Vowel harmony in Persian

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作者
Jam, Bashir [1 ]
机构
[1] Shahrekord Univ, Fac Literature & Humanities, Dept English, Shahrekord, Iran
关键词
Vowel harmony; Exceptionality; Feeding opacity; Counterfeeding opacity; Persian phonology; REPRESENTATION; FAITHFULNESS; MORPHOLOGY; INTERFACE;
D O I
10.1016/j.lingua.2020.102905
中图分类号
H0 [语言学];
学科分类号
030303 ; 0501 ; 050102 ;
摘要
Persian is a language with several types of vowel harmony. This paper applies Optimality Theory (henceforth OT) to analyze this phonological process which includes various types of regressive and progressive vowel harmony in different words and expressions, as well as translaryngeal harmony and parasitism. It offers various examples whose trigger or target does not exist in the underlying representation and is therefore created in an intermediate representation. It discusses how backness harmony feeds height harmony in English loanwords. It also discusses blockers and exceptionality. The latter is analyzed using Pater's Lexically Specific Constraint Theory. It also addresses two cases of opacity in feeding and counterfeeding interactions. The main contribution of this paper is that it presents a set of empirical data on Persian vowel harmony and OT analyses which are of general theoretical interest. (C) 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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