Re: Vowel Harmony Asthetically Pleasing?

Number One wrote:

> Are there some vowel harmonies where the harmony is "close vowels" vs.
"open
> vowels", "rounded vowels" vs. "unrounded vowels" or "nasal vowels" vs.
> "buccal vowels"?
The Linguistic Encyclopedic Dictionary I have (in Russian, 1990) says that
there is a different kind of vowel harmony - "compactness harmony" in some
Niger-Congo (Kwa group) and some Nilotic lgs (Dinka, Nuer). This means the
word can have only tense (fortis?) vowels like /i/, /u/ or lax (lenis?) ones
like /I/, /U/ etc.

> Are there "consonant Hamonies" ??
> maybe it is a kind of consonant hamony when, in english, the final -ed is
> voiced or not to fit with the last consonant...
I heard this term used to describe some (similar) phonological processes in
Turkish that I would have classified as assimilation (progressive or
regressive).