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The unfolding of suprasegmental representations: a cross-linguistic perspective1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Thomas Berg  and
Hassan Abd-El-Jawad
Thomas Berg
Affiliation:
University of Oldenburg and Yarmouk University
Hassan Abd-El-Jawad
Affiliation:
University of Oldenburg and Yarmouk University
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An analysis of phonological speech errors in Arabic, English and German is carried out with a view to probing into the organization of segments within syllables and words. Arabic slips are shown to be less structure-sensitive than English and German ones. Being absent from underlying representation, suprasegmental structures are assumed to unfold gradually in real time. The erection of hierarchical representations is claimed to be slower in Arabic than in English and German because the nonconcatenative morphology of Arabic prevents an early assignment of consonants to structural slots. In contrast, English and German words allow the early build-up of hierarchical structures because sufficient phonological information is available from the beginning of the derivation.

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Journal of Linguistics , Volume 32 , Issue 2 , September 1996 , pp. 291 - 324
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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