Browsing by Author "Dobrovolsky, Michael"

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    Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 22, Winter 2000
    (University of Calgary, 2000-01) Atkey, Susan; Carson, Jana; Dobrovolsky, Michael
    The editors of this volume, Susan Atkey, Jana Carson, and Michael Dobrovolsky, are pleased to present the twenty-second issue of the Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics published by the Department of Linguistics at the University of Calgary. The papers contained in this volume represent works in progress and as such should not be considered in any way final or definitive.
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    Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 23, Spring 2001
    (University of Calgary, 2001-05) Dobrovolsky, Michael; Mezhevich, Ilana; Sheedy, Cory; Thormoset, David; Thrift, Erica
    The editors of this volume, Cory Sheedy, Ilana Mezhevich, Erica Thrift, David Thormoset, and Michael Dobrovolsky are pleased to present the twenty-third issue of the Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics published by the department of linguistics at the University of Calgary. The papers contained in this volume represent works in progress and as such should not be considered in any way final or definitive.
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    Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 24, Fall 2002
    (University of Calgary, 2002-09) Dobrovolsky, Michael; Edwards, Jodi
    The editors of this volume, Jodi Edwards and Michael Dobrovolsky are pleased to present the twenty-fourth issue of the Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics published by the Department of Linguistics at the University of Calgary. The papers contained in this volume represent works in progress and as such should not be considered in any way final or definitive.
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    Chuvash gemination revisited
    (University of Calgary, 1996-01) Dobrovolsky, Michael
    This paper is concerned with the patterning and formal description of edge-geminate segments in Chuvash, a Turkic language spoken in the former Chuvash ASSR some 500 miles East of Moscow. I will try to draw together data that shows length alternations, stress, the selection of certain morpheme alternants, and word structure. The analysis is done in the framework of tiered phonology. In order to set the stage for the Chuvash data, I first survey the segmental inventory of Chuvash and then look at the way geminates are represented in current autosegmental work.
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    How do we science-or do we? Seven points.*
    (University of Calgary, 1994-01) Dobrovolsky, Michael
    I begin with this point because I believe we sometimes operate under the myth that science as we know it began in the Renaissance. There is no doubt that some elements of what we call Western science emerged from the cultural practices of that period. But even the most stripped down definition of scientific activity leads to the conclusion that the scientific approach to understanding the universe is ancient.
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    Malay blends - CV or syllable template?
    (University of Calgary, 2001-05) Dobrovolsky, Michael
    1be subject of this paper is the structure and representation of blends in modern Malay. In the first part of the paper, I present a survey of blend forms that I have collected from a number of consultants, and present their phonological structure taxonomically. In part 2, I will consider the formal question of whether these structures are best represented as derived from a CV-template or through a syllable-template process.
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    The other consonant in Turkish prefixal reduplication: a working paper
    (University of Calgary, 1983-06) Dobrovolsky, Michael
    In Modern Standard Turkish, certain adjectives can be intensified by a reduplicative prefixing process which copies the initial CV of the stem and adds a third consonant. The prefix is stressed. Main word stress falls on the prefix, and stem stress is reduced. The main proposal of this paper is that at the nonsurface level of phonological representation the reduplicative prefix (henceforth, REDUP) is a separate word.
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    Some thoughts on Turkish voicing assimilation
    (University of Calgary, 1982-01) Dobrovolsky, Michael
    In this sketch, I shall be working within a framework of assumptions about phonology that includes the existence of statements about phonetic and phonological facts about language which I shall call general constraints. As a working hypothesis, I hold that general constraints can be stated for both the phonological and phonetic level of representation. In employing general constraints as a descriptive phonological device, I am in effect claiming that the phonologically relevant statements we can make about language are not merely the sum of the list of phonological rules of the language that relate underlying forms to surface phonetics. I view the general constraint as a statement of theoretically relevant (phonetic/phonological) facts about languages, while phonological rules are the statements of implementation of these facts, statements which may be diverse and various in their manner of achieving implementation. Any discussion of Turkish phonology will have to come to grips with the issue of the representation of voiced-voiceless consonant alternations.