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Peer reviewedDuanmu, San – Language, 1995
This study argues that both Shanghai and Taiwanese have a metrical system, that compound stress is left-headed in Shanghai and right-headed in Taiwanese, and that a tonal domain is a metrical one. The article explains some asymmetries between Shanghai and Taiwanese and maintains that metrical structure can be determined when data on phonetic…
Descriptors: Chinese, Contrastive Linguistics, Deep Structure, Dialects
Peer reviewedSteele, Susan – Language, 1995
Drawing on insights developed in information-based syntactic theories, this paper proposes an alternative processual theory, "articulated methodology," which requires that inflectional operations apply to informationally impoverished representations and increase information. An analysis of Potawatomi verb morphology is given. (20…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Morphology (Languages), Stress (Phonology), Structural Analysis (Linguistics)
