Re: vowel harmony

Staving B. Phillip Jonsson:
>At 11:16 19.6.2003 -0700, JS Bangs wrote:
>
>
>>Under most analyses (perhaps all, actually), central vowels are not  a
>>separate backness from back vowels. In terms of features, I would describe
>>this system thus:
>>
>>-back  |  +back, -round  | +back, +round
>>------------------------------------------
>>  i     |       1         |      u
>>  &     |       a         |      Q
>
>This is indeed a possible analysis for classical Sohlob,
>but most users of that language are actually L1 speakers
>of related but different dialects which either have
>developed rounded front vowels or merged /1/ with /i/,
>  so their pronunciation is different.
>*My* pronunciation is different still !
I have an idea for a vowel harmony system in which the harmonised dimension
is roundness - front vowels round when a back vowel has primary stress, and
back vowels unround when a front vowel has primary stress.

Pete