2020/12/29 by Eyüp Bacanlı, Darin Flynn, Amanda Pounder · 1 voice · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Computer Science · Psychology · #Linguistics and Cultural Studies #Natural Language Processing Techniques #Phonetics and Phonology Research
paper · pdf · doi:10.3765/ptu.v5i1.4782
openalex publication_date 2020/12/29 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
Vowel harmony appears to be a regular phonological process in Turkish, but nevertheless is not exceptionless. Due to these exceptions, it cannot be considered as part of the active phonology of Turkish. An analysis is proposed in which morphology and lexicon control vowel harmony and other processes similar in this regard. Morphology is unlike other modules of grammar in requiring access to all of syntactic, semantic, and phonological properties to function. One of the roles of morphology is to give commands to the phonology during formation of a complex word, such as "Carry out vowel harmony!" The phonology need not account for why such a command does not accompany certain suffixes, why it does not apply to all roots, nor why other commands only accompany a few suffixes. More generally, there is no need for phonology to access morphological information in a modular model of grammar.