Preface to the Second EditionPreface to the First EditionAcknowledgements to the Second EditionAcknowledgements to the First EditionRevision of Phonetics 1.Consonants 2.Vowels1 The Phonemic Principle 1.1 The language of phonology 1.2 Phonemic rules 1.3 Phonological representations 1.4 Concluding remarks Exercises Further reading2 Alternations 2.1 The internal structure of words 2.2 Testing hypotheses about rules and representations 2.3 Morphophonological alternations 2.4 Choosing between analyses 2.5 Deletion and insertion 2.6 The ordering of rules 2.7 Concluding remarks Exercises Further reading3 Features, Classes and Systems 3.1 Expressing generalisations 3.2 Features (i) 3.3 General remarks 3.4 Features (ii) 3.5 Features in representations 3.6 Features in rules 3.7 Implicational relationships Exercises Notes Further reading4 Problems with the Phonemic Principle 4.1 Contrast and neutralisation 4.2 Contrast and the minimal pair 4.3 An alternative to the phonemic principle: generative phonology Exercises Further reading5 The Orgenisation of the Grammar 5.1 The lexicon 5.2 The location of morphology 5.3 The phonological component vs the lexicon 5.4 Summing up Exercises Notes Further reading6 Abstractness, Psychological Reality and the Phonetics/Phonology Relation 6.1 Ordering relations and rule application in the SPE model 6.2 Absolute neutralisation 6.3 Abstractness and psychological reality 6.4 Underlying representations and naturalness 6.5 Abstractness, phonological change and child language acquisition Exercises Further reading7 The Role of the Lexicon 7.1 Phonology and morphology revisited: lexical phonology 7.2 Lexical and posdexical application 7.3 Structure preservation, abstractness and productivity 7.4 Redundancy and underspecification Exercises Notes Further reading8 Representations Reconsidered (i): Phonological Structure above the Level of the Segment 8.1 Lexical rules, phonotactics and the syllable 8.2 Syllabification and syllable-based generalisations 8.3 Extrasyllabicity, the CV tier and abstractness 8.4 The CV tier, segment length and complex segments 8.5 Stress assignment, rhythm and the foot 8.6 Symmetry, clash avoidance and the metrical grid 8.7 Prosodic domains and the syntax/phonology relationship Exercises Notes9 Representations Reconsidered (ii): Autosegmental and Subsegmental Phonology 9.1 Nasality, segmental and suprasegmental 9.2 Vowel harmony 9.3 Dominant/recessive harmony 9.4 Feature geometry and subsegmental structure Exercises Notes10 Phonological Weight 10.1 Weight and time 10.2 The basic architecture 10.3 The weight of codas 10.4 The structure of geminates 10.5 Stress-to-weight and weight-to-stress 10.6 Moraic theory and compensatory lengthening 10.7 The word-final weight asymmetry Exercises Further reading11 Optimality Theory 11.1 The basic architecture 11.2 The logic of output-driven models 11.3 Positional constraints 11.4 The factorial typology 11.5 The nature of the input 11.6 The prosody-melody interface 11.7 Positional markedness vs positional faithfulness 11.8 Conclusion Exercises Further reading12 Issues in Optimality 12.1 Opacity: problems 12.2 Output-to-output correspondence 12.3 Re-analysing cyclicity 12.4 Opacity: some proposed answers 12.5 Conclusion Exercises Further readingFeature Specifications for ConsonantsSample Answers to ExercisesReferencesSubject IndexLanguage Index