Generative and Non-Linear Phonology

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Part 1 Introduction: scope of this book from classical phonemics to generative phonology phonemes or features? levels of representation aspects of a standard generative analysis of Midi French phonology within the model of grammar. Part 2 The theory of distinctive features: some general assumptions the phonetic features and their articulatory correlates universalism revisited the acoustic/auditory basis of DFs invariance and distinctive features. Part 3 Binarism, full and partial specification, markedness and gestures: binarism multivalued features contrastivity, archiphonemes and redundancy rules markedness theory gestures. Part 4 The derivational issue - aspects of the abstractness-concreteness debate: aspects of the segmental phonology of English objections to the vowel shift and velar softening natural generative phonology (NGP) in defence of the vowel shift. Part 5 Underspecification theory and lexical phonology: underspecification theory (UT) Yawelmani vowels and underspecification lexical phonology. Part 6 Metrical structures: syllable structure stress and prominence. Part 7 Autosegmental and multidimensional phonology: tone in the SPE framework the skeletal tier further geometrical extensions universal phonology and the no rule approach. Part 8 An outline of dependency phonology: suprasegmental representations infrasegmental representations back unrounded vowels. Appendix: phonetic symbols.