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Transparent metaphors exibit clearer conceptual similarities between the target and source domains than opaque metaphors.
Allowing for the language described in (44) is problematic, because there is no nasal harmony pattern in which glides are opaque, but liquids are targets.
Rather, the determinants of opaque interactions are always isolated from one another, except as they interact through the ranking of their associated sympathy constraints.
In many clear cases of long-distance harmony, where the harmonic feature is indisputably [nasal], opaque obstruents are never systematically prenasalised and voiced.
The ridges have compressed enough to be somewhat opaque to backlighter photons.
Although she quotes numbers and percentages from her varied sources and compiles some interesting (if opaque) tables, her account in essentially narrative.
The target is mostly still transparent to the probe light, although it is becoming opaque near the interaction region.
As the electrons propagate inside the target, they ionize the material, which becomes opaque to the probe.
However, the reduplicated form in (7d) shows an opaque underapplication of /a/-raising.
Despite (or, perhaps, because of) the informal language used to state the feature theory, it is both opaque and unconstrained.
However, the often opaque data flow in imperative environments prevents large-scale code restructuring as we do.
Neighbouring aquaria were separated by grey opaque partitions to prevent visual interactions.
In contrast, legitimate sympathetic candidates are at most singly opaque.
Yawelmani, then, challenges this prediction of sympathy theory : processes that produce identical faithfulness violations should act together in rendering a third process opaque.
The interaction between vowel epenthesis and velar deletion is opaque, of the type that would be characterised as counterbleeding in theories with rule ordering.
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