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Licensing and alignment: a conspiracy in harmony

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 November 2002

G. L. Piggott
G. L. Piggott
Affiliation:
McGill University
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Abstract

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Harmony is a phonological pattern in which a sequence of vowels and/or consonants must have the same specification for a particular feature, descriptively referred to as the harmonic feature. In the clear cases, whenever the harmonic feature occurs in a word, the expected manifestation of the harmony pattern is also encountered. For example, in Capanahua (Loos 1969) where [nasal] is the harmonic feature, a nasal consonant always shares nasality with a preceding sequence containing vowels, semivowels and/or laryngeals.

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Type
Research Article
Information
Phonology , Volume 14 , Issue 3 , May 1998 , pp. 437 - 477
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

Footnotes

The work for this paper was supported by grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (410-92-0759 and 410-97-0603). It benefited from the comments of Takako Kawasaki and Martine Kessler. The contribution of the anonymous reviewers is also appreciated.