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The Role of Consonants in Vowel Harmony

2024· book-chapter· en· W4403633920 on OpenAlexaff
Gunnar Ólafur Hansson

Bibliographic record

VenueOxford University Press eBooks · 2024
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicPhonetics and Phonology Research
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsVowel harmonyLinguisticsVowelMid vowelPsychologyAudiologyMedicinePhilosophyFormant

Abstract

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Abstract This chapter examines the ways in which consonants may interfere with, or participate in, patterns of vowel harmony (VH). Most commonly, consonants may act as opaque segments, blocking the propagation of the harmony feature. The types of consonants that can block VH are diverse and the phonetic motivation for their behavior as blockers is not always evident. Alternatively, consonants may trigger harmony, either on their own or in combination with a triggering vowel. Consonants may also display alternation between harmony contexts, suggesting that they can be undergoers of VH, though some such effects may arise at the level of phonetic implementation rather than in the phonological grammar. Many illustrative examples are provided of these different types of consonantal involvement in VH, and some frequently cited cases are re-evaluated. Finally, consonant harmony and VH are briefly compared in terms of their typological properties and underlying mechanisms.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.005
Threshold uncertainty score0.018

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.002
Scholarly communication0.0020.001
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.030
GPT teacher head0.265
Teacher spread0.235 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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