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Prosodic phonology and phonetics*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 October 2008

John J. Ohala  and
Haruko Kawasaki
John J. Ohala
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley
Haruko Kawasaki
Affiliation:
M.I.T.
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Our colleague Charles Fillmore invented the following parable (personal communication) to characterise the two dominant ways linguists attempt to solve problems of language structure and behaviour.

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Phonology , Volume 1 , May 1984 , pp. 113 - 127
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1984

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