Phrasal Vowel Harmony

Abstract

Vowel harmony is usually claimed to be word bound, and the ‘word’ is usually taken to refer to the phonological word, not the grammatical word, since compounds are often disharmonic. Indeed, vowel harmony is said to rarely cross lexical word boundaries, either within compounds or within phrases. (See, e.g., Archangeli & Pulleyblank 2007; Hyman 2002; Kaisse 2019; Kiparsky, this volume; Krämer 2003; Rose & Walker 2011; van der Hulst & van de Weijer 1995.)