Open AccessDoubly Triggered Harmony in Laal as Subphonemic Agreement by Correspondence
Author(s) -
Florian Lionnet
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
proceedings of the annual meetings on phonology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2377-3324
DOI - 10.3765/amp.v1i1.38
Subject(s) - consonant , harmony (color) , rounding , mathematics , vowel , speech recognition , physics , computer science , optics , operating system
Multiple-trigger assimilations pose notoriously difficult problems to standard autosegmental analyses (Flemming 1997). I present the unusual double-trigger rounding harmony of Laal (unclassified, Chad), where V 1 in a disyllabic stem assimilates in rounding to a same-height round V 2 , iff the root contains a labial consonant. I show that Agreement-by-Correspondence, initially developed for consonant agreement (Hansson 2001, Rose & Walker 2004), recently extended to vowel harmony (Rhodes 2012), consonant-tone interaction (Shih 2013), and harmony processes involving contour segments and tones (Inkelas & Shih 2013), can account for multiple-trigger assimilations such as that of Laal, provided it can access subphonemic phonetic information.