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Peer reviewedMel'cuk, I. A. – Linguistics, 1973
Revised and corrected version of an earlier paper. (DD)
Descriptors: Consonants, Descriptive Linguistics, Phonemics, Phonetics
Download full textMorton, Katherine; Tatham, Marcel – 1970
This paper concerns which aspects of speech articulation belong to phonology and which aspects belong to phonetics. The authors deal primarily with physiological criteria, and consider examples of assimilation and its phonological or phonetic relevance. Co-articulation and reduction are also considered; they are viewed as factors responsible for…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, Distinctive Features (Language)
PDF pending restorationTrail, Ronald L. – 1973
This volume presents a study of the clause as a verb-centered construction surrounded by certain nuclear constituents which serve to subcategorize it. Five India-Nepal languages are examined: Kotia Oriya, Kupia, and Maithili (Indo-Aryan family); and Dhanghar-Kurux and Kolani (Dravidian family). Dhangar-Kurux and Maithili are spoken in Nepal, the…
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Charts, Comparative Analysis, Consonants
Bell, Alan; And Others – 1972
This document contains three reports in prepublication form on research conducted by linguists at the University of Colorado. The first paper presents an argument against the theories concerning the concept of the distributional syllable. Such theories are based on the assumptions that the syllable can and should be defined formally, without…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, Dialect Studies, Intonation
DeArmond, Richard C. – 1975
This paper discusses the English verbal inflectional system within the lexicalist framework. A lexicalist approach to syntax is one in which all syntactic grammatical relations, lexical items, and the result of transformations are subject to semantic interpretation. That is, semantic information cannot be generated by syntactic rules. A filtering…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Distinctive Features (Language), English, Generative Phonology
PDF pending restorationHale, Austin; Watters, David – 1973
This volume, the second in a series of four on the languages of Nepal, contains the following papers: "Clause Patterns in Nepaili,""Clause Patterns in Tamang," and "A Survey of Clause Patterns." For other volumes in the series, see FL 004 896, FL 004 897, and FL 004 898. (DD)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Consonants, Descriptive Linguistics, Distinctive Features (Language)
Peer reviewedAbu-Salim, I. M. – Journal of Linguistics, 1987
The autosegmental rule of vowel harmony (VH) in Palestinian Arabic is shown to be constrained simultaneously by metrical and segmental boundaries. The indicative prefix bi- is no longer an exception to VH if a structure is assumed that disallows the prefix from sharing a foot with the stem, consequently blocking VH. (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: Arabic, Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, Dialect Studies
