Learnability Shapes Typology: The Case of the Midpoint Pathology

The midpoint pathology (in the sense of Kager 2012) characterizes a type of unattested stress system in which the stressable window contracts to a single word-internal syllable in some words, but not others. Kager (2012) shows that the pathology is a prediction of analyses employing contextual lapse...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stanton, Juliet
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Muse - Johns Hopkins University Press 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/107489
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3789-7662