Frontiers of Phonology
Atoms, Structures and Derivations

A collection of essays that present a selective overview of recent trends in the linguistic analysis of sound structure. This book explores theoretical issues in three core areas of phonological theory from a number of different perspectives.

Frontiers of Phonology is a collection of essays that present a selective overview of trends in the linguistic analysis of sound structure. The essays are written by specialists from Europe, Canada and the USA and discuss issues from three broad areas of phonology: the nature and representation of phonological features; the role and structure of the skeletal tier and syllable structure; and the competing claims of derivational and declarative approaches to phonology. The book provides a forum for lively discussion of important theoretical topics from various standpoints including metrical and autosegmental phonology, dependency phonology and declarative phonology. The contributors, who are protagonists of these different standpoints, compare notes and show the merits of their different approaches. The essays discussing derivational issues offer an excellent introduction to the area of constraints based phonology, and by covering the phonology of many languages the book provides an understanding of how human languages in general use sound.

Contributors Introduction Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations
Part I: Atoms
1. Feature geometry and underspecification, Douglas Pulleyblank 2. The elements of phonological representation, John Harris and Geoff Lindsey 3. Radical CV Phonology: the categorical gesture, Harry van der Hulst
Part II: Structures 4. Accounting for compensatory lengthening in the CV and moraic frameworks, Lee S. Bickmore 5. The role of moraic structure in the distribution of segments within syllables, Draga Zec 6. Skeleta and suprasegmental structure within Government Phonology, Wiebke Brockhaus 7. Skeleta and the prosodic circumscription of morphological domains, Francis Katamba
Part III: Derivations 8. Universalism in phonology: atoms, structures and derivations, Jacques Durand 9. Derivations and interfaces, Jonathan Kaye 10. Declarative lexical phonology, John Coleman
References Index