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Perea, Manuel; Hyönä, Jukka; Marcet, Ana – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2022
One of the most representative morpho-phonological features of Finnish is the existence of vowel harmony. Back vowels (a, o, and u) and front vowels (ä, ö, and y) cannot appear in the same monomorphemic word (e.g., PÖYTÄ [table] but not POYTÄ)--the vowels e and i are considered "neutral" and can accompany either front or back vowels…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Finno Ugric Languages, Vowels, Morphophonemics