Volume 07, Winter 1982

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    Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 7, Winter 1982
    (University of Calgary, 1982-01) Jehn, Richard Douglas; Rowsell, Lorna
    Owing to serious organizational difficulties combined with the heavy workloads of those involved with publication, this seventh issue of the Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics belatedly appears in February 1982. As in the past, we ask that our readers treat these articles as working papers; their appearance here does not preclude their publication in a different form elsewhere.
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    Resistance to the syntagmatic influence of the vowel /a/ in Spanish
    (University of Calgary, 1982-01) Anderson, James M
    The relative intractability of the vowel /a/ to syntagmatic influence in Popular Latin and early Hispano-Romance seems to support the contention that this sound is unmarked and the most natural of the vocalic phonemes, a consideration also supported by language acquisition studies where /a/ is found to be the earliest vowel in the linguistic formation of children and by typological studies of vowel systems which indicate that /a/ is present in most, if not all, languages. In both stressed and unstressed environments, phonological processes that affected other vowels in the early history of the Spanish language appear to have been constrained when /a/ was involved.
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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.