Bibliography of Vowelharmony in African Languages

Niger-Kongo-Sprachen

Adamawa

  • Zande (Demokratische Republik Kongo)
    • Boyd , R. (1997). Les harmonies vocaliques du zande. In: Lingua 101:1-19.

Atlantisch

  • Bijagó (Guinea-Bissau)
    • Wilson, W.A.A. (2000/1). Vowel harmony in Bijagó. Journal of West African Languages 28/1: 19-32
  • Diola (Senegal)
    • Ringen, Catherine O (1979). Vowel harmony in Igbo and Diola-fogny. Studies in African linguistics 10: 262-71.
  • Ndut (Senegal)
    • Guèye, Gabriel (1980). Contribution à l'étude phonologique du ndut. Mémoire maîtrise, sous la direction de Geneviève Ndiaye-Corréard, Université de Dakar. Faculté des Lettres.
    • Guèye, Gabriel (1980). L'harmonie vocalique en ndut. Réalités Africaines et Langue Française 13.
    • Guèye, Gabriel (1984). Contribution à l'étude phonétique du vocalisme du Ndut. Thèse de doctorat de 3ème cycle, présenté à l'université de Strasbourg II.
    • Drolc, Ursula (2004). A diachronic analysis of vowel harmony in Ndut. Studies in African Linguistics 33/2: 35-63.
  • Wolof (Senegal)
    • Ka, Omar (1994). Wolof phonology and morphology. Lanham: Univ. Press of America .
    • Pulleyblank, Douglas (1996). Neutral vowels in optimality theory: a comparison of Yoruba and Wolof. Canadian journal of linguistics/ Revue canadienne de linguistique 41 (4): 295-347.

Mande

  • Bisa (Burkina Faso, Ghana?)
    • Obeng, Samuel Gyasi (1993). Vowel harmony in Bisa. AAP (Afrikanistische Arbeitspapiere) 36:115-123.

Gur

  • Rennison, John R. (1992). Welche Vokale hatte das Proto-Gur? Überlegungen anhand der Vokalharmonie und Vokalassimilation im Koromfe und Mòore. Erwin Ebermann et al. (Hrsg.) Komparative Afrikanistik. Sprach-, geschichts- und literaturwissenschaftliche Aufsätze zu Ehren von Hans G. Mukarovsky anläßlich seines 70. Geburtstags, S. 297-312.
  • Kropp Dakubu, Mary Esther (1997). Oti-Volta vowel harmony and Dagbani. Cahiers voltaiques/ Gur papers No. 2:81-88.
  • Cɛfɔ (Burkina Faso)
    • Winkelmann, Kerstin (1998). Die Sprache der Cɛfɔ von Daramandugu (Burkina Faso). S. 32-35. Berichte des Sonderforschungsbereichs 268 „Kulturentwicklung und Sprachgeschichte im Naturraum Westafrikanische Savanne“ Bd.11. Frankfurt am Main.
  • Kɔnni (Ghana)
    • Cahill, Mike (1996). ATR harmony in Kɔnni. In: David Dowty, Rebecca Herman and others (Hrsg.), Papers in phonology. Ohio State University Working Papers in Linguistics, 48:13-30. Columbus.
    • Cahill, Mike (1999). Vowel harmony in Kɔnni. In: Paul F. A. Kotey, (Hrsg.) New dimensions in African linguistics and languages. S.55-74. Trenton, N.J., Africa World Press.
  • Minyanka (Mali)
    • Dombrowsky-Hahn, Klaudia (1999). Phénomènes de contact entre les langues minyanka et bambara (sud du Mali). S. 69-70. Köln: Rüdiger Koppe Verlag.

Benue-Kongo

  • West Kainji
    • C'Lela (Nigeria)
      • Dettweiler, Stephen H. (2000/1). Vowel harmony and neutral vowels in C'Lela. Journal of West African Languages 28/1:3-18.
  • Upper-Cross
    • Lokaa (Nigeria)
      • Runsewe, Oluremi (1988). Vowel harmony in Lòkə. Journal of West African Languages 8/1:41-46.
      • Iwara, Alexander (1994). The vowel harmony system of Iwara. In: E.N. Emenanjo (Hrsg.). Nigerian Language Studies 2. Aba: National Institute Nigerian languages: 8-18.
      • Akinlabi, Akinbiyi & Alexander Iwara (2004). Transparency and opacity in Lokaa vowel harmony. In: Akinlabi, Akinbiyi & Oluseye Adesola (Hrsg.). Proceedings of the 4th World Congress of African Linguistics, New Brunswick 2003, S. 81-96. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag.
  • Kru
    • Klao (Kru, Liberia)
      • Singler, John Victor. (1983). Vowel harmony in Klao. Linear and non-linear analyses. Studies in African Linguistics 14.1:1-33.
    • Tépo, Krumen (Kru, Elfenbeinküste)
      • Dawson, Keith (1975). L'accord vocalique en tépo. Annales de l'université d'Abidjan Série H, Linguistique 8: 15-26.
  • Kwa
    • Akan (Ghana)
      • Christaller, Johannes (1875). A Grammar of the Asante and Fante language called tshi [chwee, twi]: based on the Akuapem dialect. Basel 1875. Republished 1964 by Gregg Press Incorporated, Ridgewood, New Jersey.
      • Berry, Jack (1957). Vowel harmony in Twi. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies of London 19.1:124-130.
      • Boadi, Lawrence (1963). Palatality as a factor in Twi vowel harmony. Journal of African Languages Vol.2, Part 2: 133-138.
      • Dolphyne, Florence (1967). A phonological analysis of Twi vowels. Journal of West African Languages Vol.4 No 1.: 83-89.
      • Stewart, John M. (1967). Tongue root position in Akan vowel harmony. Phonetica 16: 185-204.
      • Schachter, Paul und Viktoria Fromkin (1968). A phonology of Akan: Akuapem, Asante and Fante, UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics, 9.
      • Painter, Colin (1973). Cineradiographic data on the feature 'Covered' in Twi vowel harmony. Phonetica 28: 97-120. (zitiert in Clements (1985).
      • Lindau, Mona (1975) [Features] for vowels. U.C.L.A: Working Papers in Phonetics, 30 (zitiert in Clements (1985).
      • Clements, George N. (1985). Akan vowel harmony: A nonlinear analysis. Goyvaerts, Didier, (Hrsg.) African linguistics, essays in memory of M.W.K. Semikenke. S. 55-98.
      • Stewart, John M. (1983). Akan vowel harmony: the word structure and the floating vowels. Studies in African linguistics 14/2, 111-139.
      • Clements, George N. (1984). Vowel harmony in Akan: a consideration of Stewart's word structure conditions. Studies in African linguistics 15/3: 321-337.
      • Hess, Susan (1992). Assimilatory effects in a vowel harmony system: an acoustic analysis of advanced tongue root in Akan. Journal of Phonetics 20: 475-492.
    • Akposso (Togo)
      • Anderson, Coleen G. (1999). ATR harmony in Akposso. Studies in African linguistics 28.2.:185-214.
    • Chumburung (Nord-Guang, Ghana)
      • Snider, Keith (1984). Vowel harmony and the consonant l in Chumburung. Studies in African linguistics 15:47-57.
      • Snider, Keith (1989). Vowel coalescence in Chumburung: An autosegmental analysis. Lingua 73:217-32.
    • Ega (Kru?)
      • Bolé-Richard, Rémy (1981). Une approche de l'harmonie vocalique: le mot phonologique en ega. Cahiers ivoriens de recherche linguistique 10: 31-51.
    • Ekpeye (Igboid, Nigeria)
      • Clark, David J. (1971). Vowel harmony system in Ekpeye. Research Notes 4.1.:23-33.
    • Ewe (Togo)
      • Clements, George (1975). Vowel harmony in Ewe. Studies in African linguistics 5: 281-302.
    • Fɔngbè (Benin)
      • Cruz, Maxime da & Avolonto, Aimé (1993). Un cas d'harmonie vocalique en fɔngbè. Alain Kihm & Claire Lefebre, éds., Aspects de la grammaire du fɔngbè, etudes de phonologie, de syntaxe et de sémantique. Paris, Société d'Etudes Linguistiques et Anthroplogiques de France, S. 29-48.
    • Igbo (Nigeria)
      • Carnochan, Jack (1960). Vowel harmony in Igbo. African Language Studies 1:155-163.
      • Ringen, Catherine O. (1979). Vowel harmony in Igbo and Diola-fogny. Studies in African linguistics 10: 262-71.
      • Maduagwu, Georgina (2003). Vowel harmony in Ogbahu dialect of Igbo Language. Linguistique Africaine 23: 109-121.
    • Igede (Idomoid, Nigeria)
      • Abiodun, Michael (1991). Vowel harmony in Igede. Studies in African linguistics 22:157-69.
    • Ijo (Nigeria)
      • Jenewari, Charles (1973). Vowel harmony in Kalabari Ijo. Research Notes: 6.1-3:59-78.
      • Akinlabi, Akinbiyi M. (1995). ATR harmony in Kalabari Ijo. In: E. Nolue Emenanjo & Ozo-Mekuri Ndemeke, eds. Issues in African languages and linguistics. Essays in honour of Kay Williamson. Aba, National Institute for Nigerian Languages, S. 70-81.
    • Okpe (Edoid, Nigeria)
      • Hoffmann, Carl (1973). The vowel harmony system of the Okpe monosyllabic verb. Research notes 6.1-3:79-111.
      • Herault, George (1986). A propos de l'harmonie vocalique enɔkpɛ. Studies in African linguistics 17:155-76.
      • Pulleyblank , Douglas (1986). Underspecification and low vowel harmony in Okpe. Studies in African linguistics 17:119-54.
      • Omamor, Augusta (1988). Okpe and Uvwie: A case of vowel harmony galore. Journal of West African Languages 18/1:47-64.
      • Orie, Olanike Ola (2001). An alignment-based account of vowel harmony in Ife Yoruba JALL (Journal of African Languages and Linguistics) Volume 22, Number 2: 117–143
    • Uvwie ( Nigeria)
      • Omamor, Augusta (1988). Okpe and Uvwie: A case of vowel harmony galore. Journal of West African Languages 18/1:47-64.
    • Yoruba (Nigeria)
      • Awobuluyi, A. Oladele (1967). Vowel and consonant harmony in Yoruba. Journal of African Languages 6: 1-8.
      • Awobuluyi, A. Oladele & Bamgbose, Ayo (1967). Two views of vowel harmony in Yoruba. Journal of African Languages 6.3:268-273.
      • Bamgbose, Ayo. (1967). Vowel harmony in Yoruba. Journal of African Languages 6.3.:268-173.
      • George, Isaac (1973). Vowel harmony: Why so restricted in Yoruba. Research Notes 6.1-3:171-188.
      • Capo, Hounkpati B. C. (1985). On the high non-expanded vowels in Yoruboid. Studies in African linguistics 16:101-21.
      • Archangeli, Diana and Douglas Pulleyblank (1989). Yoruba vowel harmony. Linguistic Inquiry 20: 173-217.
      • Bode, Oduntan. (1999). An optimality theory approach to vowel assimilation in the Yoruba language. In: Paul F. Kotey, (Hrsg.) New dimensions in African linguistics and languages. Trenton, N.J. Africa World Press, S. 37-54.
      • Przezdziecki, Marek A. (2005). Vowel harmony and coarticulation in three dialects of Yoruba: Phonetics determining phonology. Ph.D. thesis. Cornell Universtity.

    Bantoid

    • Esimbi (Kamerun)
      • Hyman, Larry (1988) Underspecification and vowel height transfer in Esimbi. Phonology 5: 255-273.
    • Yamba (Grassfield, Kamerun)
      • Scruggs, Terri R. (1980). Vowel harmony in Yamba. Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics 6: 41-50.

    Bantu

    • Greenberg, Joseph (1951). Vowel and nasal harmony in Bantu languages. Zaire 5:813-820.
    • Harris, John (1987). Non-structure-preserving rules in lexical phonology. South Eastern Bantu harmony. Lingua 73: 255-292.
    • Clements, George (1991). Vowel height assimilation in Bantu languages. In: Kathleen Hubbard (Hrsg.). Proceedings of the seventeenth annual meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics, February 15-18, 1991. Special session on African language structures. S. 25-64. Berkeley, Berkeley Linguistics Society.
    • Hyman, Larry M.(1999). The historical interpretation of vowel harmony in Bantu. In: Hombert, Jean-Marie und Larry M. Hyman (Hrsg.). Bantu Historical Linguistics. Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives. S. 235-295. Stanford: CSLI Publications.
    • Stewart, John M. (2000). An explanation of Bantu vowel height harmony in terms of a Pre-Bantu nasalized vowel lowering. JALL (Journal of African Languages and Linguistics), Volume 21, Number 2: 161-178.
    • Stewart, John M. (2000/1). Symmetric vs. asymmetric vowel height harmony and e, o vs. i, u in Proto-Bantu and Proto-Savannah Bantu. Journal of West African Languages 28/2: 45-58.
    • Leitch, Myles Francis (2000). Vowel harmonies of the Congo Bassin: An optimality theory analysis of variation in the Bantu zone C. Ph.D. thesis. The University of British Columbia. (SIL)
    • Budu, Bira (B.30, Demokratische Republik Kongo)
      • Koehler, Loren Scott (1995). An underspecification approach to Budu vowel harmony . M.A. thesis, University of Texas at Arlington.
    • Gunu (A.60 Kamerun)
      • Hyman, Larry M. (2001). Vowel harmony in Gunu. Studies in African linguistics 30.2:146-70.
    • Kàlɔŋ (A.62. Kamerun)
      • Hyman, Larry M. (2003). Abstract vowel harmony in Kàlɔŋ. A system driven account. To appear in Patrick Sauzet & Anne Zribi-Hertz (Hrsg.), Typologie des langues d’Afrique et universaux de la grammaire, 85-112. Paris: l’Harmattan.
    • Kinande (Uganda, Demokratische Republik Kongo)
      • ,Mutaka, Ngessimo Mathe (1995). Vowel harmony in Kinande. Journal of West African Languages 25.2:41-55.
    • Lobala (Demokratische Republik Kongo)
      • ,Morgan, David J. (1993). Vowel harmony, syllable structure and the causative extension in a Bantu language – Lobala: a government phonology account. Journal of West African Languages 23/1: 41-64.
    • Nen, Nənì (A. 44 Kamerun)
      • Stewart, John and Hélène van Leynseele (1979). Underlying cross-height vowel harmony in Nen (Bantu A44). JALL (Journal of African Languages and Linguistics) 1.1:31-54.
      • Mous, Maarten (1986). Vowel harmony in Tunen. In: Koen Bogers, Harry van der Hulst, and Maarten Mous (Hrsg.). The phonological representations of suprasegmentals, Dordrecht: Foris Publications: 281-295.
      • Van der Hulst, Harry, Maarten Mous and Norval Smith (1986). The auto-segmental analysis of reduced vowel harmony systems: the case of Tunen. In: F. Beukema and A. Hulk (Hrsg.), Linguistics in the , Netherlands, 1986. Dordrecht: Foris Publications: 105-122.
      • Bancel, Pierre (1991). The three-way vowel harmony of N « nì (Bantu A. 44. Cameroon ). Kathleen Hubbard, (Hrsg.) Proceedings of the seventeenth annual meeting of the , Berkeley, Linguistics, , February 15-18, 1991,. Special session on African language structures. Berkeley, Berkeley Linguistics society.
    • SiSwati (Südafrika)
      • Kockaert, Hendrik J. (1997). Vowel harmony in SiSwati: An experimental study of raised and non-raised vowels. JALL (Journal of African Languages and Linguistics) 18.2:136-156.

     

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