We present an empirical challenge to Jardine's (2016) assertion that only tonal spreading
patterns can be unbounded circumambient, meaning that the determination of a …

In very general terms, phonology is the study of both the representational and computational
properties of human sound patterns. These issues have been the focus of descriptive …

In stratal models of grammar, phonology and morphology operate in the lexicon at the stem
level and at the word level, outputting words which are syntactically combined and then …

Some of the most stunning scientific advances of the twentieth century came from the theory
of computation. It is hard to think of an area in science which has not been enriched by …

Theories of vowel harmony have wrestled with the formal challenges of transparency,
notably the increased expressivity resulting from non-local dependencies. However …

Abstract Dagaare is a Mabia/Gur language spoken in northwestern Ghana and parts of
Burkina Faso. The aim of this dissertation is to contribute to the understanding of …

This dissertation documents and analyzes phonetic and phonological features of Gua, an
under-documented, understudied and nearly-endangered Guang language, spoken in the …

A notable cross-linguistic gap exists in the typology of consonant harmony: Stem-controlled
and suffix-controlled systems are known, but prefix-controlled consonant harmony remains …

This chapter deals with domains of harmony and disharmony, and approaches to their
formal modeling. It furthermore covers cyclic, directional, and dominant harmony, harmony …

Saraiki manifests asymmetric bidirectional nasal spreading. Regressive nasal spreading is
sequential and myopic. It is triggered by a nasal and applies iteratively leftwards, unless it …