The oldest form of Sanskrit has a class of expressions that are in some respects like asyndetically coordinated syntactic phrases, in other respects like single compound words. I propose to resolve the conflicting evidence by drawing on prosodic phonology, stratal optimality theory, and the lexicalist approach to morphological blocking. I then…

Presents several minor revisions of Halle's and Keyser's theory of meter and stress. (DD)

The "Elsewhere Condition" has been proposed by P. Kiparsky as an alternative to a treatment of disjuncive ordering. This article evaluates the Elsewhere condition and concludes there is little evidence to warrant its incorporation into linguistic theory. (CK)

This paper argues for cases of global rules that do not meet the constraining conditions proposed by P. Kiparsky, thereby proving these constraints invalid. (CK)

Argues that English intonational structure and surface syntactic structure are one and can be captured in a single unified grammar. The interpretations that the grammar provides for such constituents corresponds to the entities and open propositions of intonational meaning that have been described as "theme" and "rheme,""given" and "new," and…

Expanded version of a paper presented at the 3rd Regional Meeting of the Northeast Linguistic Society, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, October 21-22, 1972. (DD)

Abbreviated version of this paper was read under the title Nuclear Accent and Intonation Rules of English'' at the 1970 summer meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, in Columbus, Ohio, and an interim version appeared in UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics'' (1971). (VM)

A phrase-structural analysis of preverbal word orders in three Mayan languages (Tzotzil, Jakaltek, Tz'utujil) is presented. At the heart of the analysis is an account of intonational phrasing and the distribution of several intonational phrase clitics in Tzotzil and Jakaltek. (70 references) (Author/LB)

Work supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health and the National Institutes of Mental Health. (RS)

This articles discusses intonation in terms of different kinds of contours and demonstrates the inadequacy of any approach to English intonation which treats contours as sequences of significant pitch levels. (NCR)