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| Title: | Vowel height harmony and blocking in Buchan Scots |
| Author: | Mary Paster |
| Email: | click here to access email |
| Homepage: | http://pages.pomona.edu/~mp034747 |
| Institution: | Pomona College |
| Linguistic Field: | Phonology |
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Scots
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| Abstract: | The Buchan Scots dialect of north-east Scotland exhibits a unique phonological phenomenon: vowel harmony is blocked by intervening consonants that have no secondary articulation or other obvious characteristic that should make them opaque to harmony. In this paper, I describe the harmony and blocking pattern based on new data from speakers of the modern dialect. After establishing this as a phonological rather than phonetic effect, I propose a synchronic analysis of the pattern and a phonetic explanation for the origin of this unusual sound pattern. |
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This article appears in Phonology Vol. 21, Issue 3, which you can read on Cambridge's site or on LINGUIST . |
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