Ebook: ATR Harmony in Karimojong: Justification for a Stratal Optimality Theory

Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER
Publication date: 2007
Number of pages: 148A study of ATR harmony patterns indicates that a serial derivation model best accounts for the surface forms of Karimojong verbs. Five affix types in verbal complexes in the language may undergo harmony, trigger it or remain neutral, resulting in three separate harmony domains: bidirectional root-controlled harmony, [-ATR] suffix-controlled harmony, and [+ATR] suffix-controlled harmony. ATR specification may also be determined by adjacency effects. The [-ATR] suffix-controlled process is proposed in part to emanate from the phonologization of tongue retraction required to pronounce the itive suffix [-Ar].