This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Bisyllabic, partially reduplicated words in classical Chinese fall under two major categories: i-words and r-words. An i-word consists of ...

The most critical attribute of human language is its unbounded combinatorial nature: smaller elements can be combined into larger structures on the basis of a grammatical system, resulting in a ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The field of syllable structure in Modern Hebrew has been largely neglected. The goal of the study whose results are reported in the present ...

Do you say car-a-mel or car-mel? Is your "fire" closer to fah-yer or fayr? There is a group of words in English that can be pronounced with two different syllable structures, depending on dialect, ...