There are a variety of phonological asymmetries exhibited by segments which appear in
perceptually or psycholinguistically prominent positions such as roots, root-initial syllables …

In this dissertation I argue for a general model of assimilation within Optimality Theory, with
vowel harmony processes serving as a specific empirical testing ground. The model centers …

The principles determining secondary stress placement in English display considerable non-
uniformity (Prince 1993) in their application. While in some contexts a syllable will be …

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The study of harmony processes, their phonological characteristics and parameters of
typological variation, has played a major role in the development of current phonological …

This thesis explores the typology of rounding harmony within the framework of optimality
theory. A systematic survey of the range of attested rounding harmony phenomena is …

This book is about the phonological phenomenon known as nasal harmony, where the
property of nasalization spreads in a predictable way across certain sequences of adjacent …

This extensive survey of consonant harmony in the world's languages reveals surprising
diversity in the featural dimensions involved, and uncovers new empirical generalizations …

One of the fundamental observations of linguistic theory is that linguistic elements do not
interact over arbitrarily great distances. Instead, relations obtain locally. This conviction …

This paper examines vowel harmony initiated by a weak trigger. Height harmony in Veneto
Italian dialects, wherein a post-tonic high vowel triggers raising of preceding mid vowels …