Re: THEORY: the Obligatory Contour Principle [was Re: Tallefkeul: tones and whatnot]
| From: | David Peterson <digitalscream@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, August 30, 2002, 7:53 |
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In a message dated 08/30/02 12:45:37 AM, trwier@UCHICAGO.EDU writes:
<< Actually, to my knowledge (and I'm no expert on Arabic morphology),
that's usually considered a case of postlexical spreading. >>
Yes, I heard this theory in my morphology class. However, it does hold
that there are no identical adjacent *initial* consonantal roots. So, you
could have KTK, KTT, but not *KKT. No?
-David
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