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Title

Phonology in generative grammar / Michael Kenstowicz.

Author

Kenstowicz, Michael J.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass., USA : Blackwell, 1994.

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Description

viii, 704 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Subject

• Grammar, Comparative and general > Phonology
• Generative grammar

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [661]-684) and indexes.

Contents

• 1. The Sounds of Speech. 1.1. The Saussurean Sign. 1.2. Speech Sounds: An Internal Dimension. 1.3. Natural Classes. 1.4. Distinctive Features. 1.5. Round and Central Vowels. 1.6. Features for Consonants. 1.7. Stricture. 1.8. Major Class Features. 1.9. Laryngeal Features. 1.10. Secondary Articulations and Complex Segments. 1.11. Prosodic Features -- 2. Phonological Rules and Representations. 2.1. Distinctive versus Redundant Features. 2.2. Two Levels of Representation. 2.3. Default Rules and Unmarked Feature Values. 2.4. Excursus on Unmarked Values. 2.5. The Phoneme. 2.6. One or Two Levels of Representation? 2.7. Dual-Level Model: Additional Evidence -- 3. Phonological Alternations and Derivations. 3.1. Ordered Rules. 3.2. Feeding and Bleeding. 3.3. Intermediate Representations. 3.4. Multiple Alternation. 3.5. Linguistic Reconstruction. 3.6. Algonquian -- 4. The Phonetic Foundations of Phonology. 4.2. The Articulators. 4.3. The Feature Tree. 4.4. Acoustic Phonetics. 4.5. Speech Perception.
• 5. Lexical Phonology. 5.2. Derived Environment Rules. 5.3. Strict Cyclicity. 5.4. Morphological Preliminaries. 5.5. Lexical Phonology. 5.6. Structure Preservation. 5.7. Multistratal Rules. 5.8. Outstanding Problems -- 6. The Syllable and Syllabification. 6.1. Motivations for the Syllable. 6.2. Syllable Structure and Syllabification: Basic Concepts. 6.3. The Syllables of English: A Sketch. 6.4. Medial versus Marginal Clusters. 6.5. Core Syllables in Ancient Greek and Sanskrit. 6.6. Continuous Syllabification and Syllable Templates. 6.7. Continuous versus Staged Syllabification. 6.8. Resyllabification. 6.9. Prosodic Licensing and Exhaustive Syllabification. 6.10. Syllable Quantity and Weight -- 7. Autosegmental Phonology. 7.1. Margi. 7.2. Shona and the Obligatory Contour Principle. 7.3. Venda. 7.4. Vowel Harmony. 7.5. Makua. 7.6. Latent Tones in Ga'anda. 7.7. Parameters of Association. 7.8. Tone in Asian Languages -- 8. The Phonological Skeleton. 8.1. Arabic Root-and-Pattern Morphology.
• 8.2. Some Modern Arabic Dialects. 8.3. Semitic Biradicals and Multiple Linking. 8.4. The Integrity of Geminates. 8.5. Tier Conflation. 8.6. Assimilation as Spreading. 8.7. Two Views of the Skeleton. 8.8. A Comparison. 8.9. Subsyllabic Constituency -- 9. Feature Geometry, Underspecification, and Constraints. 9.1. Feature Geometry: A Review. 9.2. Gutturals. 9.3. Vocalic Place. 9.4. Vowel Height. 9.5. Stricture Features. 9.6. Nasal. 9.7. Laryngeal Features. 9.8. Contour Segments. 9.9. Underspecification. 9.10. Underspecification and Blocking in Nonderived Contexts. 9.11. The Coronal Syndrome. 9.12. Phonetic Underspecification. 9.13. Rules versus Constraints. 9.14. Repair Rules and Optimization. 9.15. The Obligatory Contour Principle and Soft Universals -- 10. Stress. 10.1. Background and Basic Properties. 10.2. The Metrical Grid. 10.3. Some Basic Parameters. 10.4. Heavy Syllables. 10.5. Unbounded Constituents. 10.6. Metrical Constituency. 10.7. Line Conflation. 10.8. Conflation: Some Extensions.
• 10.9. Iambic versus Trochaic Rhythm. 10.10. Outstanding Issues. 10.11. Bracket Matching and Edge Parameters -- 11. Prosodic Morphology. 11.1. Reduplication. 11.2. Prosodic Circumscription. 11.3. Minimal Word Phenomenon. 11.4. Extensions and Refinements.

ISBN

• 155786425X
• 1557864268

LCCN

92037749

OCLC

• 27034691
• ocm27034691

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries