Principles of Generative Phonology

• Prelim pages | pp. i–iv
• Table of contents | pp. v–viii
• Preface | pp. ix–xii
• Chapter 1. Phonetics | pp. 1–36
• 1.1 Articulatory phonetics
• 1.1.1 Consonants
• 1.1.2 Vowels
• 1.1.3 Suprasegmentals
• 1.1.4 Broad and narrow transcription
• 1.2 Acoustic phonetics
• 1.3 Phonetic alphabets
• 1.3.1 The IPA
• 1.3.2 Problems with the IPA
• 1.3.3 Compromise adopted in this book
• 1.4 Exercises
• Chapter 2. Contrast and Distribution | pp. 37–78
• 2.1 Complementary distribution
• 2.2 Coincident distribution
• 2.3 Overlapping distribution
• 2.4 Pattern congruity
• 2.5 Free variation
• 2.6 Phonological rules and notations
• 2.7 Common types of phonological processes
• 2.7.1 Assimilation
• 2.7.2 Dissimilation
• 2.7.3 Lenition
• 2.7.4 Fortition
• 2.7.5 Insertions
• 2.7.6 Deletions
• 2.7.7 Lengthening
• 2.7.8 Compensatory lengthening
• 2.7.9 Shortening
• 2.8 Problems with phonemic analysis
• 2.8.1 Neutralization
• 2.8.2 Pattern congruity
• 2.9 Summary
• 2.10 Exercises
• Chapter 3. Distinctive features | pp. 79–112
• 3.1 Features as smallest building blocks
• 3.2 Binary distinctions
• 3.3 Further vowel features
• 3.4 Major classes: major class features
• 3.5 Features of consonants
• 3.5.1 Voicing and aspiration
• 3.5.2 Manner of articulation
• 3.5.3 Place of articulation
• 3.6 Secondary articulation of consonants
• 3.7 Features for suprasegmentals
• 3.8 Redundancy and implications
• 3.9 Exercises
• Chapter 4. Alternations | pp. 113–152
• 4.1 Alternations as phonology
• 4.2 Morphology
• 4.3 Russian devoicing
• 4.4 More on phonological rules
• 4.5 ATR harmony
• 4.6 Spanish lenition; Fortition and nasal assimilation in Lumasaaba
• 4.7 Steps in phonological analysis
• 4.8 Writing up the analysis
• 4.9 Further rule writing conventions and abbreviatory devices
• 4.9.1 Curly braces
• 4.9.2 Parentheses
• 4.9.3 Greek letter variables
• 4.9.4 Angled bracket notation
• 4.9.5 Mirror image rules
• 4.9.6 Transformational rules
• 4.10 Exercises
• Chapter 5. Rule order | pp. 153–206
• 5.1 Russian
• 5.2 Methodology: discovering rule order
• 5.3 Formulation of the ordered rule hypothesis
• 5.4 Iterative rules
• 5.5 Spanish r-sounds
• 5.6 Yawelmani
• 5.6.1 Vowel Shortening and Epenthesis
• 5.6.2 Vowel Harmony
• 5.6.3 Some additional rules
• 5.7 Rule ordering relationships
• 5.7.1 Feeding order
• 5.7.2 Bleeding order
• 5.7.3 Counterfeeding order
• 5.7.4 Counterbleeding order
• 5.7.5 Mutually bleeding order
• 5.7.6 Opacity
• 5.8 Exercises
• Chapter 6. Abstractness | pp. 207–262
• 6.1 Phonetic representations
• 6.2 The null hypothesis
• 6.3 Two levels of representation
• 6.4 The simplicity criterion
• 6.5 The naturalness condition
• 6.6 Degrees of abstractness in underlying representations
• 6.6.1 Concrete underlying representations
• 6.6.2 Underlying representation as one of the phonetic alternants
• 6.6.3 Morphemes with several alternations
• 6.6.4 More abstract underlying representations
• 6.6.5 Limits on abstractness
• 6.7 Corpus-external evidence
• 6.7.1 Speech errors
• 6.7.2 Second language acquisition
• 6.7.3 Writing systems
• 6.7.4 Language games
• 6.7.5 Poetry
• 6.7.6 Language change
• 6.7.7 Maori
• 6.8 Exercises
• Chapter 7. Multilinear phonology | pp. 263–308
• 7.1 Autosegmental phonology
• 7.1.1 Tone
• 7.1.2 Vowel harmony
• 7.1.3 Stability
• 7.2 Metrical and prosodic phonology
• 7.2.1 Metrical syllable structure
• 7.2.2 Metrical stress
• 7.2.3 Higher metrical units
• 7.3 Underspecification
• 7.4 Lexical phonology
• 7.5 Exercises
• | pp. 309–318
• Index | pp. 319–324

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