| Lemma | obligatory contour principle |
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| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | McCarthy (2004) |
| Titolo | A PROSODIC THEORY OF NONCONCATENATIVE MORPHOLOGY |
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| Citazioni | [...] "Obligatory Contour Principle". Leben's principle says that no tonal melody can contain adjacent identical elements. Thus, a melody HHL is automatically simplified to HL, but HLH remains unchanged. |