Author(s)

Ruiqing Xin, Yonghong Li, Hongzhi Yu

Corresponding Author

Ruiqing Xin

ABSTRACT

With the program written on the platform of Mat lab, data in the corpus of Kazak vocabulary are computed and the vowel harmony patterns of Kazak words haven been drawn and compared with the vowel harmony patterns put forward by Geng Shimin. Results of the experiment indicate that all the four back vowels and the five front vowels can be grouped in harmony patterns respectively, which is different from what Geng Shimin has drawn.

KEYWORDS

Vowel harmony patterns, Kazak vocabulary, Corpus of Kazak vocabulary