Phonological Representations: Their Names, Forms and Powers

by John Coleman and Coleman John

Book Overview

Rewriting rules, derivations and underlying representations is an enduring characteristic of generative phonology. In this book, John Coleman argues that this is unnecessary. The expressive resources of context-free Unification grammars are sufficient to characterize phonological structures and alternations. According to this view, all phonological forms and constraints are partial descriptions of surface representations. This framework, now called...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521023505
• ISBN13: 9780521023504
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"