John McCarthy

List of John Benjamins publications for which John McCarthy plays a role.

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Subjects Afro-Asiatic languages

Articles

Using data from Arabic and other languages, this chapter argues that segmental deletion processes are gradual in the sense that segments are lost through attrition rather than all at once. The argument is framed within Harmonic Serialism, a derivational version of Optimality Theory that allows… read more
McCarthy, John 1991 Guttural PhonologyPerspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Comrie, Bernard and Mushira Eid (eds.), pp. 63 ff. | Article
Eid, Mushira and John McCarthy 1990 IntroductionPerspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Eid, Mushira and John McCarthy (eds.), pp. xi ff. | Miscellaneous
McCarthy, John and Alan Prince 1990 Prosodic Morphology and Templatic MorphologyPerspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Eid, Mushira and John McCarthy (eds.), pp. 1 ff. | Article