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• Bleeding order
  ...r''' is an order of rules such that one rule destroys the input of another rule. ...t be applied before rule (b). If (b) would precede rule (a) it would bleed rule (a): the vowel cannot be nasalized anymore and [bõ] could not be derived.
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• Allomorphy rule
  '''Allomorphy rule''' is a special type of word formation rule (adjustment rule) proposed by Aronoff (1976) to account for allomorphic variation. Allomorph Aronoff assumes for English an allomorphy rule which changes the [[verbal suffix]] ''-fy'' (''amplify'', ''electrify'') in
  747 bytes (98 words) - 15:45, 28 January 2008
• Morpholexical rule
  ...roper and the phonological component. The main motivation for this type of rule is that there are cases in which word formation rules need to have access t ...precise shape of the allomorph must be known at the time the morphological rule of reduplication applies.
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• Disjunctive ordering
  ...le A, even if the output of rule A satisfies the structural description of rule B. See also parenthesis notation. rule (a) and (b) are two rules among the stress rules of English:
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• Overgeneration
  '''Overgeneration''' is a property of ([[word formation rule|word formation]]) rules which entails that they are able to generate entiti ...ested forms such as ''derival'' and ''describal'', we say that the -''al'' rule overgenerates.
  819 bytes (112 words) - 10:58, 18 February 2009
• End rule
  '''End rule''' is a type of stress rule, first introduced by Prince (1983)), which captures the delimitative and cu In English, the End Rule that assigns main word stress applies domain-finally at the line indicated
  905 bytes (115 words) - 16:50, 13 February 2009
• Crazy rule
  ...but has no apparent synchronic motivation, is sometimes called a '''crazy rule'''. Such rules sometimes arise through sound changes whose original motivat * [[unnatural]] rule
  889 bytes (123 words) - 14:38, 2 July 2007
• Lexical transformation
  ...the inserted word into the lexically unspecified slot created by the Affix Rule (cf. iv): (i) drive [..]_NP<nowiki> =&gt; (= Affix Rule)
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• Destressing
  ...estressing rules adjust the representation assigned by [[stress assignment rule]]s. ...destressing rule: /bà nána/ /banána/. The application of the destressing rule explains that the vowel of the first syllable can reduce (cf. [bana¡na]),
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• Structure-changing rule
  '''Structure-changing rule''' is a rule which changes already specified information, and renders the output form di ...hich devoices obstruents in a particular environment, say word final, this rule will be structure-changing if it changes [-son, +voice] into [-son, -voice]
  961 bytes (130 words) - 08:11, 16 August 2014
• Heavy-NP shift
  '''Heavy-NP shift''' presumably is a so-called stylistic rule, i.e. a rule which does not belong to [[core grammar]]. It may be related to [[scramblin
  704 bytes (119 words) - 15:56, 15 February 2009
• Rule feature
  ...ritic feature which triggers (or blocks) the application of a phonological rule. This feature is usually assumed to account for irregular word formation. ...''tooth'', have a rule feature [+U] which triggers the phonological umlaut rule.
  934 bytes (134 words) - 14:52, 5 October 2014
• Structure-building rule
  ...ule''' is a rule which does not change already specified information. This rule just fills in information which is unspecified. ...he course of a derivation [voice] can be filled in by a structure-building rule. A property of structure-building rules is that the input and output are no
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• Absorption
  At [[LF]]: rule that derives a kind of [[conjunction]] of referential indices: This rule accounts for cases of crossed binding at [[LF]] (see [[Bach-Peters paradox]
  960 bytes (142 words) - 12:55, 17 January 2008
• Idiosyncrasy
  ...l rule), or (c) morphologically (by being an exception to a word formation rule).
  878 bytes (124 words) - 16:14, 15 February 2009
• Word formation rule
  '''Word Formation Rule''' is a rule of grammar by which morphologically complex [[word]]s are formed out of (fr *[[Readjustment rule]]
  841 bytes (115 words) - 16:11, 7 September 2014
• Strict Cyclicity
  '''Strict Cyclicity''' is a rule that may apply to a string x just in case either of the following holds: a. The rule makes crucial reference to information in the
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• Redundancy rule
  '''Redundancy rule''' is rule which fills in predictable or redundant information. [[Redundancy]] rules h ...ving the feature [voice] unspecified, and fill in [+voice] by a redundancy rule. The idea behind redundancy rules and [[underspecification]] is that redund
  1 KB (206 words) - 15:05, 20 February 2009
• Interpretive rules
  ...Montague Grammar]]), there will be a interpretive rule for every syntactic rule.
  739 bytes (101 words) - 17:23, 15 February 2009
• One-affix-one-rule hypothesis
  ...-one-rule hypothesis''' is a hypothesis which says that a [[word formation rule]] specifies a unique phonological [[operation]] which is performed on the [ ...ent nouns and instrument nouns are formed are identical. The one-affix-one-rule hypothesis says that we have two rules here, but this claim does not explai
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