The Phonological Structure of Words: An Introduction

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Pub. Date: 2001-01-08
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary

This book is designed to provide students of phonology with an accessible introduction to the phonological architecture of words. It offers a thorough discussion of the basic building blocks of phonology--in particular features, sounds, syllables and feet--and deals with a range of different theories about these units. The book provides a more detailed analysis of this subject than previously available in introductory textbooks and is an invaluable and indispensable first step toward understanding the major theoretical issues in modern phonology at the word level.

Table of Contents

Preface xi
Segments
Introduction
1(2)
Evidence for internal structure
3(5)
Phonological features
8(22)
Major class features
10(4)
Vowel features
14(1)
The vowel-height dimension and related issues
15(6)
Consonantal features
21(5)
The characterisation of grouping
26(4)
Autosegmental phonology
30(20)
Old English i-umlaut
45(1)
Vowel harmony in Turkish
46(4)
Summary
50(1)
Further reading
51(3)
Features
54(61)
The nature of phonological features
54(9)
Features geometry and the nature of features
60(3)
The representation of feature asymmetry
63(16)
Underspecification
65(1)
Redundancy
66(2)
Contrastive specification
68(6)
Radical underspecification
74(5)
Single-valued features
79(6)
Umlaut and harmony processes
85(17)
Umlaut
85(3)
Vowel harmony in Yawelmani
88(5)
Vowel harmony in Yoruba
93(9)
Dependency within the segment
102(3)
Consonants and single-valued features
105(3)
Laryngeal features
108(4)
Single-valued laryngeal features
110(2)
Summary
112(1)
Further reading
113(2)
Syllables
115(81)
Introduction
115(7)
Why syllables?
122(6)
The representation of syllable structure
128(1)
Onset-rhyme theory
129(21)
Rhyme structure
132(4)
Syllabic prependices and appendices
136(5)
Syllabification
141(6)
Extrasyllabicity and related matters
147(3)
Mora theory
150(4)
The representation of length
154(5)
The independence of syllabic positions
159(15)
/r/ in English
160(1)
Liaison
161(5)
h-aspire
166(3)
Compensatory lengthening and related processes
169(5)
Licensing and government
174(19)
Empty positions
184(9)
Summary
193(1)
Further reading
194(2)
Feet and words
196(50)
Introduction: stress and accent
196(7)
Feet
203(4)
Fixed accent and free accent systems
207(9)
Non-primary accent
213(3)
Metrical theory
216(21)
Metrical structures
219(4)
Weight-sensitivity
223(2)
Foot typology
225(3)
Degenerate feet
228(2)
Ternary feet
230(2)
Unbounded feet
232(2)
Extrametricality
234(3)
English and Dutch compared
237(4)
Summary
241(1)
Epilogue: levels and derivations
242(2)
Further reading
244(2)
Appendix 246(1)
References 247(20)
Index 267

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