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The morphology-phonology interface in signed languages
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
This thesis provides a novel way of looking at verb agreement in signed languages by using an interaction of several processes within the Distributed Morphology framework. At the center of the model is a phonological ...
Clitics and agreement
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
A phrase structure is developed for Pashto, the most important Indo-Iranian language for which this task remains to be undertaken. New data show that the placement, ordering, and interpretation of second-position clitics ...
An introduction to Wampanoag grammar
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
The phonetics and phonology of coronal markedness and unmarkedness
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
This thesis investigates place feature restrictions in oral and nasal stop consonants with a special focus on the asymmetrical behavior of coronal and noncoronal stops. Two conflicting patterns of place restriction in ...
Investigations of covert phrase movement
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
The status of covert movement in Universal Grammar has been a perennial source of trouble in the study of language. What kinds of structures does it derive? To what extent is it similar to overt movement? What is its place ...
Paradoxes and the foundations of semantics and metaphysics
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
Numerous philosophical problems, otherwise quite different in character, are of the following form. Certain claims which seem not only obviously true, but even constitutive of the meanings of the expressions employed, can ...
Consonant cluster phonotactics : a perceptual approach
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
This dissertation deals with deletion and epenthesis processes conditioned or constrained by the consonantal environment, essentially consonant deletion, vowel epenthesis and vowel deletion. It is argued that the standard ...
Probability, explanation, and reasoning
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
Three topics are discussed concerning the application probability and explanation to the confirmation of theories. The first concerns the debate over prediction versus accommodation. I argue that we typically have reason ...