This paper describes in detail several explicit computational methods for approaching such questions in phonology as the vowel/consonant distinction, the nature of vowel harmony systems, and syllable structure, appealing solely to distributional information. Beginning with the vowel/consonant distinction, we consider a method for its discovery by the Russian linguist Sukhotin, and compare it to...

Abstract Although Erzya harmony is discussed as a kind of vowel traditionally, suffix alternations show that there close interaction between consonants and vowels, therefore we should speak about consonant-vowel harmony. This paper demonstrates the palatalizedness frontness vowels are also strongly connected inside stems: first syllable front quite rare after word-initial non-palatalized dental...

0. Introduction There has recently been much debate concerning the nature of representations of phonological objects, particularly with regard to the role of abstract phonological constructs such as features and natural classes. This debate has extended to include differing notions about how phonological knowledge is learned and represented in the mind. The goal of this paper is to provide evid...

There is a significant degree of phonological indeterminacy in front/back harmony Hungarian (HVH), which manifests itself lexical variation and/or vacillation. Harmonic behaviour the zone strongly supports hypothesis that harmonic classes individual roots belong to are organized as paradigmatic system, very similar inflectional classes. Such lexically determined declension required independentl...

Organic farming is characterized by several goals that are expressed in daily practices and in standards. Some of the important goals for organic production systems are naturalness, harmony on all levels of production, local recycling of resources, and the principle of precaution (Anonymous, 2002). For organic herds, good animal welfare is an explicit goal, and this includes that the overall go...