Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition
Acknowledgements to the Second Edition
Acknowledgements to the First Edition
Revision of Phonetics
1.Consonants
2.Vowels
1 The Phonemic Principle
1.1 The language of phonology
1.2 Phonemic rules
1.3 Phonological representations
1.4 Concluding remarks
Exercises
Further reading
2 Alternations
2.1 The internal structure of words
2.2 Testing hypotheses about rules and representations
2.3 Morphophonological alternations
2.4 Choosing between analyses
2.5 Deletion and insertion
2.6 The ordering of rules
2.7 Concluding remarks
Exercises
Further reading
3 Features, Classes and Systems
3.1 Expressing generalisations
3.2 Features (i)
3.3 General remarks
3.4 Features (ii)
3.5 Features in representations
3.6 Features in rules
3.7 Implicational relationships
Exercises
Notes
Further reading
4 Problems with the Phonemic Principle
4.1 Contrast and neutralisation
4.2 Contrast and the minimal pair
4.3 An alternative to the phonemic principle: generative phonology
Exercises
Further reading
5 The Orgenisation of the Grammar
5.1 The lexicon
5.2 The location of morphology
5.3 The phonological component vs the lexicon
5.4 Summing up
Exercises
Notes
Further reading
6 Abstractness, Psychological Reality and the Phonetics/Phonology Relation
6.1 Ordering relations and rule application in the SPE model
6.2 Absolute neutralisation
6.3 Abstractness and psychological reality
6.4 Underlying representations and naturalness
6.5 Abstractness, phonological change and child language acquisition
Exercises
Further reading
7 The Role of the Lexicon
7.1 Phonology and morphology revisited: lexical phonology
7.2 Lexical and posdexical application
7.3 Structure preservation, abstractness and productivity
7.4 Redundancy and underspecification
Exercises
Notes
Further reading
8 Representations Reconsidered (i): Phonological Structure above the Level of the Segment
8.1 Lexical rules, phonotactics and the syllable
8.2 Syllabification and syllable-based generalisations
8.3 Extrasyllabicity, the CV tier and abstractness
8.4 The CV tier, segment length and complex segments
8.5 Stress assignment, rhythm and the foot
8.6 Symmetry, clash avoidance and the metrical grid
8.7 Prosodic domains and the syntax/phonology relationship
Exercises
Notes
9 Representations Reconsidered (ii): Autosegmental and Subsegmental Phonology
9.1 Nasality, segmental and suprasegmental
9.2 Vowel harmony
9.3 Dominant/recessive harmony
9.4 Feature geometry and subsegmental structure
Exercises
Notes
10 Phonological Weight
10.1 Weight and time
10.2 The basic architecture
10.3 The weight of codas
10.4 The structure of geminates
10.5 Stress-to-weight and weight-to-stress
10.6 Moraic theory and compensatory lengthening
10.7 The word-final weight asymmetry
Exercises
Further reading
11 Optimality Theory
11.1 The basic architecture
11.2 The logic of output-driven models
11.3 Positional constraints
11.4 The factorial typology
11.5 The nature of the input
11.6 The prosody-melody interface
11.7 Positional markedness vs positional faithfulness
11.8 Conclusion
Exercises
Further reading
12 Issues in Optimality
12.1 Opacity: problems
12.2 Output-to-output correspondence
12.3 Re-analysing cyclicity
12.4 Opacity: some proposed answers
12.5 Conclusion
Exercises
Further reading
Feature Specifications for Consonants
Sample Answers to Exercises
References
Subject Index
Language Index