Acknowledgements6-8
Abstract8-11
摘要11-13
Contents13-17
Chapter Ⅰ Introduction17-31
1.1 Vowel Harmony and its Difficulties17-20
1.2 Language Discussed in the Dissertation20-22
1.3 The Research Questions22-26
1.4 Significance of the Study26-28
1.5 Organization of the Dissertation28-31
Chapter Ⅱ Vowel Harmony:Background and Phenomena in Uyghur31-85
2.1 General Introduction of Harmony Process31-38
2.1.1 Definition and Characteristics of Harmony Process31-35
2.1.2 Typology of Harmony Patterns35-38
2.2 Controversial Issues in Vowel Harmony38-60
2.2.1 Locapty38-44
2.2.1.1 Relativised Locapty40-42
2.2.1.2 Strict Locapty42-44
2.2.2 Features44-48
2.2.2.1 Fully Specified or Underspecified44-46
2.2.2.2 Active Feature vs.Inert Feature46-48
2.2.3 Neutral Vowel48-57
2.2.3.1 Transparency51-55
2.2.3.2 Blocking55-57
2.2.4 Directionapty57-60
2.3 Uyghur Harmony60-73
2.3.1 Uyghur Vowel System60-63
2.3.2 Uyghur Palatal Harmony63-64
2.3.3 Uyghur Labial Harmony64-70
2.3.4 Consonant Participatin in Uyghur Harmony70-72
2.3.5 Disharmony in Uyghur72-73
2.4 Neutral vowels in Uyghur73-81
2.4.1 Neutral Vowel in Palatal Harmony75-76
2.4.2 Neutral Vowel in Labial Harmony76-77
2.4.3 Derived Neutral Vowels77-80
2.4.3.1 Neutral Vowel Derived from Raising77-79
2.4.3.2 Neutral Vowel Derived from Umlauting79-80
2.4.4 Summary:the Properties of Neutral Vowels in Uyghur Harmony80-81
2.5 Directionapty of Harmony in Uyghur81-82
2.6 Summary82-85
Chapter Ⅲ Theoretical Background and Studies on Uyghur Harmony85-123
3.1 Rule-based Approach85-88
3.2 Representational Approach88-93
3.3 Constraint-based Approach93-111
3.3.1 Feature Apgnment,Feature Spreading and Feature Agreement95-97
3.3.2 Analysis of Neutral Vowels with ALIGNMENT, SPREAD and AGREEMENT97-104
3.3.3 Directionapty in OT104-106
3.3.4 Problems in OT Analysis on Harmony Patterns106-111
3.3.4.1 Problems of Majority Rules and Sour Grapes107-109
3.3.4.2 Problem of Parallel Evaluation109-111
3.4 Previous Studies on Uyghur Harmony111-121
3.4.1 Lindblad's Analysis of Neutrapzation112-116
3.4.2 Vaux's Analysis of Transparency116-121
3.5 Summary121-123
Chapter Ⅳ Operational Mechani of Uyghur Harmony123-163
4.1 Similarities and Contrasts124-129
4.1.1 Similarity in Participants of Uyghur Harmony126-128
4.1.2 Contrast in Participants of Uyghur Harmony128-129
4.2 Contrast and Harmony Process129-139
4.2.1 Contrastive Feature Sensitivity129-135
4.2.2 Contrastive Hierarchy Hypothesis135-139
4.3 Contrastive Hierarchy Analysis for Uyghur Vowel System139-154
4.3.1 Patterning of Uyghur Vowels in Harmony Process139-142
4.3.2 Contrastive Features for Uyghur Vowels142-143
4.3.3 The Contrastive Hierarchy for Uyghur Vowel System143-152
4.3.4 The Contrastive Hierarchy Analysis of Turkish Vowel System152-154
4.4 Relativized Locapty in Uyghur Harmony154-156
4.5 The Operational Mechani of Uyghur Harmony156-160
4.6 Summary160-163
Chapter Ⅴ Formal Analysis of Uyghur Harmony163-201
5.1 An introduction to Harmonic Seriap165-174
5.1.1 Basic Principles of Harmonic Seriap167-171
5.1.2 Advantages of HS over Classic OT171-174
5.2 HS and Uyghur Harmony174-198
5.2.1 Underlying Representation174-178
5.2.2 Constraints178-183
5.2.3 Analysis183-196
5.2.3.1 Non-neutral Vowel Words183-186
5.2.3.2 Disharmonic Words186-187
5.2.3.3 Words with Neutral Vowels187-196
5.2.4 Directionapty of Uyghur Harmony196-198
5.3 Summary198-201
Chapter Ⅵ Conclusions, Theoretical Imppcations and Remaining Problems201-213
6.1 Summary of the Present Study201-207
6.2 Theoretical Imppcations207-210
6.3 Remaining Problems and Further Perspectives210-213
Bibpography213-230
Appendix Ⅰ230-231
Appendix Ⅱ231-232
Appendix Ⅲ232