Full Description
Generative phonology is a developing field of linguistics, and is producing both rival interpretations and models. This book provides a clear and accessible evaluation of the debate. It provides a detailed overview of the main models, revealing that they are often complimentary rather than contradictory, and how these can be interconnect and be used together to explore the subject.
Contents
1 Introduction I. l Scope of this book 1.2 From classical phonemics to generative phonology 1.3 Phonemes or features? 1.4 Levels of representation 1.5 Aspects of a standard generative analysis of Midi French 1.6 Phonology within the model of grammar 2 The theory of Distinctive Features 2. 1 Preliminaries 2.2 Some general assumptions 2.3 The phonetic features and their articulatory correlates 2.4 Universalism revisited 2.5 The acoustic/auditory basis of distinctive features 2.6 Invariance and distinctive features 3 Binarism, full and partial specification, markedness and gestures 3-4 Markedness Theory 3.5 Gestures 4 The derivational issue: aspects of the abstractness-concreteness debate abstractness-concreteness debate 4. I Preliminaries 4.2 Aspects of the segmental phonology of English 4.3 Objections to the Vowel Shift and Velar Softening 4.4 Natural Generative Phonology 4.5 In defence of the Vowel Shift 5 Underspecification Theory and Lexical Phonology 5. I Underspecification Theory 5.2 Lexical Phonology 6 Metrical structures 6. l The syllable 6.2 Stress and prominence 7 Autosegmental and Multidimensional Phonology 1 Preliminary remarks 7.2 Tones and the autosegmental framework 7.3 The skeleton 7 .4 Further geometrical extensions 7.5 Universal Phonology and the 'no rule' approach 8 An outline of Dependency Phonology 8.1 Introduction 8.2 Suprasegmental representations 8.3 Infrasegmental representations 8.4 Back unrounded vowels: epilogue and prologue
