Wm . G . Bennett ( 2015 ) . The Phonology of Consonants : Harmony , Dissimilation , and

Dissimilation by Correspondence in Sundanese

The Agreement-By-Correspondence framework (=‘ABC’) is a theory of agreement developed (by Walker 2000a,b, Hansson 2001, and especially Rose & Walker 2004) to explain long-distance consonant harmony: patterns where non-adjacent consonants agree with each other, but do not interact with the other material that intervenes between them. In ABC, the basis for this agreement is Surface Correspondence...

The SCTD unites long-distance consonant dissimilation and consonant harmony

Unstable surface correspondence as the source of local conspiracies

In this paper, we address parallelisms between local and long-distance effects in segmental phonology, focusing on the similarity conditions that trigger them. We take the view that both local and long-distance harmony and disharmony are consequences of segmental correspondence—namely, unstable surface correspondence—as modeled in Agreement by Correspondence theory (henceforth ABC; e.g., Walker...

An articulatory view of Kinyarwanda coronal harmony.

Coronal harmony in Kinyarwanda causes alveolar fricatives to become postalveolar preceding a postalveolar fricative within a stem. Alveolar and postalveolar stops, affricates and palatals block coronal harmony, but the flap and non-coronal consonants are reported to be transparent. Kinematic data on consonant production in Kinyarwanda were collected using electromagnetic articulography. The mea...

Formally mapping the typologies of interacting ABCD systems 3

The theory of Agreement By Correspondence has gained prominence as a way to explain harmony patterns, especially long-distance consonant agreement (Rose & Walker 2004, Hansson 2010). Bennett (2015) observes that the theory also generates Dissimilation, even with no further assumptions made (ergo ‘ABCD’). This connection between dissimilation and assimilation is an appealing result, as it was in...