Underspecification and low vowel harmony in Okpe

This paper examines the effect of [ATR] vowel harmony on low vowels in Okpe, an Edoid language of Nigeria. The relevant facts can be summarized as follows: Low vowel stems condition [-ATR] forms on affixes. Low vowel affixes surface as [+low] in [-ATR] contexts and as [-low] when in [+ATR] contexts....

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Autor principal:	Douglas Pulleyblank
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Publicado:	LibraryPress@UF 1986
Materias:	vowel harmony [ATR] Okpe Edoid syllabification phonology Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:7b1b818dd1e4407383061d8b85a43f312021-11-19T03:55:13ZUnderspecification and low vowel harmony in Okpe10.32473/sal.v17i2.1074900039-35332154-428Xhttps://doaj.org/article/7b1b818dd1e4407383061d8b85a43f311986-08-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.flvc.org/sal/article/view/107490https://doaj.org/toc/0039-3533https://doaj.org/toc/2154-428XThis paper examines the effect of [ATR] vowel harmony on low vowels in Okpe, an Edoid language of Nigeria. The relevant facts can be summarized as follows: Low vowel stems condition [-ATR] forms on affixes. Low vowel affixes surface as [+low] in [-ATR] contexts and as [-low] when in [+ATR] contexts. Of particular interest is the additional fact that an underlyingly low vowel surfaces as [-low], [-ATR] in certain [+ATR] environments. To explain these alternations, it will be argued that low vowels are underlyingly unspecified for vocalic features. Redundancy rules, supplied for the most part by Universal Grammar, interact with the vowel harmony system and rules of syllabification to derive the non-low variants of under1yingly low vowels. By positing underspecified forms, it will be shown that no ad hoc rules need to be stipulated.Douglas PulleyblankLibraryPress@UFarticlevowel harmony[ATR]OkpeEdoidsyllabificationphonologyPhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091ENFRStudies in African Linguistics, Vol 17, Iss 2 (1986)
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topic	vowel harmony [ATR] Okpe Edoid syllabification phonology Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
spellingShingle	vowel harmony [ATR] Okpe Edoid syllabification phonology Philology. Linguistics P1-1091 Douglas Pulleyblank Underspecification and low vowel harmony in Okpe
description	This paper examines the effect of [ATR] vowel harmony on low vowels in Okpe, an Edoid language of Nigeria. The relevant facts can be summarized as follows: Low vowel stems condition [-ATR] forms on affixes. Low vowel affixes surface as [+low] in [-ATR] contexts and as [-low] when in [+ATR] contexts. Of particular interest is the additional fact that an underlyingly low vowel surfaces as [-low], [-ATR] in certain [+ATR] environments. To explain these alternations, it will be argued that low vowels are underlyingly unspecified for vocalic features. Redundancy rules, supplied for the most part by Universal Grammar, interact with the vowel harmony system and rules of syllabification to derive the non-low variants of under1yingly low vowels. By positing underspecified forms, it will be shown that no ad hoc rules need to be stipulated.
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title	Underspecification and low vowel harmony in Okpe
title_short	Underspecification and low vowel harmony in Okpe
title_full	Underspecification and low vowel harmony in Okpe
title_fullStr	Underspecification and low vowel harmony in Okpe
title_full_unstemmed	Underspecification and low vowel harmony in Okpe
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Underspecification and low vowel harmony in Okpe

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