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Cole, Jennifer S. & Kisseberth, Charles W.. Paradoxical Strength Conditions in Harmony Systems. Retrieved from https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T30V89VP

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TitleParadoxical Strength Conditions in Harmony Systems
NameCole, Jennifer S. (Author); Kisseberth, Charles W. (Author)
Date Created1995
SubjectPhonology, Optimal Domains Theory, Harmony systems, Prosodic transparency, Opacity (Linguistics)
Extent11p.
DescriptionMany harmony systems impose conditions on the triggers and targets of harmony that involve prosodic features such as stress, length, or peripherality in the prosodic word domain. Such conditions serve to distinguish a 'strong' anchor (SA) from a 'weak' anchor (WA) for a given feature, and are responsible for asymmetries in the class of segments that may trigger or undergo harmony. Yet, languages employ prosodic conditions on the strength of an anchor in different ways, deriving what appears to be a paradoxical typology of harmony systems, as in (1).

(1) A partial typology of prosodic conditions on targets and triggers

WA's are good triggers: Mellieh'a Maltese round and palatal harmony.
SA's are good triggers: Tigre palatal harmony (Palmer 1956, 1962); Wolof RTR and ATR harmonies (Ka 1988); Pasiego and Tudanca Montañes vowel raising (Hualde 1989).

WA's are good targets: Qormi Maltese palatal and round harmony (Peuch 1978); Woleaian raising (Poser 1982); Wolof ATR harmony; Standard Maltese palatal and round harmony (Peuch 1978).

SA's are good targets: Menomini ATR harmony (Bloomfield 1962); Coeur d'Alene progressive RTR harmony (Reichard 1938); Lena Bable Spanish metaphony (Hualde 1989).
NoteThe definitive version of this paper was published in Proceedings of the North East Linguistic Society 25 and is available at http://glsa.hypermart.net/
NoteCole, J. and C. Kisseberth. (1995). Paradoxical strength conditions in harmony systems. In J. Beckman (Ed.) Proceedings of the Twenty-fifth Conference of the North-Eastern Linguistic Society, U Mass, Amherst, pp. 17-31.
NotePeer reviewed
GenreConference Paper or Lecture
Persistent URLhttps://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T30V89VP
LanguageEnglish
CollectionRutgers Optimality Archive
Organization NameRutgers, The State University of New Jersey
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