This paper examines theoretical analyses of vowel harmony in the light of data from Warlpiri, a language of Central Australia. Modern analyses account for vowel harmony in terms of a constraint requiring feature agreement within a particular domain (e.g. Backovic, 2000; Lombardi, 1996). These analyses predict that exclusively suffixing languages should exhibit only rightwards harmonies. They al...

This paper describes and demonstrates modifications of the harmony search method to support multimodal structural optimization. Several researchers have recognized the potential of population-based optimization methods, such as genetic algorithms and particle swarm optimization, to support multimodal optimization, that is, generating a range of good alternative solutions, rather than a single b...

At first sight the word harmony does not seem to be one most people would associate with disability. Harmony has a very specific meaning in musical terms, the combination of notes to form sequences of chords which follow accepted patterns and rules. The New Oxford Companion to Music defines harmony as the element of agreement in music, as opposed to counterpoint, in which parts move against eac...

This paper proposes an analysis of nasal harmony within the framework of Optimal Domains Theory (ODT), and demonstrates that transparency and opacity derive from principled constraints that limit the realization of Nasal on potential anchors. The analysis di ers fundamentally from the autosegmental analysis in two respects: it does not treat harmony as feature spreading, and it does not use fea...

As in visual processing, we speculated that, in music processing, different brain regions would activate according to the mode of music listening. Using motets by a famous composer, we studied changes in regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) with positron emission tomography associated with concentrating on the alto-part within the harmony (alto-part-listening condition) compared to listening to ...

25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 Article history: Received 22 February 2014 Received in revised form 14 October 2014 Accepted 15 October 2014 Available online xxxx

At the Budapest University of Technology and Economics in 1956, we decided to start large-scale experiments on color harmony. The experiments and the processing of the experimental data were completed in 2006. The experiments described in this article were based on a long established experience that harmony content of different hue pairs greatly differ from each other. The vast majority of form...

In Western tonal music, the rules of harmony determine the order and music-structural importance of events in a musical piece: for instance, the tonic chord, built on the first note of the diatonic scale, is usually placed at the end of chord sequences. A brain response termed the early right anterior negativity (ERAN) is elicited when a harmonically incongruous chord is inserted within or at t...

Strategic uncertainty in game theory may have two di¤erent general sources, either alone or in combination: uncertainty because of the existence of a coordination problem, and uncertainty because of a con‡ict between one own and the other n players’ interests. Game harmony is conceived as a generic game property that describes how harmonious (non-con‡ictual) or disharmonious (con‡ictual) the in...

In 1956 we came to the decision at the Budapest Technical University to start large scale experiments on color harmony. The experiments and the processing of the experimental results have been completed in 2006, after 50 years of research work. Within the frame of the experiments 95 000 participants have carried out more than 36 million elementary observations and made elementary decisions. Onl...