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 …

Harmony is one of the most researched phenomena in phonological theory, mainly due to its
iterative, nonlocal nature. In this review, I summarize several of the key issues in harmony …

Following the development of Prosodic Hierarchy Theory (Selkirk 1984; Nespor & Vogel
1986), evidence has accumulated that prosodic categories may be recursively self …

This volume provides the most comprehensive treatment of phonological weight to date,
bringing together traditional notions of categorical, rime-based weight and new …

Traditional theories of phonological variation propose that morphemes be encoded with
descriptors such as [+/–Rule X], to capture which of them participate in a variable process …

This article explores the relationship between linguistic tone and musical melody in Tommo
So, a Dogon language of Mali. Most fundamentally, contrary mappings (rising tone on falling …

In Harmonic Grammar, positional licensing interacts with faithfulness constraints in
pathological ways: spreading a feature to a licensing position to satisfy positional licensing …

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

This paper uses novel data showing gradient labial harmony in Kazakh to compare Kaun's
(1995) feature-based analysis with a dispersion-based analysis in a Maximum Entropy …

Phonological processes often exhibit gradience, both in response frequencies and in
acceptability judgments. This paper presents a variation of tier-based strictly local grammars …