This investigation is an evaluation of the growing debate surrounding generative phonology, including dual interpretations and models to account for it. It provides an overview of the main models, revealing that they are often complimentary rather than contradictory and how these can often interconnect and be used together to explore the subject. Starting from the basic notions of classical phonemics, it gives an overview of standard generative phonology, including distinctive feature theory.
By:
Jacques Durand
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 216mm,
Width: 138mm,
Spine: 20mm
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780582003293
ISBN 10: 0582003296
Series: Longman Linguistics Library
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 19 February 1990
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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
