This article presents an overview of several significant aspects of the phonology of Uyghur
(ISO: uig; pronounced [ʊjˈʁʊr]; Turkic: China). In addition to summarising previous …

This dissertation investigates backness harmony in Uyghur (Turkic: China) from a variety of
methodological and analytical perspectives. Backness harmony is a phenomenon where …

This article explores the possibility that even though English and Portuguese present similar
stress patterns on the surface, the two languages may be formally different: whereas English …

This dissertation investigates the prominence relationship between lexical stress and tonal
rhythm across multiple languages and tests whether cross-linguistic differences in tonal …

Turkic languages have been shown to form words using a wide range of word-formation
strategies, such as suffixation, cliticization, and auxiliaries. The present paper offers a …

This paper examines a case of phonological opacity in Uyghur that results from an
interaction between backness harmony and a vowel reduction process that converts …

O gradience, where art thou? Examining backness harmony in Uyghur Adam G. McCollum⸙,
Karthik Durvasula†, and Xiayimaierdan A Page 1 1 O gradience, where art thou? Examining …

Prosodic phonology assumes that syllables are organized into feet, the domain where word-
level prominence is realized (Nespor & Vogel, 2007; Selkirk, 1984). One of the central …