LING 331 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Vowel Harmony, Obstruent, Genitive Case
Document Summary
On the final exam, we will have to motivate a ranking of constraints from a set of data. This does not mean write a tableau it means explain the ranking that you expect in a few sentences. Vowel harmony is generally considered to be more common than consonantal harmony. Like other phonological patterns, vowel harmony can express itself as either. A static fact about words in the language, Ot: harmony(round) ident(round)? (armony(cid:523)back(cid:524): v [ back]/v[ back]c0. Transparent (you can see through whatever it is) Opaque (you cannot see through whatever it is) Spe can easily handle all of these situations. There has been debate about how to deal with it for a long time. For now, we only use spe to analyze these types of data: nasals assimilate in place to the following obstruent, post-nasal obstruents voice: One phonological process feeds another if it creates the environment so that another process applies.
