Vowel Harmony in the Armenian Dialect of Karchevan

Though vowel harmony has been one of the central concerns of theoretical phonologists for several decades now (cf. Ringen 1975, Clements and Sezer 1982, Li 1996), debate has centered around data from a relatively limited number of Altaic, Uralic, and Afric

 

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