalizations.
Featured Image
Why is it important?
The account that I provide acknowledges that surface patterns in languages can be the result of conflating different underlying structures.
Perspectives
For a recent overview and many examples of vowel harmony , see H. van der Hulst: Asymmetries in vowel harmony - A representational approach. Oxford: OUP, 2018.
Harry van der Hulst
University of Connecticut System
Read the Original
This page is a summary of: Phonological ambiguity, Theoretical Linguistics, January 2015, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/tl-2015-0004.
You can read the full text:
Contributors
The following have contributed to this page
