@article{jbp:/content/journals/10.1075/livy.5.05nev, author = "Nevins, Andrew Ira", title = "Microvariations in harmony and value-relativized parametrization", journal= "Linguistic Variation Yearbook", year = "2005", volume = "5", number = "1", pages = "119-164", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1075/livy.5.05nev", url = "https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/livy.5.05nev", publisher = "John Benjamins", issn = "1568-1483", type = "Journal Article", keywords = "parameters", keywords = "harmony", keywords = "contrastiveness", keywords = "Yoruba", keywords = "Manchu", keywords = "Sibe", abstract = "This paper explores a parametric delimitation of the space of possible harmony patterns with respect to the class of feature-values that are visible. Extending the framework of Calabrese (1995), the proposal is that alternating morphemes that are searching for a harmonic value may have access toall-values, only asingle-value, or thecontrastivevalues of the harmonic feature. Two cases of microvariation are explored: [ATR] vowel harmony in Standard Yoruba vs. Ife Yoruba, which reduces to the setting of the relativization-value toallvs.contrastive, and vowel-consonant interactions mediated by [high] harmony in Sanjiazi Manchu vs. Sibe, which reduces to the parametric setting ofcontrastivevs.single-value.", }