ATR vowel harmony in Akposso

This paper presents a description of the vowel harmony system of Akposso (Uwi), a Kwa language of Ghana and Togo, one of only a handful of Kwa languages with a complete ten vowel system with ATR harmony. However, the tenth vowel, hi, does not function as the harmonic counterpart of the low [-ATR] ce...

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Autor principal:	Coleen G. Anderson
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Publicado:	LibraryPress@UF 1999
Materias:	Akposso Uwi Kwa vowel harmony [ATR] Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:c498e99ca56c46259238296e8d94e8292021-11-19T03:53:44ZATR vowel harmony in Akposso10.32473/sal.v28i2.1073720039-35332154-428Xhttps://doaj.org/article/c498e99ca56c46259238296e8d94e8291999-06-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.flvc.org/sal/article/view/107372https://doaj.org/toc/0039-3533https://doaj.org/toc/2154-428XThis paper presents a description of the vowel harmony system of Akposso (Uwi), a Kwa language of Ghana and Togo, one of only a handful of Kwa languages with a complete ten vowel system with ATR harmony. However, the tenth vowel, hi, does not function as the harmonic counterpart of the low [-ATR] central vowel lal in affixes as it does in other ten vowel languages with crossheight vowel harmony systems. Rather, in some instances Ia! alternates with lei in [+ATR] contexts, while in other instances it surfaces invariably as lal in both [-ATR] and l +ATR] contexts. Formant measurements show the [+ATR] central vowel occupying the mid area of acoustic space, thus adding some support to the view that [+ATR] central vowels in ATR harmony systems are phonetically nonlow rather than low, the more widely-assumed position. Although vowel harmony applies to a significant number of affixes, especially in the verb morphology, there are interesting limitations on how far harmony extends.Coleen G. AndersonLibraryPress@UFarticleAkpossoUwiKwavowel harmony[ATR]Philology. LinguisticsP1-1091ENFRStudies in African Linguistics, Vol 28, Iss 2 (1999)
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topic	Akposso Uwi Kwa vowel harmony [ATR] Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
spellingShingle	Akposso Uwi Kwa vowel harmony [ATR] Philology. Linguistics P1-1091 Coleen G. Anderson ATR vowel harmony in Akposso
description	This paper presents a description of the vowel harmony system of Akposso (Uwi), a Kwa language of Ghana and Togo, one of only a handful of Kwa languages with a complete ten vowel system with ATR harmony. However, the tenth vowel, hi, does not function as the harmonic counterpart of the low [-ATR] central vowel lal in affixes as it does in other ten vowel languages with crossheight vowel harmony systems. Rather, in some instances Ia! alternates with lei in [+ATR] contexts, while in other instances it surfaces invariably as lal in both [-ATR] and l +ATR] contexts. Formant measurements show the [+ATR] central vowel occupying the mid area of acoustic space, thus adding some support to the view that [+ATR] central vowels in ATR harmony systems are phonetically nonlow rather than low, the more widely-assumed position. Although vowel harmony applies to a significant number of affixes, especially in the verb morphology, there are interesting limitations on how far harmony extends.
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ATR vowel harmony in Akposso

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