ABC Bibliography
Compiled by Stephanie Shih & Sharon Inkelas
& participants of the ABC↔Conference
Last updated 8 May 2014
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Agreement by Correspondence (ABC) is a framework for modeling harmony systems in Optimality Theory. Departing from representational approaches such as Autosegmental Phonology, ABC models harmony as featural agreement between two segments in a surface correspondence relationship. Correspondence sets are determined on the basis of featural and structural similarity as well as proximity. ABC was originally designed to capture long distance consonant agreement patterns, in which intervening segments were transparent to harmony processes and thus could be left out of the relevant surface correspondence sets. Since its first formulations, however, the reach of ABC has extended beyond long distance consonant harmony, to vowel harmony, local interactions, dissimilation, and tone.
As a relatively recent theoretical development, the overall architecture of ABC is still very much in flux, and whether it has the flexibility or the necessary limitations to accurately model complex harmony patterns (e.g., transparency, blocking) is an open question. With its developments, the tension between ABC—or, more generally, surface correspondence theory—and representational approaches also awaits resolution.
The scope of this bibliography encompasses works that directly engage with the ABC framework and works that have been particularly prominent in discussions surrounding ABC. The bibliography was originally developed in conjunction with the ABC↔Conference, for which all papers, discussions, and posters have been archived in the UC Berkeley Phonology Lab Annual Report 2014.
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Contents
Agreement by Correspondence – Foundations
Related subjects, harmony at large
Precursors, related theories to ABC
Though not the first mentions of ABC, the basic framework of the theory was introduced largely in two works: Hansson 2001’s dissertation and Rose & Walker 2004. Both articles include typological studies of long distance consonant harmony that motivate the development of a new, surface correspondence-based approach to modeling harmony.
A core insight in the ABC framework is that similar segments are more likely to interact and become even more similar through harmony. Thus, the questions arise: What counts as phonologically similar? How is phonological similarity evaluated, modeled, and formalised (e.g., Frisch et al. 2004; Steriade 2009)? How does phonological similarity lead to harmony (e.g., Wayment 2009)? What is the relationship between phonological and phonetic similarities (e.g., Mielke 2012)? How does contrast, lexical neighborhood density, and other production and processing factors contribute to determining similarity (e.g., MacKenzie 2011; Scarborough 2012)?
On strictly local spreading approaches:
ABC was originally developed for long distance consonant harmony phenomena. Since, it has been applied to various vowel harmony and local harmony phenomena.
In an AGREE-based theory of harmony:
Harmony is one method of repair for mandated correspondences by Corr constraints. Another outcome of correspondence relationships is disharmony: if two segments cannot agree as required by correspondence, then they can dissimilate in order to escape the surface correspondence relationship. This approach to modeling dissimilation via surface correspondences was first introduced by Bennett 2013. Inkelas & Shih (2013b) make the point that dissimilation and assimilation are two of many possible repairs for conspiracies of unstable surface correspondence relationships between segments.
Arsenault, Paul. 2012. Retroflex consonant harmony in South Asia. PhD thesis, University of Toronto. https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/33911/3/Arsenault_Paul_E_201211_PhD_thesis.pdf
Arsenault, Paul & Alexei Kochetov. 2011. Retroflex harmony in Kalasha: Agreement or spreading? In Suzi Lima, Kevin Mullin, Brian Smith (eds.). Proceedings of the 39th Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 39). Amherst, MA: GLSA. 55-66. http://works.bepress.com/alexei_kochetov/17/
Baković, Eric. 2000. Harmony, dominance, and control. Rutgers University. Ph.D. dissertation. http://roa.rutgers.edu/files/360-1199/roa-360-bakovic-2.pdf
Bennett, William G. 2013. Dissimilation, consonant harmony, and surface correspondence. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Ph.D. dissertation.
Bowman, Samuel R. and Benjamin Lokshin. 2014. Idiosyncratically Transparent Vowels in Kazakh. In John Kingston; Claire Moore-Cantwell; Joe Pater; and Robert Staubs (eds). Proceedings of Phonology 2013. University of Massachusetts, Amherst. http://journals.linguisticsociety.org/proceedings/index.php/amphonology/article/view/24
Faytak, Matthew. 2014. Dissimilation by surface correspondence in Aghem velarized diphthongs. In John Kingston; Claire Moore-Cantwell; Joe Pater; and Robert Staubs (eds). Proceedings of Phonology 2013. University of Massachusetts, Amherst. http://journals.linguisticsociety.org/proceedings/index.php/amphonology/article/view/52
Finley, Sara. 2011. The privileged status of locality in consonant harmony. Journal of Memory and Language. 65(1): 74–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2011.02.006
Frisch, Stefan; Janet Pierrehumbert; and Michael Broe. 2004. Similarity avoidance and the OCP. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory. 22: 179–228.
Gafos, Adamantios I. 1999. The articulatory basis of locality in phonology. Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc.
Gallagher, Gillian. 2008. Total identity in co-occurrence restrictions. Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistic Society. Berkeley, CA.
Gallagher, Gillian & Jessica Coon. 2009. Distinguishing total and partial identity: Evidence from Chol. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory. 27. 545–582.
Hansson, Gunnar Ólafur. 2001. Theoretical and Typological Issues in Consonant Harmony. Berkeley, CA: University of California, Berkeley. Ph.D. dissertation. http://faculty.arts.ubc.ca/gohansson/pdf/GH_diss.pdf
Hansson, Gunnar Ólafur. 2007. Blocking Effects in Agreement by Correspondence. Linguistic Inquiry. 38(2). 395–409.
Hansson, Gunnar Ólafur. 2010. Long-distance voicing assimilation in Berber: Spreading and/or agreement? Proceedings of the 2010 annual conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association.
Hyman, Larry M. To appear. How Autosegmental is Phonology? The Linguistic Review. http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/phonlab/annual_report/documents/2013/Hyman_how_autosegmental.pdf
Inkelas, Sharon. 2008. The dual theory of reduplication. Linguistics 46(2). 351–401.
Inkelas, Sharon & Stephanie S Shih. 2013a. Contour segments and tones in (sub)segmental Agreement by Correspondence. Paper presented at the 21st Manchester Phonology Meeting, University of Manchester, UK.
Inkelas, Sharon & Stephanie S Shih. 2013b. Unstable surface correspondence as the source of local conspiracies. Paper presented at the NELS 2013, University of Connecticut. http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/~stephsus/InkelasShih_NELS_2013_handout.pdf
Jurgec, Peter. 2013. Two types of parasitic assimilation. In Sylvia Blaho, Martin Krämer & Bruce Morén-Duolljá (eds). Nordlyd 40(1). (Special Issue “A Festschrift on the Occasion of X Years of CASTL Phonology and Curt Rice’s Lth Birthday”). 108–135.
Kochetov, Alexei & Avery Ozburn. 2013. Non-local laryngeal alternations in Lezgian: An Agreement by Correspondence analysis. Poster presented at Northeastern Linguistic Society 44 (NELS), University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.
Kochetov, Alexei & Milica Radišić. 2009. Latent consonant harmony in Russian: Experimental evidence for Agreement by Correspondence. Russian: Experimental evidence for Agreement by Correspondence. Proceedings of the Seventeenth Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics (FASL) meeting, Maria Babyonyshev, Darya Kavitskaya, & Jodi Reich. (eds.). Ann Arbor, MI: Jindřich Toman’s Michigan Slavic Publications. 111-130. http://works.bepress.com/alexei_kochetov/3/
Lionnet, Florian. 2014. Doubly triggered harmony in Laal as subphonemic Agreement by Correspondence. In John Kingston; Claire Moore-Cantwell; Joe Pater; and Robert Staubs (eds). Proceedings of Phonology 2013. University of Massachusetts, Amherst. http://journals.linguisticsociety.org/proceedings/index.php/amphonology/article/view/38
MacKenzie, Sara. 2011. Contrast and the evaluation of similarity: Evidence from consonant harmony. Lingua. 121: 1401–1423.
McCarthy, John J. 2010. Agreement by Correspondence without CORR constraints. Ms. University of Massachusetts, Amherst. http://works.bepress.com/john_j_mccarthy/106
McMullin, Kevin and Gunnar Ólafur Hansson. 2013. Locality in long-distance phonotactics: evidence for modular learning. Paper presented at the NELS 2013, University of Connecticut. tinyurl.com/kjmNELS44
Mielke, Jeff. 2012. A phonetically based metric of sound similarity. Lingua. 122: 145–163.
Ní Chiosáin, Máire & Jaye Padgett. 2001. Markedness, segment realization, and locality in spreading. In Lombardi, L. (ed.) Segmental phonology in Optimality Theory: constraints and representations. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 118-156. http://humweb.ucsc.edu/jayepadgett/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/newlocal.posted.pdf
Rose, Sharon & Rachel Walker. 2004. A Typology of Consonant Agreement by Correspondence. Language. 80(3). 475–531. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/lan.2004.0144
Rhodes, Russell. 2012. Vowel Harmony as Agreement by Correspondence. UC Berkeley Phonology Lab Annual Report. University of California, Berkeley. 138–168. http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/phonlab/annual_report/documents/2012/rhodes_abc_vh.pdf
Sasa, Tomamasa. 2009. Treatment of vowel harmony in Optimality Theory. Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa. Ph.D. dissertation.
Scarborough, Rebecca. 2012. Lexical similarity and speech production: Neighborhoods for nonwords Lingua. 122: 164–176.
Shih, Stephanie S. 2013/under review. Consonant-tone interaction as Agreement by Correspondence. Ms. Stanford University and University of California, Berkeley. http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/~stephsus/shih-ctoneABC-draftms_1-18-13.pdf
Shih, Stephanie S & Sharon Inkelas. 2014. A subsegmental correspondence approach to contour tone (dis)harmony patterns. In John Kingston; Claire Moore-Cantwell; Joe Pater; and Robert Staubs (eds). Proceedings of Phonology 2013. University of Massachusetts, Amherst. http://journals.linguisticsociety.org/proceedings/index.php/amphonology/article/view/22
Steriade, Donca. 2009. The phonology of perceptibility effects: the P-map and its consequences for constraint organization. In Kristin Hanson & Sharon Inkelas (eds). The Nature of the Word: Studies in Honor of Paul Kiparsky. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Sylak-Glassman, John. 2013. An Agreement-by-Correspondence Analysis of Máíhɨki Nasalization Harmony. Paper presented at the 18th Workshop on Structure and Constituency in Languages of the Americas (WSCLA 18). Berkeley, CA. http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/~sylak/cv/papers/Sylak-Glassman%202013%20-%20An%20Agreement-by-Correspondence%20Analysis%20of%20Maihiki%20Nasalization%20Harmony.pdf
Walker, Rachel. 2000a. Long-distance Consonantal Identity Effects. In Roger Billerey & Brook Danielle Lillehaugen (eds.), Proceedings of WCCFL 19, 532–545. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press
Walker, Rachel. 2000b. Yaka nasal harmony: Spreading or segmental correspondence? Proceedings of the 26th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistic Society: General Session and Parasession on Aspect. 321–332.
Walker, Rachel. 2001. Consonantal Correspondence. Proceedings of the Workshop on the Lexicon in Phonetics and Phonology. Papers in Experimental and Theoretical Linguistics, Vol. 6, ed. by Robert Kirchner, Joe Pater, and Wolf Wikeley, pp. 73-84. Edmonton: Department of Linguistics, University of Alberta. http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~rwalker/Walker/Publications_files/2001_Walker_ConsonantalCorrespondence.pdf.
Walker, Rachel. 2007. Nasal and oral consonant similarity in speech errors: Exploring parallels with nasal consonant harmony. Language and Cognitive Processes. 22(7). 1073–1113.
Walker, Rachel. 2009. Similarity-sensitive blocking and transparency in Menominee. Paper. Paper presented at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, San Francisco, California. http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~rwalker/MenomineeLSAHdt.pdf
Walker, Rachel, Dani Byrd & Fidéle Mpiranya. 2008. An Articulatory View of Kinyarwanda Coronal Harmony. Phonology 25. 499-535.
http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~rwalker/WalkerByrd&Mpiranya2008.pdf.
Walker, Rachel & Fidéle Mpiranya. 2005. Sibilant harmony in Kinyarwanda and Coronal Opacity. Handout of paper presented at GLOW 28, University of Geneva, March 31, 2005. http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~rwalker/GLOWHdt.pdf.
Walker, Rachel & Fidéle Mpiranya. 2006. On Triggers and Opacity in Coronal Harmony. Proceedings of BLS 31, ed. by Rebecca T. Cover and Yuni Kim, pp. 383-394. http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~rwalker/Walker/Publications_files/2006_Walker%26Mpiranya_CoronalHarmony.pdf.
Wayment, Adam. 2009. Assimilation as attraction: Computing distance, similarity, and locality in phonology. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University. Ph.D. dissertation. http://www.psy.cmu.edu/~wayment/papers/wayment-dissertation.pdf
Yu, Alan C. L. 2005. Toward a typology of compensatory reduplication. Proceedings of the 24th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, ed. by John Alderete, Chung-hye Han, and Alexei Kochetov, 397–405. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. http://washo.uchicago.edu/pub/WCCFL2005.pdf
Zuraw, Kie. 2002. Aggressive reduplication. Phonology. 19(3). 395–439.