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Frantz, Donald G. – International Journal of American Linguistics, 1972
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Descriptive Linguistics, Intonation, Language Patterns

Hudson, R. A. – Journal of Linguistics, 1973
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, Intonation, Language Classification

Hirst, D. J. – Linguistics, 1976
This article presents a description of intonation in English in terms of the relationship between the syntactic surface structure of a given sentence and certain distinctive intonative features.
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Distinctive Features (Language), English, Intonation

Berman, Arlene; Szamosi, Michael – Language, 1972
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, English, Intonation

Hirst, D. J.; Ginesy, M. – Linguistics, 1974
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, Distinctive Features (Language), English

Lakoff, George – Language, 1972
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, English, Environmental Influences

Bresnan, Joan W. – Language, 1972
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, English, Intonation
Armagost, James L. – 1972
This paper seeks to discover the rules active in the formation of tags (intonation tags, declarative tags, and tag questions) in English. The author discusses former analyses of these constructions and presents his own thoughts with many examples, concluding that English has at least two tag formation rules: one that accounts (perhaps…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, English, Grammar
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

Abu-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