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Book SynopsisA comprehensive and authoritative collection of the key readings in phonological theory. This text includes classic and contemporary readings in the main areas of phonological research, including autosegmental phonology, syllable structure, lexical phonology and metrical phonology.
Trade Review"John Goldsmith's
Phonological Theory: The Essential Readings gathers together influential papers from the past thirty years that articulate the questions, critiques, problems, and proposals that have led up to and inform contemporary generative phonology. It can be sued to supplement most of the textbooks available today and will be a valuable resource for the student and professional alike."
Michael Kenstowicz, MIT "This collection brings together some of the most significant and influential articles in the history of modern phonological theory. Taken together, these contributions, some of which are not otherwise easily accessible, provide an historical perspective for the specialist and student alike, as well as a comprehensive statement of the issues with which our field continues to be concerned." Larry M. Hyman, University of California at Berkeley
"[many of the essays in Goldsmith's book] are classics of modern phonological theory. Goldsmith is surely right in his contention that they are much better read in their original form and we have to be grateful for their reproduction here." Geoffrey Finch, Times Higher Education Supplement
"this volume should solidify McMahon's reputations a one of the most inisghtful linguistic theorists currently writing." Eugene Buckley, Department of Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
John Goldsmith
1 From The Sound Pattern of English: Phonetic and Phonological Representation 17
Noam Chomsky and Morris Haile
2 On the Role of Notation in Generative Phonology 22
James D. McCawey
3 From Cyclic Phonology to Lexical Phonology 34
Paul Kparsky
4 The Cycle in Phonology: Stress in Palestinian, Maltese, and Spanish 63
Miccael K. Brame
5 On Phonotactically Motivated Rules 84
Alan F. Sommerstein
6 Harmonic Phonology 91
John Goldsmith
7 Generalized Alignment 102
John J. McCartny and Alan S. Prince
8 An Overview of Autosegmental Phonology 137
John Goldsmith
9 A Prosodic Theory of Nonconcatenative Morphology 162
John J. McCartny
10 From CV Phonology: A Generative Theory of the Syllable 185
G. N. Clements and S. J. Keyser
11 The Geometry of Phonological Features 201
G. N. Clements
12 Inalterability in CV Phonology 224
Bruce Hayes
13 Prosodic Morphology (1986) 238
John J. McCartny and Alan S. Prince
14 On the Role of the Obligatory Contour Principle in Phonological Theory 289
David Odden
15 Phonology with Tiers 303
Alan S. Prince
16 Immediate Constituents of Mazateco Syllables 313
Kenneth L. Pike and Funice Victoria Pike
17 The Syllable 328
Elisabeth O. Selkirk
18 Compensatory Lengthening in Moraic Phonology 351
Bruce Hayes
19 Syllables 370
E. C. Fudge
20 On Stress and Linguistic Rhythm 392
Mark Liberman and Alan Prince
21 Relating to the Grid 405
Alan S. Prince
22 Extrametricality and English Stress 415
Bruce Hayes
Index 426
