Tongue root harmony and vowel contrast in northeast Asian languages
By: Seongyeon Ko
Series: Turcologica -- Band 112; Turcologica -- Bd. 112.
Publisher: Harrassowitz Verlag
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Wiesbaden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9783447109703
Subjects: Tungus-Manchu languages; Mongolian language
Description: This book investigates the synchrony and diachrony of the vocalism of a variety of Northeast Asian languages, especially Korean, Mongolic, and Tungusic languages, traditionally known as ?Altaic? and more recently as ?Transeurasian.? 0After careful examinations of the phonetics and phonology of vowels in each variety, the author presents a formal synchronic analysis of more than 35 languages and dialects, past and present, within the framework of Contrastive Hierarchy (CH).
Notes: Revised thesis (doctoral) - Cornell University, 2012.

Includes bibliographical references and index.