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Generative Phonology
Description and Theory
- 1st Edition - January 1, 1979
- Authors: Michael Kenstowicz, Charles Kisseberth
- Language: English
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 2 - 7 7 3 9 - 4
Generative Phonology: Description and Theory provides a basic understanding of the fundamental concepts of generative phonology and the applications of these concepts in further… Read more
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Request a sales quoteGenerative Phonology: Description and Theory provides a basic understanding of the fundamental concepts of generative phonology and the applications of these concepts in further study of phonological structure. This book is composed of 10 chapters and begins with a survey of phonology in the overall model of generative grammar and introduces the principles of phonetics to. The subsequent chapters introduce the fundamental concept of a phonological rule that relates an underlying representation to a phonetic representation and this concept is applied to the analysis of morphophonemic alternation. These topics are followed by a presentation of phonological sketches of four diverse languages in terms of rules relating underlying and phonetic representations, as well as the major corpus-internal principles and techniques of phonological analysis. The discussion then shifts to the theoretical aspects of phonology, the various degrees of abstractness, and the proposals to limit the divergence between underlying and phonetic representation. Other chapters deal with some of the issues revolving around the representation of sounds and the various hypotheses as to how phonological rules apply to convert the underlying representation to the phonetic representation, particularly the kinds of considerations that motivate rule-ordering statements. The last chapters explore the major notational devices commonly employed in the formulation of phonological rules and the role of syntactic and lexical information in controlling the application of phonological rules. This book is intended primarily for linguistics and phonologists.
Preface1 Preliminaries The Setting of Phonology within Generative Grammar Linguistic Phonetics: A Brief Survey2 Phonological Rules and Representations The Null Hypothesis Zoque Papago Chatino Exercises3 Alternation Russian Chamorro Tonkawa Exercises4 Phonological Sketches The Yawelmani Dialect of Yokuts Slovak Lardil Makua (Bantu) Exercises5 Evidence and Motivation Corpus-Internal Evidence Corpus-External Evidence Exercises6 The Problem of Abstractness The Morpheme Alternant Theory The Basic Alternant Abstract Segments The Alternation Condition The True Generalization Condition Exercises7 The Representation of Sounds The Feature Notation A Survey of the Features The Syllable The Representation of Tone Exercises8 Rule Interaction The Direct Mapping Hypothesis The Free Reapplication Hypothesis The Ordered-Rule Hypothesis The Multiple Application Problem Exercises9 Notation Convention on Rule Application Abbreviatory Devices—An Overview The Parenthesis Notation Angled Brackets The Brace Notation Variable Feature Values Mirror-Image Rules Transformational Rules in Phonology The Representation of Length Sources of Evidence for the Underlying Unity of Phonological Processes Exercises10 The Role of Syntax and the Lexicon in Phonology Extragrammatical Information Lexical Information Grammatical Categories and Features Boundaries Cyclic Rules Morpheme Structure Constraints ExercisesReferencesLanguage IndexSubject Index
- No. of pages: 474
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: January 1, 1979
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9781483277394
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Michael Kenstowicz
Affiliations and expertise
University of Illinois, Urbana, U.S.A.CK
Charles Kisseberth
Affiliations and expertise
University of Illinois, Urbana, U.S.A.Read Generative Phonology on ScienceDirect