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Speech Disguise And Phonological Representation In Amharic, John J. Mccarthy
Speech Disguise And Phonological Representation In Amharic, John J. Mccarthy
John J. McCarthy
An autosegmental analysis of a secret language used by prostitutes in Addis Ababa.
Theoretical Consequences Of Montañes Vowel Harmony, John J. Mccarthy
Theoretical Consequences Of Montañes Vowel Harmony, John J. Mccarthy
John J. McCarthy
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Prosodic Structure In Morphology, John J. Mccarthy
Prosodic Structure In Morphology, John J. Mccarthy
John J. McCarthy
The thesis of this paper is that morphological templates have access to a richer variety of categories than the CV tier. Although foot and syllable reduplication had been suggested previously, here I have shown the need for templates—conditions on the form of words of particular morphological types—that refer to syllables in modern Hebrew and to feet in Cupeño. In the course of the analyses I have suggested a number of technical proposals: a specific version of the prosodic hierarchy, a procedure for expansion of morphological templates containing higher-level prosodic units, and another procedure for selecting the appropriate structure in case …