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Язык: английский. The University of California, Los Angeles. 1995, 206. This thesis explores the typology of rounding harmony within the framework of optimality theory. A systematic survey of the range of attested rounding harmony phenomena is presented and an analysis of this typology is proposed which invokes constraints based on perceptual and articulatory principles. A central element of the theory advanced here is the claim that vowel...

Koul O. N. , Kashi Wali Kashmiri: A Cognitive-Descriptive Grammar Routledge, 1996. - 394 p. Kashmir boasts a language which challenges every field of linguistics. Kashmiri is spoken by approximately 3,000,000 people. Its syntax, similar to Germanic and other verb second languages, has raised many significant issues within current generative theories proposed by Chomsky and other prominent linguists. Kashmiri, spoken in Kashmir, India, challeng...

Nguyen Hy Quang. English-Lao Phrasebook with Useful Wordlist for Laotians. - Center for Applied Linguistics, 1980. - 159 p. English phrases with Lao translations are presented under the following headings: coping with the language barrier, useful forms of etiquette, giving information about yourself, recognizing signs, converting weights and measures, using numbers, dealing with money, dealing with time, locating things, describing things and p...