ESSAYS ON THE SOUND PATTERN OF ENGLISH

Title page

Copyright page

Dedication

PREFACE

Table of contents

GENERAL INTRODUCTION

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Part one. The Sound Pattern of English reviewed

INTRODUCTION

1. THE NEW PHONOLOGICAL PARADIGM

2. REVIEW OF THE SOUND PATTERN OF ENGLISH

3. REVIEW OF THE SOUND PATTERN OF ENGLISH

CHAPTER THREE

CHAPTER FOUR

PHONOLOGICAL THEORY: CHAPTERS SEVEN, EIGHT, NINE

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4. REVIEW OF THE SOUND PATTERN OF ENGLISH

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Part two. The Stress System of English

INTRODUCTION

5. SOME PROBLEMS IN THE DESCRIPTION OF ENGLISH ACCENTUATION

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6. ENGLISH WORD STRESS AND PHRASE STRESS

INTRODUCTION

Part 1. THE WORD

Part 2. PHRASE AND WORD

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7. NONCYCLIC ENGLISH WORD STRESS

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8. STRESS RULES IN ENGLISH: A NEW VERSION

Addendum

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9. ENGLISH WORD STRESS: AN EXAMINATION OF SOME BASIC ASSUMPTIONS

0. Introduction

1. The cycle and word-stress

2. Accentual properties of affixes

3.The stress-weakening convention

4.Vowel reduction strictly linked to lack of stress

5.The 'stress retraction' rules

6. The Main Stress Rule in nouns and in verbs

7. Use of readjustment rules to modify boundaries

8. Stress as a lexical category

9. Restrictions on disjunctive ordering

10. The rule system

11. The rule system restated

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Part three. The Vowel System of English

INTRODUCTION

10. PROBLEMS IN THE INTERPRETATION OF THE GREAT ENGLISH VOWEL SHIFT

1. Relation to other work

2. Issues relating to the vowel shift

3. Versions of the vowel shift

4. Relation of synchronic vowel shift rules to history

5. Possible constraints on switching rules

6. External evidence about the history

7. Evidence from dialects

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11. ON THE VALIDITY OF THE CHOMSKY-HALLE ANALYSIS OF THE HISTORICAL ENGLISH VOWEL SHIFT

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12. SOME THEORETICAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE GREAT VOWEL SHIFT

13. VOWEL FEATURES, PAIRED VARIABLES, AND THE ENGLISH VOWEL SHIFT

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14. UNDERLYING VOWELS IN MODERN ENGLISH

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15. REVIEW OF THE SOUND PATTERN OF ENGLISH

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Part four. Fundamental Principles of Phonology

INTRODUCTION

16. ON THE NEED FOR A PHONOLOGICAL BASE

Phonological symmetry in pre-Chomskyan linguistics

Base and conversion rules

Arguments against a phonological base

Some inadequacies in the theory of systematic phonetics

For a historical interpretation of phonological rules

Against a synchronic interpretation of 1968 phonology

Conclusion

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17. HOW INTRINSIC IS CONTENT? MARKEDNESS, SOUND CHANGE, AND 'FAMILY UNIVERSALS'

1. Markedness and historical 'explanation': the front round vowels in Ger-manic

2. 'Naturalness' and the statistical fallacy

3. Historical change and language-specific 'naturalness': the retroflex stops in Dravidian and Indo-European

4. Some characteristics of a genuinely 'nonnormal' category: Indo-European segments in Kannada

5. Implications for 'universal phonetics'

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18. ON SOME FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS OF PHONOLOGY

1. Introduction

2. Redundancies

3. Underlying Forms

4, Phonological Rules

5. The evaluation measure

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APPENDIX

Indexes

LANGUAGE INDEX

WORD INDEX

AFFIX INDEX

SUBJECT INDEX