1. A featural paradox in Votic harmony.
- Author
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Blumenfeld, Lev and Toivonen, Ida
- Subjects
VOWEL harmony ,VOTIC language ,HARMONY (Aesthetics) ,ASSIMILATION (Phonetics) ,PHONETICS - Abstract
In this paper we present a novel argument against strict locality in vowel harmony: a vowel's feature may have a double identity, active in one process and neutral in another. Such is the behavior of [back] in Votic [i]. It is invisible to harmony, while simultaneously triggering an assimilation process. We argue that no feature-sharing account of this phenomenon is plausible, including the relatively powerful extension of Span Theory that permits vowels in a harmonic span to remain unassociated (and unharmonized) with the span's head. We offer instead an account based on the Agreement-By-Correspondence approach to long-distance assimilation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2016
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