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Conditions on Iterative Rounding Harmony in Oroqen
Author(s) -
Dresher B. Elan,
Nevins Andrew
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
transactions of the philological society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.333
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1467-968X
pISSN - 0079-1636
DOI - 10.1111/1467-968x.12104
Subject(s) - vowel harmony , rounding , harmony (color) , morpheme , linguistics , computer science , copying , vowel , mathematics , arithmetic , speech recognition , artificial intelligence , philosophy , political science , law , art , visual arts , operating system
In this paper, we re‐examine the claim that Baiyinna Oroqen, a language of the Tungusic family with a largely predictable distribution of non‐high round vowels, requires a non‐iterative type of rounding harmony, by demonstrating instead the need for a clear distinction between stem‐internal morpheme structure constraints and suffixal vowel harmony. We also propose to revise what was thought to be a requirement that harmony donors must be anchored in two successive syllables; it is instead a restriction that copying of the harmonic feature must be from the closest non‐initial vowel.