This paper presents experimentally based rules and methods for the creation of harmonic color sets. First, dichromatic rules are presented which concern the harmony relationships of two hues. For an arbitrarily given hue pair, we define the just harmonic saturation values, resulting in minimally harmonic color pairs. These values express the fuzzy border between harmony and disharmony regions u...

ion refers to whether a vowel has the [+] or [–] feature value for the harmonic feature (e.g., [+ATR]). This is done to make it clear when segments agree in the relevant harmonic feature value. Also, except where noted otherwise, I will for simplicity assume representations including a separate vowel tier (Hayes & Wilson, to appear; NiChisosain & Padgett, 2001). 2.1.1 AGREE The AGREE constraint...

Three experiments used word-spotting to examine influences of phonetic and musical parameters on intelligibility of closed-set but unpredictable words in polytextual singing. Main comparisons were: 3 musical genres (medieval polyphonic motet, similar but homophonic motet, jingle); harmony (consonant, dissonant); keyword phonetic properties (‘acoustic contrast’, vowel length, vowel quality); con...

In this paper I provide arguments from two case studies in support of Kimper’s (2011) new Trigger Competition approach to vowel harmony, which is based on autosegmental linking and the positively formulated Spread constraint. The first argument is based on Hungarian vacillation, in which sequences of vowels that individually do not participate in backness harmony can conspire to create free var...

In Hungarian, stems ending in a back vowel plus one or more neutral vowels show unusual behaviour: for such stems, the otherwise general process of vowel harmony is lexically idiosyncratic. Particular stems can take front suffixes, take back suffixes or vacillate. Yet at a statistical level, the patterning among these stems is lawful: in the aggregate, they obey principles that relate the prope...

In most privative approaches to melodic structure, the only phonological operations deemed possible are those involving the linking and delinking of primes. However, within an Element Theory model where no independent ATR prime is recognized, this restriction must be relaxed in order to accommodate cases of tongue root harmony. In response, we propose a view of melodic structure in which every ...