ISSUES IN VOWEL HARMONY -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- PREFACE -- Table of contents -- INTRODUCTION -- REFERENCES -- PROBLEMS AND PERSPECTIVES IN THE DESCRIPTION OF VOWEL HARMONY -- 1. Introduction. -- 2. Definitions of Vowel Harmony. -- 2.1. Metaphony? -- 2.2. Vocalic assimilation? -- 2.3. Progressive vocalic assimilation? -- 2.4. Distant vooalic assimilation? -- 2.5. A cluster of properties? -- 3. The Mechanisms of Vowel Harmony. -- 3.1. Types of assimilatory change. -- 3.2. An argument against 'spreading' analysis. -- 3.3. Further arguments concerning the nature of vowel harmony rules. -- 4. Conclusions. -- REFERENCES -- A FORMAL THEORY OF VOWEL HARMONY -- REFERENCES -- ISSUES IN THE DESCRIPTION OF TURKISH VOWEL HARMONY -- Appendix I -- Appendix II -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- REGULAR DISHARMONY IN KIRGHIZ -- 1. The Kirghiz vowel system. -- 2. Formalization. -- 3. Multiple suffix vowels. -- 4. Simultaneously applicable re formulations. -- 5. Phonetic detail. -- 6. The effect of AY on the polysyllabic case. -- REFERENCES -- MONGOLIAN VOCALIC FEATURES AND THE PROBLEM OF HARMONY -- NOTES -- THE UNDERLYING REPRESENTATION OF HARMONIZING VOWELS: EVIDENCE FROM MODERN MONGOLIAN -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- A CONCRETE ANALYSIS OF HUNGARIAN VOWEL HARMONY -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- A CRITIQUE OF SUPRASEGMENTAL THEORIES OF VOWEL HARMONY -- 1. Introduction. -- 2. Suprasegmental Features. -- 3. An Outline of the Facts of Vowel Harmony in Hungarian. -- 4. The Linear Non-Phonetic Suprasegmental Theory of Eetzron (1972). -- 5. The Non-Linear Phonetic Suprasegmental Theory of Clements (1976). -- 6. The Non-Linear Non-Phonetic Suprasegmental Theory of Ringen (1980). -- 7. Conclusion. -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- VOICE-QUALITY HARMONY IN WESTERN NILOTIC LANGUAGES -- NOTES -- REFERENCES.

NEZ PERCEVOWEL HARMONY: AN AFRICANIST EXPLANATION AND SOME THEORETICAL QUESTIONS -- 1. Introduction. -- 2. Voice-Quality Based Vowel Harmony Systems. -- 3. A Reanalysis of the Nes Perce Data. -- 4. Sahaptin. -- 5. Feature-Switching vs. Feature-Specifying Vowel Harmony Systems. -- 6. Toweett's Paradox. -- 7. Conclusions. -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- VOWEL HARMONY AND MORPHOPHONEMIC RULES -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- THE PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SOCIOLOGICAL REALITY OF FINNISH VOWEL HARMONY -- 0. Introduction. -- 1. The psychological reality of FVH. -- 2. Sociological reality of FVH. -- 2.1. Loan words. -- 2.2. Neutral y. -- 2.3. Presitge. -- 2.4. Non-native compounds. -- 2.5. Vowel Harmony variation in native words. -- 2.6. Unassimilated loans. -- 2.7. Neologisms. -- 3. Historical complications. -- 3.1. Though the origin of VH in Finno-Ugric -- 3.2. The ovigin of o_ and VH wrinkles. -- 4. Theoretical implications. -- 4.1. Rule classifications. -- 4.2. External factors and the sociological reality of rules. -- 4.3. External complications in language universals. -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- USING ASYMMETRICAL AND GRADIENT DATA IN THE STUDY OF VOWEL HARMONY -- 1. Introduction and overview of the results. -- 2. Verb inflection and derivation: the regular patterns in Finnish. -- 3. Predicting harmony for "neutral-vowel" roots: phonetic detail and typological parallels. -- 4. Nominal suffixes resistant to harmonization because of initial [grave] consonants and the vowel lol. -- 5. Semantic-morphological distinction among denominal suffixes with initial In/: transparency of root meaning. -- 6. The instability of the sequence /i...y/ -- alternations /u/^/o^y/j and a Turkish parallel. -- 7. Quantitative measurements of the strength of harmonic control: loan-words and the role of stress. -- 8. Conclusions : the nature of explanation in linguistics. -- NOTES.

REFERENCES I - The data for Finnish -- REFERENCES II - Other selected references -- Appendix A-1. Back-harmonic families -- Appendix A-2. Front-harmonic families -- Appendix B.