vowel harmony - 2025 ACF Regionals

Question

In Turkish, the front version of this phenomenon leads to the inclusion of “de” suffixes, while its back form requires “da” suffixes. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this “long-distance” assimilation phenomenon. The Hungarian dative suffixes “nak” and “nek,” which match the class of earlier vowels, result from this phenomenon.

ANSWER: vowel harmony

[10e] Vowel harmony is a rule in many Uralic languages studied in this subfield of linguistics that, in contrast to morphology, examines the organization of sound patterns.

ANSWER: phonology

[10h] In Finnish, seven of these morphemes change according to vowel harmony, such as “-kO” and “-kA.” These morphemes resemble a word but depend phonologically on an adjoining word.

ANSWER: clitics [or enclitics]

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Summary


California	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	67%	33%	0%
Florida	2025-02-01	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Great Lakes	2025-02-01	Y	6	10.00	67%	17%	17%
North	2025-02-01	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
Overflow	2025-02-01	Y	5	12.00	100%	20%	0%
Pacific Northwest	2025-02-01	Y	2	15.00	50%	50%	50%
South Central	2025-02-01	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Southeast	2025-02-01	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
UK	2025-02-01	Y	10	20.00	90%	70%	40%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	8	15.00	100%	38%	13%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	3	3.33	33%	0%	0%

Data


Iowa State	Wisconsin A	10	10	10	30
Georgetown B	Northwestern B	0	10	0	10
Iowa	Notre Dame C	0	10	0	10
John Jay College	Penn B	0	10	0	10
Maryland B	Haverford B	0	10	0	10
Cornell C	RIT B	0	0	0	0
RIT A	ESF A	0	10	0	10
UC Berkeley A	Claremont A	10	10	0	20
Claremont B	UCSD	0	10	0	10
Florida B	Florida A	10	10	0	20
Michigan C	Kenyon	0	10	0	10
Case Western A	Michigan D	0	10	10	20
Minnesota B	Carleton	0	10	0	10
Wisconsin B	Winona State	0	10	0	10
Purdue	Georgetown A	0	10	0	10
Northwestern A	Stanford B	10	10	0	20
Notre Dame A	Notre Dame B	0	10	0	10
Texas A	TAMU	0	10	0	10
ASU	Texas B	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech A	Georgia Tech B	0	10	0	10
Tennessee A	Louisville A	0	10	0	10
Bristol	Warwick B	10	0	0	10
Cambridge D	Sheffield	0	10	0	10
Cambridge E	Oxford B	0	10	0	10
Imperial B	Southampton A	10	10	0	20
Manchester	NYU C	10	10	0	20
Johns Hopkins A	Cornell B	0	10	0	10
Haverford A	George Washington A	0	10	0	10
Maryland A	NYU A	10	10	0	20
Columbia C	NYU B	0	10	0	10
Columbia B	Penn A	10	10	0	20
Rutgers A	Vassar A	10	10	10	30
Binghamton A	Cornell D	0	0	0	0
UC Berkeley B	UCLA	0	0	0	0
UCF C	Florida State A	0	10	0	10
UCF B	Valencia A	0	10	0	10
Michigan A	Michigan B	0	10	0	10
Case Western B	Michigan State	0	0	0	0
Ohio State A	Carnegie Mellon B	0	10	0	10
Carnegie Mellon A	Ohio State B	10	0	0	10
UW B	Alberta	0	0	0	0
UBC	UW A	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech D	Alabama A	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech C	Bruin A	10	10	0	20
Cambridge A	Warwick A	10	10	10	30
Cambridge B	LSE	10	10	10	30
Southampton B	Durham	0	10	0	10
Cambridge C	Imperial A	10	10	10	30
Oxford A	Oxford C	10	10	10	30