Taking a free ride in morphophonemic learning

Catalan Journal of Linguistics

Volumn 4, Issue , 2005, Pages 19-55

  McCarthy, John J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Arabic; Chain shift; Choctaw; German; Japanese; Learning; Morphophonemics; Opacity; Optimality theory; Rotuman; Sanskrit

Indexed keywords

EID: 85050647757     PISSN: 16956885     EISSN: 20149719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5565/rev/catjl.112     Document Type: Article

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