The predictive power is carried almost entirely by the CV template, a representation which specifies a segment's status as a consonant or vowel only, providing further support for the abstraction of prosodic templates in the Arabic morphological system as proposed by McCarthy and Prince. 展开 ...
Although the specific morphological status of the pattern is under dispute within linguistics; for example, there is debate about whether the pattern is composed of two morphemes: the “vocalism” (e.g., {a-a}) and the skeletal “template” (e.g., C1VC2VC3;“V” = vowel; see Mc...