Title
The Hungarian Vowel System

Phonology Project Meeting

Date:  03.02.2006

Time:  12:15

Venue:  A2016

Description
Presenter: Bruce Morén.

"I will present the Hungarian vowel system in all its complex glory and propose a representational analysis using the Parallel Structures Model of feature geometry.

Some interesting issues to be addressed are:

- phonetics-phonology mapping
- several types of harmony
- "schizophrenic" vowels that have a dual nature with respect to harmony
- "unstable" vowels that sometimes appear and sometimes do not
- lexical allomorphy
- feature economy - 4 features to contrast 21 vowels
(can it be done???)"

Hungarian Vowels - rough draft