The issue of Bantu vowel height harmony is one that most serious theories of phonology have addressed at one time or another. As is quite well-known, the majority of an estimated 500± Bantu languages exhibit some variant of a progressive harmony process by which vowels lower when preceded by an appropriate (lower) trigger. In this paper I have three goals. First, I present a comprehensive treat...

Abstract Only one allusion to the phrase “the faith once delivered saints” (Jude 3) survives from early church, in Book 10 of Origen’s Commentary on John . This article establishes that Origen is offering a close paraphrase this saying, and suggests it appears as slogan, possibly reflecting use by other Christians, favour overriding implications spiritual reading 2.20–22. It shows how interpret...

Previous studies of preference for and harmony of color combinations have produced confusing results. For example, some claim that harmony increases with hue similarity, whereas others claim that it decreases. We argue that such confusions are resolved by distinguishing among three types of judgments about color pairs: (1) preference for the pair as a whole, (2) harmony of the pair as a whole, ...

The current paper presents the results of a preliminary survey of vowel harmony systems. The purpose of this survey is to gain a better understanding of transparency in vowel harmony; both vowel transparency and glide transparency. In §2, I lay out how I selected the languages for inclusion in the current survey of harmony systems. Additionally, I outline what information I collected about each...

Abstract: In this paper, a new fuzzy harmony search algorithm (FHS) for solving optimization problems is presented. FHS is based on a recent method using fuzzy logic for dynamic adaptation of the harmony memory accepting (HMR) and pitch adjustment (PArate) parameters that improve the convergence rate of traditional harmony search algorithm (HS). The objective of the method is to dynamically adj...