Vowel Harmony in Bale : A study of ATR harmony in a Surmic language of Ethiopia

Vowel Harmony in Bale : A study of ATR harmony in a Surmic language of Ethiopia

ATR, advanced tongue root, is a phonological feature among vowels. As vowels assimilate to share the same value of that feature, they display ATR harmony. This is a common phenomenon among many African languages. ATR harmony is examined in this paper as manifested across morpheme boundaries wihin no...

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Main Author: Möller, Mirjam
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: Stockholms universitet 2009
Subjects:
Vowel harmony
African linguistics
phonology
ATR
Surmic languages
Bale
Kacipo-Balesi
nominal suffixes
General Language Studies and Linguistics
Jämförande språkvetenskap och allmän lingvistik
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