english sound structure part 14. Bài tập luyện ngữ pháp tiếng anh cho mọi người, đây là tài liệu hay và hữu ích có thể giúp các bạn có thể nắm vững được các ngữ pháp tiếng anh cụ thể. | 170 Licensing 31b . In syntactic terms the nucleus behaves as an island insulated from potential governing relations emanating from outside the constituent. This effect can be interpreted as a specific response to a general grammatical constraint the Minimality Condition. According to one clause of the Condition a position A is prevented from governing a position B if the immediate projection of B s head excludes A. 7 This means among other things that an external position cannot reach inside a nucleus to govern a position within the constituent as in 31b . The same principle blocks a nuclear head from governing inside an onset as in 31c . The coda-onset domain 29c is exempt from this constraint. That is an onset head is able to govern inside a rhyme since the latter does not itself constitute a governing domain. The idea to be developed in the following sections is that the asymmetries that are observable in the phonotactic domains listed in 28 reflect inequalities in the ability of different types of melodic expression to occur in particular positions of government. The specific proposal is that the capacity of a sound to occupy a particular position is determined by the complexity of its elemental make-up. Complexity is gauged by the degree of fusion embodied in a melodic expression. For most purposes this boils down to a straightforward calculation of the number of elements of which the sound is composed. For example the two-element compound U h defining f is more complex than the simplex expression h defining h . The basic idea is that within the domains specified in 29 the melodic expression occupying the governing position must be at least as complex as the expression occupying the governee. This principle may be formulated as follows 38 32 Complexity Condition Let a and p be melodic expressions occupying the positions A and B respectively. Then if A governs B P is no more complex than a. Complexity relations within onsets The bottom line drawn by 32 .
