The genus Crocus L. (Iridaceae) comprises about 80 species distributed mainly in the Mediterranean region. It is widely dispersed in Turkey; at present about 67 taxa (including subspecies and varieties) are recognized there (Mathew, 1984, 1988, 1995, 2000; Kerndorff and Pasche, 2003, 2004). The Turkish Crocus species have received attention by several workers, who have concentrated mainly on mo...

Complementary distribution stems from two sources. The first is a consequence of static lexical regularities such that two sounds never appear in the same context. The second is from dynamic alternations induced by morphological derivation. In this paper I provide evidence — from New York English, Akan, Madurese, and Malay — that these two sorts of relationship among sounds possess distinct pho...

This paper deals with the question whether automatic and non-automatic downstep are distinct processes or can be regarded as the same phenomenon. Downstep is seen as a lowering of the pitch register, relatively to which tones are scaled. The distinction between the two types of downstep arises from differences in their tonal surface structure: In the case of automatic downstep a L(ow) tone inte...