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Re: Interesting vowel harmony system from Australia

From:Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...>
Date:Thursday, July 15, 2004, 15:33
From:    william drewery <will65610@...>
> Consonant harmony! Wow, I've never heard of that > before. I've heard of nasal harmony before, but > figured that was as far as it went. At on time I had > planned a conlang in which all consonants within a > word had to be of the same family, such as all > ejective or all voiced. But dropped it as too > unnatural.
Some kinds of consonant harmonies are more unnatural than others. I'd suggest you look at Gunnar Hansson's recent dissertation on the topic. The first part is a broad typological survey of consonant harmony, and the second an optimality theoretic analysis thereof. ========================================================================= Thomas Wier "I find it useful to meet my subjects personally, Dept. of Linguistics because our secret police don't get it right University of Chicago half the time." -- octogenarian Sheikh Zayed of 1010 E. 59th Street Abu Dhabi, to a French reporter. Chicago, IL 60637