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Article Dans Une Revue Glossa: a journal of general linguistics (2016-2021) Année : 2019

A feature geometric approach to Bondu-so vowel harmony

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Bondu-so (Dogon; Mali) vowel harmony exhibits both typologically and theoretically interesting properties. The language's vocalic system displays surface patterns that implicate a ten-vowel system with an underlying [ATR] contrast at three vowel heights that is not immediately apparent given only mid vowels maintain an [ATR] contrast on the surface. The current paper presents previously unaccounted for data that show alternations associated with Bondu-so vowel harmony correlate not only with the [ATR] specification of a given root vowel, but also with properties of the root-final consonant. We appeal to a combination of featural and prosodic licensing to analyze these outcomes and do so in a modified version of the Parallel Structures Model of feature geometry. The PSM framework has been employed in studies of consonant assimilation and consonant-vowel interaction, but to our knowledge, the current paper is the first to extend it specifically to the analysis of vowel harmony.

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hal-02059348 , version 1 (06-03-2019)

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Christopher R Green, Abbie Hantgan. A feature geometric approach to Bondu-so vowel harmony. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics (2016-2021), 2019, 4 (1), ⟨10.5334/gjgl.793⟩. ⟨hal-02059348⟩
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