The Oxford Handbook of Vowel Harmony was published earlier this fall and features several contributions from UofT Linguistics faculty and alumni! Faculty members Nathan Sanders, Elan Dresher, Peter Jurgec, Avery Ozburn, and Keren Rice, as well as 2012 UofT Alum Paul Arsenault contributed to chapters of the handbook.
"This handbook provides a detailed account of the phenomenon of vowel harmony, a pattern according to which all vowels within a word must agree for some phonological property or properties. Vowel harmony has been central in the development of phonological theories thanks to its cluster of remarkable properties, notably its typically 'unbounded' character and its non-locality, and because it forms part of the phonology of most world languages" (Oxford University Press). The publication is features data and analyses from all major language families as well as several isolates, and touches on structural issues such as the interaction of vowel harmony and morphological structure, and locality, as well as theoretical accounts of vowel harmony, bringing in insights from language acquisitin and psycholinguistics.
Congratulations and well done, everyone!
You can access the handbook through the UofT Library.
