%0 Journal Article %A Nevins, Andrew Ira %T Microvariations in harmony and value-relativized parametrization %D 2005 %J Linguistic Variation Yearbook %V 5 %N 1 %P 119-164 %@ 1568-1483 %R https://doi.org/10.1075/livy.5.05nev %K parameters %K harmony %K contrastiveness %K Yoruba %K Manchu %K Sibe %I John Benjamins %X 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. %U https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/livy.5.05nev