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| | Detailed Description |
 | | With respect to diagnostics, linguists most often appeal to criteria such as naturalness, complexity, generality, implication, frequency, stability, ease of articulation, and salience of perception to determine which member of an opposition is marked (Rice 1999a, b, c). |
 | | Phonological criteria such as neutralization are also often used, with the output of neutralization considered to be unmarked (Trubetzkoy 1939/69; for recent work, see Lombardi 1991, 1998, forthcoming, Rigsby and Ingram 1990). |
 | | This approach was employed by Trubetzkoy (1939/69), Jakobson (1949), and Martinet (1964, 1970), to name a few notable theorists. |
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