10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MONOSYLLABICITY»
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1
Monosyllables: From Phonology to Typology
At the turn of the 20th century, however, most of the leading linguists in Germany
agreed that the previous views of monosyllabicity needed to be revised
thoroughly and that the assumed monosyllabicity of Chinese was probably wrong
or at ...
Thomas Stolz, Nicole Nau, Cornelia Stroh, 2012
2
Sievers' Law and the History of Semivowel Syllabicity in ...
EXPLORING THE MONOSYLLABICITY CRITERION In the light of these
difficulties it is worth considering whether the incorporation of the criterion of
monosyllabicity into rules of word-initial syllabicity alternations may be premature
. A new ...
3
From Ancient Cham to Modern Dialects: Two Thousand Years of ...
The internal paths of this historical developmental continuum from disyllabicity to
monosyllabicity are transparent. The adoption of canonical final stress by PC was
enough to set up the internal preconditions for movement in the direction of ...
4
Translating Knowledge in the Early Modern Low Countries
Other advocates of the superiority of monosyllabicity were Petrus Montanus (
1594/95-1638; Peter Berch) and Johan De Brune (1588-1658).9 Goropius
cannot be credited with having introduced the idea of monosyllabicity as an
exceptional ...
Harold John Cook, Sven Dupre, 2012
(3) monosyllabicity Iconic words often are monosyllabic. This does not mean that
all (or even most) monosyllabic words are iconic; however, mono- syllabicity is a
latent marker for iconism. Reduplication and word extensions are, of course, ...
6
Studies on the Phonological Word
Thus the Monosyllabicity constraint is violated, indicating that the Selected
Fingers constraint dominates the Monosyllable constraint in creating these forms:
SF > MONOSYL. The data on fmgerspelled borrowing in section 2.2. indicate that
at ...
T. Alan Hall, Ursula Kleinhenz, 1999
7
Pronouncing English: A Stress-based Approach, with CD-Rom
1.5 The English drive toward monosyllabicity. As the "My Car" letter has shown,
about 75 percent of the words in an ordinary business letter are monosyllabic,
and an additional 16 percent are bisyllabic, which, combined, equal more than
nine ...
Richard V. Teschner, Melvin Stanley Whitley, 2004
8
American Indian and Indoeuropean Studies: Papers in Honor of ...
It is more difficult to be certain that Yuki roots are monosyllabic although there is
evidence that Yuki does seem to have the same underlying monosyllabicity.
Given this monosyllabicity, it is not possible for like sequences in the two
languages ...
Kathryn Klar, Margaret Langdon, Shirley Silver, 1980
9
English Prosodic Morphology
... 154–157, 244–277 Monosyllabicity, 39, 46–50, 125–126, 178–180, 202
Monosyllabic clipping, 69–70, 74, 167, 170; see also Monosyllabicity
Monosyllabic truncated name, 66–67, 74, 167, 169; see also Monosyllabicity
Mora, see Syllable, ...
10
Vowel Epenthesis in Loanword Adaptation
The crucial constraint which triggers deletion in White Hmong is the constraint
enforcing the monosyllabicity of stems, ALL-o-LEFT, which is well motivated from
the native phonology of Hmong where all stems are in fact monosyllabic.
However ...
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