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Aksënova, Rawski, Graf & Heinz 2024: the computational power of harmonic forms #

Vowel-harmony phonotactics are tier-based strictly 2-local: project the harmonizing segments on a tier and ban the disagreeing bigrams. Lokaa ATR harmony needs the tier because no strictly local window bounds the transparent material; Kirghiz, Buryat, and Yakut double harmonies each fit on a single tier, with blocking (Buryat's high vowels) and configuration-dependent blocking (Yakut's low vowels) both mere bigram bans; Kikongo's vowel and nasal harmonies need two tiers, which are disjoint. Of the four relations two tier alphabets can stand in, only same, embedded, and disjoint are attested.

This file states each printed grammar (Tables 34.2–34.7) as a TierStrictlyLocalGrammar.ofForbiddenPairs over the paper's tier alphabet, reads the paper's forms into that alphabet, and checks the forms and their starred counterparts against it (lokaa_rows, kirghiz_rows, buryat_rows, yakut_rows, kikongo_rows). The Pattern theorems say which grammars segment-level participation reproduces: Kirghiz and Buryat are conjunctions of two patterns (kirghiz_two_patterns, buryat_expressible), Buryat's blocking is asymmetric (buryat_not_symmetric), and Yakut's is left open. tierRelation computes the §34.3.4 typology (kikongo_disjoint_tiers).

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def AksenovaEtAl2024.tierOf {V : Type} (ofChar : CharOption V) (s : String) :
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The tier of a printed form: its symbols read into the tier alphabet, everything else — consonants, transparent vowels, length and tone marks — dropped.

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    Lokaa (Table 34.2): ATR agreement on the tier of non-high vowels #

    The Lokaa tier T = {ɛ, e, o, ə, ɔ, a}; eh = ɛ, oh = ɔ.

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        H_ATR: tier-adjacent vowels disagreeing in tenseness.

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          The (3) forms are accepted and their starred counterparts rejected.

          Kirghiz ((5), Table 34.3): fronting and rounding on one tier #

          The Kirghiz tier T = {a, ɨ, e, i, o, ö, u, ü}; ih = ɨ, oe = ö, ue = ü.

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              H_front ∪ H_round: the bigram disagrees in fronting or in rounding.

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                Kirghiz frontness harmony: every vowel participates.

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                  Kirghiz rounding harmony, on the same tier.

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                    The printed grammar is the conjunction of the two patterns' compatibilities.

                    Buryat ((9), Table 34.4): high vowels block rounding #

                    The Buryat tier T = {a, e, ɔ, o, ʊ, u} (transparent /i/ excluded); oh = ɔ, uh = ʊ.

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                        H_ATR ∪ H_r1 ∪ H_r2: the bigram disagrees in ATR; or its non-high vowels disagree in rounding; or a rounded non-high vowel follows a high vowel.

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                          The (9) forms are accepted — ɔr-ʊːl-aːd because the high causative blocks rounding — and their starred counterparts rejected.

                          Blocking is directional: *ʊɔ is banned but ɔʊ licensed.

                          theorem AksenovaEtAl2024.buryat_not_symmetric (R : BuryatVBuryatVProp) (hsymm : ∀ (x y : BuryatV), R x y R y x) :
                          ¬∀ (x y : BuryatV), R x y buryatBanned x y

                          No symmetric adjacency relation renders Buryat's grammar.

                          Buryat ATR harmony: every tier vowel participates.

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                            Buryat rounding harmony: high vowels are opaque, imposing unroundedness on what follows.

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                              With opaque blockers the printed grammar is the conjunction of the two patterns.

                              Yakut ((14), Table 34.5): harmonizing blockers #

                              The Yakut tier T = {a, ɨ, e, i, o, ö, u, ü}.

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                                  H_front ∪ H_r1 ∪ H_r2 ∪ H_r3: the bigram disagrees in fronting; or its high vowels disagree in rounding; or a rounded non-high vowel follows a high vowel; or a non-high vowel is followed by a vowel disagreeing in rounding. (The printed H_r2 lists *üö twice and omits *üo, which H_front bans anyway.)

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                                    Low vowels harmonize but block: rounding passes from o to u, not from u to o.

                                    Kikongo ((16), (18), Tables 34.6–34.7): two disjoint tiers #

                                    The Kikongo tier symbols: the vowels T_v = {e, o, i, u} and T_n = {n, m, d, l}.

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                                        A printed form read into the tier symbols. A nasal before a stop is the prenasalized onset of that stop, not a tier nasal: read with m projected, Table 34.7 would ban the paper's own -somp-el-, -tomb-ol-, and -lemb-ol- (*ml).

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                                          The vowel tier T_v and the nasal tier T_n.

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                                              H_n: d or l after a nasal.

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                                                Every (16) and (18) form passes both grammars on its own tier.

                                                The tier-relation typology (§34.3.4, Table 34.8) #

                                                Two tier alphabets are the same, embedded, disjoint, or partially overlapping; the last is unattested, a tendency the chapter reports would exclude 95% of the possible tier organizations of a ten-element alphabet.

                                                The four logical relations between two tier alphabets (Figure 34.2).

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                                                    def AksenovaEtAl2024.tierRelation {α : Type} [Fintype α] [DecidableEq α] (p q : αProp) [DecidablePred p] [DecidablePred q] :

                                                    The relation between two tiers over a finite alphabet.

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                                                      Kirghiz and Buryat double harmonies are single-tier — Table 34.8's S rows.

                                                      Kikongo's vowel and nasal tiers are disjoint — Table 34.8's D row.