Markedness in Prominent Positions*
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چکیده
This paper is about the relation between contrast and ‘prominent positions’ − i.e. onsets, stressed syllables, and root-initial syllables.1 A number of works have assumed that only one of the three logically possible relations between contrast and prominent positions exists: namely that contrasts in non-prominent positions are always a subset of those in prominent positions. This situation is illustrated by the Venn diagram in (1), where the set of elements in prominent positions (Π) is a superset of those in nonprominent positions (non-Π):
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