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Conlangery #37: Phonological Processes

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What's the Difference Between Assimilation and Vowel Harmony?

Vowel harmony is interesting because all of us who've taken linguistics courses are always fed Turkish as the example of a language with vowel harmony, par excellence. But that has height assimilation. There are other languages that have vowel harmony that operate on quite different lines. And it's going to also be entire segments of sounds.

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