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‘Direct’ elicitation and phonological argumentation

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Abstract

Linguistic elicitation is a kind of behavioral experiment. It remains an important source for phonological (and more generally, grammatical) argumentation even if it does not meet all the requirements for a proper behavioral experiment (in terms of the number of participants, for example). While the basic analysis proposed for Budai Rukai syllable structure is convincing, questions arise with regard to how the very basic notions syllable and stress are interpreted in the target article. Furthermore, one would wish for a more detailed argument regarding the analysis of echo vowels and phonetic glides.


Corresponding author: Nikolaus P. Himmelmann, Institut für Linguistik, Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Universität zu Köln, Albertus-Magnus-Platz, 50923 Cologne, Germany, E-mail:

Acknowledgements

Writing has been supported by the German Research Foundation (DGF) through the Collaborative Research Centre 1252 Prominence in Language (Project-ID 281511265, Project A03 Prosodic prominence in cross-linguistic perspective) and the Leo Spitzer Prize of the Universität zu Köln.

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