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| Features, gestures, and Igbo vowel assimilation: An approach to the phonology/phonetices mapping | E. Zsiga | 227 |
| On stress and accent in Indo-European | M. Halle | 275 |
| Blocking in Georgian verb morphology | S. Carmack | 314 |
| Amerindian personal pronouns: A second opinion | L. Campbell | 339 |
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| Reply to David Lightfoots review of 'The emergence and development of SVO patterning in Latin and French: Diachronic and psycholinguistic perspectives' | B.Bauer | 352 |
| Response to Bauer | D. Lightfoot | 358 |
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| R. M. W. Dixon: Ergativity | A. Harris | 359 |
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| Schein: Plurals and events | D. T. Langendoen | 375 |
| Walker, Zampolli, & (eds.): Automating the lexicon: Research and practice in a multilingual environment | W. N. Francis | 377 |
| Daniels &Bright (eds.): The worlds writing systems | C.F. Hockett | 379 |
| Shibatani &Bynon (eds.): Approaches to language typology | S. Steele | 385 |
| Steever: Synthesis to analysis | S. K. Shear | 388 |
| Haegeman: The syntax of negation | Y. Kato | 391 |
| Holmes: Women, men, and politeness | A. F. Freed | 395 |
| Jarceva (ed.): Lingvistieskij ènciklopedieskij slovar | A.M. Ramer | 397 |
| Nerbonne, Netter, &Pollard (eds.): German in Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar | C. Culy | 401 |
| Givon: Functionalism and grammar | P. Downing | 403 |
| Huck &Goldsmith: Ideology and linguistic theory: Noam Chomsky and the deep structure debates | J.S. Falk | 406 |
| Kroon: Discourse particles in Latin: A study of nam, enim, autem,vero, and at | E. Pulgram | 409 |
| Lombardi: Laryngeal features and laryngeal neutralization | Y. Kim-Renaud | 411 |
| Book Notices | 417 | |
| The Editors Department | 465 | |
| Publications Received | 469 |
This article examines two processes that affect vowels in Igbo: harmony and assimilation. Through these two processes, the relationship between autosegmental features and articulatory gestures is explored. Vowel harmony is argued to be featurally represented, but acoustic evidence shows that vowel assimilation is gradient and best represented in terms of articulatory gestures. Neither representation is adequate in itself to describe the full range of phonological and phonetic data; rather, I advocate a mapping procedure that takes advantage of the resemblances between autosegmental and gestural representations without collapsing the two. A complete account of Igbo vowel harmony and assimilation is provided, demonstrating the need for two kinds or representation, and illustrating the suggested feature-to-gesture mapping.
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On stress and accent in Indo-European
Morris Halle
Massachusetts Institue of Technology
The IE accentual system is described in light of recent advances in the understanding of prosodic phenomena. It is proposed that the IE accentual system was much like that of modern Russian or Lithuanian in that the accent was a distinctive property of morphemes, and words without accent received initial stress. A set of simple rules is dveloped to account for this stress distribution. Since the theory predicts that loss of lexical accent should result in initial stress, the initial stress found, for example in Celtic, Germanic, and Italic, is attributed to this loss. A series of natural steps is outlined to account for the further evolution of a system with initial stress into one with noninitial stress of the kind found in Latin or Attic Greek.
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Blocking in Georgian verb morphology
Stanford Carmack
The Ohio State University
Georgian person-number affixes reflecting subject and object agreement coexist on verb stems. As a result of limited morphotactic space, in several contexts certain markers surface while others that are equally semantically motivated do not. Inflectional blocking, relying on general linguistic principles of specificity and analogy, accounts for surface verb forms in a novel, explanatory fashion. The implication for Georgian is that instead of employing inflection produced by syntactically relevant affixation rules, its verb morphology results from morphotactic constraints, blocking of potential affix combinations, and verb stem insertion into instantiated inflectional affix frames.
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