What is it about?
The paper provides a typology of the distributional restrictions that apply to the occlusion feature in relation to the syllabic level.
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Why is it important?
It is argued that the relation between occlusion, as a melodic feature, and bipositionality, as a syllabic (prosodic) configuration, has to be bidirectional. Occlusion requires bipositionality in certain languages, and some others bipositionality has to contain occlusion. These are formalized using Melody-to-Structure Licensing Constraints (MSLCs).
Perspectives
MSLCs will be extended to other phonological features.
Dr Mohamed Lahrouchi
CNRS - UMR SFL
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This page is a summary of: The typology of the distributional restrictions of a feature: occlusion and bipositionality, The Linguistic Review, March 2025, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/tlr-2025-2004.
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