Reference on Jakobson's syllable typology

Loren Billings billings at ONEBOX.COM
Fri Aug 17 03:05:01 UTC 2001


Dear SEELangs colleagues,

I'm not currently at my university or near any decent
library and would like a better reference than the
one I have at the moment, which is as follows:

> Jakobson, Roman.  1962.  Selected Writings 1:
>      Phonological Studies.  The Hague:  Mouton.

I would very much appreciate it if someone with easy
access to this volume could confirm that the
following passage appears on p. 526:

> "There are languages lacking syllables with
> initial vowels and/or syllables with final
> consonants, but there are no languages devoid
> of syllables with initial consonants or of
> syllables with final vowels."

Moreover, for the sake of completeness, I would like
to know which article this passage appeared in, as
well as the citation for the original published
version (if any) of this paper.

Please write to my address <billings at onebox.com>. If
anyone else is interested in the answer, write to me
as well; I don't see why a summary to the entire
list would be necessary in this case.

Thanks in advance,  --Loren

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Loren A. Billings, Ph.D.
<billings at onebox.com>
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Department of English
    Language, Literature
    and Linguistics
Providence University
200 Chung Chi Rd., Shalu
Taichung County, Taiwan
43301 Republic of China
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