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  • LAN volume 76 issue 2 Cover and Front matter

  • Journal:
    Language / Volume 76 / Issue 2 / June 2000
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    19 February 2026, pp. f1-f3
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  • A Phonetically Driven Account of Syllable Weight

  • Matthew Gordon
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    Language / Volume 78 / Issue 1 / March 2002
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    19 February 2026, pp. 51-80

  • The author proposes that syllable weight is driven by considerations of phonetic effectiveness and phonological simplicity, and that the phonetically best distinctions are those which divide syllables into groups that are phonetically most distinct from each other. Phonologically complex distinctions are those which exceed an upper threshold in the number of phonological predicates to which they refer. It is claimed that languages adopt weight distinctions that are phonetically most effective without being overly complex phonologically. Syllable weight thus reflects a compromise between phonetic and phonological factors. The proposed model of weight further suggests that phonological weight distinctions are ultimately predictable from other basic phonological properties, such as syllable structure.

  • The Editor's Department: Greetings, or, getting to know me

  • Brian D. Joseph
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    Language / Volume 78 / Issue 1 / March 2002
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    19 February 2026, pp. 1-2
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  • Negative grammatical functions in Skou

  • Mark Donohue
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    Language / Volume 82 / Issue 2 / June 2006
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    19 February 2026, pp. 383-398

  • Negation is known to correlate with changes of word order, agreement, or case marking in the clause. I present data from Skou, a language of north-central New Guinea, which show obliques and adjuncts appearing postverbally in the SOV positive clause and preverbally in negative clauses. Moreover, in addition to these changes in the order of constituents, the grammatical functions assigned in the negated clause are not the same as in a positive clause, with obliques and adjuncts assuming object properties in the negated clause, as well as object positions. This results in otherwise unattested trivalent constructions in the language.

  • Letters to Language

  • Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, Olga Catharina Maria Fischer, Alan S. Kaye, Marit Kana Vamarasi, Wallace L. Chafe
  • Journal:
    Language / Volume 80 / Issue 2 / June 2004
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    19 February 2026, pp. 201-202
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