The Constraint on Proximate Repetition and Phonological Explanation in English

Abstract

I have claimed elsewhere(Park 1977a, 1977b, 1980, 1981, 1982a, 1982b, and 1983) that proximate repetition of similar elements is maximally constrained on all levels of linguistic structure. I have specifically argued that, other things being equal, the more similar, the more proximate, and the more numerous the repeated elements are, the more constrained the repetition tends to be.