This volume brings together for the first time a detailed examination of the state of phonological theory in this decade. In a series of essays on topics as varied as underspecification theory, prosodic morphology, and syllable structure, 38 leading phonologists offer a critical survey of the guiding ideas that lie behind this active area of linguistic research. In all cases, the contributions have been written by leading researchers, and in many cases, the chapters of this Handbook are the first published expositions of new perspectives which have already begun to shape the climate of research in the field.
Table of Contents
The Handbook of Phonological Theory
Contributors
Preface
1. Phonological Theory
2. The Organization of the Grammar
3. The Cycle in Phonology
4. Underspecification and Markedness
5. Skeletal Positions and Moras
6. The Syllable in Phonological Theory
7. The Internal Organization of Speech Sounds
8. Phonological Quantity and Multiple Association
9. Prosodic Morphology
10. The Metrical Theory of Word Stress
11. General Properties of Stress and Metrical Structure
12. Tone: African Languages
13. Tone in East Asian Languages
14. Vowel Harmony
15. Syntax-phonology Interface
16. Sentence Prosody: Intonation, Stress, and Phrasing
17. Dependency Relations in Phonology
18. Diphthongization in Particle Phonology
19. Rule Ordering
20. Sign Language Phonology: ASL
21. The Phonological Basis of Sound Change
22. Phonological Acquisition
23. Language Games and Related Areas
24. Experimental Phonology
25. Current Issues in the Phonology of Australian Languages
26. Hausa Tonology: Complexities in an “Easy” Tone Language
27. Phonology of Ethiopian Languages
28. Current Issues in French Phonology: Liaison and Position Theories
29. Japanese Phonology
30. Current Issues in Semitic Phonology
31. Representations and the Organization of Rules in Slavic Phonology
32. Projection and Edge Marking in the Computation of Stress in Spanish
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