Danis (2020) Long-distance major place harmony

ROA: 1365
Title: Long-distance major place harmony
Authors: Nick Danis
Comment: Preprint, published in Phonology 36.4
Length: 42p
Abstract: In previous surveys of long-distance consonant harmony, the major place features [labial], [dorsal] and [coronal] are conspicuously absent from the set of possible harmonising features. Ngbaka Minagende displays major place harmony between labial-dorsal segments and simple labials and velars, thus filling this empirical gap. The presence of complex segments with multiple place is crucial to seeing this harmony pattern clearly. These patterns are best handled in the Agreement by Correspondence framework with an active CC-Ident[place] constraint. Other analyses either cannot capture the pattern at all or require fundamental changes elsewhere in phonological theory. The data are supported by a new digitisation and statistical analysis of a Ngbaka Minagende dictionary.
Type: Paper/tech report
Area/Keywords: phonology, harmony, consonant harmony, long-distance, labial-dorsals