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Dvandvas, Blocking, and the Associative: The Bumpy Ride from Phrase to Word
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Kiparsky, Paul – Language, 2010
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…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Phonology, Semantics, Classical Languages
Stucture and Intonation.
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Steedman, Mark – Language, 1991
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…
Descriptors: English, Grammar, Intonation, Linguistic Theory
Observations on Sentential Stress
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Berman, Arlene; Szamosi, Michael – Language, 1972
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, English, Intonation
The Global Nature of the Nuclear Stress Rule
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Lakoff, George – Language, 1972
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, English, Environmental Influences
Stress and Syntax: A Reply
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Bresnan, Joan W. – Language, 1972
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, English, Intonation
A Re-Examination of "Normal Stress."
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Schmerling, Susan F. – Language, 1974
Paper presented at the 1972 Summer Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Chapel Hill, N.C. (DD)
Descriptors: Distinctive Features (Language), Intonation, Linguistic Theory, Phonology