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The Role Of The Evaluation Metric In The Acquisition Of Phonology, John J. Mccarthy
The Role Of The Evaluation Metric In The Acquisition Of Phonology, John J. Mccarthy
John J. McCarthy
The Evaluation Metric of SPE, when taken seriously, produces some good results. Evidence comes from English, Spanish, and Maori.
The Representation Of Consonant Length In Hebrew, John J. Mccarthy
The Representation Of Consonant Length In Hebrew, John J. Mccarthy
John J. McCarthy
Geminate integrity in Biblical Hebrew.
A Prosodic Theory Of Nonconcatenative Morphology, John J. Mccarthy
A Prosodic Theory Of Nonconcatenative Morphology, John J. Mccarthy
John J. McCarthy
A CV skeleton analysis of Arabic root-and-pattern morphology.
A Note On The Accentuation Of Damascene Arabic, John J. Mccarthy
A Note On The Accentuation Of Damascene Arabic, John J. Mccarthy
John J. McCarthy
Three models of metrical stress assignment in the Arabic dialect of Damascus (Halle and Vergnaud 1978; McCarthy 1979a, b; Hayes 1979) are considered. On the basis of anomalies in the stressing of third person feminine singular perfective verbs with pronominal suffixes, it is shown that the mora-counting ternary foot model of McCarthy (1979a, b) is superior. In addition, support is provided for cyclic assignment of metrical structure (Kiparsky 1979).
On Stress And Syllabification, John J. Mccarthy
On Stress And Syllabification, John J. Mccarthy
John J. McCarthy
Of all the diverse properties of segmental strings, syllable structure is the one that stress rules most often refer to. In fact, they refer to a quite specific aspect of syllable structure: syllable weight. Generally, it is this distinction between heavy and light syllables that affects the placement of stress. The richness of this problem is apparent from its ramifications. First, in many languages the notion "heavy syllable" invokes a disjunction of syllables containing a long vowel or diphthong and syllables with a short vowel but closed by a consonant. Second, though heavy syllables often attract the stress, they sometimes …
Ct, John J. Mccarthy
Ct, John J. Mccarthy
John J. McCarthy
The special status of coronals in consonant clusters.