Postvelar Harmony Book

	Acknowledgements
	Table of Contents
Ch. 1	Introduction
1.1	Aims	1
1.2	Overview	3
1.3	Representational Assumptions	3
1.4	Postvelars	18
1.5	A Harmony Typology	40
1.6	Optimality Theory	40
1.7	Phonetics and Phonology	46
Ch. 2	Postvelar Harmony in Palestinian Arabic
2.1	The Language and the Data	54
2.2	Phonemic Inventory	54
2.3	Preliminary Issues	74
2.4	Palestinian Pharyngealisation Harmony	94
2.5	Palestinian Uvularisation Harmony	135
2.6	Summary and a Final Issue	164
Ch. 3	Postvelar Harmony in St'at'imcets Salish
3.1	The Language and the Data	171
3.2	Phonemic Inventory	172
3.3	Preliminary Issues	216
3.4	St'at'imcets Pharyngealisation Harmony	219
3.5	St'at'imcets Uvularisation Harmony	251
3.6	Summary	278
Ch. 4	Conclusion
4.1	Summary	281
4.2	A Residual Issue	284
	References	285
	App. I: Abbreviations	304
App. II	Palestinian Carrier Forms for Vowel Tokens	306
App. III	Salish Language Classification	319
App. IV	St'at'imcets Carrier Forms for Vowel Tokens	321
App. V	St'at'imcets Word List	328
	Name Index	338
	Other Language/Language Family Index	341
	Subject Index	343