Weighted constraints and gradient restrictions on place co-occurrence in Muna and Arabic

Natural Language and Linguistic Theory

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 289-337

  Coetzee, Andries W ^a   Pater, Joe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Arabic; Gradience; Harmonic Grammar; Muna; Phonotactics

Indexed keywords

EID: 51549112551     PISSN: 0167806X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11049-008-9039-z     Document Type: Article

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