ABSTRACT
The strong positions discussed in Chapter 3 have a special phonological status because of their phonetic salience. As demonstrated most thoroughly by Beckman (1998; see also Beckman 1997; Casali 1996, 1997), there are also positions that have the status of phonologically strong positions, and the concomitant ability to resist positional neutralization, because of their psycholinguistic salience—namely, the root and the morphological word (MWd)-initial syllable. 1
