Mongolian Stress, Licensing, and Factorial Typology* Rachel Walker University of California, Santa Cruz June 1997 This paper examines the analysis and typology of prominence-based stress systems, which do not call on binary rhythms but depend solely on factors such as syllable weight or sonority, peripherality, and nonfinality in locating stress (Prince 1983, 1990; Prince & Smolensky 1993). Fou...

In this paper, I argue that a nasal agreement phenomenon in Mbe (BenueCongo, Nigeria; Bamgbose 1971) is a case of reduplication in which material is copied as a nasal coda to a CV prefix with place features linked to the following onset; if place-linking fails, no copy occurs. I demonstrate that this account has important analytical implications for Mbe and more generally, for the theory of red...

Nonconcatenative languages have been claimed to employ a special type of phonological spreading of a consonant over a vowel, which assumes a representation that segregates consonants and vowels on different planes. I argue that this type of spreading can and must be eliminated from the theory, by reducing it to segmental copying as in reduplication. Crucial to this reduction is the notion of gr...

throughout the history, there have been deep cultural as well as scientic connections between iran and india. in medieval period, many persian physicians immigrated to india mainly because of political and social reasons. a good example of this was mirza mohammad hashem alavi khan shirazi who belonged to shiraz medical doctrine. he was born in shiraz, but immigrated to india and was in the cou...

jondishapour school was the first center of cultural transmission in the world among various civilizations like the greek, syriac, hindi, chinese and roman formed by permissive policies of khosro anushirvan in iran. the idea that iranian knowledge can be flourished with the help of progress made in science in different cultures was, for the first time, suggested by khosro anushirvan and his com...

this paper focuses on aftershocks behavior and seismicity along some co-seismic faults for large earthquakes in iran. the data of aftershocks and seismicity roughly extracted from both the institute of geophysics the university of tehran (igut) and international seismological center (isc) catalogs. apply some essential methods on 43 large earthquakes data; like the depth, magnitude as well as t...

arabic language spread in different parts ofpersiaafter arabic-islamic expansion in this territory. the iranians were interested in learning arabic, because it was the language of the qoran and islam and its injunctions which were based on monoism and unity of god; and equality and justice this is why one not find a book composed in scientific or historical or religious subjects or on etics dur...