Re: Vowel Harmony Asthetically Pleasing?

# 1 scripsit:

> Are there "consonant Hamonies" ??
There are.  There is also tongue-root harmony (retracted vs. advanced).

There is even a Turkic language, Karaim (historically spoken in Lithuania,
now almost extinct), in which the regular front/back harmony has been
replaced, under the influence of Slavic, with palatalized/non-palatalized
consonant harmony!  See slides at
http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~nevins/60percentvh.pdf .

Another interesting link:
http://parallel.hpc.unsw.edu.au/ complex/alife8/proceedings/sub3691.pdf  .

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