Principles of Dependency Phonology

This book gives a detailed account of the integrated model for the representational of segmental and suprasegmental structure in phonology.

John Mathieson Anderson (Author), Colin J. Ewen (Author)

9780521113236, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 18 June 2009

324 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.48 kg

John Anderson and Colin Ewen, two of the most notable exponents of 'dependency phonology', present in this book a detailed account of this integrated model for the representational of segmental and suprasegmental structure in phonology. Dependency phonology departs from traditional 'linear' models of phonology, and the more recent non-linear models of autosegmental and metrical phonology, in several respects. Unlike in these models, suprasegmental structure is derived directly from the segmental representations, and these representations are based on single-valued features, or components (rather than Chomsky and Halle-type binary features), linked by the dependency relation to form suprasegmental structures, with the exact nature of the dependency relations being directly determined by the properties of the segmental structure. Phonology is currently noteworthy for the diversity of views within the discipline, but no linguist or phonetician with a serious interest in phonology can afford to ignore this book or fail to be interested by it.

Part I. Phonological Structure: 1. The structure of phonological segments
2. The structure of phonological sequences
3. Dependency structures in phonology
Part II. Phonological Gestures and their Structure: 4. The categorical gesture: phonation
5. The categorical gesture: initiation
6. The articulatory gesture
Part III. Overview: 7. Conclusions and consequences.

Subject Areas: Linguistics [CF]