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Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics
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Raddoppiamento Sintattico in Italian
A Synchronic and Diachronic Cross-Dialectical Study
2002 | Hardback: 978-0-415-94207-2 (Routledge)
Parallelism and Prosody in the Processing of Ellipsis Sentences
2002 | Hardback: 978-0-415-94168-6 (Routledge)
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The Typology of Parts of Speech Systems
The Markedness of Adjectives
This book presents rigorous and criterial definitions of the major parts of speech - noun, verb, and adjective - that account both for their syntactic… read more2002 | Hardback: 978-0-415-94155-6 (Routledge)
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Compensatory Lengthening
Phonetics, Phonology, Diachrony
2002 | Hardback: 978-0-415-94160-0 (Routledge)
Grammatical Features and the Acquisition of Reference
A Comparative Study of Dutch and Spanish
This book discusses to what extent errors young children make with their interpretation of definite articles and pronouns are due to their immature pragmatic skills,… read more2002 | Hardback: 978-0-415-93761-0 (Routledge)
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Auditory Representations in Phonology
read more2002 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-4041-6 (Routledge)
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The Synchronic and Diachronic Phonology of Ejectives
This study is the first book-length examination of ejectives and their phonological patterning, deepening the empirical understanding of ejectives and contributing to both phonological theory… read more2001 | Hardback: 978-0-415-93800-6 (Routledge)
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Distinctiveness, Coercion and Sonority
A Unified Theory of Weight
This volume proposes a unified weight theory that challenges traditionally held beliefs regarding the vowel/consonant dichotomy inherent in moraicity and illuminates many previously intractable issues.… read more2001 | Hardback: 978-0-415-93780-1 (Routledge)
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Minimal Indirect Reference
A Theory of the Syntax-Phonology Interface
This book investigates the nature of the relationship between phonology and syntax and proposes a theory of Minimal Indirect Reference that solves many classic problems… read more2001 | Hardback: 978-0-415-93737-5 (Routledge)