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| Tone sandhi in Comaltepec Chinantec | Daniel Silverman | 473 |
| Vowel elision in hiatus contexts: Which vowel goes? | Roderic F. Casali | 493 |
| Twistin the night away | Ray Jackendoff | 534 |
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| Fred W. Householder | Byron W. Bender | 560 |
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| Chomsky: The minimalist program | Robert Freidin | 571 |
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| Miller: The sceince of words | W. N. Francis | 583 |
| Schiffrin: Approaches to discourse | D. L. Payne | 584 |
| Charniak: Statistical language learning | H. Bayyen | 588 |
| Lepschy (ed.): History of linguistics | J. E. Joseph | 591 |
| Lewis: Studies in general and English phonetics | W. Jassem | 594 |
| Pustejovsky: The generative lexicon | C. Fellbaum | 597 |
| Sampson: English for the computer: The SUSANNE corpus and analytic scheme | D. T. Langendoen | 600 |
| Tomasello & Merriman (ed.): Beyond names for things: Young childrens acquisition of verbs | M. L. Murphy | 603 |
| Lust, Suner & Whitman (eds.): Syntactic theory and first language acquisition: Cross-linguistic perspectives, vol. 1 | M. Speas | 605 |
| Pesetsky: Zero syntax: Experiencers and cascades | C. Manning | 608 |
| Ruhlen: The origin of language: Tracing the evolution of the mother tongue | A. Carstairs-McCarthy | 611 |
| Ter Meulen: Representing time in natural language:The dynamic interpretation of tense and aspect | C. Tenny | 614 |
| Warner-Lewis: Trinidad Yoruba: From mother tongue to memory | R. Sabino | 616 |
| Allen: Case marking and reanalysis: Grammatical relations from Old to Early Modern English | R. Lieber | 618 |
| Alverson: Semantics and experience: Universal metaphors of time in English, Mandarin, Hindi, and Sesotho | S. S. Mufwene | 620 |
| Carr: Phonology | D. Bates | 647 |
| Hymes: Ethnography, linguistics, narrative, inequality: Toward an understanding of voice | B. Johnstone | 648 |
| Urban: Metaphysical community: The interplay of thesenses and the intellect | J. Stanlaw | 651 |
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| Publications Received | 692 |
Comaltepec Chinantec tone sandhi normally consists of rightward tone spreading from syllables with a low-high tone pattern, and almost all sandhi outputs are non-neutralizing. This second pattern may be understood by considering articulatory, aerodynamic, acoustic, and auditory principles in necessary combination with phonetically rooted historical forces, and the principles of contrast maintenance, economy of effort, and what is termed pattern coherence.
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Vowel Elision in Hiatuus Contexts: Which
Vowel Goes?
Roderic F. Casali
Summer Institue of Linguistics
Among the common strategies for eliminating vowel hiatus is vowel elision. In some cases, it is the first vowel (V1) elides, while in others it is the second (V2). Analyses of elision have, virtually without exception, simply stipulated which vowel is elided, for example by encoding this information directly in a language-specific rule. This implies that the targeted position is not predictable, but simply a matter of which of two equally available options is selected by the language. A cross-linguistic study suggests, however, that this is not strictly the case, but that in some environments the choice of target is universally determined. This article accounts for the observed restrictions on elison target within a constrained-based theory which claims that languages preferentially preserve phonological elements in certain prominent positions.
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Twistin' the Night away
Ray Jackendoff
Brandeis University
The 'time'-away construction, exemplified by We slept the whole afternoon away, proves to have a complex set of syntactic and semantic properties. In particular, the NP the whole afternoon behaves syntactically like a direct object, even though it is clearly not licensed by the verb sleep. This construction is shown to be distinct from two others that it superficially resembles, the resultative and the way-construction. It is also compared with a number of semi-idiomatic VP constructions. Two approaches for licensing the NP object are compared: a lexical rule approach, in which sleep away is treated as a complex verb that licenses the object, and a constructional approach, in which VP NP away is listed as a meaning-bearing construction that licenses both the verb and the object.
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