Electron microscopic findings of the skin biopsy of a boy with spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia tarda showed several novel features. The basement membrane of the epidermis showed focal irregular thickening and reduplication. The collagen fibres showed foci of fibrous long spacing collagen and marked variation in fibre diameter. Taken together these abnormalities have not been reported in any other ...

The Correspondence model of base-reduplicant identity (McCarthy & Prince 1995, to appear) makes the prediction that any kind of segmental phonological process may result in any of these situations through ranking of phonological constraints with faithfulness constraints on the input and output and the basereduplicant relationship. Normal application arises when base-reduplicant faithfulness con...

Productivity-the hallmark of linguistic competence-is typically attributed to algebraic rules that support broad generalizations. Past research on spoken language has documented such generalizations in both adults and infants. But whether algebraic rules form part of the linguistic competence of signers remains unknown. To address this question, here we gauge the generalization afforded by Amer...

It has long been observed that an eventuality may be associated with at most one delimitation. This paper argues the incompatibility between Mandarin verbal reduplications and several post-verbal result-denoting elements is of cases to which one-delimitation principle applies. The discussion reduplication contributes our understanding by showing (i) not only applies resultatives but also other ...