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 ...

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 ...

What does it take to communicate? If you're on a crowded train platform, shouting to your friend 20 yards away, it might take simplification. Imagine trying to say "unequivocally." It probably ...

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, ...

Every poem has structural features that have a bearing on the way the poem sounds or what it means. To comment on the structure of a poem is just the same as commenting on its language – you notice ...