This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Bisyllabic, partially reduplicated words in classical Chinese fall under two major categories: i-words and r-words. An i-word consists of ...

Do you say car-a-mel or car-mel? Is your "fire" closer to fah-yer or fayr? There is a group of words in English that can be pronounced with two different syllable structures, depending on dialect, ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The author proposes that syllable weight is driven by considerations of phonetic effectiveness and phonological simplicity, and that the ...