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Rose, Yvan – First Language, 2020
Ambridge's proposal cannot account for the most basic observations about phonological patterns in human languages. Outside of the earliest stages of phonological production by toddlers, the phonological systems of speakers/learners exhibit internal behaviours that point to the representation and processing of inter-related units ranging in size…
Descriptors: Phonology, Language Patterns, Toddlers, Language Processing
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Schane, Sanford A. – Language, 1979
Proposes a theory of stress patterns in English phonology based on the role of rhythm, or alternating weak and strong syllables, in determining stress shifts in words. (AM)
Descriptors: English, Language Patterns, Language Rhythm, Linguistic Theory
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Poser, William – Phonology, 1989
Considers the metrical foot in Diyari, a South Australian Language, and concludes that, on the basis of stress alone, an argument can be made for the constituency of the metrical stress foot under certain theoretical assumptions. This conclusion is reinforced by the occupance in Diyari of other less theory-dependant phenomena. (46 references) (JL)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Patterns, Linguistic Theory, Oral Language
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Hammond, Michael – Phonology, 1989
Argues that the distribution of lexical stresses in Macedonian and Polish follows from the architecture of metrical theory and can be accounted for by adopting revised obligatory branching (ROB) feet. These are feet where the head dominates an accented syllable and the nonhead may dominate any kind of syllable. (17 references) (JL)
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Language Research, Lexicology, Oral Language
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Pullum, Geoffrey K. – Journal of Linguistics, 1996
Reviews a collection of essays dedicated to MIT philosopher Sylvain Bromberger by his colleagues in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy. The prominent viewpoint emanating from these essays is one of nostalgia. (14 references) (CK)
Descriptors: Book Reviews, Essays, Language Patterns, Literary Criticism
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Smith, Philip T. – Visible Language, 1980
Argues that a fast and effective writing system need not stay close to the phonemic detail of speech, and offers shorthand systems as examples of this. Some proposals for spelling reform are briefly evaluated in the light of this evidence. (HOD)
Descriptors: Alphabets, Context Clues, Language Patterns, Orthographic Symbols
Mourin, Louis – Revue des Langues Vivantes, 1978
Demonstrates the regularity of the structure of the present indicative in modern French. (AM)
Descriptors: French, Language Patterns, Morphology (Languages), Morphophonemics
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Allerton, D. J.; Cruttenden, A. – Journal of Linguistics, 1979
Argues that in an unmarked sentence the verbs will be stressed, and that in determining patterns of sentence stress the vital consideration should be the speaker's point of view. (AM)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Language Patterns, Nouns, Semantics
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Levin, Jules F. – Journal of Baltic Studies, 1979
Discusses the generative phonology model for the Lithuanian definite adjective, showing its inadequacy as a model of speaker competence. Suggests that if P Rules must be proposed to derive surface alternations of autonomous phonemes, then syntax is at least "being" replaced by morphology. (Executive Office of the AABS, 231 Miller Rd., Mahwah, NJ…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Baltic Languages, Generative Phonology, Language Patterns
Hwu, Fenfang – 1991
There has been a consensus among linguists that laryngeal and superlaryngeal nodes are located under the root node and place node is under the superlaryngeal node. However, there is very little consensus on where manner of articulation features belong. A phonological analysis of the spreading and delinking process occurring in the educated Spanish…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Foreign Countries, Language Patterns, Language Research
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Pulleyblank, Edwin G. – Sign Language Studies, 1987
In response to an earlier article (SLS 51) regarding duality of patterning in the evolution of language, it is suggested that all utterances of a language be coded into elementary units of meaning that could be manipulated into larger units of discourse. This method would attempt to systematize a language's constantly changing phonemic inventory.…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Language Variation, Morphology (Languages), Oral Language
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Manczak, Witold – Language Sciences, 1980
The size of linguistic elements (morphemes, words or word groups) varies proportionately with their frequency. Because word frequency is unstable, this balance can be disturbed. When elements become too long in relation to their frequency, they are reduced. Examples from Latin illustrate the theory. (PMJ)
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Language Patterns, Language Variation, Latin
Van Lier, Henri – Francais dans le Monde, 1989
In the third of a series on the logic of European languages, phonological, morphological, and syntactic idiosyncracies of German are discussed as they relate to the language's cultural context and philosophical heritage. (MSE)
Descriptors: Cultural Context, German, Indo European Languages, Language Patterns
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Cook, Guy – Language & Communication, 1995
Argues that, in poetry where phonological patterning is dominant, some deviation from standard uses in the other linguistic systems (grammar, lexis) is inevitable. (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Change Agents, Contrastive Linguistics, Creative Writing, Discourse Analysis
Russ, Charles V. J. – York Papers in Linguistics, 1996
Early explanations of sound change were often sought in extralinguistic factors such as climate or the speakers' physiology. More recently, scholars have been reluctant to explain changes this way, but the most widely accepted extralinguistic explanation is the substratum theory. Other linguists, notably the Prague group, looked to the linguistic…
Descriptors: Causal Models, Diachronic Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Influences
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