The canonical image of vowel harmony is of a particular feature distributed throughout a word, leading to symmetric constraints like Agree or Spread. Examination of the distribution of tongue-root ...

The article explores an alternative to the interpretive procedure adopted in SPE and proposes a unified interpretive procedure for all languages. The proposal solves long-standing problems by making ...

A, E, I, O, U and sometimes Y is not all you need to know about vowels. There's more to these workhorse members of our linguistics inventory than you might think. The most common vowel sound in ...

Jingulu, which is also known as Djingili, is a language in the Mirndl language family that is spoken in the Northern Territory in Australia. Other names for the language are Chunguloo, Chingalee, ...

When I first learned about the Australian Aboriginal language Warlpiri, I instantly became obsessed and had to learn as much as I could about it. Warlpiri has around 3,000 speakers in Australia’s ...

Secwepemctsín (Shuswap) retracted vowels surface in a variety of contexts, some of which are predictable based on previously documented harmony processes, and some which are less predictable. Prior ...