Question
This book’s “epilogue and prologue” sketches a theory of markedness, trading plus or minus for u or m to address its “inadequacy.” This text’s 4 parts gradually elaborate an ordered list of productive rules, such as opposing nuclear and compound stress assignment, which speakers apply unconsciously in a transformational cycle. This book posits “oy” as the only underlying diphthong, explaining pairs like (*) divine/divinity with trisyllabic laxing and long–short vowel alternation, in an outdated, fully synchronic account of one language. This 1968 book popularized “X arrow Y slash environment” notation and adopted its dedicatee Jakobson’s binary distinctive features. After analyzing Russian in a similarly-titled monograph, Morris Halle (“HAL-ee”) co-authored this book with another MIT linguist. For 10 points, what landmark work of descriptive phonology formalizes Chomsky’s native language in a generative grammar framework? ■END■
Buzzes
Summary
Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | TUH | Conv. % | Power % | Neg % | Average Buzz |
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2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 15 | 27% | 0% | 67% | 113.25 |