Word games and syllable structure.
The internal structure of the syllable has been a matter of long-standing debate. Some theories propose a highly articulated tree structure whose topmost constituents are the onset and the rhyme. However, much recent work in phonological theory has adopted a flatter model in which neither the onset...
| Publicado en: | Language & Speech Vol. 38; no. 1; pp. 77 - 115 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Jan-Mar95
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