Vowel harmony in Akan a consideration of Stewarts word structure conditions

George N. Clements

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Stewart [1983] presents a new framework for the analysis of Akan vowel harmony in which Word Structure Conditions (WSCs) are introduced to account for word-level phonotactic regularities. It is shown here that the WSCs, rather than simplifying the analysis of Akan, impose unnecessary complexity on it, requiring us to restate the unitary process of vowel harmony as a number of formally unrelated rules. It is concluded that with one further modification, the analysis of Clements [1981] can be maintained.

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1985Some consequences of Lexical Phonology 1967Redundancy Rules in Phonology 1967Tongue Root Position in Akan Vowel Harmony 1983Akan vowel harmony the word structure conditions and the floating vowels 1933Dictionary of the Asante and Fante language called Tshi (Twi)

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