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Coleman, John; Local, John – 1989
A discussion of autosegmental phonology (AP), a theory of phonological representation that uses graphs rather than strings as the central data structure, considers its principal constraint, the "No Crossing Constraint" (NCC). The NCC is the statement that in a well-formed autosegmental diagram, lines of association may not cross. After…
Descriptors: Graphs, Language Patterns, Language Research, Linguistic Theory