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PDF pending restorationBell, Alan – 1971
A particular aspect of syllable structure, length of syllable margins, was investigated with the aid of a Markov chain model. The model represented explicitly the dynamic relationship between types of syllable structure and the historical processes that affect them. It is proposed that the regularities concerning syllable types (universality of CV…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Language Classification, Language Patterns, Language Typology
