Does Even have ATR? – Testing phonological hypotheses in an endangered language
Even is an endangered Tungusic language described as having a robust system of vowel harmony. In recent decades a [+/- ATR] distinction dividing vowels into two harmonic sets was reported as a major feature of the Tungusic vowel systems. According to Ard (1980), among the Tungusic languages this fea...
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