Re: NATLANG: Vowel harmony rules?

Paul wrote:

<<In laymans terms, what are the vowel harmony rules in Hungarian and/or
Turkish?>>

It doesn't look (at first glance) like anybody replied to the Turkish query,
so I
offer my website:

http://dedalvs.free.fr/zhyler/vharmony.html

I've explained how vowel harmony works, in general, and if you go down to
the section entitled "Underspecified Vowel Chart", Turkish's underspecified
vowels are capital A and capital I.

*However*, Turkish has one extra interesting facet.   Specifically, if a word
ends
in a palatalized consonant (I believe only k, g and l can do this?), then it
will
spread a [-back] feature, even if the vowel before it is [+back].

Turkish's vowel harmony is as simple as it gets.   There are other languages
that
have much more complex systems.   I'll see if I can dig up any of my
phonology
notes on any of them.

-David
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