Similarity Avoidance and the OCP
Similarity Avoidance and the OCP
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Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers
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Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers
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It has long been known that verbal roots containing homorganic consonant pairs are rare in Arabic, motivating the existence of an OCP-Place constraint (Obligatory Contour Principle on place of articulation) in the phonological grammar. We explore this constraint using an on-line lexicon of Arabic roots. The strength of the constraint is quantified...
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Similarity Avoidance and the OCP
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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_85590428
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_85590428
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0167-806X
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1573-0859
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10.1023/B:NALA.0000005557.78535.3c
