Variation, the Height Effect, and Disharmony in Hungarian Front/Back Harmony

Harmony and Disharmony in International Patent Law

Hungarian Vowel Harmony

A system of phonological rules and representations has at least two aims: one is to describe the way in which words (and larger stretches of utterances) are realized in speech, and to state which logically possible streams of speech sounds are legitimate in the language under description – this is part of observational adequacy. The other aim is to capture the pattern of sounds characteristic o...

vowel harmony and disharmony in the azerbaijani the turkish language

harmony and disharmony are generally considered in isolation in the phonological literature. this has led to a striking asymmetry in their analyses. in this article, it is argued that both phenomena call for a parallel treatment and that this can be accomplished within correspondence theory.correspondence theory provides a general framework for defining faithfulness constraints. what happens in...

Vowel Harmony and Disharmony in Tuvan and Tofa

Harmony systems are often described in the linguistic literature in a highly schematic and somewhat idealized fashion. Further, instances of disharmony within harmony languages typically have been treated as exceptional or anomalous, rather than as a natural and expected part of the harmony system. In documenting several vowel harmony languages indigenous to Siberia, we found both highly patter...

Harmony and Disharmony Exploiting al-Qa’ida’s Organizational Vulnerabilities

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