{"product_id":"asymmetries-in-vowel-harmony-harry-van-der-hulst-9780198813576","title":"Asymmetries in Vowel Harmony: A Representational Account","description":"This book deals with the phenomenon of vowel harmony, a phonological process whereby all the vowels in a word are required to share a specific phonological property, such as front or back articulation. Vowel harmony occurs in the majority of languages of the world, though only in very few European languages, and has been a central concern in phonological theory for many years. In this volume, Harry van der Hulst puts forward a new theory of vowel harmony, which accounts for the patterns of and exceptions to this phenomenon in the widest range of languages ever considered. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe book begins with an overview of the general causes of asymmetries in vowel harmony systems. The two following chapters provide a detailed account of a new theory of vowel harmony based on unary elements and licensing, which is embedded in a general dependency-based theory of phonological structure. In the remaining chapters, this theory is applied to a variety of vowel harmony phenomena from typologically diverse languages, including palatal harmony in languages such as Finnish and Hungarian, labial harmony in Turkic languages, and tongue root systems in Niger-Congo, Nilo-Saharan, and Tungusic languages. The volume provides a valuable overview of the diversity of vowel harmony in the languages of the world and is essential reading for phonologists of all theoretical persuasions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Harry Van Der Hulst\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0198813570\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198813576\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/30\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 524\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.07lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.50w x 1.40d","brand":"Harry Van Der Hulst","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44119430430975,"sku":"9780198813576","price":150.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6afb40a5-7e73-4140-b728-fa0dd256192d.jpg?v=1687409304","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/asymmetries-in-vowel-harmony-harry-van-der-hulst-9780198813576","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}