Ka, Omar. 1988. Wolof Phonology and Morphology: A Non-Linear Approach. PhD dissertation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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Transparency, Strict Locality, and Targeted Constraints - Eric Bakovic And   (Correct)

....appears to be contradicted by languages in which, descriptively speaking, vowel harmony passes through so called transparent vowels without affecting them. We illustrate this apparent contradiction with the pattern of vowel harmony and transparency found in Wolof (Niger Congo) As described by Ka (1988), Archangeli Pulleyblank (1994) and Pulleyblank (1996) among others, this language has a progressive (left to right) process of [ATR] Advanced Tongue Root) harmony. Thus the vowel of the suffix nnn surfaces as [ ATR] after a [ ATR] root vowel in (1a) and as [ ATR] after a [ ATR] root ....

Ka, Omar. 1988. Wolof Phonology and Morphology: A Non-Linear Approach. PhD dissertation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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