Vowel Quality in Finnish Loanwords of Swedish Origin: An Acoustic Study
Like many related Balto-Finnic languages such as Votic, Veps, Karelian, and dialects of Estonian, Finnish has a palatal harmony system. Vowel harmony may be defined as co-occurrence restrictions on the vowels within a particular domain. In palatal harmony systems, vowels group into front and back se...
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2008
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| Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.1027.7818 http://twpl.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/twpl/article/download/6581/3594/ |
| Summary: | Like many related Balto-Finnic languages such as Votic, Veps, Karelian, and dialects of Estonian, Finnish has a palatal harmony system. Vowel harmony may be defined as co-occurrence restrictions on the vowels within a particular domain. In palatal harmony systems, vowels group into front and back sets. Within the domain of harmony, only |
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