1 Introduction Phonological patterns, whether viewed synchronically or as they change over time, can be explained only with reference to the larger system of oppositions that they are part of. This was the fundamental insight of modern phonology at the beginning of the last century, as it developed under the hands of de Saussure, Jakobson, Trubetzkoy, and others, in opposition to the atomistic ...

ing away from the role of PARSE-SYLL in the results derived immediately above, the ranking arguments giving the partial metrical transparency result in Selayarese are summarized as follows. (59) Summary of Ranking Arguments •ALIGN-R (PrWd, {F}) » HEAD-DEP: Epenthesis does not yield preantepenultimate stress: sahalákku, not sá:halakku •HEAD-DEP » ALIGN-R (F, PrWd): Epenthesis into final syllable...

It is proved that the free product state, in the reduced free product of C–algebras, is faithful if the states one started with are faithful. The reduced free product of C–algebras was introduced by Voiculescu as the appropriate construction for C–algebras in the setting of his theory of freeness [1]. (See also the book [2]). Given a set I and for each ι ∈ I a unital C–algebra Aι with a state φ...

We investigate the conditions under which quasianalysis, i.e., Carnap’s method of abstraction in his Aufbau, yields adequate results. In particular, we state both necessary and sufficient conditions for the socalled faithfulness and fullness of quasianalysis, and analyze adequacy as the conjunction of faithfulness and fullness. It is shown that there is no method of (re-)constructing properties...