This work evaluates an argument recently made in these pages by Kabak & Vogel (2001) to
the effect that the analysis of Turkish which they develop is superior on theoretical grounds …

The fundamental insight into stress systems remains that expressed by Mark Liberman in his
1975 dissertation. Liberman suggested that stress is not a simple phonetic feature, as had …

Since Clements (1985) introduced feature geometry, four major innovations have been
proposed: Unified Feature Theory, Vowel-Place Theory, Strict Locality, and Partial …

One of the fundamental observations of linguistic theory is that linguistic elements do not
interact over arbitrarily great distances. Instead, relations obtain locally. This conviction …

5. The vowel harmony pattern of Yawelmani has been described as roundness harmony by
most phonologists (Archangeli 1985, Cole and Kisseberth 1995, Goldsmith 1993, Kisseberth …

This study investigates the effect of native language (L1) stress properties on the second
language (L2) acquisition of primary word stress in light of two recent typological …

This article argues for a particular understanding of feature class behavior-the recurrent
patterning together of certain phonological features, such as place of articulation and …

This thesis presents new data in Turkish concerning phrasing and accent representation,
question particle placement, and scope-sensitive prosodic phrasing. The issues at hand are …

This thesis presents a phonological theory of assimilation as feature spreading. The main
contribution is the idea that association lines between a feature and a root node are of …

We claim that the observed word order variations, information structure and the phrasal
intonational structure correlate with each other in Turkish, rather than determine one way or …