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Disentangling autosegments from prosodies: a note on the misrepresentation of a research tradition in phonology1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2009

Richard Ogden  and
John K. Local
Richard Ogden*
Affiliation:
University of York
John K. Local*
Affiliation:
University of York
*
Department of Language & Linguistic Science, University of York, Heslington, York YO1 5DD, UK. E-mail: [email protected] (Ogden) [email protected] (Local)
Department of Language & Linguistic Science, University of York, Heslington, York YO1 5DD, UK. E-mail: [email protected] (Ogden) [email protected] (Local)
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Journal of Linguistics , Volume 30 , Issue 2 , September 1994 , pp. 477 - 498
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Thanks to John Kelly, Anthony Warner and two JL reviewers for helpful comments on this paper.

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