The Prosodic Structure of Function Words The Prosodic Structure of Function Words
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چکیده
It seems likely that all languages make a distinction between words belonging to functional categories and those belonging to lexical categories, a distinction which roughly coincides with the sets of open and closed class items. Nouns, verbs and adjectives constitute the class of lexical categories in English, conjunctions and other sorts of particles fall into the class of functional categories. The distinction between lexical and functional categories plays an important role it happens that words belonging to functional categories display phonological properties significantly different from those of words belonging to lexical 1 The research for this paper was carried out in part with the support of NSF grant BNS-86-17827. This paper is a slightly revised version of a paper appearing in Signal to Syntax, ed. Both these versions involve a substantial revision of an earlier 1993 manuscript which circulated under the same title.
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