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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Main Authors: Natalia Aralova, Sven Grawunder
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
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Language:English
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Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.296.1491
http://www.cunyphonologyforum.net/ENDANABSTRACTS/AralovaGrawunder.pdf