Directionality in Nkore-kiga Sibilant Harmony: Arbitrary or Emergent? *

Noun Phrases Without Nouns

However, there are also many languages in which it is possible to have noun phrases in which there is no noun or pronoun, in which the only constituents of the noun phrase are words that otherwise occur as modifiers of nouns. For example, in the example in (1) from Nkore-Kiga, a Bantu language spoken in Uganda, the subject omuto ‘young’ is a word that normally functions in the language as an ad...

Coarticulatory variability and directionality in [s, ..]: an EPG study

Articulatory properties of the sibilants [ , ] and non-sibilant [ ] were studied for VCV syllables in Japanese, using the technique of electropalatography. We examined the relation between constriction width and location, and the nature of coarticulatory variability and directionality, specific to the two fricative categories. The results allow us to discuss the phonetic basis of the ‘precision...

Coarticulatory Variability and Directionality in [ , , ] : an EPG study

Articulatory properties of the sibilants [ , ] and non-sibilant [ ] were studied for VCV syllables in Japanese, using the technique of electropalatography. We examined the relation between constriction width and location, and the nature of coarticulatory variability and directionality, specific to the two fricative categories. The results allow us to discuss the phonetic basis of the ‘precision...

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Los Angeles The Effects of Distance on Lexical Bias: Sibilant Harmony in Navajo Compounds A thesis submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree Master of Arts

Emergent feature structures: harmony systems in exemplar models of phonology

In exemplar models of phonology, phonotactic constraints are modeled as emergent from patterns of high activation between units that co-occur with statistical regularity, or as patterns of low activation or inhibition between units that cooccur less frequently or not at all. Exemplar models posit no a priori formal or representational properties to the phonological units or sound patterns that ...