01:615:315 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Vowel Harmony, Obstruent, Alveolar Consonant
11 Nov 2016
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Vowels are defined by a neutral, assumed segment that is underlying. Vowel harmony: the suffix would take on the feature of the stem (bear in mind it deals with the vowels not consonants. When examining data to see which is the underlying form, it is necessary to examine the vowels, not the consonants. In the turkish data, -lar is the underlying suffix, but truly, this expresses that [a] is unpredictable and [e] is predictable. In japanese, the change occurs before high vowels. In chukchee, the change occurs after all non-high vowels ([-high]). Again, vowel harmony: within a domain, all vowels must agree in one feature. The segments of data from dolphyne 1988 are split between tense and lax (tense on the left and lax on the right). Prefix basic shape = 3rd person singular suffix. Old features are grouped into place of articulation, and new feature system groups them into classes based on the articulator that is active/moving.
