Studies in Tier Structure

<p>First published in 1988. This study examines a number of issues arising in multitiered nonlinear phonology in the light of the Obligatory Contour Principle (OCP), which prohibits adjacent identical elements at the melodic level, and aims to provide another kind of evidence for segment-internal tier articulation. This title will be of particular interest to students of linguistics. </p> <p>Introduction; 1. Dependent Tier Ordering and the OCP 2. The Consonantism of Javanese Morphemes: A Case Study 3. Melody Association in Reduplication; Bibliography</p>