Feature specifications and contrast in vowel harmony: The orthography and phonology of Old Norwegian height harmony

JJM Sandstedt - 2019 - era.ed.ac.uk
In this thesis, I provide a new approach to the role of phonological patterning in determining
the featural content of phonological relations and the size and shape of sound inventories …

Types and degrees of vowel neutrality

P Rebrus, M Törkenczy - Linguistica, 2016 - journals.uni-lj.si
This paper argues that neutrality in a harmony system is a gradient property since it is due to
a vowel's participation in different patterns that are considered to be indicators of neutral …

The acquisition of vowel harmony from simple local statistics

S Caplan, J Kodner - Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the …, 2018 - escholarship.org
Vowel harmony denotes a class of phonotactic constraintswhich limit which vowels can co-
occur in words. The charac-teristics of harmony systems have been well-researched …

Tolkien's Tongues: The Phonetics and Phonology of Tolkien's Quenya Language

K Ryan - 2014 - scholarship.tricolib.brynmawr.edu
JRR Tolkien, author of The Lord of the Rings and other Middle Earth tales as well as Oxford
professor of linguistics, constructed over 14 languages in the development of the …

[PDF][PDF] Data-driven approaches Rebecca Knowles and Nathan Sanders

R Knowles - sanders.phonologist.org
Data-driven approaches are a natural fit for identifying and quantifying vowel harmony. As
vowel harmony is a recurrent pattern with a relatively limited range of variability (potential …

[PDF][PDF] The challenges and advantages of representing variation in grammars

M Kohlberger - … Descriptive Grammars and Typology, University of …, 2019 - helsinki.fi
Click to add a title Page 1 The challenges and advantages of representing variation in
grammars 28 March 2019 Descriptive Grammars and Typology – University of Helsinki Martin …

[PDF][PDF] Case Studies in the Automatic Characterization of Grammars from Small Wordlists

J Kodner, S Caplan, H Xu, M Marcus… - Proceedings of the 2nd …, 2017 - aclanthology.org
We present two novel examples of simple algorithms which characterize the grammars of
low-resource languages: a tool for the characterization of vowel harmony, and a framework …

[PDF][PDF] The Automatic Characterization of Grammars from Small Wordlists

J Kodner, S Caplan, H Xu, MP Marcus, C Yang - ComputEL-2, 2017 - aclanthology.org
We present two novel examples of simple algorithms which characterize the grammars of
low-resource languages: a tool for the characterization of vowel harmony, and a framework …