{"product_id":"asymmetries-in-vowel-harmony-a-representational-account-9780198813576","title":"Asymmetries in Vowel Harmony: A Representational Account","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Harry Van Der Hulst\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Oxford Univ PR\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Oxford Univ PR\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Linguistics - Phonetics \u0026amp; Phonology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book deals with the phenomenon of vowel harmony, a phonological process whereby all the vowels in a word are required to share a specific phonological property, such as front or back articulation. Vowel harmony occurs in the majority of languages of the world, though only in very few European languages, and has been a central concern in phonological theory for many years. In this volume, Harry van der Hulst puts forward a new theory of vowel harmony, which accounts for the patterns of and exceptions to this phenomenon in the widest range of languages ever considered. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe book begins with an overview of the general causes of asymmetries in vowel harmony systems. The two following chapters provide a detailed account of a new theory of vowel harmony based on unary elements and licensing, which is embedded in a general dependency-based theory of phonological structure. In the remaining chapters, this theory is applied to a variety of vowel harmony phenomena from typologically diverse languages, including palatal harmony in languages such as Finnish and Hungarian, labial harmony in Turkic languages, and tongue root systems in Niger-Congo, Nilo-Saharan, and Tungusic languages. The volume provides a valuable overview of the diversity of vowel harmony in the languages of the world and is essential reading for phonologists of all theoretical persuasions.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46470655738007,"sku":"9780198813576","price":19581.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780198813576.jpg?v=1766240606","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/asymmetries-in-vowel-harmony-a-representational-account-9780198813576","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}