The Oxford Handbook of Vowel Harmony

Nancy A. Ritter is Adjunct Professor of Linguistics at the University of Connecticut. Her research has focused on exploring phonological phenomena from a cognitive perspective and she is currently developing an approach to analysing classical ballet using methods of linguistic analysis and concepts from cognitive science. She is managing and review editor for The Linguistic Review. Harry van der Hulst is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Connecticut, where he specializes in phonology. He has been Editor-in-Chief of The Linguistic Review since 1990 and is co-editor of the Mouton de Gruyter series 'Studies in Generative Grammar'. He is the author of Asymmetries in Vowel Harmony (OUP, 2018), and co-editor of The Oxford History of Phonology (with B. Elan Dresher; OUP, 2022) and Word Prominence in Languages with Complex Morphologies (with Ksenia Bogomolets; OUP, 2023).

Part I. Types of vowel harmony
1: Nancy A. Ritter and Harry van der Hulst: Themes in vowel harmony
2: Gunnar Ólafur Hansson: The role of consonants in vowel harmony
3: Bert Botma: Nasal harmony
4: Charles W. Kisseberth and Michael J. Kenstowicz: Palatal harmony
5: Abigail Kaun and Adam G. McCollum: Rounding harmony
6: Heather Goad: Height harmony
7: Roderic F. Casali: Tongue root harmony [ATR]/[RTR]
8: Joan Mascaró: Stress-dependent vowel harmony
9: Nicholas Henriksen and Kelly Kendro: Laxing vowel harmony
10: Norval Smith: Rhotic vowel harmony
11: Norval Smith: Minor vowel harmony
12: Adam G. McCollum: Epiphenomenal and true non-iterative vowel harmony
13: Larry M. Hyman: Phonology that will not harmonize
Part II. Structural issues in vowel harmony
14: B. Elan Dresher and Sara Mackenzie: Vowel harmony in the light of contrastive feature theories
15: Roderic F. Casali: Tongue-root harmony and vowel inventory structure
16: David Odden: Vowel harmony and coda, moraic, or geminate consonants
17: Paul Kiparsky: Domains of vowel harmony
18: Paul Kiparsky: A stratal OT perspective on vowel harmony
19: Andrea Calabrese: Morpho-syntactic asymmetries in Serviglianese vowel harmony domains
20: Laura J. Downing and Martin Krämer: Phrasal vowel harmony
21: Martin Krämer: Non-alternating, non-participating, and idiosyncratic vowels
22: Phillip Burness, Kevin McMullin, and Andrew Nevins: Revisiting locality in vowel harmony
23: Aaron Kaplan and Rachel Walker: What constitutes privileged positions in vowel harmony?
24: Shakuntala Mahanta: Directionality in vowel harmony systems
Part III. Approaches to vowel harmony
25: Michael J. Kenstowicz: Vowel harmony in pre-Generative Phonology
26: Charles W. Kisseberth and Michael J. Kenstowicz: Vowel harmony in classical Generative Phonology
27: Peter Jurgec: Multi-linear approaches to vowel harmony
28: Krisztina Polgárdi: Vowel harmony in Government Phonology
29: Harry van der Hulst and Jacques Durand: Vowel harmony in dependency-based models
30: Sara Finley: Vowel harmony in Optimality Theory
31: Charles W. Kisseberth: Vowel harmony in Optimal Domains Theory
32: Caitlin Smith: Harmony in gesture-based phonology
33: Marjorie Leduc, Charles Reiss, and Veno Volenec: Votic vowel harmony in Substance Free Logical Phonology
34: Alëna Aksënova, Jonathan Rawski, Thomas Graf, and Jeffrey Heinz: The computational power of harmonic forms
35: Rebecca Knowles and Nathan Sanders: Data-driven approaches to vowel harmony
36: Diana Archangeli and Douglas Pulleyblank: Vowel harmony in Emergent Phonology
37: Jeroen van de Weijer: An exemplar-based approach to vowel harmony
38: Heather Goad and Avery Ozburn: Vowel harmony in language acquisition
39: Anne Pycha and Sara Finley: Psycholinguistic approaches to vowel harmony
Part IV. Genesis, evolution, and decay of vowel harmony
40: Adamantios Gafos: Articulatory and perceptual factors in vowel harmony
41: Amanda Rysling and John Kingston: Phonetic and functional precursors to vowel harmony
42: Victor A. Friedman and Brian D. Joseph: Vowel harmony in contact situations: The case of the Balkans
43: Mark Dras and K. David Harrison: Vowel harmony in computational models of emergence
44: Adam G. McCollum: On how and why vowel harmony decays
45: Andrey Nikulin: Examples of diachronic decay of vowel harmony
Part V. Vowel harmony across languages
46: Matthew K. Gordon and Michael Fiddler: Vowel harmony: Statistical perspectives on typological distribution
47: Geoffrey Khan: Vowel harmony in Semitic languages
48: Mary Pearce and Joseph Lovestrand: Vowel harmony in Chadic languages
49: Constance Kutsch Lojenga: Vowel harmony in Nilo-Saharan languages
50: Abeer M. A. Bashir and Sharon Rose: Vowel harmony in Niger Congo languages of the Nuba Mountains
51: Nicholas Rolle and Olanike Ola Orie: Vowel harmony in non-Bantu Niger-Congo languages
52: Virginia Boyd: Vowel harmony in Bantu Niger-Congo languages
53: Keren Rice: Vowel harmony in North American languages
54: Chris Rogers: Vowel harmony in Mesoamerican languages
55: Andrey Nikulin: Vowel harmony in South American languages
56: Shakuntala Mahanta and Paul Arsenault: Vowel harmony in languages of India
57: Gregory D. S. Anderson, Luke Horo, and K. David Harrison: Vowel harmony in the Munda languages
58: Katia Chirkova: Vowel harmony in Sino-Tibetan languages
59: Jonathan North Washington: Vowel harmony in Turkic languages
60: Jan-Olof Svantesson: Vowel harmony in Mongolic languages
61: Bing Li and Norval Smith: Vowel harmony in Tungusic languages
62: Bert Botma and Hidetoshi Shiraishi: Vowel harmony in Nivkh
63: Seongyeon Ko: Vowel harmony in Korean
64: Hidetoshi Shiraishi and Bert Botma: Vowel harmony in Ainu
65: Michael J. Kenstowicz: Vowel harmony in Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages
66: Irina Nikolaeva: Vowel harmony in Yukaghir
67: László Fejes, Péter Siptár, and Robert M. Vago: Vowel harmony in Uralic languages
68: Gunnar Ólafur Hansson and Richard Wiese: Umlaut in Germanic languages
69: Stefano Canalis, Jesús Jiménez, Maria-Rosa Lloret, and Margaret E. L. Renwick: Vowel harmony in Romance languages
70: José Ignacio Hualde: Vowel harmony in Basque
71: Anthi Revithiadou: Vowel harmony in Greek
72: Bert Vaux and Ariwan Addy Suhairi: Vowel harmony in Armenian
73: Marika Butskhrikidze: Vowel harmony in Caucasian languages
74: Rob Pensalfini: Vowel harmony in Australian languages
75: Marian Klamer: Vowel harmony in Papuan languages
76: Emily Gasser: Vowel harmony in Austronesian languages