In this paper we first give three desiderata for tools intended to support the construction of arguments in a domain involving practical reasoning. We then review the computational properties of frameworks supporting these requirements, and conclude that these properties may present problems for some current approaches. We then offer an alternative approach satisfying the three requirements, an...

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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 i...