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…

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)

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)

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)

Paper presented at the 1972 Summer Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Chapel Hill, N.C. (DD)