The lexicon has its grammar, which the grammar knows nothing of. Marginal contrast and phonological theory
Marginal phonemes exploit systemically latent possibilities of contrast but have unusual lexical distributions characterized by clustering according to expressive function or morphological structure. This paper discusses examples of marginal contrast from several languages and shows that, despite in...
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| Language: | English |
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Septentrio Academic Publishing
2013-02-01
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| Series: | Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlyd/article/view/2500 |